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Multiple genome-wide and candidate-gene association studies have been conducted to search for common risk variants of breast cancer. Recent large meta-analyses and consolidating evidence have highlighted the r...
Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a common cardiovascular disease that can lead to myocardial necrosis and a poor prognosis. Clinical practice requires an accurate and quick diagnosis of AMI due to the inhe...
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the most common malignancy in the oral cancer threatening human health and the survival rate of OSCC has not been effectively improved in recent decades, so more e...
Xp22.31 deletion and duplication have been described in various studies, but different laboratories interpret pathogenicity differently.
Human endogenous retroviruses (HERV) are repetitive sequence elements and a substantial part of the human genome. Their role in development has been well documented and there is now mounting evidence that dysr...
Understanding public attitudes to genomic data sharing is widely seen as key in shaping effective governance. However, empirical research in this area often fails to capture the contextual nuances of diverse s...
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To explore the potential of AVPR2 in the immunotherapy of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), thus providing insights into a novel antitumour strategy.
There are currently no clear conclusions about whether major depression (MD) and bipolar disorder (BD) increase the risk of erectile dysfunction (ED). In our study, we used a Mendelian randomization (MR) analy...
Unbalanced translocations can cause developmental delay (DD), intellectual disability (ID), growth problems, dysmorphic features, and congenital anomalies. They may arise de novo or may be inherited from a par...
Detection of appropriate receptor proteins and drug agents are equally important in the case of drug discovery and development for any disease. In this study, an attempt was made to explore colorectal cancer (...
IgA nephropathy (IgAN) has become the leading cause of end-stage renal disease in young adults. Nevertheless, the current diagnosis exclusively relies on invasive renal biopsy, and specific treatment is defici...
Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma (ATLL) is a rapidly progressing type of T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma that is developed after the infection by human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1). It could be categorized ...
Solute Carrier Family 31 Member 1 (SLC31A1) has recently been identified as a cuproptosis-regulatory gene. Recent studies have indicated that SLC31A1 may play a role in colorectal and lung cancer tumorigenesis. H...
We aimed to build a novel model with golgi apparatus related genes (GaGs) signature and relevant clinical parameters for predicting progression-free interval (PFI) after surgery for papillary thyroid carcinoma...
The risk of severe condition caused by Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) increases with age. However, the underlying mechanisms have not been clearly understood. The dataset GSE157103 was used to perform we...
Cuproptosis, a novel form of programmed cell death, plays an essential role in various cancers. However, studies of the function of cuproptosis lncRNAs (CRLs) in colorectal cancer (CRC) remain limited. Thus, t...
Inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) can lead to severe motor and neurological developmental disorders and even disability and death in children due to untimely treatment. In this study, we used tandem mass spect...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder with insidious onset. Some scholars believe that there is a close relationship between pyroptosis and AD. However, studies with evidence su...
Increasing evidence has indicated that ferroptosis engages in the progression of Parkinson’s disease (PD). This study aimed to explore the role of ferroptosis-related genes (FRGs), immune infiltration and immu...
Despite improved supportive care, posttraumatic acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) mortality has improved very little in recent years. Additionally, ARDS diagnosis is delayed or missed in many patients...
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent cause of dementia and is primarily associated with memory impairment and cognitive decline, but the etiology of AD has not been elucidated. In recent years, evide...
Ferroptosis plays an important role in the development of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). The present project aimed to identify and validate the potential ferroptosis-related genes in ACLF by bioinforma...
Stroke attributable to atrial fibrillation (AF related stroke, AFST) accounts for 13 ~ 26% of ischemic stroke. It has been found that AFST patients have a higher risk of disability and mortality than those wit...
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are recently identified as a class of non-coding RNAs that participate in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, circRNAs expression pattern in obstructive sleep ...
Our understanding of the molecular underpinnings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and its associated pathology in post-mortem brain is incomplete. Factors including years of play and genetic risk vari...
This study aimed to investigate the pooled diagnostic ability of circular RNA (circRNA) molecules for diabetes mellitus.
Spinal muscular atrophy, lower extremity predominant (SMALED) is a type of non-5q spinal muscular atrophy characterised by weakness and atrophy of lower limb muscles without sensory abnormalities. SMALED1 can ...
We aimed to analyze the genotype-phenotype correlations of STXBP1 pathogenic variants, prognostic factors and the treatment choices in a case-series of STXBP1-related disorders from China.
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is a complication of controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH). It is a potentially life-threatening condition that usually occurs either after human chorionic gonadotr...
Gastric inhibitory polypeptide receptor (GIPR) encodes a G-protein coupled receptor for gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP), which was demonstrated to stimulate insulin secretion. Relation of GIPR gene variat...
X-linked methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) duplication syndrome is prevalent in approximately 1% of X-linked intellectual disabilities. Accumulating evidence has suggested that MECP2 is the causative gene of M...
Summarised in polygenic risk scores (PRS), the effect of common, low penetrant genetic variants associated with colorectal cancer (CRC), can be used for risk stratification.
Previous observational studies have shown an association between asthma, atopic dermatitis (AD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the bidirectional cause-effect chain between asthma and AD and RA has not...
The original article was published in BMC Medical Genomics 2022 13:196
A total of 5,200 pregnant women in Zhaoqing city, Guangdong Province, were screened to identify spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) mutation carriers to guide the prevention of SMA and prevent the birth of children ...
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the sixth most prevalent cancer worldwide. E2Fs are a group of transcription factors involved in the carcinogenesis and progression of various cancers. However,...
To screen out core genes potentially prognostic for sepsis and construct a competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) regulatory network.
The use of in silico pathogenicity predictions as evidence when interpreting genetic variants is widely accepted as part of standard variant classification guidelines. Although numerous algorithms have been de...
Oral cancer (OC) is a debilitating disease that can affect the quality of life of these patients adversely. Oral premalignant lesion patients have a high risk of developing OC. Therefore, identifying robust su...
There is growing evidence that the SNX family is critical for clinical prognosis, immune infiltration and drug sensitivity in many types of tumors. The relationships between the SNX29 gene and clinical prognos...
SALL4, a member of the SALL genes family, encodes a zinc-finger transcriptional factor that either activates or represses gene transcription depending on cell type during embryonic development. SALL4 mutations c...
Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable and relapse-prone disease with apparently prognostic heterogeneity. At present, the risk stratification of myeloma is still incomplete. Pyroptosis, a type of programmed ce...
The oral and colonic microbiota are distinct in healthy individuals. However, this distinction is diminished in common diseases such as colon cancer and inflammatory bowel disease, suggesting a potential patho...
Osteosarcoma has been the most common primary bone malignant tumor in children and adolescents. Despite the considerable improvement in the understanding of genetic events attributing to the rapid development ...
PHGDH (Phosphoglycerate Dehydrogenase) is the first branch enzyme in the serine biosynthetic pathway and plays a vital role in several cancers. However, little is known about the clinical significance of PHGDH...
Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) is one of the diseases that predispose to sudden ascent to high altitudes above 2500 m. Among the many studies on the occurrence and development of AMS, there are few studies on t...
This study aimed to investigate the potential prognostic value of DNA damage repair genes (DDRGs) in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) and their relationship with immune-related characteristics.
The study of gene essentiality, which measures the importance of a gene for cell division and survival, is used for the identification of cancer drug targets and understanding of tissue-specific manifestation ...
Whole-exome sequencing (WES) is an effective method in the prenatal setting for identification of the underlying genetic etiology of fetal ultrasound abnormalities. To investigate the diagnostic value of WES i...
Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome (RSTS) is an extremely rare autosomal dominant inheritable disorder caused by CREBBP and EP300 mutations, while atypical RSTS harbouring variant from the same genes but not obvious resem...
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