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  1. Aspirin Exacerbated Respiratory Disease (AERD) is a chronic medical condition that encompasses asthma, nasal polyposis, and hypersensitivity to aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Several ...

    Authors: Sehee Wang, Hyun-hwan Jeong, Dokyoon Kim, Kyubum Wee, Hae-Sim Park, Seung-Hyun Kim and Kyung-Ah Sohn
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10(Suppl 1):31
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  2. The APOE ε4 allele is the most significant common genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer’s disease (LOAD). The region surrounding APOE on chromosome 19 has also shown consistent association with LOAD. Howev...

    Authors: Kwangsik Nho, Sungeun Kim, Emrin Horgusluoglu, Shannon L. Risacher, Li Shen, Dokyoon Kim, Seunggeun Lee, Tatiana Foroud, Leslie M. Shaw, John Q. Trojanowski, Paul S. Aisen, Ronald C. Petersen, Clifford R. Jack Jr., Michael W. Weiner, Robert C. Green, Arthur W. Toga…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10(Suppl 1):29
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  3. Breast cancer is a complex disease in which different genomic patterns exists depending on different subtypes. Recent researches present that multiple subtypes of breast cancer occur at different rates, and pl...

    Authors: Garam Lee, Lisa Bang, So Yeon Kim, Dokyoon Kim and Kyung-Ah Sohn
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10(Suppl 1):28
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  4. Transcriptome analytic tools are commonly used across patient cohorts to develop drugs and predict clinical outcomes. However, as precision medicine pursues more accurate and individualized treatment decisions...

    Authors: Qike Li, A. Grant Schissler, Vincent Gardeux, Ikbel Achour, Colleen Kenost, Joanne Berghout, Haiquan Li, Hao Helen Zhang and Yves A. Lussier
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10(Suppl 1):27
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 1

  5. Authors: Laura De-Ugarte, Guy Yoskovitz, Susana Balcells, Robert Güerri-Fernández, Santos Martinez-Diaz, Leonardo Mellibovsky, Roser Urreizti, Xavier Nogués, Daniel Grinberg, Natalia García-Giralt and Adolfo Díez-Pérez
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:36
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Genomics 2015 8:75

  6. To realize potential public health benefits from genetic and genomic innovations, understanding how best to implement the innovations into clinical care is important. The objective of this study was to synthes...

    Authors: Nina R. Sperber, Janet S. Carpenter, Larisa H. Cavallari, Laura J. Damschroder, Rhonda M. Cooper-DeHoff, Joshua C. Denny, Geoffrey S. Ginsburg, Yue Guan, Carol R. Horowitz, Kenneth D. Levy, Mia A. Levy, Ebony B. Madden, Michael E. Matheny, Toni I. Pollin, Victoria M. Pratt, Marc Rosenman…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:35
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. The growing number of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) tests is transforming the routine clinical diagnosis of hereditary cancers. Identifying whether a cancer is the result of an underlying disease-causing mu...

    Authors: Donavan T. Cheng, Meera Prasad, Yvonne Chekaluk, Ryma Benayed, Justyna Sadowska, Ahmet Zehir, Aijazuddin Syed, Yan Elsa Wang, Joshua Somar, Yirong Li, Zarina Yelskaya, Donna Wong, Mark E. Robson, Kenneth Offit, Michael F. Berger, Khedoudja Nafa…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:33
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  8. Both ambulatory atrial fibrillation (AF) and post-operative AF (poAF) are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Analyzing the tissue-specific gene expression in the left atrium (LA) can identify...

    Authors: Martin I Sigurdsson, Louis Saddic, Mahyar Heydarpour, Tzuu-Wang Chang, Prem Shekar, Sary Aranki, Gregory S Couper, Stanton K. Shernan, Jochen D. Muehlschlegel and Simon C. Body
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:25
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. The impacts of direct-to-consumer personal genomic testing (PGT) on health behaviors such as diet and exercise are poorly understood. Our investigation aimed to evaluate diet and exercise changes following PGT...

    Authors: Daiva Elena Nielsen, Deanna Alexis Carere, Catharine Wang, J. Scott Roberts and Robert C. Green
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:24
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Colon cancer, one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths, arises from adenomatous polyps. In these years, circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have attracted increasing attention as novel biomarkers for ...

    Authors: Yajie Zhang, Min Li, Yijiang Ding, Zhimin Fan, Jinchun Zhang, Hongying Zhang, Bin Jiang and Yong Zhu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:23
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  11. Biliary Atresia (BA) is rare and genetically complex, and the pathogenesis is elusive. The disease course is variable and can represent heterogeneity, which hinders effective disease management. Deciphering th...

    Authors: Guo Cheng, Patrick Ho-Yu Chung, Edwin Kin-Wai Chan, Man-Ting So, Pak-Chung Sham, Stacey S. Cherny, Paul Kwong-Hang Tam and Maria-Mercè Garcia-Barceló
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:22
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  12. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by mutations in the DMD gene, which codes for the dystrophin protein. While progress has been made in defining the molecular basis and pathogenesis of DMD, major gaps r...

    Authors: Larry W. Markham, Candice L. Brinkmeyer-Langford, Jonathan H. Soslow, Manisha Gupte, Douglas B. Sawyer, Joe N. Kornegay and Cristi L. Galindo
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:21
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  13. Patient stratification to identify subtypes with different disease manifestations, severity, and expected survival time is a critical task in cancer diagnosis and treatment. While stratification approaches usi...

    Authors: Kiley Graim, Tiffany Ting Liu, Achal S. Achrol, Evan O. Paull, Yulia Newton, Steven D. Chang, Griffith R. Harsh IV, Sergio P. Cordero, Daniel L. Rubin and Joshua M. Stuart
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:20
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  14. Basal-like constitutes an important molecular subtype of breast cancer characterised by an aggressive behaviour and a limited therapy response. The outcome of patients within this subtype is, however, divergen...

    Authors: Heloisa H. Milioli, Inna Tishchenko, Carlos Riveros, Regina Berretta and Pablo Moscato
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:19
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  16. The importance of accurate and affordable mutation calling in fixed pathology samples is becoming increasingly important as we move into the era of personalised medicine. The Affymetrix OncoScan® Array platfor...

    Authors: Henry M. Wood, Joseph M. Foster, Morag Taylor, Emma Tinkler-Hundal, Fiona S. Togneri, Paula Wojtowicz, Assa Oumie, Karen G. Spink, Fiona Brew and Philip Quirke
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:17
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. The distinct types of hematological malignancies have different biological mechanisms and prognoses. For instance, myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is generally indolent and low risk; however, it may transform i...

    Authors: Amir Foroushani, Rupesh Agrahari, Roderick Docking, Linda Chang, Gerben Duns, Monika Hudoba, Aly Karsan and Habil Zare
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:16
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  18. Copy number alterations (CNA) and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) represent a large proportion of genetic structural variations of cancer genomes. These aberrations are continuously accumulated during the procedu...

    Authors: Zhenhua Yu, Ao Li and Minghui Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:15
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. De novo inference of clinically relevant gene function relationships from tumor RNA-seq remains a challenging task. Current methods typically either partition patient samples into a few subtypes or rely upon a...

    Authors: Shirley Pepke and Greg Ver Steeg
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:12
    Content type: Research Article Published on:

  20. The PALB2 gene encodes a protein that plays a crucial role in maintaining genomic integrity. Germline inactivating mutations in PALB2 are associated with an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. The preval...

    Authors: Anna Kluska, Aneta Balabas, Magdalena Piatkowska, Katarzyna Czarny, Katarzyna Paczkowska, Dorota Nowakowska, Michal Mikula and Jerzy Ostrowski
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:14
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Epithelial to mesenchymal transition, and mimicking processes, contribute to cancer invasion and metastasis, and are known to be responsible for resistance to various therapeutic agents in many cancers. While ...

    Authors: Orieta Celiku, Anita Tandle, Joon-Yong Chung, Stephen M. Hewitt, Kevin Camphausen and Uma Shankavaram
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:13
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  22. Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is a debilitating idiopathic disease characterized by unexplained fatigue that fails to resolve with sufficient rest. Diagnosis is based on a list of...

    Authors: Wilfred C. de Vega, Santiago Herrera, Suzanne D. Vernon and Patrick O. McGowan
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:11
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  23. Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) has risen as a useful tool for precision medicine by providing a standardized vocabulary of phenotypic abnormalities to describe presentations of human pathologies; however, ther...

    Authors: Han Fang, Yiyang Wu, Hui Yang, Margaret Yoon, Laura T. Jiménez-Barrón, David Mittelman, Reid Robison, Kai Wang and Gholson J. Lyon
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. The use of genome-wide (whole genome or exome) sequencing for population-based newborn screening presents an opportunity to detect and treat or prevent many more serious early-onset health conditions than is p...

    Authors: Jan M. Friedman, Martina C. Cornel, Aaron J. Goldenberg, Karla J. Lister, Karine Sénécal and Danya F. Vears
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:9
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  25. Familial breast cancer (BC) represents 5 to 10% of all BC cases. Mutations in two high susceptibility BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes explain 16–40% of familial BC, while other high, moderate and low susceptibility genes e...

    Authors: Nadine Jalkh, Eliane Chouery, Zahraa Haidar, Christina Khater, David Atallah, Hamad Ali, Makia J. Marafie, Mohamed R. Al-Mulla, Fahd Al-Mulla and Andre Megarbane
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:8
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease and extensive evidence has indicated a critical role of both the innate and the adaptive arms of immune system in disease development. To date most clinical trial...

    Authors: Shouguo Gao, Nathaniel Wolanyk, Ye Chen, Shuang Jia, Martin J. Hessner and Xujing Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:7
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Clonal expansion of leukemic cells leads to onset of adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), an aggressive lymphoid malignancy with a very poor prognosis. Infection with human T-cell leukemia virus type-1 (HTLV-1) is the...

    Authors: Amir Farmanbar, Sanaz Firouzi, Sung-Joon Park, Kenta Nakai, Kaoru Uchimaru and Toshiki Watanabe
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. Microcephaly has become a major public health problem in Brazil. The total number of newborns with microcephaly was reported to be >4000 in June 2016. Studies suggest that Zika Virus is a major cause of new mi...

    Authors: Diogo Antonio Tschoeke, Louisi Souza de Oliveira, Luciana Leomil, Amilcar Tanuri and Fabiano Lopes Thompson
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:5
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  30. It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep information about genetic ancestry separate from information about health, and consumers of genetic ancestry tests are becoming more aware of the potential health ...

    Authors: Andrew Smart, Deborah A. Bolnick and Richard Tutton
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:3
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  31. Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) are forms of hepatic autoimmunity, and risk for both diseases has a strong genetic component. This study aimed to define the genetic a...

    Authors: Agnieszka Paziewska, Andrzej Habior, Agnieszka Rogowska, Włodzimierz Zych, Krzysztof Goryca, Jakub Karczmarski, Michalina Dabrowska, Filip Ambrozkiewicz, Bozena Walewska-Zielecka, Marek Krawczyk, Halina Cichoz-Lach, Piotr Milkiewicz, Agnieszka Kowalik, Krzysztof Mucha, Joanna Raczynska, Joanna Musialik…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:2
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Congenital dilatation of the bile-duct (CDD) is a rare, mostly sporadic, disorder that results in bile retention with severe associated complications. CDD affects mainly Asians. To our knowledge, no genetic st...

    Authors: John K. L. Wong, Desmond Campbell, Ngoc Diem Ngo, Fanny Yeung, Guo Cheng, Clara S. M. Tang, Patrick H. Y. Chung, Ngoc Son Tran, Man-ting So, Stacey S. Cherny, Pak C. Sham, Paul K. Tam and Maria-Mercè Garcia-Barcelo
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:75
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. High dimensional feature space generally degrades classification in several applications. In this paper, we propose a strategy called gene masking, in which non-contributing dimensions are heuristically remove...

    Authors: Harsh Saini, Sunil Pranit Lal, Vimal Vikash Naidu, Vincel Wince Pickering, Gurmeet Singh, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda and Alok Sharma
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9(Suppl 3):74
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 3

  35. DNA palindromes are a unique pattern of repeat sequences that are present in the human genome. It consists of a sequence of nucleotides in which the second half is the complement of the first half but appearin...

    Authors: Sandeep Subramanian, Srilakshmi Chaparala, Viji Avali and Madhavi K. Ganapathiraju
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9(Suppl 3):73
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 3

  36. Gene expression has been used to identify disease gene biomarkers, but there are ongoing challenges. Single gene or gene-set biomarkers are inadequate to provide sufficient understanding of complex disease mec...

    Authors: Narumol Doungpan, Worrawat Engchuan, Jonathan H. Chan and Asawin Meechai
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9(Suppl 3):70
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 3

  37. The human influenza viruses undergo rapid evolution (especially in hemagglutinin (HA), a glycoprotein on the surface of the virus), which enables the virus population to constantly evade the human immune syste...

    Authors: Haifen Chen, Xinrui Zhou, Jie Zheng and Chee-Keong Kwoh
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9(Suppl 3):69
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 3

  38. Epigenetics of schizophrenia provides important information on how the environmental factors affect the genetic architecture of the disease. DNA methylation plays a pivotal role in etiology for schizophrenia. ...

    Authors: Sheng-An Lee and Kuo-Chuan Huang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9(Suppl 3):68
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 3

  39. The hypergeometric enrichment analysis approach typically fares poorly in feature-selection stability due to its upstream reliance on the t-test to generate differential protein lists before testing for enrichmen...

    Authors: Wilson Wen Bin Goh
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9(Suppl 3):67
    Content type: Research Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 9 Supplement 3

  40. Oxidative stress has been related to type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD), the leading global cause of death. Contributions of environmental factors such as oxidative stress on complex traits...

    Authors: Åsa K. Hedman, Mihkel Zilmer, Johan Sundström, Lars Lind and Erik Ingelsson
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:72
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Research suggests that multidisciplinary genomic tumor boards (MGTB) can inform cancer patient care, though little is known about factors influencing how MGTBs interpret genomic test results, make recommendati...

    Authors: Michelle L. McGowan, Roselle S. Ponsaran, Paula Silverman, Lyndsay N. Harris and Patricia A. Marshall
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:71
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a complex, multi-systemic, autoimmune disease for which the underlying aetiological mechanisms are poorly understood. The genetic and molecular processes underlying lupus ...

    Authors: Wendy Kröger, Darlington Mapiye, Jean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner and Nicki Tiffin
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:66
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. The KRAS gene is mutated in about 40 % of colorectal cancer (CRC) cases, which has been clinically validated as a predictive mutational marker of intrinsic resistance to anti-EGFR inhibitor (EGFRi) therapy. Since...

    Authors: Bernard Omolo, Mingli Yang, Fang Yin Lo, Michael J. Schell, Sharon Austin, Kellie Howard, Anup Madan and Timothy J. Yeatman
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:65
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  44. The rapid adoption of next-generation sequencing provides an efficient system for detecting somatic alterations in neoplasms. The detection of such alterations requires a matched non-neoplastic sample for adeq...

    Authors: Lei Wei, Antonios Papanicolau-Sengos, Song Liu, Jianmin Wang, Jeffrey M. Conroy, Sean T. Glenn, Elizabeth Brese, Qiang Hu, Kiersten Marie Miles, Blake Burgher, Maochun Qin, Karen Head, Angela R. Omilian, Wiam Bshara, John Krolewski, Donald L. Trump…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:64
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. The outsourcing of genomic data into public cloud computing settings raises concerns over privacy and security. Significant advancements in secure computation methods have emerged over the past several years, ...

    Authors: Haixu Tang, Xiaoqian Jiang, Xiaofeng Wang, Shuang Wang, Heidi Sofia, Dov Fox, Kristin Lauter, Bradley Malin, Amalio Telenti, Li Xiong and Lucila Ohno-Machado
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:63
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  46. The increasing use of next generation DNA sequencing in clinical medicine is exposing the need for more genetics education in physician training. We piloted an initiative to determine the feasibility of incorp...

    Authors: Glenn S. Gerhard, Qunyan Jin, Barbara V. Paynton and Steven N. Popoff
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:62
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  47. Noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) using massively parallel sequencing of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is increasingly being used to predict fetal chromosomal abnormalities. However, concerns over erroneous predicti...

    Authors: Sunshin Kim, HeeJung Jung, Sung Hee Han, SeungJae Lee, JeongSub Kwon, Min Gyun Kim, Hyungsik Chu, Kyudong Han, Hwanjong Kwak, Sunghoon Park, Hee Jae Joo, Minae An, Jungsu Ha, Kyusang Lee, Byung Chul Kim, Hailing Zheng…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:61
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Bivalent chromatin refers to overlapping regions containing activating histone H3 Lys4 trimethylation (H3K4me3) and inactivating H3K27me3 marks. Existence of such bivalent marks on the same nucleosome has only...

    Authors: Subhojit Sen, Kirsten F. Block, Alice Pasini, Stephen B. Baylin and Hariharan Easwaran
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:60
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. The observation that the genetic variants identified in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) frequently lie in non-coding regions of the genome that contain cis-regulatory elements suggests that altered gene ex...

    Authors: Andréanne Morin, Tony Kwan, Bing Ge, Louis Letourneau, Maria Ban, Karolina Tandre, Maxime Caron, Johanna K. Sandling, Jonas Carlsson, Guillaume Bourque, Catherine Laprise, Alexandre Montpetit, Ann-Christine Syvanen, Lars Ronnblom, Stephen J. Sawcer, Mark G. Lathrop…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:59
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Histopathological assessment has a low potential to predict clinical outcome in patients with the same stage of colorectal cancer. More specific and sensitive biomarkers to determine patients’ survival are nee...

    Authors: Nurul Ainin Abdul Aziz, Norfilza M. Mokhtar, Roslan Harun, Md Manir Hossain Mollah, Isa Mohamed Rose, Ismail Sagap, Azmi Mohd Tamil, Wan Zurinah Wan Ngah and Rahman Jamal
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:58
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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