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BMC Medical Genomics

Bioinformatic and algorithmical studies

Section edited by Youping Deng

This section considers studies on the development and application of novel computational and statistical methods to the analysis of genomic data for the study of health and disease.

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  1. Content type: Research article

    Common metabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and hypertension, arise from disruptions of the body’s metabolic homeostasis, with relatively strong contributions from genetic ri...

    Authors: Hyung Jun Woo and Jaques Reifman

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:54

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    Plasma neurofilament light (NFL) is a promising biomarker for Alzheimer disease (AD), which increases in the early stage of AD and is associated with the progression of AD. We performed a genome-wide associati...

    Authors: Jie-Qiong Li, Xiang-Zhen Yuan, Hai-Yan Li, Xi-Peng Cao, Jin-Tai Yu, Lan Tan and Wei-An Chen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:47

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    The use of next-generation sequencing approaches in clinical diagnostics has led to a tremendous increase in data and a vast number of variants of uncertain significance that require interpretation. Therefore,...

    Authors: Corinna Ernst, Eric Hahnen, Christoph Engel, Michael Nothnagel, Jonas Weber, Rita K. Schmutzler and Jan Hauke

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:35

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    The presentation of HLA peptide complexes to T cells is a highly regulated and tissue specific process involving multiple transcriptionally controlled cellular components. The extensive polymorphism of HLA gen...

    Authors: Sebastian Boegel, Martin Löwer, Thomas Bukur, Patrick Sorn, John C. Castle and Ugur Sahin

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:36

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    Using high-dimensional penalized regression we studied genome-wide DNA-methylation in bone biopsies of 80 postmenopausal women in relation to their bone mineral density (BMD). The women showed BMD varying from...

    Authors: Tonje G. Lien, Ørnulf Borgan, Sjur Reppe, Kaare Gautvik and Ingrid Kristine Glad

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:24

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    The usage of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for genome-enabled classifications and establishing genome-phenotype correlations have been investigated more extensively over the past few years. The reason for ...

    Authors: Aida Catic, Lejla Gurbeta, Amina Kurtovic-Kozaric, Senad Mehmedbasic and Almir Badnjevic

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:19

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    Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have revealed relationships between over 57,000 genetic variants and diseases. However, unlike Mendelian diseases, complex diseases arise from the interplay of multiple ...

    Authors: Takashi Kido, Weronika Sikora-Wohlfeld, Minae Kawashima, Shinichi Kikuchi, Naoyuki Kamatani, Anil Patwardhan, Richard Chen, Marina Sirota, Keiichi Kodama, Dexter Hadley and Atul J. Butte

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:3

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    MiRNAs are frequently abnormally expressed in the progression of human osteosarcoma. Phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) is one of the tumor suppressors in various types of human c...

    Authors: Biao Zhong, Shang Guo, Wei Zhang, Chi Zhang, Yukai Wang and Changqing Zhang

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:64

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    Significant clinical and research applications are driving large scale adoption of individualized tumor sequencing in cancer in order to identify tumors-specific mutations. When a matched germline sample is av...

    Authors: Rebecca F. Halperin, John D. Carpten, Zarko Manojlovic, Jessica Aldrich, Jonathan Keats, Sara Byron, Winnie S. Liang, Megan Russell, Daniel Enriquez, Ana Claasen, Irene Cherni, Baffour Awuah, Joseph Oppong, Max S. Wicha, Lisa A. Newman, Evelyn Jaigge…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:61

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    Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is now widely used to select embryos free of chromosomal copy number variations (CNV) from chromosome balanced translocation carriers. However, it remains a difficulty t...

    Authors: Shuo Zhang, Caixia Lei, Junping Wu, Jing Zhou, Haiyan Sun, Jing Fu, Yijuan Sun, Xiaoxi Sun, Daru Lu and Yueping Zhang

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:60

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    With 15,949 markers, the low-density Infinium QC Array-24 BeadChip enables linkage analysis, HLA haplotyping, fingerprinting, ethnicity determination, mitochondrial genome variations, blood groups and pharmaco...

    Authors: Petr Ponomarenko, Alex Ryutov, Dennis T. Maglinte, Ancha Baranova, Tatiana V. Tatarinova and Xiaowu Gai

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:57

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    Gene-fusion or chimeric transcripts have been implicated in the onset and progression of a variety of cancers. Massively parallel RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) of the cellular transcriptome is a promising approach ...

    Authors: Vinay K. Mittal and John F. McDonald

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:53

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    Preeclampsia is a multifactorial disease with unknown pathogenesis. Even when recent studies explored this disease using several bioinformatics tools, the main objective was not directed to pathogenesis. Addit...

    Authors: Eduardo Tejera, Maykel Cruz-Monteagudo, Germán Burgos, María-Eugenia Sánchez, Aminael Sánchez-Rodríguez, Yunierkis Pérez-Castillo, Fernanda Borges, Maria Natália Dias Soeiro Cordeiro, César Paz-y-Miño and Irene Rebelo

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:50

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    Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide and is the most commonly diagnosed cancer. Like other cancers, it is a complex and highly heterogeneous disease involving multiple signaling pat...

    Authors: Salem A. El-aarag, Amal Mahmoud, Medhat H. Hashem, Hatem Abd Elkader, Alaa E. Hemeida and Mahmoud ElHefnawi

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:40

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  18. Content type: Software

    An increasing number of precision oncology programmes are being launched world-wide. To support this development, we present the Cancer Variant Explorer (CVE), an R package with an interactive Shiny web browse...

    Authors: Andreas Mock, Suzanne Murphy, James Morris, Francesco Marass, Nitzan Rosenfeld and Charlie Massie

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:37

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  19. Content type: Research article

    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

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    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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