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  1. This case-control study aims to examine the association between the Interleukin-6 (IL-6) rs12700386 polymorphism and the increased risk of developing osteoarthritis (OA) in the knee in the Chinese Han population.

    Authors: Hui Yang, Xindie Zhou, Dongmei Xu and Gang Chen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:199

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  3. Juvenile polyposis syndrome (JPS) is a rare autosomal dominant hereditary disorder characterized by the development of multiple distinct juvenile polyps in the gastrointestinal tract with an increased risk of ...

    Authors: Qing Liu, Mengling Liu, Tianshu Liu and Yiyi Yu

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:196

    Content type: Case report

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  4. Alagille syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder usually caused by pathogenic variants of the JAG1 gene. In the past, cholestasis was a condition sine qua non for diagnosis of the syndrome. However, recent adv...

    Authors: Malgorzata Ponikowska, Agnieszka Pollak, Ewa Kotwica-Strzalek, Dorota Brodowska-Kania, Magdalena Mosakowska, Rafal Ploski and Stanislaw Niemczyk

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:195

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  5. Schizophrenia is a severe, heritable, and refractory psychiatric disorder. Several studies have shown that the disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) gene is closely associated with schizophrenia by its role in neu...

    Authors: Xiaoqian Fu, Guofu Zhang, Yansong Liu, Ling Zhang, Fuquan Zhang and Conghua Zhou

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:194

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  7. Joubert syndrome (OMIM 213300) is an autosomal recessive disorder with gene heterogeneity. Causal genes and their variants have been identified by sequencing or other technologies for Joubert syndrome subtypes.

    Authors: Yue Shen, Hao Wang, Zhimin Liu, Minna Luo, Siyu Ma, Chao Lu, Zongfu Cao, Yufei Yu, Ruikun Cai, Cuixia Chen, Qian Li, Huafang Gao, Yun Peng, Baoping Xu and Xu Ma

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:192

    Content type: Case report

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  8. Central nervous system (CNS) hemangioblastomas are the most frequent cause of mortality in patients with Von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) disease, an autosomal dominant genetic disease resulting from germline mutations...

    Authors: Zhen Liu, Jingcheng Zhou, Liang Li, Zhiqiang Yi, Runchun Lu, Chunwei Li and Kan Gong

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:191

    Content type: Case report

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  9. Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) syndrome is usually accompanied by endocrine tumors, but non-endocrine tumors can occur as well. However, the coexistence of MEN1 syndrome and malignant tumor such as...

    Authors: Maja Radman and Tanja Milicevic

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:190

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  10. Acroscyphodysplasia has been described as a phenotypic variant of acrodysostosis type 2 and pseudohypoparathyroidism. In acrodysostosis, skeletal features can include brachydactyly, facial hypoplasia, cone-sha...

    Authors: Katina Kartalias, Austin P. Gillies, Maria T. Peña, Andrea Estrada, Dorothy I. Bulas, Carlos R. Ferreira and Laura L. Tosi

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:189

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  11. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disorder mostly caused by sarcomeric gene mutations, but almost 10% of cases are attributed to inherited metabolic and neuromuscular disorders. First described in...

    Authors: Adrian Giucă, Cristina Mitu, Bogdan Ovidiu Popescu, Alexandra Eugenia Bastian, Răzvan Capşa, Adriana Mursă, Viorica Rădoi, Bogdan Alexandru Popescu and Ruxandra Jurcuţ

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:188

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  12. Adiponectin gene (ADIPOQ) polymorphisms have been shown to affect adiponectin serum concentration and some have been associated with breast cancer (BC) risk. The aims of this study were to describe the frequency ...

    Authors: Ricardo M. Cerda-Flores, Karen Paola Camarillo-Cárdenas, Gabriela Gutiérrez-Orozco, Mónica Patricia Villarreal-Vela, Raquel Garza-Guajardo, Marco Antonio Ponce-Camacho, Ana Lilia Castruita-Ávila, Juan Francisco González-Guerrero, Iram Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez, Ana Laura Calderón-Garcidueñas, Hazyadee Frecia Rodríguez-Gutierrez, Juan Carlos Arellano-Barrientos, Oscar Vidal Gutierrez, Hugo Alberto Barrera Saldaña and María Lourdes Garza-Rodríguez

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:187

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  13. Genetic eye diseases constitute a large and heterogeneous group of childhood ocular morbidity. Individual diseases may cause multiple structural anomalies and developmental features. Nepal Pediatric Ocular Dis...

    Authors: Srijana Adhikari, Neelam Thakur, Ujjowala Shrestha, Mohan K Shrestha, Murarai Manshrestha, Bijay Thapa, Manish Poudel and Ajaya Kunwar

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:185

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  14. Two important aspects for the development of anxiety disorders are genetic predisposition and alterations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. In order to identify genetic risk-factors for anxiety...

    Authors: Heléne Lindholm, India Morrison, Alexandra Krettek, Dan Malm, Giovanni Novembre and Linda Handlin

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:184

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  15. Disorders of the metabolism and absorption of vitamin B12 can lead to decrease in activity of methionine synthetase and methylmalonate coenzyme A mutase (MMUT), which results in increased levels of methylmalon...

    Authors: Ru-Yue Chen, Xiao-Zhong Li, Qiang Lin, Yun Zhu, Yun-Yan Shen, Qin-Ying Xu, Xue-Ming Zhu, Lin-Qi Chen, Hai-Ying Wu and Xu-Qin Chen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:183

    Content type: Case report

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  16. Mandibulofacial dysostosis with microcephaly (MFDM) is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disease characterized by intellectual and growth retardations, as well as major microcephaly, induced by missense and sp...

    Authors: Arthur Jacob, Jennifer Pasquier, Raphael Carapito, Frédéric Auradé, Anne Molitor, Philippe Froguel, Khalid Fakhro, Najeeb Halabi, Géraldine Viot, Seiamak Bahram and Arash Rafii

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:182

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  17. The complement component (3b/4b) receptor 1 gene (CR1) gene has been proved to affect the susceptibility of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in different ethnic and districts groups. However, the effect of CR1 genetic va...

    Authors: Xi-chen Zhu, Wen-zhuo Dai and Tao Ma

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:181

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  19. Cardiovascular diseases are still the major cause of death in the Western world, with different outcomes between the two genders. Efforts to identify those at risk are therefore given priority in the handling ...

    Authors: Urban Alehagen, Levar Shamoun and Dick Wågsäter

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:179

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  20. A Genetic risk score for coronary artery disease (CAD) improves the ability of predicting coronary heart disease (CHD). It is unclear whether i) the use of a CAD genetic risk score is superior to the measureme...

    Authors: Sonali Pechlivanis, Nils Lehmann, Per Hoffmann, Markus M. Nöthen, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Raimund Erbel and Susanne Moebus

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:178

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  23. Alström syndrome is a rare recessively inherited disorder caused by variants in the ALMS1 gene. It is characterized by multiple organ dysfunction, including cone-rod retinal dystrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy, hea...

    Authors: Leonardo Gatticchi, Jan Miertus, Paolo Enrico Maltese, Simone Bressan, Luca De Antoni, Ludmila Podracká, Lucia Piteková, Vanda Rísová, Mari Mällo, Kaie Jaakson, Kairit Joost, Leonardo Colombo and Matteo Bertelli

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:173

    Content type: Case report

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  24. Urolithiasis is a worldwide urological problem with significant contribution of genetic factors. Pakistan, which resides within the Afro-Asian stone belt, has a high reported prevalence (12%) of urolithiasis. ...

    Authors: Ali Amar, Ayesha Afzal, Athar Hameed, Mumtaz Ahmad, Abdul Rafay Khan, Humaira Najma, Aiysha Abid and Shagufta Khaliq

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:172

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  25. The frequency of the alpha thalassemia trait is approximately 40% in the Kuwaiti population, but there has been no comprehensive study of the prevalent alleles. This is a report of patients who were referred f...

    Authors: Adekunle Adekile, Jalaja Sukumaran, Diana Thomas, Thomas D’Souza and Mohammad Haider

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:170

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  26. Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a rare disease characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia caused by small vessel thrombosis, thrombocytopenia, and renal failure. The common cause of aHUS i...

    Authors: Soraya Gholizad-kolveiri, Nakysa Hooman, Rasoul Alizadeh, Rozita Hoseini, Hasan Otukesh, Saeed Talebi and Mansoureh Akouchekian

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:169

    Content type: Case report

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  27. Loss of function mutations in the spermine synthase gene (SMS) have been reported to cause a rare X-linked intellectual disability known as Snyder-Robinson Syndrome (SRS). Besides intellectual disability, SRS ...

    Authors: Talal J. Qazi, Qiao Wu, Ailikemu Aierken, Daru Lu, Ihtisham Bukhari, Hafiz M. J. Hussain, Jingmin Yang, Asif Mir and Hong Qing

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:168

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  28. Mutations in the exonuclease domain of POLE, a DNA polymerase associated with DNA replication and repair, lead to cancers with ultra-high mutation rates. Most studies focus on intestinal and uterine cancers wi...

    Authors: Fangjin Huang, Hisashi Tanaka, Beatrice S. Knudsen and Joanne K. Rutgers

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:167

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  29. Propionic acidemia (PA)(OMIM#606054) is an inborn error of branched-chain amino acid metabolism, caused by defects in the propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC) enzyme which encoded by the PCCA and PCCB genes.

    Authors: Hai-rong Wang, Yan-qiu Liu, Xue-lian He, Jun Sun, Fan-wei Zeng, Cheng-bin Yan, Hao Li, Shu-yang Gao and Yun Yang

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:166

    Content type: Case report

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  30. Congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects also known as CHILD syndrome is an X-linked dominant, male lethal genodermatosis with a prevalence of 1 in 100,000 live births. Mutatio...

    Authors: D. Hettiarachchi, Hetalkumar Panchal, P. S. Lai and V. H. W. Dissanayake

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:164

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  31. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most common causes of chronic liver disease worldwide. Current studies have shown that PNPLA3 (Patatin-like phospholipase domain containing 3) rs738409 G/...

    Authors: Shan Tang, Jing Zhang, Ting Ting Mei, Hai Qing Guo, Xin Huan Wei, Wen Yan Zhang, Ya Li Liu, Shan Liang, Zuo Peng Fan, Li Xia Ma, Wei Lin, Yi Rong Liu, Li Xia Qiu and Hai Bin Yu

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:163

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  32. Leptin receptor gene (LEPR) variants may affect the leptin levels and act as a risk factor for preeclampsia. Two LEPR gene missense variants rs1137101 (c.668A>G) and rs1805094 (c.1968G>C) were investigated in Sud...

    Authors: Amira Saad, Ishag Adam, Salah Eldin G. Elzaki, Hiba A. Awooda and Hamdan Z. Hamdan

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:162

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  33. Pathogenic AXIN2 variants cause absence of permanent teeth (hypodontia), sparse hair and eye brows (ectodermal dysplasia), and gastrointestinal polyps and cancer. Inheritance is autosomal dominant with variable p...

    Authors: Sarah K. Macklin- Mantia, Stephanie L. Hines, Kaisorn L. Chaichana, Angela M. Donaldson, Stephen L. Ko, Qihui Zhai, Niloy Jewel Samadder and Douglas L. Riegert-Johnson

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:161

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  35. The CACNA1C gene was defined as a risk gene for schizophrenia in a large genome-wide association study of European ancestry performed by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Previous meta-analyses focused on the ...

    Authors: Yong-ping Liu, Xue Wu, Xi Xia, Jun Yao and Bao-jie Wang

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:159

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  36. Okur-Chung neurodevelopmental syndrome (OCNDS) and tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome type I (TRPSI) are rare Mendelian diseases. OCNDS is caused by CSNK2A1 gene variants and TRPSI is caused by the TRPS1gene. Howev...

    Authors: Shanshan Xu, Qun Lian, Jinzhun Wu, Lingli Li and Jia Song

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:158

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  37. Heroin dependence is a complex disease with multiple phenotypes. Classification of heroin users into more homogeneous subgroups on the basis of these phenotypes could help to identify the involved genetic fact...

    Authors: Yunxiao Li, Yongsheng Zhu, Jianghua Lai, Xugang Shi, Yuanyuan Chen, Jinyu Zhang and Shuguang Wei

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:157

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  38. Holocarboxylase synthetase (HLCS) deficiency is a rare inborn disorder of biotin metabolism, which results in defects in several biotin-dependent carboxylases and presents with metabolic ketoacidosis and skin ...

    Authors: Zhenzhu Zheng, Gaopin Yuan, Minyan Zheng, Yiming Lin, Faming Zheng, Mengyi Jiang, Lin Zhu and Qingliu Fu

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:155

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  39. MYH14 gene mutations have been suggested to be associated with nonsyndromic/syndromic sensorineural hearing loss. It has been reported that mutations in MYH14 can result in autosomal dominant nonsyndromic deafnes...

    Authors: Mingming Wang, Yicui Zhou, Fengguo Zhang, Zhaomin Fan, Xiaohui Bai and Haibo Wang

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:154

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  40. NAA10 is the catalytic subunit of the major N-terminal acetyltransferase complex NatA which acetylates almost half the human proteome. Over the past decade, many NAA10 missense variants have been reported as c...

    Authors: Ingrid Bader, Nina McTiernan, Christine Darbakk, Eugen Boltshauser, Rasmus Ree, Sabine Ebner, Johannes A. Mayr and Thomas Arnesen

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:153

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  41. Intermediate filament proteins that construct the nuclear lamina of a cell include the Lamin A/C proteins encoded by the LMNA gene, and are implicated in fundamental processes such as nuclear structure, gene expr...

    Authors: Halida P. Widyastuti, Trina M. Norden-Krichmar, Anna Grosberg and Michael V. Zaragoza

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:152

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  42. Hearing loss is the most common sensory defect, and it affects over 6% of the population worldwide. Approximately 50–60% of hearing loss patients are attributed to genetic causes. Currently, more than 100 gene...

    Authors: Yingjie Zhou, Muhammad Tariq, Sijie He, Uzma Abdullah, Jianguo Zhang and Shahid Mahmood Baig

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:151

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  43. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (D-G6PD) is an X-linked recessive disorder resulted from deleterious variants in the housekeeping gene Glucose-6-phosphate 1-dehydrogenase (G6PD), causing impaired res...

    Authors: Yongqing Tong, Bei Liu, Hongyun Zheng, Anyu Bao, Zegang Wu, Jian Gu, Bi-Hua Tan, Mary McGrath, Shriya Kane, Chunhua Song and Yan Li

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:150

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  44. Short-chain enoyl-CoA hydratase deficiency (ECHS1D), also known as ECHS1 deficiency, is a rare inborn metabolic disorder with clinical presentations characterized by Leigh syndrome (LS). Thirty-four different ...

    Authors: Dan Sun, Zhimei Liu, Yongchu Liu, Miaojuan Wu, Fang Fang, Xianbo Deng, Zhisheng Liu, Liang Song, Kei Murayama, Chunhua Zhang and Yuanyuan Zhu

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:149

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  45. Gastric cancer is one of the four most common cancer that causing death worldwide. Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) have shown that genetic diversities MUC1 (Mucin 1) and PSCA (Prostate Stem Cell Antigen) g...

    Authors: Reza Alikhani, Ali Taravati and Mohammad Bagher Hashemi-Soteh

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:148

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  46. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is considered as a subtype of spondyloarthritis (SpA) that mainly leads to fatigue, stiffness, spinal ankylosis, and impaired physical functions with reduced quality of life. Interl...

    Authors: Hamideh Aghaei, Elham Farhadi, Maryam Akhtari, Sara Shahba, Shayan Mostafaei, Ahmadreza Jamshidi, Shiva Poursani, Mahdi Mahmoudi and Mohammad Hossein Nicknam

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:147

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  48. Glaucoma is a polygenic neurodegenerative disease and the second most common cause of blindness in Saudi Arabia. To test the hypothesis that genetic variants in the genes involved in the bone morphogenic prote...

    Authors: Altaf A. Kondkar, Tahira Sultan, Taif A. Azad, Essam A. Osman, Faisal A. Almobarak and Saleh A. Al-Obeidan

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:145

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  49. Autosomal dominant hypertension with brachydactyly type E syndrome caused by pathogenic variants in the PDE3A gene was first reported in 2015. To date, there are only a few reports of this kind of syndrome. Other...

    Authors: Xianqing Li, Zongzhe Li, Peng Chen, Yan Wang, Dao Wen Wang and Dao Wu Wang

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:144

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  50. Intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD) is an age-related degenerative disease, presenting with low back pain or radicular pain. The inflammatory changes would occur in discs in the process of IVDD. Therefore,...

    Authors: Sara Hanaei, Sina Abdollahzade, Maryam Sadr, Mohammad Hossein Mirbolouk, Ehsan Fattahi, Alireza Khoshnevisan and Nima Rezaei

    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:143

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