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The Interferon-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeat (IFIT) family, IFIT1/2/3/5, play an important role in different tumors progression. However, the prognosis significance and biological role of IFIT ...
Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors have enormous therapeutic potential as effective epigenetic regulators, and now with the focus on the selective HDAC6 inhibitor in ongoing clinical trials, more advantages...
Low-pass genome sequencing (LP GS) has shown distinct advantages over traditional methods for the detection of mosaicism. However, no study has systematically evaluated the accuracy of LP GS in the detection o...
The original article was published in BMC Medical Genomics 2023 16:36
This study reported the first case of Kohlschütter-Tönz syndrome (KTS) in China and reviewed the literature of the reported cases.
Biallelic loss-of-function variants in WWOX cause WWOX-related epileptic encephalopathy (WOREE syndrome), which has been reported in 60 affected individuals to date. In this study, we report on an affected ind...
Individuals diagnosed with Fanconi anemia (FA), an uncommon disorder characterized by chromosomal instability affecting the FA signaling pathway, exhibit heightened vulnerability to the onset of myelodysplasti...
Small bowel cancer (SBC) is a very rare solid malignancy. Consequently, compared with other malignant gastrointestinal tumors, our knowledge regarding SBC, specifically its molecular attributes, remains limite...
Chronic inflammation causes bone destruction in middle ear cholesteatomas (MECs). However, the causes of their neoplastic features remain unknown. The present study demonstrated for the first time that neoplas...
As the most common type of glaucoma, the etiology of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) has not been unified. Autophagy may affect the occurrence and development of POAG, while the specific mechanism and targe...
Complete trisomy 22 is a rare chromosomal condition that is incompatible with life. However, mosaic trisomy 22 usually has prolonged survival compatibility and may present a good prognosis depending on the tis...
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is one of the most common autosomal dominant genetic diseases. Whole exome sequencing (WES) is a routine tool for diagnostic confirmation of genetic disease...
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is the formation of a blood clot in a deep vein. DVT can lead to a venous thromboembolism (VTE), the combined term for DVT and pulmonary embolism, a leading cause of death and disabi...
Histone lysine lactylation (Kla) is a newly identified histone modification, which plays a crucial role in cancer progression. Hence, we determined the prognostic value of Kla in breast cancer (BC).
1P36 deletion syndrome is recognized as the most common terminal microdeletion syndrome in humans, characterized by early developmental delay and consequent intellectual disability, seizure disorder, and disti...
Elevated triglyceride (TG) levels are a heritable and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease and have well-established associations with common genetic variation captured in a polygenic risk score (...
The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Genomics 2023 16:302
Trabecular meshwork (TM) dysfunction-induced elevation of intraocular pressure has been identified as the main risk factor of irreversible optic nerve injury in Primary open‑angle glaucoma (POAG). Increasing e...
Retinoblastoma (RB) a tumour affecting those under 5 years, has a prevalence of 1 in 20,000, with around twenty new diagnoses per year in Sri Lanka. Unilateral and bilateral RB presents around 24 and 15 months...
Perrault Syndrome (PRLTS) is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder that presents with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss in all patients and gonadal dysfunction in females. It has been linked to variants in CLPP
The pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an immune imbalance, in which various inflammatory immune cells and pro-inflammatory factors are involved. Interleukin-17 (IL-17), a potent pro-inflammatory cyt...
We aim to investigate the correlation between gene polymorphisms and cisplatin chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV), which was prevented by olanzapine or aprepitant triple antiemetic regimen.
The relationship between aging and osteoporosis is well established. However, the relationship between the body's physiological age, i.e. epigenetic age, and osteoporosis is not known. Our goal is to analyze t...
Intervertebral disc cell fibrosis has been established as a contributing factor to intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD). This study aimed to identify fibrosis-related diagnostic genes for patients with IDD.
To determine the effect of different translocation characteristics on fertilization rate and blastocyst development in chromosomal translocation patients.
Cell composition deconvolution (CCD) is a type of bioinformatic task to estimate the cell fractions from bulk gene expression profiles, such as RNA-seq. Many CCD models were developed to perform linear regress...
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 16 Supplement 2
Tubulin beta-8 (TUBB8) is expressed exclusively in the oocyte and early embryo, encoding a beta-tubulin polypeptide that participates in the assembly of microtubules. TUBB8 was first attributed to being responsib...
Cardiomyopathy, which is a genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous pathological condition, is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Genetic diagnosis of cardiomyopathy enables accurate phenot...
Schistosoma japonicum infection is an important public health problem and the S. japonicum infection is associated with a variety of diseases, including colorectal cancer. We collected the paraffin samples of CRC...
During gestation, stressors to the fetus, including viral exposure or maternal psychological distress, can fundamentally alter the neonatal epigenome, and may be associated with long-term impaired developmenta...
Our previous study illustrated the predictive value of serum gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) for neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) sensitivity in breast cancer patients. In this study we aim to determine whet...
We conducted an investigation into the clinical and molecular characteristics of Arrhythmogenic left ventricular cardiomyopathy (ALVC) caused by a novel likely pathogenic mutation in an Iranian pedigree with s...
The impact of inflammatory response on tumor development and therapeutic response is of significant importance in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). The customization of specialized prognostication appro...
Tumor Metabolism is strongly correlated with prognosis. Nevertheless, the prognostic and therapeutic value of metabolic-associated genes in BCa patients has not been fully elucidated. First, in this study, met...
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most aggressive abdominal malignancies with a poor prognosis and it is urgent to find effective biomarkers for prediction. Although BICC1 expression is related to the survi...
Whole-exome sequencing (WES) significantly improves the diagnosis of the etiology of fetal structural anomalies. This study aims to evaluate the diagnostic value of prenatal WES and to investigate the pathogen...
Endometrial cancer (EC) is one of the worldwide gynecological malignancies. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is the cellular homeostasis disturbance that participates in cancer progression. However, the mecha...
While Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) variants are clonal, variant tuberculosis is a human-adapted pathogen, and variant bovis infects many hosts. Despite nucleotide identity between MTBC variants excee...
More than 200 asthma-associated genetic variants have been identified in genome-wide association studies (GWASs). Expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) data resources can help identify causal genes of the ...
The role of the basal metabolic rate (BMR) in osteoarthritis (OA) remains unclear, as previous retrospective studies have produced inconsistent results. Therefore, we performed a Mendelian randomization (MR) s...
Bisulfite sequencing has long been considered the gold standard for measuring DNA methylation at single CpG resolution. However, in recent years several new approaches like nanopore sequencing have been develo...
Ichthyoses are a heterogeneous group of cornification disorders. The most common form of ichthyoses is ichthyosis vulgaris (IV) ([OMIM] #146,700), which can be inherited as autosomal semi-dominant mutation in ...
Renal allograft fibrosis is one of characteristic causes of long-term renal function loss. The purpose of our study is to investigate the association between fibrosis-related genes single nucleotide polymorphi...
The study of CCR7/CCL19 chemokine axis and breast cancer (BC) prognosis and metastasis is a current hot topic. We constructed a ceRNA network and risk-prognosis model based on CCR7/CCL19.
Oculopharyngodistal myopathy (OPDM) is an autosomal dominant adult-onset degenerative muscle disorder characterized by ptosis, ophthalmoplegia and weakness of the facial, pharyngeal and limb muscles. Trinucleo...
Previous studies have reported the role of genes in different metabolic processes in the human body, and any variation in gene polymorphisms could lead to disturbances in these processes and different diseases.
Myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury (MIRI), the tissue damage which is caused by the returning of blood supply to tissue after a period of ischemia, greatly reduces the therapeutic effect of treatment of my...
Whether the positive associations of blood lipids with psychiatric disorders are causal is uncertain. We conducted this two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to comprehensively investigate associati...
Avian influenza viruses (AIV), particularly H5N6, have risen in infection frequency, prompting major concerns. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) can illustrate the immune cell landscape present in the per...
Efferocytosis is a biological process in which phagocytes remove apoptotic cells and vesicles from tissues. This process is initiated by the release of inflammatory mediators from apoptotic cells and plays a c...
The clinical manifestations of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) can vary widely, ranging from asymptomatic to severe, and may be influenced by the host genetic background. The aim of the present study was to det...
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