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Featured Article: No genes for the “broken hearted”

Screening of a large cohort of patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as 'broken heart disease', shows no significant association with polymorphisms previously suggested to contribute to the disease.

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Featured Article: Neurotrophins and emotions after mild traumatic brain injury

The rs6265 variant of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene shows a strong correlation with the emotional response following mild traumatic brain injury.

Content type: Research
| 9 April 2019

The CIMP-high phenotype is associated with energy metabolism alterations in colon adenocarcinoma

Authors: Maria S. Fedorova, George S. Krasnov, Elena N. Lukyanova, Andrew R. Zaretsky, Alexey A. Dmitriev, Nataliya V. Melnikova, Alexey A. Moskalev, Sergey L. Kharitonov, Elena A. Pudova, Zulfiya G. Guvatova, Anastasiya A. Kobelyatskaya, Irina A. Ishina, Elena N. Slavnova, Anastasia V. Lipatova, Maria A. Chernichenko, Dmitry V. Sidorov…
Content type: Research
| 9 April 2019

Exome-wide survey of the Siberian Caucasian population

Authors: Andrey A. Yurchenko, Nikolai S. Yudin and Mikhail I. Voevoda
Content type: Introduction
| 9 April 2019

Medical genetics studies at BGRS conference series

Authors: Ancha V. Baranova, Mikhail Yu. Skoblov, Elena N. Voropaeva, Piramanayagam Shanmughavel and Yuriy L. Orlov
Content type: Research
| 9 April 2019

Novel potential causative genes in carotid paragangliomas

Authors: Anastasiya V. Snezhkina, Elena N. Lukyanova, Andrew R. Zaretsky, Dmitry V. Kalinin, Anatoly V. Pokrovsky, Alexander L. Golovyuk, George S. Krasnov, Maria S. Fedorova, Elena A. Pudova, Sergey L. Kharitonov, Nataliya V. Melnikova, Boris Y. Alekseev, Marina V. Kiseleva, Andrey D. Kaprin, Alexey A. Dmitriev and Anna V. Kudryavtseva
Content type: Research
| 9 April 2019

A pharmacogenetic study of patients with schizophrenia from West Siberia gets insight into dopaminergic mechanisms of antipsychotic-induced hyperprolactinemia

Authors: Diana Z. Osmanova, Maxim B. Freidin, Olga Yu. Fedorenko, Ivan V. Pozhidaev, Anastasiia S. Boiko, Natalia M. Vyalova, Vladimir V. Tiguntsev, Elena G. Kornetova, Anton J. M. Loonen, Arkadiy V. Semke, Bob Wilffert, Nikolay A. Bokhan and Svetlana A. Ivanova

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| 14 December 2009

Reduced transcription of TCOF1 in adult cells of Treacher Collins syndrome patients

Authors: Cibele Masotti, Camila C Ornelas, Alessandra Splendore-Gordonos, Ricardo Moura, Têmis M Félix, Nivaldo Alonso, Anamaria A Camargo and Maria Rita Passos-Bueno
Content type: Case report
| 1 May 2013

Deletion Xq27.3q28 in female patient with global developmental delays and skewed X-inactivation

Authors: Lauren S Marshall, Julie Simon, Tim Wood, Mei Peng, Renius Owen, Gary S Feldman and Michael V Zaragoza
Content type: Research article
| 1 May 2015

Leptin and adiponectin DNA methylation levels in adipose tissues and blood cells are associated with BMI, waist girth and LDL-cholesterol levels in severely obese men and women

Authors: Andrée-Anne Houde, Cécilia Légaré, Simon Biron, Odette Lescelleur, Laurent Biertho, Simon Marceau, André Tchernof, Marie-Claude Vohl, Marie-France Hivert and Luigi Bouchard
Content type: Research article
| 19 February 2013

Allele-specific polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease-related single nucleotide polymorphisms

Authors: Mohd Nazif Darawi, Chin Ai-Vyrn, Kalavathy Ramasamy, Philip Poi Jun Hua, Tan Maw Pin, Shahrul Bahyah Kamaruzzaman and Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed
Content type: Correspondence
| 11 May 2010

Practice guidelines for the molecular analysis of Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes

Authors: Simon C Ramsden, Jill Clayton-Smith, Rachael Birch and Karin Buiting

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BMC Medical Genetics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in the effects of genetic variation in individuals, families and among populations in relation to human health and disease.

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Bethan Wicker, BioMed Central, UK

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Dan Rujescu, Universitätsklinikum Halle, Germany
Danish Saleheen, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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The CIMP-high phenotype is associated with energy metabolism alterations in colon adenocarcinoma

Exome-wide survey of the Siberian Caucasian population

Medical genetics studies at BGRS conference series

Novel potential causative genes in carotid paragangliomas

A pharmacogenetic study of patients with schizophrenia from West Siberia gets insight into dopaminergic mechanisms of antipsychotic-induced hyperprolactinemia

Reduced transcription of TCOF1 in adult cells of Treacher Collins syndrome patients

Deletion Xq27.3q28 in female patient with global developmental delays and skewed X-inactivation

Leptin and adiponectin DNA methylation levels in adipose tissues and blood cells are associated with BMI, waist girth and LDL-cholesterol levels in severely obese men and women

Allele-specific polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Alzheimer’s disease-related single nucleotide polymorphisms

Practice guidelines for the molecular analysis of Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes

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