Genetic colocalization atlas points to common regulatory sites and genes for hematopoietic traits and hematopoietic contributions to disease phenotypes
Genetic associations link hematopoietic traits and disease end-points, but most causal variants and genes underlying these relationships are unknown. Here, we used genetic colocalization to nominate loci and g...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:89Long non-coding RNA profiling of pediatric Medulloblastoma
Medulloblastoma (MB) is one of the most common malignant cancers in children. MB is primarily classified into four subgroups based on molecular and clinical characteristics as (1) WNT (2) Sonic-hedgehog (SHH) ...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:87Integrative analyses of gene expression profile reveal potential crucial roles of mitotic cell cycle and microtubule cytoskeleton in pulmonary artery hypertension
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a life-threatening condition. The aim of this study was to explore potential crucial genes and pathways associated with PAH based on integrative analyses of gene expres...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:86Whole genome sequencing of familial isolated oesophagus atresia uncover shared structural variants
Oesophageal atresia (OA) is a life-threatening developmental defect characterized by a lost continuity between the upper and lower oesophagus. The most common form is a distal connection between the trachea an...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:85Construction and analysis of a lncRNA-miRNA-mRNA network based on competitive endogenous RNA reveal functional lncRNAs in oral cancer
A growing evidence suggests that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) can function as a microRNA (miRNA) sponge in various diseases including oral cancer. However, the pathophysiological function of lncRNAs remains ...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:84MetaCNV - a consensus approach to infer accurate copy numbers from low coverage data
The majority of copy number callers requires high read coverage data that is often achieved with elevated material input, which increases the heterogeneity of tissue samples. However, to gain insights into sma...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:76Identification of genes and miRNA associated with idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss: an exploratory data mining study
Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) is a significant adverse pregnancy complication, with an incompletely understood pathology. While many entities were proposed to elucidate the pathogenic basis of RPL, only few w...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:75Using Ethereum blockchain to store and query pharmacogenomics data via smart contracts
As pharmacogenomics data becomes increasingly integral to clinical treatment decisions, appropriate data storage and sharing protocols need to be adopted. One promising option for secure, high-integrity storag...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:74Leukocyte telomere length in patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia
Thalassemia is a hereditary hemolytic anemia with a severity ranging from mild, non-transfusion dependent to severe chronic anemia requiring lifelong transfusion. Transfusional iron overload is a major complic...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:73Mitochondrial tRNA methylation in Alzheimer’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy
Methylation of mitochondrial tRNAs (mt-tRNA) at the 9th position (“p9 site”) is known to impact translational efficiency and downstream mitochondrial function; however, direct assessment of mt-RNA methylation ...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:71The diagnostic yield of intellectual disability: combined whole genome low-coverage sequencing and medical exome sequencing
Intellectual disability (ID) is a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorder with a complex genetic underpinning in its etiology. Chromosome microarray (CMA) is recommended as the first-tier diagnostic test for...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:70ERα-related chromothripsis enhances concordant gene transcription on chromosome 17q11.1-q24.1 in luminal breast cancer
Chromothripsis is an event of genomic instability leading to complex chromosomal alterations in cancer. Frequent long-range chromatin interactions between transcription factors (TFs) and targets may promote ex...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:69Molecular diagnosis in recessive pediatric neurogenetic disease can help reduce disease recurrence in families
The causes for thousands of individually rare recessive diseases have been discovered since the adoption of next generation sequencing (NGS). Following the molecular diagnosis in older children in a family, pa...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:68MyoMiner: explore gene co-expression in normal and pathological muscle
High-throughput transcriptomics measures mRNA levels for thousands of genes in a biological sample. Most gene expression studies aim to identify genes that are differentially expressed between different biolog...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:67Xp11.22 duplications in four unrelated Chinese families: delineating the genotype-phenotype relationship for HSD17B10 and FGD1
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 ...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:66Modified entropy-based procedure detects gene-gene-interactions in unconventional genetic models
Since it is assumed that genetic interactions play an important role in understanding the mechanisms of complex diseases, different statistical approaches have been suggested in recent years for this task. One...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:65Islet-expressed circular RNAs are associated with type 2 diabetes status in human primary islets and in peripheral blood
Circular RNAs are non-coding RNA molecules with gene regulatory potential that have been associated with several human diseases. They are stable and present in the circulation, making them excellent candidates...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:64A case report of familial 4q13.3 microdeletion in three individuals with syndromic intellectual disability
Interstitial 4q deletions are rare chromosomal alterations. Most of the previously reported deletions involving the 4q13.3 region are large chromosomal alterations with a common loss of band 4q21 resulting in ...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:63Prevalence of clinically actionable disease variants in exceptionally long-lived families
Phenotypic expression of pathogenic variants in individuals with no family history of inherited disorders remains unclear.BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:61Absolute measurement of the tissue origins of cell-free DNA in the healthy state and following paracetamol overdose
Despite the emergence of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) as a clinical biomarker in cancer, the tissue origins of cfDNA in healthy individuals have to date been inferred only by indirect and relative measurement methods...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:60E. coli diversity: low in colorectal cancer
Escherichia coli are mostly commensals but also contain pathogenic lineages. It is largely unclear whether the commensal E. coli as the potential origins of pathogenic lineages may consist of monophyletic or poly...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:59Comprehensive chromosomal aberrations in a case of a patient with TCF3-HLF-positive BCP-ALL
The use of high-throughput analytical techniques has enabled the description of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) subtypes. The TCF3-HLF translocation is a very rare rearrangement in ALL that is associated with...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:58Differential co-expression analysis reveals early stage transcriptomic decoupling in alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the leading causes of death in the US and there is no validated drugs to stop, slow or prevent AD. Despite tremendous effort on biomarker discovery, existing findings are mos...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):53This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5ProGeo-neo: a customized proteogenomic workflow for neoantigen prediction and selection
Neoantigens can be differentially recognized by T cell receptor (TCR) as these sequences are derived from mutant proteins and are unique to the tumor. The discovery of neoantigens is the first key step for tum...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):52This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5Pseudogene-gene functional networks are prognostic of patient survival in breast cancer
Given the vast range of molecular mechanisms giving rise to breast cancer, it is unlikely universal cures exist. However, by providing a more precise prognosis for breast cancer patients through integrative mo...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):51This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5SCNrank: spectral clustering for network-based ranking to reveal potential drug targets and its application in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common pancreatic malignancy. Due to its wide heterogeneity, PDAC acts aggressively and responds poorly to most chemotherapies, causing an urgent need for th...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):50This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5Highly robust model of transcription regulator activity predicts breast cancer overall survival
While several multigene signatures are available for predicting breast cancer prognosis, particularly in early stage disease, effective molecular indicators are needed, especially for triple-negative carcinoma...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):49This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5Dense module searching for gene networks associated with multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex disease in which the immune system attacks the central nervous system. The molecular mechanisms contributing to the etiology of MS remain poorly understood. Genome-wide ass...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):48This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5The International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine 2019 (ICIBM 2019): computational methods and applications in medical genomics
In this editorial, we briefly summarized the International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine 2019 (ICIBM 2019) that was held on June 9–11, 2019 at Columbus, Ohio, USA. We further introduced the 19...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):47This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5Adaptive Fisher method detects dense and sparse signals in association analysis of SNV sets
With the development of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology and genotype imputation methods, statistical methods have been proposed to test a set of genomic variants together to detect if any of them i...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):46This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5A pan-cancer study of class-3 semaphorins as therapeutic targets in cancer
Initially characterized as axon guidance factors, semaphorins also have been implicated to have critical roles in multiple physiological and developmental functions, including the regulation of immune response...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):45This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5Convolutional neural network models for cancer type prediction based on gene expression
Precise prediction of cancer types is vital for cancer diagnosis and therapy. Through a predictive model, important cancer marker genes can be inferred. Several studies have attempted to build machine learning...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):44This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5Somatic synonymous mutations in regulatory elements contribute to the genetic aetiology of melanoma
Non-synonymous mutations altering tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes are widely studied. However, synonymous mutations, which do not alter the protein sequence, are rarely investigated in melanoma genome stu...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):43This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5Prediction of circRNA-disease associations based on inductive matrix completion
Currently, numerous studies indicate that circular RNA (circRNA) is associated with various human complex diseases. While identifying disease-related circRNAs in vivo is time- and labor-consuming, a feasible a...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):42This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5Deep learning-based cancer survival prognosis from RNA-seq data: approaches and evaluations
Recent advances in kernel-based Deep Learning models have introduced a new era in medical research. Originally designed for pattern recognition and image processing, Deep Learning models are now applied to sur...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):41This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5Comparative evaluation of network features for the prediction of breast cancer metastasis
Discovering a highly accurate and robust gene signature for the prediction of breast cancer metastasis from gene expression profiling of primary tumors is one of the most challenging tasks to reduce the number...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):40This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5An integrative, genomic, transcriptomic and network-assisted study to identify genes associated with human cleft lip with or without cleft palate
Cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL/P) is one of the most common congenital human birth defects. A combination of genetic and epidemiology studies has contributed to a better knowledge of CL/P-associate...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):39This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5The landscape of alternative splicing in HIV-1 infected CD4 T-cells
Elucidating molecular mechanisms that are altered during HIV-1 infection may provide a better understanding of the HIV-1 life cycle and how it interacts with infected T-cells. One such mechanism is alternative...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13(Suppl 5):38This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 5Transcriptome analysis reveals the link between lncRNA-mRNA co-expression network and tumor immune microenvironment and overall survival in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
As the sixth most common cancer worldwide, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) develops visceral metastases during the advanced stage of the disease and exhibits a low five-year survival rate. The im...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:57Identification of miRNA-mRNA associations in hepatocellular carcinoma using hierarchical integrative model
The established role miRNA-mRNA regulation of gene expression has in oncogenesis highlights the importance of integrating miRNA with downstream mRNA targets. These findings call for investigations aimed at ide...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:56Sensitivity to gene dosage and gene expression affects genes with copy number variants observed among neuropsychiatric diseases
Copy number variants (CNVs) have been reported to be associated with diseases, traits, and evolution. However, it is hard to determine which gene should have priority as a target for further functional experim...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:55Potential role of genomic imprinted genes and brain developmental related genes in autism
Autism is a complex disease involving both environmental and genetic factors. Recent efforts have implicated the correlation of genomic imprinting and brain development in autism, however the pathogenesis of a...BMC Medical Genomics 2020 13:54
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