FTO haplotyping underlines high obesity risk for European populations.

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: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 zebrafish is recognized as a versatile cancer and drug screening model. However, it is not known whether the estrogen-responsive genes and signaling pathways that are involved in estrogen-dependent carcinogenesis and human cancer are operating in zebrafish. In order to determine the potential of zebrafis...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Lam SH,Lee SG,Lin CY,Thomsen JS,Fu PY,Murthy KR,Li H,Govindarajan KR,Nick LC,Bourque G,Gong Z,Lufkin T,Liu ET,Mathavan S

更新日期：2011-05-16 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:Chiari Type I Malformation (CMI) is characterized by herniation of the cerebellar tonsils through the foramen magnum at the base of the skull, resulting in significant neurologic morbidity. As CMI patients display a high degree of clinical variability and multiple mechanisms have been proposed for tonsillar ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Markunas CA,Lock E,Soldano K,Cope H,Ding CK,Enterline DS,Grant G,Fuchs H,Ashley-Koch AE,Gregory SG

更新日期：2014-06-25 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: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: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: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:Despite their singular origin, monozygotic twin pairs often display discordance for complex disorders including schizophrenia. It is a common (1%) and often familial disease with a discordance rate of ~50% in monozygotic twins. This high discordance is often explained by the role of yet unknown environmental...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Castellani CA,Laufer BI,Melka MG,Diehl EJ,O'Reilly RL,Singh SM

更新日期：2015-05-06 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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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:According to the Genetic Analysis Workshops (GAW), hundreds of thousands of SNPs have been tested for association with rheumatoid arthritis. Traditional genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been developed to identify susceptibility genes using a "most significant SNPs/genes" model. However, many minor...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Zhang L,Li W,Song L,Chen L

更新日期：2010-08-20 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 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:Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is the second most common subtype of neurodegenerative dementia in humans following Alzheimer's disease (AD). Present clinical diagnosis of DLB has high specificity and low sensitivity and finding potential biomarkers of prodromal DLB is still challenging. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) h...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Shigemizu D,Akiyama S,Asanomi Y,Boroevich KA,Sharma A,Tsunoda T,Sakurai T,Ozaki K,Ochiya T,Niida S

更新日期：2019-10-30 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:The opioid use disorder and overdose crisis in the United States affects public health as well as social and economic welfare. While several genetic and non-genetic risk factors for opioid use disorder have been identified, many of the genetic associations have not been independently replicated, and it is no...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Heil J,Zajic S,Albertson E,Brangan A,Jones I,Roberts W,Sabia M,Bodofsky E,Resch A,Rafeq R,Haroz R,Buono R,Ferraro TN,Scheinfeldt L,Salzman M,Baston K

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The growing advances in DNA sequencing tools have made analyzing the human genome cheaper and faster. While such analyses are intended to identify complex variants, related to disease susceptibility and efficacy of drug responses, they have blurred the definitions of mutation and polymorphism. DISCUSSION:In...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Karki R,Pandya D,Elston RC,Ferlini C

更新日期：2015-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The early diagnosis of lung cancer has been a critical problem in clinical practice for a long time and identifying differentially expressed gene as disease marker is a promising solution. However, the most existing gene differential expression analysis (DEA) methods have two main drawbacks: First, these met...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Zhao Z,Peng H,Zhang X,Zheng Y,Chen F,Fang L,Li J

更新日期：2019-12-20 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 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:DNA methylation levels will be important for detection of epigenetic effects. However, there are few reports showing sex-related differences in the sensitivity to DNA methylation. To evaluate their sex-related individual differences in the sensitivity to methylation rigorously, we performed a systematic anal...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Watanabe M,Honda C,Osaka Twin Research Group.,Iwatani Y,Yorifuji S,Iso H,Kamide K,Hatazawa J,Kihara S,Sakai N,Watanabe H,Makimoto K,Watanabe M,Honda C,Iwatani Y

更新日期：2016-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Childhood leukemia is characterized by the presence of balanced chromosomal translocations or by other structural or numerical chromosomal changes. It is well know that leukemias with specific molecular abnormalities display profoundly different global gene expression profiles. However, it is largely unknown...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Andersson A,Edén P,Olofsson T,Fioretos T

更新日期：2010-03-08 00:00:00