What is the right sequencing approach? Solo VS extended family analysis in consanguineous populations.

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: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: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:Detection of copy number variants (CNVs) is an important aspect of clinical testing for several disorders, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and is often performed using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA). However, since many genetic carrier screens depend instead on next-generation...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Kozareva V,Stroff C,Silver M,Freidin JF,Delaney NF

更新日期：2018-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent advances in omics technologies have raised great opportunities to study large-scale regulatory networks inside the cell. In addition, single-cell experiments have measured the gene and protein activities in a large number of cells under the same experimental conditions. However, a significant challeng...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Wei J,Hu X,Zou X,Tian T

更新日期：2017-12-28 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:Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) are genomic regions regulating RNA transcript expression levels. Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) have identified many variants, often in non-coding regions, with unknown functions and eQTL provide a possible mechanism by which these variants may influence obse...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： McKenzie M,Henders AK,Caracella A,Wray NR,Powell JE

更新日期：2014-06-03 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: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: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: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: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:Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a complex disease and harmful to human health, and most of the existing biomarkers are mainly to measure the disease phenotype after the disease onset (or drastic deterioration). Until now, there is no effective biomarker which can predict the upcoming disease (or pre-disease state) ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Liu X,Liu R,Zhao XM,Chen L

更新日期：2013-01-01 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: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: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: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: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:Prevalence of obesity is increasing to pandemic proportions. However, obese subjects differ in insulin resistance, adipokine production and co-morbidities. Based on fasting plasma analysis, obese subjects were grouped as Low Acylation Stimulating protein (ASP) and Triglyceride (TG) (LAT) vs High ASP and TG (...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： MacLaren RE,Cui W,Lu H,Simard S,Cianflone K

更新日期：2010-01-27 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: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: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:Single nucleotide variants account for approximately 90% of all known pathogenic variants responsible for human diseases. Recently discovered CRISPR/Cas9 base editors can correct individual nucleotides without cutting DNA and inducing double-stranded breaks. We aimed to find all possible pathogenic variants ...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Lavrov AV,Varenikov GG,Skoblov MY

更新日期：2020-09-18 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: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:Cardiac pathological hypertrophy is associated with a significantly increased risk of coronary heart disease and has been observed in diabetic patients treated with rosiglitazone whereas most published studies do not suggest a similar increase in risk of cardiovascular events in pioglitazone-treated diabetic...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Verschuren L,Wielinga PY,Kelder T,Radonjic M,Salic K,Kleemann R,van Ommen B,Kooistra T

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Integrating multiple data sources is indispensable in improving disease gene identification. It is not only due to the fact that disease genes associated with similar genetic diseases tend to lie close with each other in various biological networks, but also due to the fact that gene-disease associations are...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Chen B,Li M,Wang J,Shang X,Wu FX

更新日期：2015-01-01 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:At least 90% of human genes are alternatively spliced. Alternative splicing has an important function regulating gene expression and miss-splicing can contribute to risk for human diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD). METHODS:We developed a splicing decision model as a molecular mechanism to identif...

journal_title：BMC medical genomics

authors： Han S,Miller JE,Byun S,Kim D,Risacher SL,Saykin AJ,Lee Y,Nho K,for Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2019-01-31 00:00:00