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  1. Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common extracranial solid tumor found in children. The frequent gain/loss of many chromosome bands in tumor cells and absence of mutations found at diagnosis suggests that NB is ...

    Authors: Chao Qin, Xiaoyan He, Yanding Zhao, Chun-Yip Tong, Kenneth Y. Zhu, Yongqi Sun and Chao Cheng

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:192

    Content type: Research article

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  2. Disease comorbidity is popular and has significant indications for disease progress and management. We aim to detect the general disease comorbidity patterns in Chinese populations using a large-scale clinical...

    Authors: Mengfei Guo, Yanan Yu, Tiancai Wen, Xiaoping Zhang, Baoyan Liu, Jin Zhang, Runshun Zhang, Yanning Zhang and Xuezhong Zhou

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12(Suppl 12):177

    Content type: Research

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 12

  3. When ordering genetic testing or triaging candidate variants in exome and genome sequencing studies, it is critical to generate and test a comprehensive list of candidate genes that succinctly describe the com...

    Authors: Aditya Ekawade, Matt Velinder, Alistair Ward, Tonya DiSera, Chase Miller, Yi Qiao and Gabor Marth

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:190

    Content type: Software

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  4. Female carriers of a balanced X; autosome translocation generally undergo selective inactivation of the normal X chromosome. This is because inactivation of critical genes within the autosomal region of the de...

    Authors: Makiko Tsutsumi, Hiroyoshi Hattori, Nobuhiro Akita, Naoko Maeda, Toshinobu Kubota, Keizo Horibe, Naoko Fujita, Miki Kawai, Yasuko Shinkai, Maki Kato, Takema Kato, Rie Kawamura, Fumihiko Suzuki and Hiroki Kurahashi

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:182

    Content type: Case report

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  5. Following publication of the original article [1], it was reported that during the production process, Fig. 3b was omitted from the final article.

    Authors: Huatuo Huang, Guijiang Wei, Chunfang Wang, Yulan Lu, Chunhong Liu, Rong Wang, Xiang Shi, Jun Yang and Yesheng Wei

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:176

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:159

  6. In recent years, the amount of genomic data produced in clinical genetics services has increased significantly due to the advent of next-generation sequencing. This influx of genomic information leads to conti...

    Authors: Julia El Mecky, Lennart Johansson, Mirjam Plantinga, Angela Fenwick, Anneke Lucassen, Trijnie Dijkhuizen, Annemieke van der Hout, Kate Lyle and Irene van Langen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:170

    Content type: Research article

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  7. Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by hyperproliferation and abnormal differentiation of keratinocytes. It is one of the most prevalent chronic inflammatory skin conditions in adult...

    Authors: Liviu-Ionut Moldovan, Thomas Birkballe Hansen, Morten Trillingsgaard Venø, Trine Line Hauge Okholm, Thomas Levin Andersen, Henrik Hager, Lars Iversen, Jørgen Kjems, Claus Johansen and Lasse Sommer Kristensen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:174

    Content type: Research article

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  8. Assess process, uptake, validity and resource needs for return of actionable research findings to biobank participants.

    Authors: Tanya Papaz, Eriskay Liston, Laura Zahavich, Dimitri J. Stavropoulos, Rebekah K. Jobling, Raymond H. Kim, Miriam Reuter, Anastasia Miron, Erwin Oechslin, Tapas Mondal, Lynn Bergin, John F. Smythe, Luis Altamirano-Diaz, Jane Lougheed, Roderick Yao, Oyediran Akinrinade…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:173

    Content type: Research article

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  10. Immune escape is one of the hallmarks of cancer and several new treatment approaches attempt to modulate and restore the immune system’s capability to target cancer cells. At the heart of the immune recognitio...

    Authors: Eric Blanc, Manuel Holtgrewe, Arunraj Dhamodaran, Clemens Messerschmidt, Gerald Willimsky, Thomas Blankenstein and Dieter Beule

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:171

    Content type: Research Article

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  11. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors provided an updated accession number in the “Availability of data and materials” section of the declarations.

    Authors: Margaret M. Parker, Robert P. Chase, Andrew Lamb, Alejandro Reyes, Aabida Saferali, Jeong H. Yun, Blanca E. Himes, Edwin K. Silverman, Craig P. Hersh and Peter J. Castaldi

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:166

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:58

  12. Previously developed classifications of glioma have provided enormous advantages for the diagnosis and treatment of glioma. Although the role of alternative splicing (AS) in cancer, especially in glioma, has b...

    Authors: Yaomin Li, Zhonglu Ren, Yuping Peng, Kaishu Li, Xiran Wang, Guanglong Huang, Songtao Qi and Yawei Liu

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:165

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the major type of primary liver cancer. Intrahepatic metastasis, such as portal vein tumor thrombosis (PVTT), strongly indicates poor prognosis of HCC. But now, there are limi...

    Authors: Dongfang Wang, Yanjing Zhu, Jing Tang, Qiuyu Lian, Guijuan Luo, Wen Wen, Michael Q. Zhang, Hongyang Wang, Lei Chen and Jin Gu

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:164

    Content type: Research article

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  14. Progestin is effective to promote endometrial cancer (EC) cells apoptosis, however, continuous progestin administration causes low level of progestin receptor B (PRB), further resulting in progestin resistance...

    Authors: Wenjiao Cao, Wuyuan Gao, Panchan Zheng, Xiao Sun and Lihua Wang

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:163

    Content type: Research article

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  15. Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer can benefit from anti-EGFR therapy, such as cetuximab and panitumumab. However, colorectal cancers harboring constitutive activating mutations in KRAS, NRAS and BRAF gen...

    Authors: Yuki Nagakubo, Yosuke Hirotsu, Kenji Amemiya, Toshio Oyama, Hitoshi Mochizuki and Masao Omata

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:162

    Content type: Research article

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  16. In 2012, Venet et al. proposed that at least in the case of breast cancer, most published signatures are not significantly more associated with outcome than randomly generated signatures. They suggested that n...

    Authors: Elnaz Saberi Ansar, Changiz Eslahchii, Mahsa Rahimi, Lobat Geranpayeh, Marzieh Ebrahimi, Rosa Aghdam and Gwenneg Kerdivel

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:160

    Content type: Research Article

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  17. The microRNA-17-92 (miR-17-92) cluster is one of the most extensively studied miRNA clusters. Abnormal expression of the cluster has been found to play important role in different kinds of human diseases, incl...

    Authors: Huatuo Huang, Guijiang Wei, Chunfang Wang, Yulan Lu, Chunhong Liu, Rong Wang, Xiang Shi, Jun Yang and Yesheng Wei

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:159

    Content type: Research article

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:176

  18. Preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic defects (PGT-M) has been available in clinical practice. This study aimed to validate the applicability of targeted capture sequencing in developing personalized P...

    Authors: Haining Luo, Chao Chen, Yun Yang, Yinfeng Zhang, Yuan Yuan, Wanyang Wang, Renhua Wu, Zhiyu Peng, Ying Han, Lu Jiang, Ruqiang Yao, Xiaoying An, Weiwei Zhang, Yanqun Le, Jiale Xiang, Na Yi…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:157

    Content type: Research article

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  19. Non-syndromic intellectual disability is genetically heterogeneous with dominant, recessive and complex forms of inheritance. We have performed detailed genetic studies in a large multi-generational Swedish fa...

    Authors: Eva Lindholm Carlström, Jonatan Halvardson, Mitra Etemadikhah, Lennart Wetterberg, Karl-Henrik Gustavson and Lars Feuk

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:156

    Content type: Research article

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    Authors: Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Letizia Amadori, Nicholas K. Akers, Katyayani Sukhavasi, Oscar Franzén, Li Li, Gillian M. Belbin, Kristin L. Ayers, Khader Shameer, Marcus A. Badgeley, Kipp W. Johnson, Ben Readhead, Bruce J. Darrow, Eimear E. Kenny, Christer Betsholtz, Raili Ermel…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:154

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:108

  22. During human pregnancy, placental trophectoderm cells release extracellular vesicles (EVs) into maternal circulation. Trophoblasts also give rise to cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in maternal blood, and has been used f...

    Authors: Weiting Zhang, Sen Lu, Dandan Pu, Haiping Zhang, Lin Yang, Peng Zeng, Fengxia Su, Zhichao Chen, Mei Guo, Ying Gu, Yanmei Luo, Huamei Hu, Yanping Lu, Fang Chen and Ya Gao

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:151

    Content type: Research article

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  23. 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 sens...

    Authors: Daichi Shigemizu, Shintaro Akiyama, Yuya Asanomi, Keith A. Boroevich, Alok Sharma, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Takashi Sakurai, Kouichi Ozaki, Takahiro Ochiya and Shumpei Niida

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:150

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  24. Genetics play an important role in intracranial aneurysm (IA) pathophysiology. Genome-wide association studies have identified several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are linked to IA but how they ...

    Authors: Kerry E. Poppenberg, Kaiyu Jiang, Michael K. Tso, Kenneth V. Snyder, Adnan H. Siddiqui, John Kolega, James N. Jarvis, Hui Meng and Vincent M. Tutino

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:149

    Content type: Research article

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  25. Plasmodium falciparum malaria remains a major health problem in Africa. The mechanisms of pathogenesis are not fully understood. Transcriptomic studies may provide new insights into molecular pathways involved in...

    Authors: Alassane Thiam, Michel Sanka, Rokhaya Ndiaye Diallo, Magali Torres, Babacar Mbengue, Nicolas Fernandez Nunez, Fatou Thiam, Gora Diop, Geneviève Victorero, Catherine Nguyen, Alioune Dieye and Pascal Rihet

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:148

    Content type: Research article

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  26. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, especially in East Asia. Even with the progress in therapy, 5-year survival rates remain unsatisfied. Chronic infection with the hepa...

    Authors: Suofeng Sun, Yuan Li, Shuangyin Han, Hongtao Jia, Xiuling Li and Xiaofang Li

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:147

    Content type: Research article

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  27. Bleomycin, etoposide and cisplatin (BEP) are three chemotherapeutic agents widely used individually or in combination with each other or other chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of various cancers. These...

    Authors: Prabin Upadhyaya, Alessandra Di Serafino, Luca Sorino, Patrizia Ballerini, Marco Marchisio, Laura Pierdomenico, Liborio Stuppia and Ivana Antonucci

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:146

    Content type: Research article

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  28. Wild-type (wt) polyglutamine (polyQ) regions are implicated in stabilization of protein-protein interactions (PPI). Pathological polyQ expansion, such as that in human Ataxin-1 (ATXN1), that causes spinocerebe...

    Authors: Sara Rocha, Jorge Vieira, Noé Vázquez, Hugo López-Fernández, Florentino Fdez-Riverola, Miguel Reboiro-Jato, André D. Sousa and Cristina P. Vieira

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:145

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  29. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare autoimmune connective tissue disease whose pathogenesis remains incompletely understood. Increasing evidence suggests that both genetic susceptibilities and changes in DNA me...

    Authors: Tianyuan Lu, Kathleen Oros Klein, Inés Colmegna, Maximilien Lora, Celia M. T. Greenwood and Marie Hudson

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:144

    Content type: Research article

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  30. Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) which may significantly impact on the affected individual’s life. ADHD is acknowledged to have a high heritability co...

    Authors: Aitana Alonso-Gonzalez, Manuel Calaza, Cristina Rodriguez-Fontenla and Angel Carracedo

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:143

    Content type: Research article

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  31. Known collectively as breast fibroepithelial lesions (FELs), the common fibroadenomas (FAs) and the rarer phyllodes tumors (PTs) are a heterogenous group of biphasic neoplasms. Owing to limited tissue availabi...

    Authors: Yirong Sim, Gwendolene Xin Pei Ng, Cedric Chuan Young Ng, Vikneswari Rajasegaran, Suet Far Wong, Wei Liu, Peiyong Guan, Sanjanaa Nagarajan, Wai Yee Ng, Aye Aye Thike, Jeffrey Chun Tatt Lim, Nur Diyana Binte Md Nasir, Veronique Kiak Mien Tan, Preetha Madhukumar, Wei Sean Yong, Chow Yin Wong…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:142

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  32. Epigenetic age acceleration, a measure of biological aging based on DNA methylation, is associated with cardiovascular mortality. However, little is known about its relationship with hypertensive target organ ...

    Authors: Jennifer A. Smith, Jeremy Raisky, Scott M. Ratliff, Jiaxuan Liu, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Stephen T. Turner, Thomas H. Mosley and Wei Zhao

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:141

    Content type: Research article

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  33. Healthcare providers increasingly use information about pathogenic variants in cancer predisposition genes, including sequence variants and large rearrangements (LRs), in medical management decisions. While se...

    Authors: Debora Mancini-DiNardo, Thaddeus Judkins, John Kidd, Ryan Bernhisel, Courtney Daniels, Krystal Brown, Kirsten Meek, Jonathan Craft, Jayson Holladay, Brian Morris and Benjamin B. Roa

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:138

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  34. 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...

    Authors: Filisia Agus, Diego Crespo, Richard H. Myers and Adam Labadorf

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:137

    Content type: Research Article

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  35. Unprecedented durable responses are identified in clinical studies to target the signaling of programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) as well as its ligand (PD-L1) in patients with squamous-cell non-small cell ...

    Authors: Cheng Fang, Chu Zhang, Wei-Qing Zhao, Wen-Wei Hu, Jun Wu and Mei Ji

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:136

    Content type: Case report

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  36. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are involved in a wide range of biological processes in tumorigenesis. However, the role of lncRNA expression in the biology, prognosis, and molecular classification of human mult...

    Authors: Minqiu Lu, Ying Hu, Yin Wu, Huixing Zhou, Yuan Jian, Ying Tian and Wenming Chen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:135

    Content type: Research article

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  37. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness in the working age population. Transthyretin (TTR) showed a significantly decreased concentration in DR patients and exerted a visual protective effe...

    Authors: Jun Shao, Yunbin Zhang, Guangming Fan, Yu Xin and Yong Yao

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:134

    Content type: Research article

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  38. The amount of publicly available cancer-related “omics” data is constantly growing and can potentially be used to gain insights into the tumour biology of new cancer patients, their diagnosis and suitable trea...

    Authors: Petr V. Nazarov, Anke K. Wienecke-Baldacchino, Andrei Zinovyev, Urszula Czerwińska, Arnaud Muller, Dorothée Nashan, Gunnar Dittmar, Francisco Azuaje and Stephanie Kreis

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:132

    Content type: Technical advance

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  39. Although APOBEC-mutational signature is found in tumor tissues of multiple cancers, how a common germline APOBEC3A/B deletion affects the mutational signature remains unclear.

    Authors: Zhishan Chen, Wanqing Wen, Jiandong Bao, Krystle L. Kuhs, Qiuyin Cai, Jirong Long, Xiao-ou Shu, Wei Zheng and Xingyi Guo

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:131

    Content type: Research article

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  40. Pneumonia, sepsis, meningitis, and empyema due to Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. We provide a systemic overview of genetic variants associated with susceptibility, phenotype...

    Authors: Anne T. Kloek, Matthijs C. Brouwer and Diederik van de Beek

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:130

    Content type: Research article

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  41. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that may be genetic factors underlying Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, how these AD-associated SNPs (AD SNPs) c...

    Authors: Masataka Kikuchi, Norikazu Hara, Mai Hasegawa, Akinori Miyashita, Ryozo Kuwano, Takeshi Ikeuchi and Akihiro Nakaya

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:128

    Content type: Research article

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  42. Burkholderia mallei (Bm) is a facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen causing highly-fatal glanders in solipeds and humans. The ability of Bm to thrive intracellularly is thought to be related to exploitatio...

    Authors: Sophie A. Aschenbroich, Eric R. Lafontaine, Maria Cecilia Lopez, Henry V. Baker and Robert J. Hogan

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:127

    Content type: Research article

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  44. The five-year survival rate and therapeutic effect of malignant glioma is low. Identification of key/associated proteins and pathways in glioma is necessary for developing effective diagnosis and targeted ther...

    Authors: Yongqin Yin, Bo Li, Kejie Mou, Muhammad T. Khan, Aman C. Kaushik, Dongqing Wei and Yu-Juan Zhang

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:125

    Content type: Research article

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  45. Non-coding RNA has been shown to participate in numerous biological and pathological processes and has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Recent studies have demonstrated that long non-coding RNA ...

    Authors: Jiangquan Liao, Jie Wang, Yongmei Liu, Jun Li and Lian Duan

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:124

    Content type: Research article

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  46. Incidental and secondary findings (IFs and SFs) are subject to ongoing discussion as potential consequences of clinical exome sequencing (ES). International policy documents vary on the reporting of these find...

    Authors: Marlies Saelaert, Heidi Mertes, Tania Moerenhout, Elfride De Baere and Ignaas Devisch

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:123

    Content type: Research article

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  47. Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common primary glomerulonephritis worldwide. Recent evidence suggests that genetic factors are related to the pathogenesis of IgAN. We conducted a genome-wide as...

    Authors: Kyung Hwan Jeong, Jin Sug Kim, Yu Ho Lee, Yang Gyun Kim, Ju-Young Moon, Su Kang Kim, Sun Woo Kang, Tae Hee Kim, Sang Ho Lee and Yeong Hoon Kim

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:122

    Content type: Research article

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  48. Psoriasis and atopic dermatitis are two inflammatory skin diseases with a high prevalence and a significant burden on the patients. Underlying molecular mechanisms include chronic inflammation and abnormal pro...

    Authors: Zandra C. Félix Garza, Michael Lenz, Joerg Liebmann, Gökhan Ertaylan, Matthias Born, Ilja C. W. Arts, Peter A. J. Hilbers and Natal A. W. van Riel

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:121

    Content type: Research article

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  49. P. falciparum malaria has been recognized as one of the prominent evolutionary selective forces of human genome that led to the emergence of multiple host protective alleles. A comprehensive understanding of the ...

    Authors: Delesa Damena, Awany Denis, Lemu Golassa and Emile R. Chimusa

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:120

    Content type: Review

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  50. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors provided an updated funding statement to the article. The updated statement is as follows:

    Authors: Yu-Chiao Chiu, Hung-I Harry Chen, Tinghe Zhang, Songyao Zhang, Aparna Gorthi, Li-Ju Wang, Yufei Huang and Yidong Chen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:119

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:18

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