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  1. In family-based association analysis, each family is typically ascertained from a single proband, which renders the effects of ascertainment bias heterogeneous among family members. This is contrary to case–co...

    Authors: Suyeon Park, Sungyoung Lee, Young Lee, Christine Herold, Basavaraj Hooli, Kristina Mullin, Taesung Park, Changsoon Park, Lars Bertram, Christoph Lange, Rudolph Tanzi and Sungho Won
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2015 16:62
  2. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare disease with an incidence rate of 2–6 cases per million per year. Our knowledge of the disease in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is limited by th...

    Authors: Ossama K. Abou Hassan, Wiam Haidar, Georges Nemer, Hadi Skouri, Fadi Haddad and Imad BouAkl
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:89
  3. Plasma coagulation Factor XIIa (Hageman factor; encoded by F12) and kallikrein (KAL or Fletcher factor; encoded by KLKB1) are proteases of the kallikerin-kinin system involved in converting the inactive circulati...

    Authors: Nilima Biswas, Adam X. Maihofer, Saiful Anam Mir, Fangwen Rao, Kuixing Zhang, Srikrishna Khandrika, Manjula Mahata, Ryan S. Friese, C. Makena Hightower, Sushil K. Mahata, Dewleen G. Baker, Caroline M. Nievergelt, Sucheta M. Vaingankar and Daniel T. O’Connor
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2016 17:21
  4. Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias (ARCA) are a complex group of neurodegenerative disorders with great genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity, over 30 genes/loci have been associated with more than 20 diffe...

    Authors: Wahiba Hamza, Lamia Ali Pacha, Tarik Hamadouche, Jean Muller, Nathalie Drouot, Farida Ferrat, Samira Makri, Malika Chaouch, Meriem Tazir, Michel Koenig and Traki Benhassine
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2015 16:36
  5. Cisplatin is one of the major drugs that used in the treatment of osteosarcoma. Cisplatin exerts its function by making cisplatin-DNA adducts culminating in cellular death. These adducts found to be repaired b...

    Authors: Hadeel Obiedat, Nasr Alrabadi, Eyad Sultan, Marwa Al Shatti and Malek Zihlif
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:112
  6. Maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) is an early-onset, autosomal dominant form of non-insulin dependent diabetes. Genetic diagnosis of MODY can transform patient management. Earlier data on the genetic...

    Authors: Viswanathan Mohan, Venkatesan Radha, Thong T. Nguyen, Eric W. Stawiski, Kanika Bajaj Pahuja, Leonard D. Goldstein, Jennifer Tom, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Monica Kong-Beltran, Tushar Bhangale, Suresh Jahnavi, Radhakrishnan Chandni, Vijay Gayathri, Paul George, Na Zhang, Sakthivel Murugan…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:22
  7. Bacterial meningitis (BM) is an infectious disease that results in high mortality and morbidity. Despite efficacious antibiotic therapy, neurological sequelae are often observed in patients after disease. Curr...

    Authors: Fabrícia Lima Fontes, Luíza Ferreira de Araújo, Leonam Gomes Coutinho, Stephen L. Leib and Lucymara Fassarella Agnez-Lima
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2015 16:70
  8. In this study we investigated the association between SNPs in the S100B gene and Parkinson’s disease (PD) in two independent Swedish cohorts. The SNP rs9722 has previously been shown to be associated with high...

    Authors: Camilla Fardell, Anna Zettergren, Caroline Ran, Andrea Carmine Belin, Agneta Ekman, Olof Sydow, Lars Bäckman, Björn Holmberg, Nil Dizdar, Peter Söderkvist and Hans Nissbrandt
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:42
  9. Acute chorioamnionitis (aCA), inflammation of the placenta and fetal membranes, is a frequently reported lesion in preterm deliveries. Genetic variants in innate immune system genes such as Interleukin-6 (IL6) ma...

    Authors: Chaini Konwar, Giulia F. Del Gobbo, Jefferson Terry and Wendy P. Robinson
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:36
  10. The rupture of a brain aneurysm causes bleeding in the subarachnoid space and is known as aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH). In our study, we evaluated the association of factor XIII polymorphism and the...

    Authors: Arati Suvatha, M. K. Sibin, Dhananjaya I. Bhat, K. V. L. Narasingarao, Vikas Vazhayil and G. K. Chetan
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:159
  11. Research suggests there may be a genetic influence on the likelihood of becoming tanning dependent (TD). The way in which mothers regulate their children’s sun exposure may be affected by being TD. We investig...

    Authors: Jasmine Khouja, Sarah J. Lewis and Carolina Bonilla
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:62
  12. Caudal regression syndrome (CRS) or sacral agenesis is a rare congenital disorder characterized by a constellation of congenital caudal anomalies affecting the caudal spine and spinal cord, the hindgut, the ur...

    Authors: Robert M. Porsch, Elisa Merello, Patrizia De Marco, Guo Cheng, Laura Rodriguez, Manting So, Pak C. Sham, Paul K. Tam, Valeria Capra, Stacey S. Cherny, Maria-Mercè Garcia-Barcelo and Desmond D. Campbell
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2016 17:98
  13. The widespread adoption of high-throughput sequencing technologies by genetic diagnostic laboratories has enabled significant expansion of their testing portfolios. Rare autosomal recessive conditions have bee...

    Authors: Christopher M. Watson, Laura A. Crinnion, Ian R. Berry, Sally M. Harrison, Carolina Lascelles, Agne Antanaviciute, Ruth S. Charlton, Angus Dobbie, Ian M. Carr and David T. Bonthron
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2016 17:1
  14. Perturbations on the Left-Right axis establishment lead to laterality defects, with frequently associated Congenital Heart Diseases (CHDs). Indeed, in the last decade, it has been reported that the etiology of...

    Authors: Fernando Cristo, José M. Inácio, Salomé de Almeida, Patrícia Mendes, Duarte Saraiva Martins, José Maio, Rui Anjos and José A. Belo
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2017 18:77
  15. Mucopolysaccharidosis-IVA (Morquio A disease) is a lysosomal disorder in which the abnormal accumulation of keratan sulfate and chondroitin-6-sulfate is consequent to mutations in the galactosamine-6-sulfatase (G...

    Authors: Anna Caciotti, Rodolfo Tonin, Matthew Mort, David N. Cooper, Serena Gasperini, Miriam Rigoldi, Rossella Parini, Federica Deodato, Roberta Taurisano, Michelina Sibilio, Giancarlo Parenti, Renzo Guerrini and Amelia Morrone
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:183
  16. Renal hypouricemia (RHUC) is a heterogeneous genetic disorder that is characterized by decreased serum uric acid concentration and increased fractional excretion of uric acid. Previous reports have revealed ma...

    Authors: Zhaowei Zhou, Lidan Ma, Juan Zhou, Zhijian Song, Jinmai Zhang, Ke Wang, Boyu Chen, Dun Pan, Zhiqiang Li, Changgui Li and Yongyong Shi
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:142
  17. Short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (SCADD) represents a rare autosomal recessive inborn metabolic disorder of mitochondrial β-oxidation of monocarboxylic acids. Clinical symptoms can vary from a sev...

    Authors: Jana Lisyová, Ján Chandoga, Petra Jungová, Marcel Repiský, Mária Knapková, Martina Machková, Svetozár Dluholucký, Darina Behúlová, Jana Šaligová, Ľudmila Potočňáková, Miroslava Lysinová and Daniel Böhmer
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:64
  18. Int22h1/int22h2-mediated Xq28 duplication syndrome is caused by ~0.5 Mb chromosomal duplications mediated by nonallelic homologous recombination between intron 22 homologous region 1 (int22h1) and 2 (int22h2), wh...

    Authors: Ayman W El-Hattab, Christian P Schaaf, Ping Fang, Elizabeth Roeder, Virginia E Kimonis, Joseph A Church, Ankita Patel and Sau Wai Cheung
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2015 16:12
  19. Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is a common pathological condition of the musculoskeletal system in infants which results in a congenital and developmental malformation of the hip joint. DDH is a spec...

    Authors: Sulman Basit, Alia M. Albalawi, Essa Alharby and Khalid I. Khoshhal
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2017 18:34
  20. Steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome (SRNS) is a genetically heterogeneous disease with significant phenotypic variability. More than 53 podocyte-expressed genes are implicated in SRNS which complicates the ro...

    Authors: Annes Siji, K. N. Karthik, Varsha Chhotusing Pardeshi, P. S. Hari and Anil Vasudevan
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:200
  21. Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a common autosomal dominant disorder caused by a heterozygous germline mutation in the tumor suppressor gene NF1. Because of the existence of highly homologous pseudogenes, the l...

    Authors: Bin Mao, Siyu Chen, Xin Chen, Xiumei Yu, Xiaojia Zhai, Tao Yang, Lulu Li, Zheng Wang, Xiuli Zhao and Xue Zhang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:101
  22. Larsen syndrome is an autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia characterized by large joint dislocations and craniofacial dysmorphism. It is caused by missense or small in-frame deletions in the FLNB gene. To furthe...

    Authors: Katta Mohan Girisha, Abdul Mueed Bidchol, Luitgard Graul-Neumann, Ashish Gupta, Ute Hehr, Davor Lessel, Sean Nader, Hitesh Shah, Julia Wickert and Kerstin Kutsche
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2016 17:27
  23. The main form of Facio-Scapulo-Humeral muscular Dystrophy is linked to copy number reduction of the 4q D4Z4 macrosatellite (FSHD1). In 5 % of cases, FSHD phenotype appears in the absence of D4Z4 reduction (FSH...

    Authors: Marie-Cécile Gaillard, Francesca Puppo, Stéphane Roche, Camille Dion, Emmanuelle Salort Campana, Virginie Mariot, Charlene Chaix, Catherine Vovan, Killian Mazaleyrat, Armand Tasmadjian, Rafaelle Bernard, Julie Dumonceaux, Shahram Attarian, Nicolas Lévy, Karine Nguyen, Frédérique Magdinier…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2016 17:66
  24. PCOS is a common disorder of women due to genetic, endocrine and environmental effects that manifests from puberty. The rs9939609 variant of fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) gene is linked to metabolic de...

    Authors: Umayal Branavan, Sulochana Wijesundera, Vishvanath Chandrasekaran, Carukshi Arambepola and Chandrika Wijeyaratne
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:30
  25. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is an etiologically complex childhood onset neurobehavioral disorder characterized by age-inappropriate inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Symptom seve...

    Authors: Arijit Karmakar, Rishov Goswami, Tanusree Saha, Subhamita Maitra, Anirban Roychowdhury, Chinmay Kumar Panda, Swagata Sinha, Anirban Ray, Kochupurackal P. Mohanakumar, Usha Rajamma and Kanchan Mukhopadhyay
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2017 18:109
  26. There are disparities for the association between uncoupling proteins (UCP) and type 2 diabetes (T2DM). The study was to examine the associations of genetic variants of UCP2 and UCP3 with prediabetes and T2DM ...

    Authors: Meifang Su, Xiaoying Chen, Yue Chen, Congyun Wang, Songtao Li, Xuhua Ying, Tian Xiao, Na Wang, Qingwu Jiang and Chaowei Fu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:43
  27. Nectins are cell adhesion molecules that play a pivotal role in adherens junctions and tight junctions. Our previous study using whole-genome oligonucleotide microarrays revealed that nectin-4 was upregulated ...

    Authors: Mayuko Ito, Haruki Nishizawa, Makiko Tsutsumi, Asuka Kato, Yoshiko Sakabe, Yoshiteru Noda, Akiko Ohwaki, Jun Miyazaki, Takema Kato, Kazuya Shiogama, Takao Sekiya, Hiroki Kurahashi and Takuma Fujii
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:166
  28. Reduced renal excretion of uric acid plays a significant role in the development of hyperuricemia and gout in adults. Hyperuricemia has been associated with chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease in...

    Authors: Geetha Chittoor, Karin Haack, Nitesh R. Mehta, Sandra Laston, Shelley A. Cole, Anthony G. Comuzzie, Nancy F. Butte and V. Saroja Voruganti
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2017 18:6
  29. Predicting risk of disease from genotypes is being increasingly proposed for a variety of diagnostic and prognostic purposes. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a large number of genome-wid...

    Authors: Guo-Bo Chen, Sang Hong Lee, Grant W. Montgomery, Naomi R. Wray, Peter M. Visscher, Richard B. Gearry, Ian C. Lawrance, Jane M. Andrews, Peter Bampton, Gillian Mahy, Sally Bell, Alissa Walsh, Susan Connor, Miles Sparrow, Lisa M. Bowdler, Lisa A. Simms…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2017 18:94
  30. Vitamin D derivatives and their receptor (VDR) are potent modulators of immune responses in various diseases including malignancies as well as in metabolic and infectious disorders. The impact of vitamin D rec...

    Authors: Nghiem Xuan Hoan, Nguyen Khuyen, Dao Phuong Giang, Mai Thanh Binh, Nguyen Linh Toan, Do Tuan Anh, Ngo Tat Trung, Mai Hong Bang, Christian G. Meyer, Thirumalaisamy P. Velavan and Le Huu Song
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:201
  31. Gaucher disease (GD) is a lysosomal disorder caused by biallelic pathogenic mutations in the GBA1 gene that encodes beta-glucosidase (GCase), and more rarely, by a deficiency in the GCase activator, saposin C. Cl...

    Authors: Suelen Porto Basgalupp, Marina Siebert, Charles Ferreira, Sidney Behringer, Ute Spiekerkoetter, Luciana Hannibal and Ida Vanessa Doederlein Schwartz
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:12
  32. Copy number variations (CNVs) can contribute to genetic variation among individuals and/or have a significant influence in causing diseases. Many studies consider new CNVs’ effects on protein family evolution ...

    Authors: Maria Rosaria D’Apice, Antonio Novelli, Alessandra di Masi, Michela Biancolella, Antonio Antoccia, Francesca Gullotta, Norma Licata, Daniela Minella, Barbara Testa, Anna Maria Nardone, Giampiero Palmieri, Emma Calabrese, Livia Biancone, Caterina Tanzarella, Marina Frontali, Federica Sangiuolo…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2015 16:20
  33. The highly conservative miR-15/107 family (also named as miR-15/107 gene group) including ten miRNA members is currently recognized strongly implicated in multiple human disorders. Some studies focus on the en...

    Authors: Si Wang, Wenhua Zhu, Jing Xu, Yuanxu Guo, Jidong Yan, Liesu Meng, Congshan Jiang and Shemin Lu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:96
  34. The identification of causative mutations is important for treatment decisions and genetic counseling of patients with disorders of sex development (DSD). Here, we designed a new assay based on targeted next-g...

    Authors: Yanling Dong, Yuting Yi, Hong Yao, Ziying Yang, Huamei Hu, Jiucheng Liu, Changxin Gao, Ming Zhang, Liying Zhou, Asan, Xin Yi and Zhiqing Liang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2016 17:23
  35. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) are the top two common neurodegenerative diseases in elderly. Recent studies found the α-synuclein have a key role in AD. Although many clinical and pathol...

    Authors: Zhifa Han, Rui Tian, Peng Ren, Wenyang Zhou, Pingping Wang, Meng Luo, Shuilin Jin and Qinghua Jiang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19(Suppl 1):215

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  36. Cohen Syndrome (COH1) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder, principally identified by ocular, neural and muscular deficits. We identified three large consanguineous Pakistani families with intellectual disab...

    Authors: Muhammad Arshad Rafiq, Claire S Leblond, Muhammad Arif Nadeem Saqib, Akshita K. Vincent, Amirthagowri Ambalavanan, Falak Sher Khan, Muhammad Ayaz, Naseema Shaheen, Dan Spiegelman, Ghazanfar Ali, Muhammad Amin-ud-din, Sandra Laurent, Huda Mahmood, Mehtab Christian, Nadir Ali, Alanna Fennell…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2015 16:41
  37. Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPC) is an autosomal recessive, neurovisceral, lysosomal storage disorder with protean and progressive clinical manifestations, resulting from mutations in either of the two genes, NP...

    Authors: Evangelia Bountouvi, Anna Papadopoulou, Marie T. Vanier, Georgia Nyktari, Spyridon Kanellakis, Helen Michelakakis and Argyrios Dinopoulos
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2017 18:51
  38. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a debilitating autoimmune disease affecting tens of millions of people in the world. The genetics of AS is unclear. Analysis of rare AS pedigrees might facilitate our understandi...

    Authors: Zhiping Tan, Hui Zeng, Zhaofa Xu, Qi Tian, Xiaoyang Gao, Chuanman Zhou, Yu Zheng, Jian Wang, Guanghui Ling, Bing Wang, Yifeng Yang and Long Ma
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:111
  39. Obesity is a metabolic disease that is widely prevalent with approximately 600 million people classified as obese worldwide. Its etiology is multifactorial and involves a complex interplay between genes and th...

    Authors: Saad Mahmud Khan, Sarah El Hajj Chehadeh, Mehera Abdulrahman, Wael Osman and Habiba Al Safar
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:11
  40. The NAA10-NAA15 (NatA) protein complex is an N-terminal acetyltransferase responsible for acetylating ~ 40% of eukaryotic proteins. In recent years, NAA10 variants have been found in patients with an X-linked dev...

    Authors: Nina McTiernan, Svein Isungset Støve, Ingvild Aukrust, Marita Torrisen Mårli, Line M. Myklebust, Gunnar Houge and Thomas Arnesen
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:47
  41. The apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 3 (APOBEC3) genes A3D, A3F, A3G and A3H have all been implicated in the restriction of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replicati...

    Authors: Nontokozo D. Matume, Denis M. Tebit, Laurie R. Gray, Stephen D. Turner, David Rekosh, Pascal O. Bessong and Marie-Louise Hammarskjöld
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:21
  42. Hyperuricemia and associated cardio-metabolic disorders are more prevalent in African Americans than in European Americans. We used genome-wide admixture mapping and association testing to identify loci with a...

    Authors: Daniel Shriner, Chutima Kumkhaek, Ayo P. Doumatey, Guanjie Chen, Amy R. Bentley, Bashira A. Charles, Jie Zhou, Adebowale Adeyemo, Griffin P. Rodgers and Charles N. Rotimi
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2015 16:103
  43. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of factors associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and coronary artery disease (CAD). It is a complex disorder resulting from the interact...

    Authors: Monique Tremblay, Diane Brisson and Daniel Gaudet
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:130
  44. (TA) n repeat sequence (rs8175347) of UGT1A1 gene promoter polymorphism is associated with serum bilirubin levels and gallstones among different sickle cell anaemia (SCA) populations. There are no data on UGT1A1 ...

    Authors: Oladele Simeon Olatunya, Dulcineia Martins Albuquerque, Ganiyu Olusola Akanbi, Olufunso Simisola Aduayi, Adekunle Bamidele Taiwo, Opeyemi Ayodeji Faboya, Tolorunju Segun Kayode, Daniela Pinheiro Leonardo, Adekunle Adekile and Fernando Ferreira Costa
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:160
  45. Inherited disorders of haemoglobin are the world’s most common genetic diseases, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality. The large number of mutations associated with the haemoglobin beta gene (HBB) mak...

    Authors: Andrew Turner, Jurgen Sasse and Aniko Varadi
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2016 17:75
  46. Obesity is a well-recognized risk factor for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes (T2D), although the precise mechanisms underlying the relationship remain unknown. In this study we identified alterations of...

    Authors: Francisco Barajas-Olmos, Federico Centeno-Cruz, Carlos Zerrweck, Iván Imaz-Rosshandler, Angélica Martínez-Hernández, Emilio J. Cordova, Claudia Rangel-Escareño, Faustino Gálvez, Armando Castillo, Hernán Maydón, Francisco Campos, Diana Gabriela Maldonado-Pintado and Lorena Orozco
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2018 19:28
  47. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder in reproductive-age women. Multiple susceptible gene as well as environmental factors and their interaction each other are contributed to the PCO...

    Authors: Xiao-Yuan Shi, Ai-Ping Huang, Duo-Wen Xie and Xiao-Long Yu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:32
  48. Recent advances in molecular genetics have enabled to determine the genetic causes of non-syndromic hearing loss, and more than 100 genes have been related to the phenotype. Due to this extraordinary genetic h...

    Authors: Maria Carolina CCosta CMelo Svidnicki, Sueli Matilde Silva-Costa, Priscila Zonzini Ramos, Nathalia Zocal Pereira dos Santos, Fábio Tadeu Arrojo Martins, Arthur Menino Castilho and Edi Lúcia Sartorato
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2015 16:85