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  1. Recent studies have identified susceptibility genes of HBV clearance, chronic hepatitis B, liver cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and showed the host genetic factors play an important role in these HBV-rel...

    Authors: Zheng Zeng, Hankui Liu, Huifang Xu, Haiying Lu, Yanyan Yu, Xiaoyuan Xu, Min Yu, Tao Zhang, Xiulan Tian, Hongli Xi, Liping Guan, Jianguo Zhang and Stephen J. O’Brien
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:84
  2. Cryptic balanced translocations often evade detection by conventional cytogenetics. The preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) technique can be used to help carriers of balanced translocations give birth to hea...

    Authors: Xiliang Wang, Changsheng Wu, Dongmei Hao, Jinyan Zhang, Chang Tan, De-hua Cheng, Jia Fei and Yuexin Yu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:82
  3. The prevalence of open-angle glaucoma (OAG) varies from 0.5% to 7.0% among populations of diverse ancestry, suggesting the existence of genetic differences. The purposes of this study were to provide insights ...

    Authors: Hyun-Tae Shin, Byung Woo Yoon and Je Hyun Seo
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:80
  4. Intervertebral disc degeneration, one of the major causes of low-back pain, results from altered biosynthesis/turnover of extracellular matrix in the disc. Previously, we reported that the analgesic drug Neuro...

    Authors: Tomoko Nakai, Daisuke Sakai, Yoshihiko Nakamura, Natsumi Horikita, Erika Matsushita, Mitsuru Naiki and Masahiko Watanabe
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:79
  5. The most important health benefit of selenium (Se) is in the prevention and control of cancer. Glutathione peroxidases (GPXs) and thioredoxin reductases (TXNRDs) are selenoenzymes that are thought to play a ro...

    Authors: Wentao Wu, Daning Li, Xiaojie Feng, Fanfan Zhao, Chengzhuo Li, Shuai Zheng and Jun Lyu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:78
  6. To strengthen the understanding of Hereditary Spherocytosis (HS) and determine the disease-causing mutation present with neonatal jaundice. HS is a hemolytic condition resulting from various erythrocyte membra...

    Authors: Lichun Xie, Zhihao Xing, Changgang Li, Si-xi Liu and Fei-qiu Wen
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:77
  7. 16p11.2 microdeletion is a known chromosomal anomaly associated mainly with neurocognitive developmental delay, predisposition to obesity, and variable dysmorphism. Although this deletion is relatively rare am...

    Authors: Monika Szelest, Martyna Stefaniak, Gabriela Ręka, Ilona Jaszczuk and Monika Lejman
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:76
  8. As a complex system participating in tumor development and progression, the tumor microenvironment was poorly understood in esophageal cancer especially squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).

    Authors: Mingdi Liu, Faping Li, Bin Liu, Yongping Jian, Dan Zhang, Honglan Zhou, Yishu Wang and Zhixiang Xu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:75
  9. To date, no genetic analysis of inherited retinal disease (IRD) using whole-exome sequencing (WES) has been conducted in a large-scale Korean cohort. The aim of this study was to characterise the genetic profi...

    Authors: Dae Joong Ma, Hyun-Seob Lee, Kwangsoo Kim, Seongmin Choi, Insoon Jang, Seo-Ho Cho, Chang Ki Yoon, Eun Kyoung Lee and Hyeong Gon Yu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:74
  10. Kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC) is the most common type of kidney cell carcinoma which has the worst overall survival rate. Almost 30% of patients with localized cancers eventually develop to metastas...

    Authors: Minjiang Huang, Ti Zhang, Zhi-Yong Yao, Chaoqung Xing, Qingyi Wu, Yuan-Wu Liu and Xiao-Liang Xing
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:72
  11. This article presents the results of long-term observations and comparative analysis of genotype–phenotype features in a large group of patients (227 males and one female) with a severe, intermediate and mild ...

    Authors: Alla Nikolaevna Semyachkina, Elena Yurievna Voskoboeva, Ekaterina Alexandrovna Nikolaeva and Ekaterina Yurievna Zakharova
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:71
  12. The diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is complicated. This study explores the expression of circular RNAs (circRNAs), which are closed non-coding RNAs in which the 5′ and 3′ ends are covalently l...

    Authors: Fengping Zheng, Xiangqi Yu, Donge Tang, Xiaoping Hong, Xinzhou Zhang, Dongzhou Liu and Yong Dai
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:70
  13. The pathogenesis of germinal center B-cell type diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (GCB-DLBCL) is not fully elucidated. This study aims to explore the regulation of super enhancers (SEs) on GCB-DLBCL by identifying...

    Authors: Xi Li, Yan Duan and Yuxia Hao
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:69
  14. KBG syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disease mainly caused by pathogenic variants of ankyrin repeat domain-containing protein 11 (ANKRD11) or deletions involving ANKRD11. Herein, we report a novel de...

    Authors: Jing Chen, Zhongmin Xia, Yulin Zhou, Xiaomin Ma, Xudong Wang and Qiwei Guo
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:68
  15. Disclosure of pathogenic variants to thoracic aortic dissection biobank participants was implemented. The impact and costs, including confirmatory genetic testing in a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment...

    Authors: Adelyn Beil, Whitney Hornsby, Wendy R. Uhlmann, Rajani Aatre, Patricia Arscott, Brooke Wolford, Kim A. Eagle, Bo Yang, Jennifer McNamara, Cristen Willer and J. Scott Roberts
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:66
  16. Traditionally, mutational burden and mutational signatures have been assessed by tumor-normal pair DNA sequencing. The requirement of having both normal and tumor samples is not always feasible from a clinical...

    Authors: Erik Jessen, Yuanhang Liu, Jaime Davila, Jean-Pierre Kocher and Chen Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:65
  17. Periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) is a malformation of cortical development characterized by nodules of abnormally migrated neurons. The cause of posteriorly placed PNH is not well characterised and we...

    Authors: Carla De Angelis, Alicia B. Byrne, Rebecca Morrow, Jinghua Feng, Thuong Ha, Paul Wang, Andreas W. Schreiber, Milena Babic, Ajay Taranath, Nick Manton, Sarah L. King-Smith, Quenten Schwarz, Peer Arts, Hamish S. Scott and Christopher Barnett
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:64
  18. Clinical genomics represents a paradigm shifting change to health service delivery and practice across many conditions and life-stages. Introducing this complex technology into an already complex health system...

    Authors: Janet C. Long, Hossai Gul, Elise McPherson, Stephanie Best, Hanna Augustsson, Kate Churruca, Louise A. Ellis and Jeffrey Braithwaite
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:63
  19. Gene fusions represent promising targets for cancer therapy in lung cancer. Reliable detection of multiple gene fusions is therefore essential.

    Authors: Carina Heydt, Christina B. Wölwer, Oscar Velazquez Camacho, Svenja Wagener-Ryczek, Roberto Pappesch, Janna Siemanowski, Jan Rehker, Florian Haller, Abbas Agaimy, Karl Worm, Thomas Herold, Nicole Pfarr, Wilko Weichert, Thomas Kirchner, Andreas Jung, Jörg Kumbrink…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:62
  20. Congenital hearing loss is one of the most common birth defects. Early identification and management play a crucial role in improving patients’ communication and language acquisition. Previous studies demonstr...

    Authors: Haiyan Yang, Hongyu Luo, Guiwei Zhang, Junqing Zhang, Zhiyu Peng and Jiale Xiang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:61
  21. 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
  22. Fetal hydrops is excessive extravasation of fluid into the third space in a fetus, which could be due to a wide differential of underlying pathology. IPEX (immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy...

    Authors: Panicos Shangaris, Alison Ho, Andreas Marnerides, Simi George, Mudher AlAdnani, Shu Yau, Mattias Jansson, Jacqueline Hoyle, Joo Wook Ahn, Sian Ellard, Melita Irving, Diana Wellesley, Dharmintra Pasupathy and Muriel Holder-Espinasse
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:58
  23. A substantial number of infants infected with RSV develop severe symptoms requiring hospitalization. We currently lack accurate biomarkers that are associated with severe illness.

    Authors: Lu Wang, Chin-Yi Chu, Matthew N. McCall, Christopher Slaunwhite, Jeanne Holden-Wiltse, Anthony Corbett, Ann R. Falsey, David J. Topham, Mary T. Caserta, Thomas J. Mariani, Edward E. Walsh and Xing Qiu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:57
  24. Emerging studies suggest that low‐coverage massively parallel copy number variation sequencing (CNV-seq) more sensitive than chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) for detecting low-level mosaicism. However, a ...

    Authors: Na Ma, Hui Xi, Jing Chen, Ying Peng, Zhengjun Jia, Shuting Yang, Jiancheng Hu, Jialun Pang, Yanan Zhang, Rong Hu, Hua Wang and Jing Liu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:56
  25. Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a leading psychiatric disorder that involves complex abnormal biological functions and neural networks. This study aimed to compare the changes in the network connectivity of...

    Authors: Ruijie Geng and Xiao Huang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:55
  26. In the clinical setting, workflows for analyzing individual genomics data should be both comprehensive and convenient for clinical interpretation. In an effort for comprehensiveness and practicality, we attemp...

    Authors: Ege Ülgen, Özge Can, Kaya Bilguvar, Cemaliye Akyerli Boylu, Şirin Kılıçturgay Yüksel, Ayça Erşen Danyeli, O. Uğur Sezerman, M. Cengiz Yakıcıer, M. Necmettin Pamir and Koray Özduman
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:54
  27. Cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) is the most common craniofacial anomaly with a high incidence of live births. The specific pathogenesis of CL/P is still unclear, although plenty of studies have b...

    Authors: Tianhui Xu, Mengmeng Du, Xinhua Bu, Donglan Yuan, Zhiping Gu, Pei Yu, Xuefang Li, Jiao Chen and Chunyan Jin
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:53
  28. Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL) is a genetically heterogeneous autosomal recessive hyper-inflammatory syndrome which needs early accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment to prevent compli...

    Authors: V. Thadchanamoorthy, M. T. R. Jayatunga, Kavinda Dayasiri, E. Jasinge, M. L. M. Jinnah, C. Pereira, V. Skrahina and Markandu Thirukumar
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:50
  29. Huntington's disease (HD) is one of the most common polyglutamine disorders, leading to progressive dyskinesia, cognitive impairment, and neuropsychological problems. Besides the dysregulation of many protein-...

    Authors: Xiaoping Tan, Yang Liu, Taiming Zhang and Shuyan Cong
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:48
  30. Mosaic mutations contribute to numerous human disorders. As such, the identification and precise quantification of mosaic mutations is essential for a wide range of research applications, clinical diagnoses, a...

    Authors: Ryan N. Doan, Michael B. Miller, Sonia N. Kim, Rachel E. Rodin, Javier Ganz, Sara Bizzotto, Katherine S. Morillo, August Yue Huang, Reethika Digumarthy, Zachary Zemmel and Christopher A. Walsh
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:47
  31. Graves’ disease(GD) has a tendency for familial aggregation, but it is uncommon to occur in more than two generations. However, little is known about susceptibility genes for GD in the three-generation family.

    Authors: Zhuoqing Hu, Wei Li, Miaosheng Li, Hao Wei, Zhihui Hu, Yanting Chen, Ai Luo and Wangen Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:46
  32. Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is a noninvasive measure of coronary atherosclerosis, the proximal pathophysiology underlying most cases of myocardial infarction (MI). We sought to identify expression sign...

    Authors: Xiaoling Zhang, Jeroen G. J. van Rooij, Yoshiyuki Wakabayashi, Shih-Jen Hwang, Yanqin Yang, Mohsen Ghanbari, Daniel Bos, Daniel Levy, Andrew D. Johnson, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Maryam Kavousi, Jun Zhu and Christopher J. O’Donnell
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:45
  33. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a major contributor of heart failure (HF). Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), mainly monocytes, are the essential initiators of AMI-induced HF. The powerful biomar...

    Authors: Qixin Chen, Qijin Yin, Junxian Song, Chuanfen Liu, Hong Chen and Sufang Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:44
  34. Sepsis is a life-threatening complication of infection that rapidly triggers tissue damage in multiple organ systems and leads to multi-organ deterioration. Up to date, prognostic biomarkers still have limitat...

    Authors: Anlin Feng, Wenli Ma, Reem Faraj, Gabriel T. Kelly, Stephen M. Black, Michael B. Fallon and Ting Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:43
  35. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors of the digestive tract, and it has a poor prognosis. Traditional methods are not effective to accurately assess the prognosis of patients with pancr...

    Authors: Wenting Wang, Zhijian Xu, Ning Wang, Ruyong Yao, Tao Qin, Hao Lin and Lu Yue
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:42
  36. Treatment options for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are limited, and overall survival is poor. Despite the high frequency of this malignoma, its basic disease mechanisms are poorly understood. Therefore, the ...

    Authors: Tatiana Meier, Max Timm, Matteo Montani and Ludwig Wilkens
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:41
  37. Degeneration of intervertebral disc is a major cause of lower back pain and neck pain. Studies have tried to unveil the regulatory network using either transcriptomic or proteomic analysis. However, neither ha...

    Authors: Chen Xu, Shengchang Luo, Leixin Wei, Huiqiao Wu, Wei Gu, Wenchao Zhou, Baifeng Sun, Bo Hu, Hongyu Zhou, Yang Liu, Huajiang Chen, Xiaojian Ye and Wen Yuan
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:40
  38. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is biologically heterogeneous diseases with adverse prognosis. This study was conducted to find prognostic biomarkers that could effectively classify AML patients and provide guida...

    Authors: Yanli Lai, Guifang OuYang, Lixia Sheng, Yanli Zhang, Binbin Lai and Miao Zhou
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:39
  39. Autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss (ARNSHL) is genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous with over 110 genes causally implicated in syndromic and non-syndromic hearing loss. Here, we investigate...

    Authors: Hossein Fahimi, Samira Behroozi, Sadaf Noavar and Farshid Parvini
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2021 14:37
  40. 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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