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Genomic epidemiology

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

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  1. 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

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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    The Data Descriptor to this article has been published in Scientific Data 2019 6:257

  24. Deafness is a highly heterogenous disorder with over 100 genes known to underlie human non-syndromic hearing impairment. However, many more remain undiscovered, particularly those involved in the most common f...

    Authors: Morag A. Lewis, Lisa S. Nolan, Barbara A. Cadge, Lois J. Matthews, Bradley A. Schulte, Judy R. Dubno, Karen P. Steel and Sally J. Dawson

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:77

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  25. Gestational diabetes (GDM) is a more common problem in India than in many other parts of the world but it is not known whether this is due to unique environmental factors or a unique genetic background. To add...

    Authors: Geeti P. Arora, Peter Almgren, Charlotte Brøns, Richa G. Thaman, Allan A. Vaag, Leif Groop and Rashmi B. Prasad

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:64

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  26. Recently, 34 genes had been associated with differential expression relative to blood pressure (BP)/ hypertension (HTN). We hypothesize that some of the genes associated with BP/HTN are also associated with BP...

    Authors: Ana Caroline C. Sá, Amy Webb, Yan Gong, Caitrin W. McDonough, Mohamed H. Shahin, Somnath Datta, Taimour Y. Langaee, Stephen T. Turner, Amber L. Beitelshees, Arlene B. Chapman, Eric Boerwinkle, John G. Gums, Steven E. Scherer, Rhonda M. Cooper-DeHoff, Wolfgang Sadee and Julie A. Johnson

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:55

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  28. Developmental delay (DD) and intellectual disability (ID) are frequently associated with a broad spectrum of additional phenotypes. Chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) has been recommended as a first-tier te...

    Authors: Yanjie Fan, Yanming Wu, Lili Wang, Yu Wang, Zhuwen Gong, Wenjuan Qiu, Jingmin Wang, Huiwen Zhang, Xing Ji, Jun Ye, Lianshu Han, Xingming Jin, Yongnian Shen, Fei Li, Bing Xiao, Lili Liang…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:49

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  29. Genetic variations in apolipoprotein E (APOE) and proximal genes (PVRL2, TOMM40, and APOC1) are associated with cognitive function and dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease. Epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA...

    Authors: Jiaxuan Liu, Wei Zhao, Erin B. Ware, Stephen T. Turner, Thomas H. Mosley and Jennifer A. Smith

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:43

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  30. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a long-term degenerative disease that is caused by environmental and genetic factors. The networks of genes and their regulators that control the progression and development of PD r...

    Authors: Lining Su, Chunjie Wang, Chenqing Zheng, Huiping Wei and Xiaoqing Song

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:40

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  31. Electrocardiographic measures of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) are used as predictors of cardiovascular risk. We combined linkage and association analyses to discover novel rare genetic variants involved ...

    Authors: Claudia Tamar Silva, Irina V. Zorkoltseva, Maartje N. Niemeijer, Marten E. van den Berg, Najaf Amin, Ayşe Demirkan, Elisa van Leeuwen, Adriana I. Iglesias, Laura B. Piñeros-Hernández, Carlos M. Restrepo, Jan A. Kors, Anatoly V. Kirichenko, Rob Willemsen, Ben A. Oostra, Bruno H. Stricker, André G. Uitterlinden…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:22

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  32. This article investigates the genomic knowledge of oncology care physicians in the adoption of clinical genomics. We apply Rogers’ knowledge framework from his diffusion of innovation theory to identify three ...

    Authors: Vu T. Dung Ha, Julie Frizzo-Barker and Peter Chow-White

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:18

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  33. To address the need for more effective genomics training, beginning in 2012 the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has offered a unique laboratory-style graduate genomics course, “Practical Analysis of Yo...

    Authors: Michael D. Linderman, Saskia C. Sanderson, Ali Bashir, George A. Diaz, Andrew Kasarskis, Randi Zinberg, Milind Mahajan, Sabrina A. Suckiel, Micol Zweig and Eric E. Schadt

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:5

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  34. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of non-communicable disease deaths globally, with hypertension being a major risk factor contributing to CVDs. Blood pressure is a heritable trait, with rel...

    Authors: Liesl M. Hendry, Venesa Sahibdeen, Ananyo Choudhury, Shane A. Norris, Michèle Ramsay and Zané Lombard

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2018 11:2

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  35. Noonan syndrome (NS) and Noonan syndrome with multiple lentigines (NSML) are autosomal dominant developmental disorders. NS and NSML are caused by abnormalities in genes that encode proteins related to the RAS...

    Authors: Shanshan Xu, Yanjie Fan, Yu Sun, Lili Wang, Xuefan Gu and Yongguo Yu

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2017 10:62

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  36. Cigarette smoking is the leading modifiable risk factor for disease and death worldwide. Previous studies quantifying gene-level expression have documented the effect of smoking on mRNA levels. Using RNA seque...

    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 2017 10:58

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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Genomics 2019 12:166

  38. 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

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  39. 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

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  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

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  41. DNA methylation levels will be important for detection of epigenetic effects. However, there are few reports showing sex-related differences in the sensitivity to DNA methylation. To evaluate their sex-related...

    Authors: Mikio Watanabe, Chika Honda, Yoshinori Iwatani, Shiro Yorifuji, Hiroyasu Iso, Kei Kamide, Jun Hatazawa, Shinji Kihara, Norio Sakai, Hiroko Watanabe, Kiyoko Makimoto, Mikio Watanabe, Chika Honda and Yoshinori Iwatani

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:55

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  42. Based on age of presentation, celiac disease (CD) is categorised as pediatric CD and adult CD. It however remains unclear if these are genetically and/or phenotypically distinct disorders or just different spe...

    Authors: Sabyasachi Senapati, Ajit Sood, Vandana Midha, Neena Sood, Suresh Sharma, Lalit Kumar and B. K. Thelma

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:44

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  43. Neurodevelopment is orchestrated by a wide range of genes, and the genetic causes of neurodevelopmental disorders are thus heterogeneous. We applied whole exome sequencing (WES) for molecular diagnosis and in sil...

    Authors: Wu-Lin Charng, Ender Karaca, Zeynep Coban Akdemir, Tomasz Gambin, Mehmed M. Atik, Shen Gu, Jennifer E. Posey, Shalini N. Jhangiani, Donna M. Muzny, Harsha Doddapaneni, Jianhong Hu, Eric Boerwinkle, Richard A. Gibbs, Jill A. Rosenfeld, Hong Cui, Fan Xia…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:42

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  44. Genetic screening to identify carriers of autosomal recessive diseases has become an integral part of routine prenatal care. In spite of the rapid growth of known mutations, most current screening programs inc...

    Authors: Moran Gal, Khen Khermesh, Michal Barak, Min Lin, Hadas Lahat, Haike Reznik Wolf, Michael Lin, Elon Pras and Erez Y. Levanon

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:24

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  46. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been implicated in the incidence and progression of cancer. It has been proposed that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) influence cancer risk due to their position within genes inv...

    Authors: Lila E. Mullany, Jennifer S. Herrick, Roger K. Wolff, Matthew F. Buas and Martha L. Slattery

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:21

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  47. Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have shown that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the Chr9p21 region are associated with coronary artery disease (CAD). Most of the SNPs identified in this...

    Authors: Wei Zhao, Jennifer A Smith, Guangmei Mao, Myriam Fornage, Patricia A Peyser, Yan V Sun, Stephen T Turner and Sharon LR Kardia

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2015 8:21

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  48. Given the growing use of whole-exome sequencing (WES) for clinical diagnostics of complex human disorders, we evaluated coverage of clinically relevant cardiac genes on WES and factors influencing uniformity a...

    Authors: Dorin Manase, Lisa CA D’Alessandro, Ashok Kumar Manickaraj, Saeed Al Turki, Matthew E Hurles and Seema Mital

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2014 7:67

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  49. Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common type of congenital heart disease with a population prevalence of 1-2%. While BAV is known to be highly heritable, mutations in single genes (such as GATA5 and NOTCH1

    Authors: Elizabeth M Bonachea, Gloria Zender, Peter White, Don Corsmeier, David Newsom, Sara Fitzgerald-Butt, Vidu Garg and Kim L McBride

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2014 7:56

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  50. Allergic rhinitis is a common disease whose genetic basis is incompletely explained. We report an integrated genomic analysis of allergic rhinitis.

    Authors: Supinda Bunyavanich, Eric E Schadt, Blanca E Himes, Jessica Lasky-Su, Weiliang Qiu, Ross Lazarus, John P Ziniti, Ariella Cohain, Michael Linderman, Dara G Torgerson, Celeste S Eng, Maria Pino-Yanes, Badri Padhukasahasram, James J Yang, Rasika A Mathias, Terri H Beaty…

    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2014 7:48

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