Transcriptional profiling of mycobacterial antigen-induced responses in infants vaccinated with BCG at birth.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypermethylation of promoter CpG islands with associated loss of gene expression, and hypomethylation of CpG-rich repetitive elements that may destabilize the genome are common events in most, if not all, epithelial cancers. METHODS:The methylation of 6,502 CpG-rich sequences spanning the genome was analyze...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Watts GS,Futscher BW,Holtan N,Degeest K,Domann FE,Rose SL

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether high blood pressure has a causal effect on cognitive function as early as middle age is unclear. We investigated whether high blood pressure (BP) causally impairs cognitive function at midlife using Mendelian Randomization (MR). METHODS:We applied a two-sample MR approach to investigate the causal r...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Sun D,Thomas EA,Launer LJ,Sidney S,Yaffe K,Fornage M

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prognostic signatures are vital to precision medicine. However, development of somatic mutation prognostic signatures for cancers remains a challenge. In this study we developed a novel method for discovering somatic mutation based prognostic signatures. RESULTS:Somatic mutation and clinical data for lung a...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Menor M,Zhu Y,Wang Y,Zhang J,Jiang B,Deng Y

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rhodesiense sleeping sickness is caused by infection with T. b rhodesiense parasites resulting in an acute disease that is fatal if not treated in time. The aim of this study was to understand the global impact of active T. b rhodesiense infection on the patient's immune response in the early and late stages...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Mulindwa J,Matovu E,Enyaru J,Clayton C

更新日期：2020-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) influences endogenous hormone concentrations and increases the risk of breast cancer. Gene expression profiling may reveal the mechanisms behind this relationship.Our objective was to explore potential associations between sex hormones and gene expression in whole blood fr...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Waaseth M,Olsen KS,Rylander C,Lund E,Dumeaux V

更新日期：2011-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The noninvasive prenatal diagnosis procedures that are currently used to detect genetic diseases do not achieve desirable levels of sensitivity and specificity. Recently, fetal methylated DNA biomarkers in maternal peripheral blood have been explored for the noninvasive prenatal detection of genetic disorder...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Yin A,Zhang X,Wu J,Du L,He T,Zhang X

更新日期：2012-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:12q14 microdeletion syndrome is characterized by low birth weight and failure to thrive, proportionate short stature and developmental delay. The opposite syndrome (microduplication) has not yet been characterized. Our main objective is the recognition of a new clinical entity - 12q14 microduplication syndro...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Dória S,Alves D,Pinho MJ,Pinto J,Leão M

更新日期：2020-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood asthma is a syndrome composed of heterogeneous phenotypes; furthermore, intrinsic biologic variation among racial/ethnic populations suggests possible genetic ancestry variation in childhood asthma. The objective of the study is to identify clinically homogeneous asthma subphenotypes in a diverse s...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Ding L,Li D,Wathen M,Altaye M,Mersha TB

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since it is assumed that genetic interactions play an important role in understanding the mechanisms of complex diseases, different statistical approaches have been suggested in recent years for this task. One interesting approach is the entropy-based IGENT method by Kwon et al. that promises an efficient de...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Malten J,König IR

更新日期：2020-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:2q37 deletion syndrome is a rare congenital disorder that is characterized by facial dysmorphism, obesity, vascular and skeletal malformations, and a variable degree of intellectual disability. To date, common but variable phenotypes, such as skeletal or digit malformations and obesity, have been associated ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Sakai Y,Souzaki R,Yamamoto H,Matsushita Y,Nagata H,Ishizaki Y,Torisu H,Oda Y,Taguchi T,Shaw CA,Hara T

更新日期：2014-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systemic sclerosis (SSc), a multi-organ disorder, is characterized by vascular abnormalities, dysregulation of the immune system, and fibrosis. The mechanisms underlying tissue pathology in SSc have not been entirely understood. This study intended to investigate the common and tissue-specific pathways invol...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Karimizadeh E,Sharifi-Zarchi A,Nikaein H,Salehi S,Salamatian B,Elmi N,Gharibdoost F,Mahmoudi M

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells are an emerging approach of cancer treatment. Our previous study have shown that CIK cells stimulated with combination of IL-2 and IL-15 displayed improved proliferation capacity and tumor cytotoxicity. However, the mechanisms of CIK cell proliferation and acquisition of c...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Wang W,Meng M,Zhang Y,Wei C,Xie Y,Jiang L,Wang C,Yang F,Tang W,Jin X,Chen D,Zong J,Hou Z,Li R

更新日期：2014-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. At present no reliable biomarkers are available to guide the management of this condition. Microarray technology may allow appropriate biomarkers to be identified but present platforms are lacking disease focus and are thu...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Tanney A,Oliver GR,Farztdinov V,Kennedy RD,Mulligan JM,Fulton CE,Farragher SM,Field JK,Johnston PG,Harkin DP,Proutski V,Mulligan KA

更新日期：2008-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aberrant epigenetic profiles are concomitant with a spectrum of developmental defects and diseases. Role of methylation is an increasingly accepted factor in the pathophysiology of diabetes and its associated complications. This study aims to examine the correlation between oxidative stress and methylation o...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Safi SZ,Qvist R,Yan GO,Ismail IS

更新日期：2014-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent advances in whole-genome association studies (WGASs) for human cancer risk are beginning to provide the part lists of low-penetrance susceptibility genes. However, statistical analysis in these studies is complicated by the vast number of genetic variants examined and the weak effects observed, as a r...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Bonifaci N,Berenguer A,Díez J,Reina O,Medina I,Dopazo J,Moreno V,Pujana MA

更新日期：2008-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Uric acid is the primary byproduct of purine metabolism. Hyperuricemia is associated with body mass index (BMI), sex, and multiple complex diseases including gout, hypertension (HTN), renal disease, and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Multiple genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in individuals of European ancestry...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Charles BA,Shriner D,Doumatey A,Chen G,Zhou J,Huang H,Herbert A,Gerry NP,Christman MF,Adeyemo A,Rotimi CN

更新日期：2011-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small non-coding regulatory RNAs control cellular functions at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. Oral squamous cell carcinoma is among the leading cancers in the world and the presence of cervical lymph node metastases is currently its strongest prognostic factor. In this work we aimed at ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Severino P,Oliveira LS,Andreghetto FM,Torres N,Curioni O,Cury PM,Toporcov TN,Paschoal AR,Durham AM

更新日期：2015-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methotrexate is one of the earliest cytotoxic drugs used in cancer therapy, and despite the isolation of multiple other folate antagonists, methotrexate maintains its significant role as a treatment for different types of cancer and other disorders. The usefulness of treatment with methotrexate is limited by...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Selga E,Morales C,Noé V,Peinado MA,Ciudad CJ

更新日期：2008-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While most pediatric sarcomas respond to front-line therapy, some bone sarcomas do not show radiographic response like soft-tissue sarcomas (rhabdomyosarccomas) but do show 90% necrosis. Though, new therapies are urgently needed to improve survival and quality of life in pediatric patients with sarcomas. Com...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Cheng L,Pandya PH,Liu E,Chandra P,Wang L,Murray ME,Carter J,Ferguson M,Saadatzadeh MR,Bijangi-Visheshsaraei K,Marshall M,Li L,Pollok KE,Renbarger JL

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The majority of copy number callers requires high read coverage data that is often achieved with elevated material input, which increases the heterogeneity of tissue samples. However, to gain insights into smaller areas within a tissue sample, e.g. a cancerous area in a heterogeneous tissue sample, less mate...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Friedrich S,Barbulescu R,Helleday T,Sonnhammer ELL

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bladder cancer has numerous genomic features that are potentially actionable by targeted agents. Nevertheless, both pre-clinical and clinical research using molecular targeted agents have been very limited in bladder cancer. RESULTS:We created the Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Bladder Cancer (GDBC) databa...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Ansari AA,Park I,Kim I,Park S,Ahn SM,Lee JL

更新日期：2018-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the major goals of genomic medicine is the identification of causal genomic variants in a patient and their relation to the observed clinical phenotypes. Prioritizing the genomic variants by considering only the genotype information usually identifies a few hundred potential variants. Narrowing it dow...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Rao A,Vg S,Joseph T,Kotte S,Sivadasan N,Srinivasan R

更新日期：2018-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomic data is increasingly collected by a wide array of organizations. As such, there is a growing demand to make summary information about such collections available more widely. However, over the past decade, a series of investigations have shown that attacks, rooted in statistical inference methods, can...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Wan Z,Vorobeychik Y,Kantarcioglu M,Malin B

更新日期：2017-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ciguatoxins (CTXs) are polyether marine neurotoxins found in multiple reef-fish species and are potent activators of voltage-gated sodium channels. It is estimated that up to 500,000 people annually experience acute ciguatera poisoning from consuming toxic fish and a small percentage of these victims will de...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Ryan JC,Wu Q,Shoemaker RC

更新日期：2015-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-coding RNA has been shown to participate in numerous biological and pathological processes and has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Recent studies have demonstrated that long non-coding RNA and micro RNA can interact through various mechanisms to regulate mRNA. Yet the gene-gene interactio...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Liao J,Wang J,Liu Y,Li J,Duan L

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reliability of real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) data is dependent on the use of appropriate reference gene(s) for normalization. To date, no validated reference genes have been reported for normalizing gene expression in human myocardium. This study aimed to identify validated reference genes for use in gene expressi...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Pilbrow AP,Ellmers LJ,Black MA,Moravec CS,Sweet WE,Troughton RW,Richards AM,Frampton CM,Cameron VA

更新日期：2008-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While BMPR2 mutation strongly predisposes to pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), only 20% of mutation carriers develop clinical disease. This finding suggests that modifier genes contribute to FPAH clinical expression. Since modifiers are likely to be common alleles, this problem is not tractable by tradi...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： West J,Cogan J,Geraci M,Robinson L,Newman J,Phillips JA,Lane K,Meyrick B,Loyd J

更新日期：2008-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene expression profiling has shown its ability to identify with high accuracy low cytogenetic risk acute myeloid leukemia such as acute promyelocytic leukemia and leukemias with t(8;21) or inv(16). The aim of this gene expression profiling study was to evaluate to what extent suboptimal samples with low leu...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： de la Blétière DR,Blanchet O,Cornillet-Lefèbvre P,Coutolleau A,Baranger L,Geneviève F,Luquet I,Hunault-Berger M,Beucher A,Schmidt-Tanguy A,Zandecki M,Delneste Y,Ifrah N,Guardiola P

更新日期：2012-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The right dataset is essential to obtain the right insights in data science; therefore, it is important for data scientists to have a good understanding of the availability of relevant datasets as well as the content, structure, and existing analyses of these datasets. While a number of efforts are underway ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Shi J,Zheng M,Yao L,Ge Y

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer comprises multiple tumor entities associated with different biological features and clinical behaviors, making individualized medicine a powerful tool to bring the right drug to the right patient. Next generation sequencing of RNA (RNA-Seq) is a suitable method to detect targets for individuali...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Meißner T,Fisch KM,Gioia L,Su AI

更新日期：2015-05-21 00:00:00