Advancing research in NeuroAIDS using collaboration and public data sharing.

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the sixth most common cancer worldwide, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) develops visceral metastases during the advanced stage of the disease and exhibits a low five-year survival rate. The importance of tumor microenvironment (TME) in tumor initiation and metastasis is widely recognized. In...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Zhong Z,Hong M,Chen X,Xi Y,Xu Y,Kong D,Deng J,Li Y,Hu R,Sun C,Liang J

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Novel tuberculosis (TB) vaccines recently tested in humans have been designed to boost immunity induced by the current vaccine, Mycobacterium bovis Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG). Because BCG vaccination is used extensively in infants, this population group is likely to be the first in which efficacy trials o...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Fletcher HA,Keyser A,Bowmaker M,Sayles PC,Kaplan G,Hussey G,Hill AV,Hanekom WA

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid advances in scientific research have led to an increase in public awareness of genetic testing and pharmacogenetics. Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing companies, such as 23andMe, allow consumers to access their genetic information directly through an online service without the involvement of hea...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Lu M,Lewis CM,Traylor M

更新日期：2017-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persistent infection by high risk HPV types (e.g. HPV-16, -18, -31, and -45) is the main risk factor for development of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical cancer. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) is a key mediator of epithelial cell inflammatory response and exerts a potent cytostatic effect on norma...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Termini L,Boccardo E,Esteves GH,Hirata R Jr,Martins WK,Colo AE,Neves EJ,Villa LL,Reis LF

更新日期：2008-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Genomic copy number alterations are widely associated with a broad range of human tumors and offer the potential to be used as a diagnostic tool. Especially in the emerging era of personalized medicine medical informatics tools that allow the fast visualization and analysis of genomic alterations of a patien...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Kotliarov Y,Bozdag S,Cheng H,Wuchty S,Zenklusen JC,Fine HA

更新日期：2010-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:During June 10-12, 2018, the International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2018) was held in Los Angeles, California, USA. The conference included 11 scientific sessions, four tutorials, one poster session, four keynote talks and four eminent scholar talks that covered a wide range of topics rang...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Zhi D,Zhao Z,Li F,Wu Z,Liu X,Wang K

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years, high-throughput protein interaction identification methods have generated a large amount of data. When combined with the results from other in vivo and in vitro experiments, a complex set of relationships between biological molecules emerges. The growing popularity of network analysis and da...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Carson MB,Lu H

更新日期：2015-01-01 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: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:Current prostate cancer prognostic models are based on pre-treatment prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels, biopsy Gleason score, and clinical staging but in practice are inadequate to accurately predict disease progression. Hence, we sought to develop a molecular panel for prostate cancer progression by re...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Sboner A,Demichelis F,Calza S,Pawitan Y,Setlur SR,Hoshida Y,Perner S,Adami HO,Fall K,Mucci LA,Kantoff PW,Stampfer M,Andersson SO,Varenhorst E,Johansson JE,Gerstein MB,Golub TR,Rubin MA,Andrén O

更新日期：2010-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Infant birth weight is a complex quantitative trait associated with both neonatal and long-term health outcomes. Numerous studies have been published in which candidate genes (IGF1, IGF2, IGF2R, IGF binding proteins, PHLDA2 and PLAGL1) have been associated with birth weight, but these studies are difficult t...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Turan N,Ghalwash MF,Katari S,Coutifaris C,Obradovic Z,Sapienza C

更新日期：2012-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Currently, diagnosis of affected individuals with rare genetic disorders can be lengthy and costly, resulting in a diagnostic odyssey and in many patients a definitive molecular diagnosis is never achieved despite extensive clinical investigation. The recent advent and use of genomic medicine has resulted in...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Dinwiddie DL,Soden SE,Saunders CJ,Miller NA,Farrow EG,Smith LD,Kingsmore SF

更新日期：2013-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostate cancer is one of the most common complex diseases with high leading cause of death in men. Identifications of prostate cancer associated genes and biomarkers are thus essential as they can gain insights into the mechanisms underlying disease progression and advancing for early diagnosis and developi...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Li Y,Vongsangnak W,Chen L,Shen B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

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:A molecular characterization of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the key to the identification of altered gene sets that lead to AD progression. We rely on the assumption that candidate marker genes for a given disease belong to specific pathogenic pathways, and we aim at unveiling those pathways stable across ti...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Squillario M,Barla A

更新日期：2011-07-05 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:The complexity of genome informatics is a recurring challenge for genome exploration and analysis by students and other non-experts. This complexity creates a barrier to wider implementation of experiential genomics education, even in settings with substantial computational resources and expertise. Reducing ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Linderman MD,McElroy L,Chang L

更新日期：2019-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intra-tumor heterogeneity stems from genetic, epigenetic, functional, and environmental differences among tumor cells. A major source of genetic heterogeneity comes from DNA sequence differences and/or whole chromosome and focal copy number variations (CNVs). Whole chromosome CNVs are caused by chromosomal i...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Zhao Y,Carter R,Natarajan S,Varn FS,Compton DA,Gawad C,Cheng C,Godek KM

更新日期：2019-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Host protein-protein interaction networks are altered by invading virus proteins, which create new interactions, and modify or destroy others. The resulting network topology favors excessive amounts of virus production in a stressed host cell network. Short linear peptide motifs common to both virus and host...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Evans P,Dampier W,Ungar L,Tozeren A

更新日期：2009-05-18 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: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:Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) is a common genetic event in cancer development, and is known to be involved in the somatic loss of wild-type alleles in many inherited cancer syndromes. The wider involvement of LOH in cancer is assumed to relate to unmasking a somatically mutated tumour suppressor gene through ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Ryland GL,Doyle MA,Goode D,Boyle SE,Choong DY,Rowley SM,Li J,Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group.,Bowtell DD,Tothill RW,Campbell IG,Gorringe KL

更新日期：2015-08-01 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: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: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: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: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:Understanding how genes are expressed specifically in particular tissues is a fundamental question in developmental biology. Many tissue-specific genes are involved in the pathogenesis of complex human diseases. However, experimental identification of tissue-specific genes is time consuming and difficult. Th...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Teng S,Yang JY,Wang L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differential gene expression is important to understand the biological differences between healthy and diseased states. Two common sources of differential gene expression data are microarray studies and the biomedical literature. METHODS:With the aid of text mining and gene expression analysis we have exami...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Rodriguez-Esteban R,Jiang X

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness. While around half of the genetic contribution to advanced AMD has been uncovered, little is known about the genetic architecture of early AMD. METHODS:To identify genetic factors for early AMD, we conducted a genome-wide associ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Winkler TW,Grassmann F,Brandl C,Kiel C,Günther F,Strunz T,Weidner L,Zimmermann ME,Korb CA,Poplawski A,Schuster AK,Müller-Nurasyid M,Peters A,Rauscher FG,Elze T,Horn K,Scholz M,Cañadas-Garre M,McKnight AJ,Quinn N,H

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00