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  1. Compared to the conventional differential expression approach, differential coexpression analysis represents a different yet complementary perspective into diseased transcriptomes. In particular, global loss o...

    Authors: Hui Yu, Danqian Chen, Olufunmilola Oyebamiji, Ying-Yong Zhao and Yan Guo
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 9):134

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 9

  2. Developing binary classification rules based on SNP observations has been a major challenge for many modern bioinformatics applications, e.g., predicting risk of future disease events in complex conditions suc...

    Authors: Ali Foroughi pour, Maciej Pietrzak, Lara E. Sucheston-Campbell, Ezgi Karaesmen, Lori A. Dalton and Grzegorz A. Rempała
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 9):133

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 9

  3. The multiple causes of oligohydramnios make it challenging to study. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are sets of RNAs that have been proven to function in multiple biological processes. The purpose of this study...

    Authors: Yu-hua Ou, Yu-kun Liu, Li-qiong Zhu, Man-qi Chen, Xiao-chun Yi, Hui Chen and Jian-ping Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:137
  4. Asthma is a chronic disorder of both adults and children affecting more than 300 million people heath worldwide. Diagnose and treatment for asthma, particularly in childhood asthma have always remained a great...

    Authors: Peiyan Zheng, Chen Huang, Dongliang Leng, Baoqing Sun and Xiaohua Douglas Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:136
  5. Because of the significant occurrence of “WAGR-region” deletions among de novo mutations detected in congenital aniridia, DNA diagnosis is critical for all sporadic cases of aniridia due to its help in making ...

    Authors: Tatyana A. Vasilyeva, Andrey V. Marakhonov, Marina E. Minzhenkova, Zhanna G. Markova, Nika V. Petrova, Natella V. Sukhanova, Philipp A. Koshkin, Denis V. Pyankov, Ilya V. Kanivets, Sergey A. Korostelev, Irina A. Krynskaya, Nadezhda V. Shilova, Sergey I. Kutsev, Vitaly V. Kadyshev and Rena A. Zinchenko
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 8):130

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  6. Prostate cancer is one of the most common and socially significant cancers among men. The aim of our study was to reveal changes in miRNA expression profiles associated with lymphatic dissemination in prostate...

    Authors: Elena A. Pudova, George S. Krasnov, Kirill M. Nyushko, Anastasiya A. Kobelyatskaya, Maria V. Savvateeva, Andrey A. Poloznikov, Daniyar R. Dolotkazin, Kseniya M. Klimina, Zulfiya G. Guvatova, Sergey A. Simanovsky, Nataliya S. Gladysh, Artemy T. Tokarev, Nataliya V. Melnikova, Alexey A. Dmitriev, Boris Y. Alekseev, Andrey D. Kaprin…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 8):129

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  7. Carotid and vagal paragangliomas (CPGLs and VPGLs) are rare neoplasms that arise from the paraganglia located at the bifurcation of carotid arteries and vagal trunk, respectively. Both tumors can occur jointly...

    Authors: Vladislav S. Pavlov, Dmitry V. Kalinin, Elena N. Lukyanova, Alexander L. Golovyuk, Maria S. Fedorova, Elena A. Pudova, Maria V. Savvateeva, Anastasiya V. Lipatova, Zulfiya G. Guvatova, Andrey D. Kaprin, Marina V. Kiseleva, Tatiana B. Demidova, Sergey A. Simanovsky, Nataliya V. Melnikova, Alexey A. Dmitriev, George S. Krasnov…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 8):125

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  8. Vagal paragangliomas (VPGLs) belong to a group of rare head and neck neuroendocrine tumors. VPGLs arise from the vagus nerve and are less common than carotid paragangliomas. Both diagnostics and therapy of the...

    Authors: Anna V. Kudryavtseva, Dmitry V. Kalinin, Vladislav S. Pavlov, Maria V. Savvateeva, Maria S. Fedorova, Elena A. Pudova, Anastasiya A. Kobelyatskaya, Alexander L. Golovyuk, Zulfiya G. Guvatova, George S. Razmakhaev, Tatiana B. Demidova, Sergey A. Simanovsky, Elena N. Slavnova, Andrey А. Poloznikov, Andrey P. Polyakov, Nataliya V. Melnikova…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 8):115

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  9. Machine learning (ML) methods still have limited applicability in personalized oncology due to low numbers of available clinically annotated molecular profiles. This doesn’t allow sufficient training of ML cla...

    Authors: Nicolas Borisov, Maxim Sorokin, Victor Tkachev, Andrew Garazha and Anton Buzdin
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 8):111

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  10. Single nucleotide variants account for approximately 90% of all known pathogenic variants responsible for human diseases. Recently discovered CRISPR/Cas9 base editors can correct individual nucleotides without...

    Authors: Alexander V. Lavrov, Georgi G. Varenikov and Mikhail Yu Skoblov
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 8):80

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 8

  11. 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
  12. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) vaping, cigarette smoke, and waterpipe tobacco smoking are associated with various cardiopulmonary diseases. microRNAs are present in higher concentration in exosomes that play a...

    Authors: Kameshwar P. Singh, Krishna P. Maremanda, Dongmei Li and Irfan Rahman
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:128
  13. Proximal microdeletions on chromosome 15q25.2 are very rare, and are associated with neurodevelopmental delay, inguinal hernia, chest deformities, and anemia. The minimum length missed so far is 1.4 Mb. Howeve...

    Authors: Zhen Chen, Hong Chen, Ke Yuan and Chunlin Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:126
  14. Cold acclimation and exercise training were previously shown to increase peripheral insulin sensitivity in human volunteers with type 2 diabetes. Although cold is a potent activator of brown adipose tissue, th...

    Authors: Emmani B. M. Nascimento, Roland W. J. Hangelbroek, Guido J. E. J. Hooiveld, Joris Hoeks, Wouter D. Van Marken Lichtenbelt, Matthijs H. C. Hesselink, Patrick Schrauwen and Sander Kersten
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:124
  15. 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
  16. Cancer is a complex and heterogeneous disease with many possible genetic and environmental causes. The same treatment for patients of the same cancer type often results in different outcomes in terms of effica...

    Authors: Wook Lee, De-Shuang Huang and Kyungsook Han
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 6):81

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 6

  17. Genotyping of structural variation is an important computational problem in next generation sequence data analysis. However, in cancer genomes, the copy number variant(CNV) often coexists with other types of s...

    Authors: Tian Zheng, Xiaoyan Zhu, Xuanping Zhang, Zhongmeng Zhao, Xin Yi, Jiayin Wang and Hongle Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 6):79

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 6

  18. High-throughput sequencing technology has yielded reliable and ultra-fast sequencing for DNA and RNA. For tumor cells of cancer patients, when combining the results of DNA and RNA sequencing, one can identify ...

    Authors: Yi Shi, Mingxuan Zhang, Luming Meng, Xianbin Su, Xueying Shang, Zehua Guo, Qingjiao Li, Mengna Lin, Xin Zou, Qing Luo, Yaoliang Yu, Yanting Wu, Lintai Da, Tom Weidong Cai, Guang He and Ze-Guang Han
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 6):62

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 6

  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a complex multifactorial disease with a high prevalence worldwide. Insulin resistance and impaired insulin secretion are the two major abnormalities in the pathogenesis of T2...

    Authors: Maryam Khoshnejat, Kaveh Kavousi, Ali Mohammad Banaei-Moghaddam and Ali Akbar Moosavi-Movahedi
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:119
  22. In order to mitigate the risk of allele dropout (ADO) and ensure the accuracy of preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic disease (PGT-M), it is necessary to construct parental haplotypes. Typically, hapl...

    Authors: Qing Li, Yan Mao, Shaoying Li, Hongzi Du, Wenzhi He, Jianchun He, Lingyin Kong, Jun Zhang, Bo Liang and Jianqiao Liu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:117
  23. 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
  24. Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) are two heterogeneous disorders, which both display molecular and clinical alterations associated with the aging process. However, simil...

    Authors: Diana M. Hendrickx and Enrico Glaab
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:114
  25. Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) is an extremely rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by insensitivity to pain, inability to sweat and intellectual disability. CIPA is caused ...

    Authors: Andrés López-Cortés, Ana Karina Zambrano, Patricia Guevara-Ramírez, Byron Albuja Echeverría, Santiago Guerrero, Eliana Cabascango, Andy Pérez-Villa, Isaac Armendáriz-Castillo, Jennyfer M. García-Cárdenas, Verónica Yumiceba, Gabriela Pérez-M, Paola E. Leone and César Paz-y-Miño
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:113
  26. Lung cancer has been the leading cause of tumor related death, and 80% ~ 85% of it is non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Even with the rising molecular targeted therapies, for example EGFR, ROS1 and ALK, the ...

    Authors: Rong Wei, Ziyue Wang, Yaping Zhang, Bin Wang, Ningning Shen, Li E, Xin Li, Lifang Shang, Yangwei Shang, Wenpeng Yan, Xiaoqin Zhang, Wenxia Ma and Chen Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:112
  27. Fusion transcripts are involved in tumourigenesis and play a crucial role in tumour heterogeneity, tumour evolution and cancer treatment resistance. However, fusion transcripts have not been studied at high sp...

    Authors: Stefanie Friedrich and Erik L. L. Sonnhammer
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:110
  28. The goal of this study was to determine whether Levey-Jennings charts, which are widely used in clinical laboratories, can be used to create standardized internal quality controls (IQCs) for prenatal molecular...

    Authors: Binghuan Weng, Ya-li Xu, Jun Ying, Hao-kun Yang, Lan Su, Yan-mei Yang and Min Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:109
  29. Colon adenocarcinoma (COAD) is one of the most common gastrointestinal cancers globally. Molecular aberrations of tumor suppressors and/or oncogenes are the main contributors to tumorigenesis. However, the exa...

    Authors: Arash Poursheikhani, Mohammad Reza Abbaszadegan, Negin Nokhandani and Mohammad Amin Kerachian
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:108
  30. We have evaluated an NGS-based method to detect recurrent gene fusions of diagnostic and prognostic importance in hematological malignancies. Our goal was to achieve a highly specific assay with a simple workf...

    Authors: Marie Engvall, Nicola Cahill, Britt-Inger Jonsson, Martin Höglund, Helene Hallböök and Lucia Cavelier
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:106
  31. 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
  32. One of the tasks in the iDASH Secure Genome Analysis Competition in 2018 was to develop blockchain-based immutable logging and querying for a cross-site genomic dataset access audit trail. The specific challen...

    Authors: Nicholas D. Pattengale and Corey M. Hudson
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 7):102

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 7

  33. The sharing of biomedical data is crucial to enable scientific discoveries across institutions and improve health care. For example, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) based on a large number of samples ca...

    Authors: Miran Kim, Yongsoo Song, Baiyu Li and Daniele Micciancio
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 7):99

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 7

  34. Authors: Tsung-Ting Kuo, Xiaoqian Jiang, Haixu Tang, XiaoFeng Wang, Tyler Bath, Diyue Bu, Lei Wang, Arif Harmanci, Shaojie Zhang, Degui Zhi, Heidi J. Sofia and Lucila Ohno-Machado
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 7):98

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 7

  35. Genomic data have been collected by different institutions and companies and need to be shared for broader use. In a cross-site genomic data sharing system, a secure and transparent access control audit module...

    Authors: Shuaicheng Ma, Yang Cao and Li Xiong
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 7):91

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 7

  36. One way of investigating how genes affect human traits would be with a genome-wide association study (GWAS). Genetic markers, known as single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), are used in GWAS. This raises privac...

    Authors: Jun Jie Sim, Fook Mun Chan, Shibin Chen, Benjamin Hong Meng Tan and Khin Mi Mi Aung
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 7):90

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 7

  37. Privacy-preserving computations on genomic data, and more generally on medical data, is a critical path technology for innovative, life-saving research to positively and equally impact the global population. I...

    Authors: Sergiu Carpov, Nicolas Gama, Mariya Georgieva and Juan Ramon Troncoso-Pastoriza
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 7):88

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 7

  38. Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) refer to observational studies of a genome-wide set of genetic variants across many individuals to see if any genetic variants are associated with a certain trait. A typi...

    Authors: Marcelo Blatt, Alexander Gusev, Yuriy Polyakov, Kurt Rohloff and Vinod Vaikuntanathan
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 7):83

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 7

  39. Blockchain has emerged as a decentralized and distributed framework that enables tamper-resilience and, thus, practical immutability for stored data. This immutability property is important in scenarios where ...

    Authors: Mustafa Safa Ozdayi, Murat Kantarcioglu and Bradley Malin
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 7):82

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 7

  40. Genomic variants are considered sensitive information, revealing potentially private facts about individuals. Therefore, it is important to control access to such data. A key aspect of controlled access is sec...

    Authors: Gamze Gürsoy, Robert Bjornson, Molly E. Green and Mark Gerstein
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 7):78

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 7

  41. One of three tasks in a secure genome analysis competition called iDASH 2018 was to develop a solution for privacy-preserving GWAS computation based on homomorphic encryption. The scenario is that a data holde...

    Authors: Duhyeong Kim, Yongha Son, Dongwoo Kim, Andrey Kim, Seungwan Hong and Jung Hee Cheon
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 7):77

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 7

  42. Finding long matches in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences in large aligned genetic sequences is a problem of great interest. A paradigmatic application is the identification of distant relatives via large ...

    Authors: Katerina Sotiraki, Esha Ghosh and Hao Chen
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 7):72

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 7

  43. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is at least partially heritable, affecting 2–3% of the population in Europe and the USA. However, a substantial proportion of heritability is still lacking. In the present study, we ai...

    Authors: Junguo Zhang, Xin Huang, Xiaojie Wang, Yanhui Gao, Li Liu, Ziyi Li, Xuejiao Chen, Jie Zeng, Zebing Ye and Guowei Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:104
  44. 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
  45. Liquid-based cytology (LBC) is now a widely used method for cytologic screening and cancer diagnosis. Since the cells are fixed with alcohol-based fixatives, and the specimens are stored in a liquid condition,...

    Authors: Toshiaki Akahane, Ikumi Kitazono, Shintaro Yanazume, Masaki Kamio, Shinichi Togami, Ippei Sakamoto, Sachio Nohara, Seiya Yokoyama, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Tsubasa Hiraki, Shinsuke Suzuki, Shinichi Ueno and Akihide Tanimoto
    Citation: BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:101

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