Splice-site mutation causing partial retention of intron in the FLCN gene in Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome: a case report.

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: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:With the increasing amount of high-throughput genomic sequencing data, there is a growing demand for a robust and flexible tool to perform interaction analysis. The identification of SNP-SNP, SNP-CpG, and higher order interactions helps explain the genetic etiology of human diseases, yet genome-wide analysis...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Sun R,Xia X,Chong KC,Zee BC,Wu WKK,Wang MH

更新日期：2019-12-24 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: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: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: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:In addition to their well-documented ocular therapeutic effects, glucocorticoids (GCs) can cause sight-threatening side-effects including ocular hypertension presumably via morphological and biochemical changes in trabecular meshwork (TM) cells. In the present study, we directly compared the glucocorticoid r...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Nehmé A,Lobenhofer EK,Stamer WD,Edelman JL

更新日期：2009-09-10 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:DNA methylation is thought to be extensively involved in the pathogenesis of many diseases, including major psychosis. However, most studies focus on DNA methylation alteration at promoters of protein-coding genes, despite the poor correlation between DNA methylation and gene expression. METHODS:We analyzed...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Zhao H,Xu J,Pang L,Zhang Y,Fan H,Liu L,Liu T,Yu F,Zhang G,Lan Y,Bai J,Li X,Xiao Y

更新日期：2015-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuroblastoma (NB) tumors are well known for their pronounced clinical and molecular heterogeneity. The global gene expression and DNA copy number alterations have been shown to have profound differences in tumors of low or high stage and those with or without MYCN amplification. RNA splicing is an important...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Guo X,Chen QR,Song YK,Wei JS,Khan J

更新日期：2011-04-18 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urothelial carcinoma (UC) can arise at any location along the urothelial tract, including the urethra, bladder, ureter, or renal pelvis. Although tumors arising in these various locations have similar morphology, it is unclear whether the gene expression profiles are similar between the upper-tract (ureter a...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Zhang Z,Furge KA,Yang XJ,Teh BT,Hansel DE

更新日期：2010-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) is one of the most common gastrointestinal cancers globally. Molecular aberrations of tumor suppressors and/or oncogenes are the main contributors to tumorigenesis. However, the exact underlying mechanisms of COAD pathogenesis are clearly not known yet. In this regard, there is an...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Poursheikhani A,Abbaszadegan MR,Nokhandani N,Kerachian MA

更新日期：2020-07-29 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:Gene expression studies require appropriate normalization methods. One such method uses stably expressed reference genes. Since suitable reference genes appear to be unique for each tissue, we have identified an optimal set of the most stably expressed genes in human blood that can be used for normalization....

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Stamova BS,Apperson M,Walker WL,Tian Y,Xu H,Adamczy P,Zhan X,Liu DZ,Ander BP,Liao IH,Gregg JP,Turner RJ,Jickling G,Lit L,Sharp FR

更新日期：2009-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nicolaides-Baraitser syndrome (NCBRS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by pathogenic sequence variants in SMARCA2 which encodes the catalytic component of the chromatin remodeling BAF complex. Pathogenic variants in genes that encode epigenetic regulators have been associated with genome-wide changes ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Chater-Diehl E,Ejaz R,Cytrynbaum C,Siu MT,Turinsky A,Choufani S,Goodman SJ,Abdul-Rahman O,Bedford M,Dorrani N,Engleman K,Flores-Daboub J,Genevieve D,Mendoza-Londono R,Meschino W,Perrin L,Safina N,Townshend S,Scherer S

更新日期：2019-07-09 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：: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:Preterm birth (PTB), defined as infant delivery before 37 weeks of completed gestation, results from the interaction of both genetic and environmental components and constitutes a complex multifactorial syndrome. Transcriptome analysis of PTB has proven challenging because of the multiple causes of PTB and t...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Pereyra S,Sosa C,Bertoni B,Sapiro R

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

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:The HIV viral genome mutates at a high rate and poses a significant long term health risk even in the presence of combination antiretroviral therapy. Current methods for predicting a patient's response to therapy rely on site-directed mutagenesis experiments and in vitro resistance assays. In this bioinforma...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

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

更新日期：2009-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is an important data resource for cancer biologists and oncologists. However, a lack of bioinformatics expertise often hinders experimental cancer biologists and oncologists from exploring the TCGA resource. Although a number of tools have been developed for facilitating cancer...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Sun Q,Li M,Wang X

更新日期：2018-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Balanced reciprocal chromosomal translocations (RCTs) are the ones of the most common structural aberrations in the population, with an incidence of 1:625. RCT carriers usually do not demonstrate changes in phenotype, except when the translocation results in gene interruption. However, these people are at ri...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Pasińska M,Łazarczyk E,Jułga K,Bartnik-Głaska M,Nowakowska B,Haus O

更新日期：2018-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammation is a hallmark of many human diseases. Elucidating the mechanisms underlying systemic inflammation has long been an important topic in basic and clinical research. When primary pathogenetic events remains unclear due to its immense complexity, construction and analysis of the gene regulatory netw...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Chen BS,Yang SK,Lan CY,Chuang YJ

更新日期：2008-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:DNA methylation is a key epigenetic regulator contributing to cancer development. To understand the role of DNA methylation in tumorigenesis, it is important to investigate and compare differential methylation (DM) patterns between normal and case samples across different cancer types. However, current pan-c...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Shi M,Tsui SK,Wu H,Wei Y

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration in the striatum of Huntingon's Disease (HD) brain are currently unknown. While the striatum is massively degenerated in symptomatic individuals, which makes cellular characterization difficult, it is largely intact in asymptomatic HD gene positive (HD+) individuals...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Agus F,Crespo D,Myers RH,Labadorf A

更新日期：2019-10-16 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: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

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