Combinations of newly confirmed Glioma-Associated loci link regions on chromosomes 1 and 9 to increased disease risk.

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：:This editorial summarizes eight research articles included in this supplement issue for the 2020 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2020) conference, that was held on August 9-10, 2020 (virtual conference), with a topic on data-driven analytics in biomedical genomics. These articles co...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Shi X,Zhao Z,Wang K,Shen L

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With 15,949 markers, the low-density Infinium QC Array-24 BeadChip enables linkage analysis, HLA haplotyping, fingerprinting, ethnicity determination, mitochondrial genome variations, blood groups and pharmacogenomics. It represents an attractive independent QC option for NGS-based diagnostic laboratories, a...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Ponomarenko P,Ryutov A,Maglinte DT,Baranova A,Tatarinova TV,Gai X

更新日期：2017-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The collection of viable DNA samples is an essential element of any genetics research programme. Biological samples for DNA purification are now routinely collected in many studies with a variety of sampling methods available. Initial observation in this study suggested a reduced genotyping success rate of s...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Pulford DJ,Mosteller M,Briley JD,Johansson KW,Nelsen AJ

更新日期：2013-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microtia-atresia is characterized by abnormalities of the auricle (microtia) and aplasia or hypoplasia of the external auditory canal, often associated with middle ear abnormalities. To date, no causal genetic mutations or genes have been identified in microtia-atresia patients. METHODS:We designed a panel ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Wang P,Wang Y,Fan X,Liu Y,Fan Y,Liu T,Chen C,Zhang S,Chen X

更新日期：2019-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene has been under close investigation since the discovery of its high impact on the obesity status in 2007 by a range of publications. Recent report on its implication in adipocytes underscored its molecular and functional mechanics in pathology. Still, the population ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Babenko V,Babenko R,Gamieldien J,Markel A

更新日期：2019-03-13 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:Images embedded in biomedical publications carry rich information that often concisely summarize key hypotheses adopted, methods employed, or results obtained in a published study. Therefore, they offer valuable clues for understanding main content in a biomedical publication. Prior studies have pointed out ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Sheng J,Xu S,Luo X

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genes do not act in isolation but instead as part of complex regulatory networks. To understand how breast tumors adapt to the presence of the drug letrozole, at the molecular level, it is necessary to consider how the expression levels of genes in these networks change relative to one another. METHODS:Usin...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Penrod NM,Moore JH

更新日期：2013-01-01 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: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:The purpose of this paper is to describe the data collection efforts and validation of PhenX measures in the Personalized Medicine Research Project (PMRP) cohort. METHODS:Thirty-six measures were chosen from the PhenX Toolkit within the following domains: demographics; anthropometrics; alcohol, tobacco and ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： McCarty CA,Berg R,Rottscheit CM,Waudby CJ,Kitchner T,Brilliant M,Ritchie MD

更新日期：2014-01-14 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:A clinical overlap exists between mosaic Neurofibromatosis Type 2 and sporadic Schwannomatosis conditions. In these cases a molecular analysis of tumors is recommended for a proper genetic diagnostics. This analysis is challenged by the fact that schwannomas in both conditions bear a somatic double inactivat...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Castellanos E,Bielsa I,Carrato C,Rosas I,Solanes A,Hostalot C,Amilibia E,Prades J,Roca-Ribas F,Lázaro C,Blanco I,Serra E,NF2 Multidisciplinary Clinics HUGTiP-ICO-IMPPC.

更新日期：2015-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the introduction of increasingly powerful mass spectrometry (MS) techniques for clinical research, several recent large-scale MS proteomics studies have sought to characterize the entire human plasma proteome with a general objective for identifying thousands of proteins leaked from tissues in the circu...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Saha S,Harrison SH,Shen C,Tang H,Radivojac P,Arnold RJ,Zhang X,Chen JY

更新日期：2008-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glaucoma is the largest cause of irreversible blindness affecting more than 60 million people globally. The disease is defined as a gradual loss of peripheral vision due to death of Retinal Ganglion Cells (RGC). The RGC death is largely influenced by the rate of aqueous humor production by ciliary processes ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Vishal M,Sharma A,Kaurani L,Alfano G,Mookherjee S,Narta K,Agrawal J,Bhattacharya I,Roychoudhury S,Ray J,Waseem NH,Bhattacharya SS,Basu A,Sen A,Ray K,Mukhopadhyay A

更新日期：2016-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite being caused by mutations in different genes, diseases in the same phenotypic series are clinically similar, as reported in Part I of this study. Here, in Part II, we hypothesized that the phenotypic series too might be clinically similar. Furthermore, on the assumption that gene mutations indirectly...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Gamba A,Salmona M,Cantù L,Bazzoni G

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer shows a great diversity in its clinical behavior which cannot be easily predicted using the currently available clinical or pathological markers. The identification of pathways associated with lymph node metastasis (N+) and recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) may increase our under...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Coló AE,Simoes AC,Carvalho AL,Melo CM,Fahham L,Kowalski LP,Soares FA,Neves EJ,Reis LF,Carvalho AF

更新日期：2011-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate discovery of molecular biomarkers that are prognostic of a clinical outcome is an important yet challenging task, partly due to the combination of the typically weak genomic signal for a clinical outcome and the frequently strong noise due to microarray handling effects. Effective strategies to reso...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Qin LX,Levine DA

更新日期：2016-06-10 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:Neoantigens can be differentially recognized by T cell receptor (TCR) as these sequences are derived from mutant proteins and are unique to the tumor. The discovery of neoantigens is the first key step for tumor-specific antigen (TSA) based immunotherapy. Based on high-throughput tumor genomic analysis, each...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Li Y,Wang G,Tan X,Ouyang J,Zhang M,Song X,Liu Q,Leng Q,Chen L,Xie L

更新日期：2020-04-03 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: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：:In this issue of BMC Medical Genomics Griffin et al. present a user-friendly and freely accessible HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND) genomic database that compiles viral (HIV-1) genetic sequences and other relevant clinical and treatment data. We discuss the benefits and caveats of public data sharing in N...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Cysique LA

更新日期：2015-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS, OMIM#606232), or 22q13 deletion syndrome, is a rare genetic disorder caused by deletion of the distal long arm of chromosome 22 with a variety of clinical features that display considerably heterogeneous degrees of severity. The SHANK3 gene is understood to be the critical gene...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Li S,Xi KW,Liu T,Zhang Y,Zhang M,Zeng LD,Li J

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To get insight into molecular mechanisms underlying insulin resistance, we compared acute in vivo effects of insulin on adipose tissue transcriptional profiles between obese insulin-resistant and lean insulin-sensitive women. METHODS:Subcutaneous adipose tissue biopsies were obtained before and after 3 and ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Soronen J,Laurila PP,Naukkarinen J,Surakka I,Ripatti S,Jauhiainen M,Olkkonen VM,Yki-Järvinen H

更新日期：2012-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The threat of a terrorist-precipitated nuclear event places humans at danger for radiological exposures. Isotopes which emit alpha (α)-particle radiation pose the highest risk. Currently, gene expression signatures are being developed for radiation biodosimetry and triage with respect to ionizing photon radi...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Chauhan V,Howland M,Wilkins R

更新日期：2014-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Germline mutations in the folliculin (FLCN) gene are associated with the development of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome (BHDS), a disease characterized by papular skin lesions, a high occurrence of spontaneous pneumothorax, and the development of renal neoplasias. The majority of renal tumors that arise in BHDS-affe...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Klomp JA,Petillo D,Niemi NM,Dykema KJ,Chen J,Yang XJ,Sääf A,Zickert P,Aly M,Bergerheim U,Nordenskjöld M,Gad S,Giraud S,Denoux Y,Yonneau L,Méjean A,Vasiliu V,Richard S,MacKeigan JP,Teh BT,Furge KA

更新日期：2010-12-16 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:Preeclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy-related condition that affects both the infant and the mother. Although the role of various inflammatory molecules in PE has been demonstrated, the importance of pro-inflammatory molecules such as IL-17A, IL-23 is not well understood. In the present investigation, a potential...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Lang X,Liu W,Hou Y,Zhao W,Yang X,Chen L,Yan Q,Cheng W

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00