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Genomic epidemiology

This section considers studies of the association of genetic factors or variations in the human genome with human health and disease, their prevalence within families and populations, their interactions with environmental factors, and their contribution to disease risk.

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  1. Hypertension is a complex disorder affected by gene-environment interactions. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene is one of the genes in One Carbon Metabolic (OCM) pathway that affects both blood pre...

    Authors: Suniti Yadav, Imnameren Longkumer, Shipra Joshi and Kallur Nava Saraswathy

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:59

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  3. Colon cancer (CC) is one of the most common malignant tumors, while Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. Recent accumulating evidence indicates that these two diseases...

    Authors: Suyan Tian, Mingyue Zhang and Zhiming Ma

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:36

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  4. Genetic factors play an important role in susceptibility to methamphetamine dependency. In this line, protein that interact with C-kinase-1 (PICK1) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) genes are linked to...

    Authors: Amir Tajbakhsh, Maliheh Alimardani, Mahla Asghari, Soheila Abedini, Sohrab Saghafi Khadem, Abolfazl Nesaei Bajestani, Forough Alipoor, Maryam Alidoust, Amir Savardashtaki, Peyman Hashemian and Alireza Pasdar

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:27

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  5. Type 2 diabetes complications cause a serious emotional and economical burden to patients and healthcare systems globally. Management of both acute and chronic complications of diabetes, which dramatically imp...

    Authors: Monta Ustinova, Raitis Peculis, Raimonds Rescenko, Vita Rovite, Linda Zaharenko, Ilze Elbere, Laila Silamikele, Ilze Konrade, Jelizaveta Sokolovska, Valdis Pirags and Janis Klovins

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:18

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  6. Tandem repeats are highly mutable and contribute to the development of human disease by a variety of mechanisms. It is difficult to predict which tandem repeats may cause a disease. One hypothesis is that chan...

    Authors: Satomi Mitsuhashi, Martin C. Frith and Naomichi Matsumoto

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:17

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  7. The opioid use disorder and overdose crisis in the United States affects public health as well as social and economic welfare. While several genetic and non-genetic risk factors for opioid use disorder have be...

    Authors: Jessica Heil, Stefan Zajic, Emily Albertson, Andrew Brangan, Iris Jones, Wendy Roberts, Michael Sabia, Elliot Bodofsky, Alissa Resch, Rachel Rafeq, Rachel Haroz, Russell Buono, Thomas N. Ferraro, Laura Scheinfeldt, Matthew Salzman and Kaitlan Baston

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:16

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  8. DNA methylation of Cadherin 13 (CDH13), a tumor suppressor gene is associated with gene repression and carcinogenesis. We determined the relation of dietary fat and sex with CDH13 cg02263260 methylation in Tai...

    Authors: Bei-Hao Shiu, Wen-Yu Lu, Disline Manli Tantoh, Ming-Chih Chou, Oswald Ndi Nfor, Chi-Chou Huang and Yung-Po Liaw

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:13

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  9. Elevated triglycerides (TG) are associated with, and may be causal for, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and co-morbidities such as type II diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Pathogenic variants in APOA5 and APOC3 as ...

    Authors: Elisabeth A. Rosenthal, David R. Crosslin, Adam S. Gordon, David S. Carrell, Ian B. Stanaway, Eric B. Larson, Jane Grafton, Wei-Qi Wei, Joshua C. Denny, Qi-Ping Feng, Amy S. Shah, Amy C. Sturm, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Jennifer A. Pacheco, Hakon Hakonarson, Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:11

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  10. This study is to explore the relationship between the ZBRK1/ZNF350 (Zinc finger and BRCA1-interacting protein with KRAB domain-1; also known as zinc-finger protein 350) gene polymorphism and early-onset breast ca...

    Authors: Jun Wu, Alibiati Eni, Eliar Roussuri and Binlin Ma

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:7

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  11. Preeclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy-related condition that affects both the infant and the mother. Although the role of various inflammatory molecules in PE has been demonstrated, the importance of pro-inflammato...

    Authors: Xiao Lang, Wei Liu, Yanyan Hou, Wenxia Zhao, Xingyu Yang, Lan Chen, Qi Yan and Weiwei Cheng

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:5

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  12. In order to explore the pathophysiology underlying type 2 diabetes we examined the impact of gene variants associated with type 2 diabetes on circulating levels of glucagon during an oral glucose tolerance tes...

    Authors: Anna Jonsson, Sara E. Stinson, Signe S. Torekov, Tine D. Clausen, Kristine Færch, Louise Kelstrup, Niels Grarup, Elisabeth R. Mathiesen, Peter Damm, Daniel R. Witte, Marit E. Jørgensen, Oluf Pedersen, Jens Juul Holst and Torben Hansen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:3

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  13. We aimed to examine the role of the rs6060566 polymorphism of the reactive oxygen species modulator 1 (ROMO1) gene in the development of myocardial infarction (MI) in Caucasians with type 2 diabetes (T2DM).

    Authors: Miha Tibaut, Sara Mankoč Ramuš and Daniel Petrovič

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:184

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  14. Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome is a well-characterized genomic disorder caused by 4p16.3 deletions. Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome patients exhibit characteristic facial dysmorphism, growth retardation, developmental dela...

    Authors: Xuyun Hu, Di Wu, Yuchuan Li, Liya Wei, Xiaoqiao Li, Miao Qin, Hongdou Li, Mengting Li, Shaoke Chen, Chunxiu Gong and Yiping Shen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:181

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  15. Hypoxia and stemness are important factors in tumor progression. We aimed to explore the ncRNA classifier associated with hypoxia and stemness in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). We found that the prognosis of LUAD...

    Authors: Lili Guo, Hongxia Li, Weiying Li and Junfang Tang

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:166

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  16. Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare, often-aggressive neoplasm of the adrenal cortex, with a 14–17 month median overall survival. We asked whether tumors from patients with advanced or metastatic ACC woul...

    Authors: Tito Fojo, Lyn Huff, Thomas Litman, Kate Im, Maureen Edgerly, Jaydira del Rivero, Stefania Pittaluga, Maria Merino, Susan E. Bates and Michael Dean

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:165

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  17. Polygenic scores are a strategy to aggregate the small, additive effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms across the genome. With phenotypes like Alzheimer’s disease, which have a strong and well-established...

    Authors: Erin B. Ware, Jessica D. Faul, Colter M. Mitchell and Kelly M. Bakulski

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:164

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  18. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have proven successful in predicting genetic risk of disease using single-locus models; however, identifying single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) interactions at the geno...

    Authors: Jennifer Luyapan, Xuemei Ji, Siting Li, Xiangjun Xiao, Dakai Zhu, Eric J. Duell, David C. Christiani, Matthew B. Schabath, Susanne M. Arnold, Shanbeh Zienolddiny, Hans Brunnström, Olle Melander, Mark D. Thornquist, Todd A. MacKenzie, Christopher I. Amos and Jiang Gui

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:162

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  19. The present study aims to investigate the complete long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) and messenger RNA (mRNA) expression profiles in Intracranial aneurysm (IA) patients and controls by RNA sequencing, which reveals...

    Authors: Yi Sun, Yeying Wen, Qishuang Ruan, Le Yang, Shuna Huang, Xingyan Xu, Yingying Cai, Huangyuan Li and Siying Wu

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:147

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  20. Hypertension is a major modifiable risk factor for arteriosclerosis that can lead to target organ damage (TOD) of heart, kidneys, and peripheral arteries. A recent epigenome-wide association study for blood pr...

    Authors: Minjung Kho, Wei Zhao, Scott M. Ratliff, Farah Ammous, Thomas H. Mosley, Lulu Shang, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Xiang Zhou and Jennifer A. Smith

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:131

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  21. Childhood-onset asthma is highly affected by genetic components. In recent years, many genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have reported a large group of genetic variants and susceptible genes associated wi...

    Authors: Xiuqing Ma, Peilan Wang, Guobing Xu, Fang Yu and Yunlong Ma

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:123

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  22. Whether high blood pressure has a causal effect on cognitive function as early as middle age is unclear. We investigated whether high blood pressure (BP) causally impairs cognitive function at midlife using Me...

    Authors: Daokun Sun, Emy A. Thomas, Lenore J. Launer, Stephen Sidney, Kristine Yaffe and Myriam Fornage

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:121

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  23. Advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness. While around half of the genetic contribution to advanced AMD has been uncovered, little is known about the genetic architecture...

    Authors: Thomas W. Winkler, Felix Grassmann, Caroline Brandl, Christina Kiel, Felix Günther, Tobias Strunz, Lorraine Weidner, Martina E. Zimmermann, Christina A. Korb, Alicia Poplawski, Alexander K. Schuster, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Annette Peters, Franziska G. Rauscher, Tobias Elze, Katrin Horn…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:120

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  25. Pan-cancer studies of somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs) have demonstrated common SCNA patterns across cancer types, but despite demonstrable differences in aggressiveness of some cancers by race, pan-can...

    Authors: Yalei Chen, Sudha M. Sadasivan, Ruicong She, Indrani Datta, Kanika Taneja, Dhananjay Chitale, Nilesh Gupta, Melissa B. Davis, Lisa A. Newman, Craig G. Rogers, Pamela L. Paris, Jia Li, Benjamin A. Rybicki and Albert M. Levin

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:116

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  26. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is defined by frequent episodes of reduced or complete cessation of airflow during sleep and is linked to negative health outcomes. Understanding the genetic factors influencing e...

    Authors: Olivia J. Veatch, Christopher R. Bauer, Brendan T. Keenan, Navya S. Josyula, Diego R. Mazzotti, Kanika Bagai, Beth A. Malow, Janet D. Robishaw, Allan I. Pack and Sarah A. Pendergrass

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:105

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  27. Testing strategies is crucial for genetics clinics and testing laboratories. In this study, we tried to compare the hit rate between solo and trio and trio plus testing and between trio and sibship testing. Fi...

    Authors: Ahmed Alfares, Lamia Alsubaie, Taghrid Aloraini, Aljoharah Alaskar, Azza Althagafi, Ahmed Alahmad, Mamoon Rashid, Abdulrahman Alswaid, Ali Alothaim, Wafaa Eyaid, Faroug Ababneh, Mohammed Albalwi, Raniah Alotaibi, Mashael Almutairi, Nouf Altharawi, Alhanouf Alsamer…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:103

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  28. BMI is a strong indicator of complications from type I diabetes, especially under intensive treatment.

    Authors: Agnieszka H. Ludwig-Słomczyńska, Michał T. Seweryn, Przemysław Kapusta, Ewelina Pitera, Samuel K. Handelman, Urszula Mantaj, Katarzyna Cyganek, Paweł Gutaj, Łucja Dobrucka, Ewa Wender-Ożegowska, Maciej T. Małecki and Paweł P. Wołkow

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:97

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  29. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a progressive retinal disease contributing to blindness worldwide. Multiple estimates for AMD heritability (h2) exist; however, a substantial proportion of h2 is not attr...

    Authors: Andrea R. Waksmunski, Michelle Grunin, Tyler G. Kinzy, Robert P. Igo Jr, Jonathan L. Haines and Jessica N. Cooke Bailey

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:95

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  30. Xp11.22 duplications have been reported to contribute to nonsyndromic intellectual disability (ID). The HUWE1 gene has been identified in all male Xp11.22 duplication patients and is associated with nonsyndromic ...

    Authors: Qingming Wang, Pengliang Chen, Jianxin Liu, Jiwu Lou, Yanhui Liu and Haiming Yuan

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:66

    Content type: Case report

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  32. Obesity is common among kidney transplant recipients; However biological mediators of obesity are not well understood in this population. Because subcutaneous adipose tissue can be easily obtained during kidne...

    Authors: Rosario B. Jaime-Lara, Abhrarup Roy, Yupeng Wang, Ansley Stanfill, Ann K. Cashion and Paule V. Joseph

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:37

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  33. Multifocal lung cancers (MLCs) are common in patients newly diagnosed with lung cancer, and histological results of most synchronous MLCs are similar. Few cases with different histology findings have been repo...

    Authors: Licheng Wu, Poming Kang, Shaolin Tao, Zhikun Zhao, Longyun Chen, Yajie Xiao and Qunyou Tan

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:15

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  34. 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

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  35. 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

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  36. 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

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  37. 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

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  38. 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

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  40. 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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  41. The 3q duplication syndrome is a result of duplication of a large fragment of the long arm of chromosome 3, mainly 3q21-qter, and in most cases it is diagnosed only after birth. The phenotypic consequences res...

    Authors: Magdalena Pasińska, Rafał Adamczak, Anna Repczyńska, Ewelina Łazarczyk, Barbara Iskra, Agata Klaudia Runge and Olga Haus

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:85

    Content type: Case report

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  42. Genetic diversity is greatest within Africa, in particular the KhoeSan click-speaking peoples of southern Africa. South African populations represent admixture fractions including differing degrees of African,...

    Authors: Desiree C. Petersen, Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri, Abraham van Wyk, Eva K. F. Chan, Pedro Fernandez, Ruth J. Lyons, Shingai B. A. Mutambirw, Andre van der Merwe, Philip A. Venter, William Bates, M. S. Riana Bornman and Vanessa M. Hayes

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:82

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  43. Congenital hearing loss affects approximately 1–2 infants out of every 1000, with 50% of the cases resulting from genetic factors. Targeted gene panels have been widely used for genetic diagnosis of hearing lo...

    Authors: Yu Sun, Jiale Xiang, Yidong Liu, Sen Chen, Jintao Yu, Jiguang Peng, Zijing Liu, Lisha Chen, Jun Sun, Yun Yang, Yaping Yang, Yulin Zhou and Zhiyu Peng

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:76

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  44. Genomic services are increasingly accessible to young adults starting their independent lives with responsibility for their self-care, yet their attitudes to sharing genomic information remain under-researched...

    Authors: Pepita Barnard, Sarah Sharples, Brian J. Thomson and Jonathan M. Garibaldi

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:55

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  45. Cardiomyopathies affect more than 0.5% of the general population. They are associated with high risk of sudden cardiac death, which can result from either heart failure or electrical abnormalities. Although di...

    Authors: Marwan M. Refaat, Sylvana Hassanieh, Jad A. Ballout, Patrick Zakka, Mostafa Hotait, Athar Khalil, Fadi Bitar, Mariam Arabi, Samir Arnaout, Hadi Skouri, Antoine Abchee, Bernard Abi-Saleh, Maurice Khoury, Andreas Massouras and Georges Nemer

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:33

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  46. Microtia-atresia is characterized by abnormalities of the auricle (microtia) and aplasia or hypoplasia of the external auditory canal, often associated with middle ear abnormalities. To date, no causal genetic...

    Authors: Pu Wang, Yibei Wang, Xinmiao Fan, Yaping Liu, Yue Fan, Tao Liu, Chongjian Chen, Shuyang Zhang and Xiaowei Chen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:28

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  47. The etiology and mechanism of spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB) are still unclear. Accumulating evidence has documented that various environmental exposure scenarios may cause maternal and fetal epigenetic chan...

    Authors: Xi-Meng Wang, Fu-Ying Tian, Li-Jun Fan, Chuan-Bo Xie, Zhong-Zheng Niu and Wei-Qing Chen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:1

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  48. Biliary atresia (BA), a fibrosing disorder of the developing biliary tract leading to liver failure in infancy, has an elevated incidence in indigenous New Zealand (NZ) Māori. We investigated a high rate of BA...

    Authors: Sophia R. Cameron-Christie, Justin Wilde, Andrew Gray, Rick Tankard, Melanie Bahlo, David Markie, Helen M. Evans and Stephen P. Robertson

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:121

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  49. Myocardial infarction (MI) is a multifactorial disease with complex pathogenesis, mainly the result of the interplay of genetic and environmental risk factors. The regulation of thrombosis, inflammation and ch...

    Authors: Panagiota Kontou, Athanasia Pavlopoulou, Georgia Braliou, Spyridoula Bogiatzi, Niki Dimou, Sripal Bangalore and Pantelis Bagos

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:109

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  50. Molecular analyses such as whole-genome sequencing have become routine and are expected to be transformational for future healthcare and lifestyle decisions. Population-wide implementation of such analyses is,...

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    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:108

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