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  1. von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is a familial neoplasia syndrome that results from the germline mutation of VHL. Pathogenic VHL mutations include deletion, frameshift, nonsense and missense mutations. Synonymous ...

    Authors: Fang Liu, Barbara Calhoun, Md. Suhail Alam, Miaomiao Sun, Xuechun Wang, Chao Zhang, Kasturi Haldar and Xin Lu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:42
  2. ABO gene polymorphisms have been reported to be associated with the risk of multiple cancers and cardiocerebrovascular diseases. However, the results remained controversial. In this study, we conducted a syste...

    Authors: Yanxia Li, Luyang Liu, Yubei Huang, Hong Zheng and Lian Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:41
  3. Sarcopenia is a skeletal muscle disease of clinical importance that occurs commonly in old age and in various disease sub-categories. Widening the scope of knowledge of the genetics of muscle mass and strength...

    Authors: Abhishek Narain Singh and Bili Gasman
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:40
  4. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors have flagged that the article has published with an error in the order of the affiliations.

    Authors: S. Razak, N. Bibi, J. A. Dar, T. Afsar, A. Almajwal, Z. Parveen and S. Jahan
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:39

    The original article was published in BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:171

  5. Prune belly syndrome (PBS) is a rare, multi-system congenital myopathy primarily affecting males that is poorly described genetically. Phenotypically, its morbidity spans from mild to lethal, however, all isol...

    Authors: Nida S. Iqbal, Thomas A. Jascur, Steven M. Harrison, Angelena B. Edwards, Luke T. Smith, Erin S. Choi, Michelle K. Arevalo, Catherine Chen, Shaohua Zhang, Adam J. Kern, Angela E. Scheuerle, Emma J. Sanchez, Chao Xing and Linda A. Baker
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:38
  6. The Mucopolysaccharidosis type VI (MPS VI), also known as Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome (OMIM 253200) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal disorder, caused by the deficiency of the enzyme N-acetylgalactosamine 4-sulf...

    Authors: Rachel Sayuri Honjo, Evelyn Cristina Nuñez Vaca, Gabriela Nunes Leal, Deipara Monteiro Abellan, Nana Miura Ikari, Marcelo Biscegli Jatene, Ana Maria Martins and Chong Ae Kim
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:37
  7. Rs4977574 (A > G) and Rs1333045 (C > T) are both single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) related with coronary artery disease, locating on chromosome 9p21.3. The study aimed to identify the correlation between ...

    Authors: Lei Hua, Jin-Xia Yuan, Shu He, Chen-Hui Zhao, Qiao-Wei Jia, Jing Zhang, Feng-Hui An, Zhao-Hong Chen, Li-Hua Li, Lian-Sheng Wang, Wen-Zhu Ma, Guang-Xu Xu and En-Zhi Jia
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:36
  8. We report a large family with four successive generations, presenting with a complex phenotype of severe congenital neutropenia (SCN), partially penetrant monocytosis, and hearing loss of varying severity.

    Authors: Parvathy Venugopal, Lucia Gagliardi, Cecily Forsyth, Jinghua Feng, Kerry Phillips, Milena Babic, Nicola K. Poplawski, Hugh Young Rienhoff Jr, Andreas W. Schreiber, Christopher N. Hahn, Anna L. Brown and Hamish S. Scott
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:35
  9. Epigenetics could facilitate greater understanding of disparities in the emergence of childhood obesity. While blood is a common tissue used in human epigenetic studies, saliva is a promising tissue. Our prior...

    Authors: Amanda Rushing, Evan C. Sommer, Shilin Zhao, Eli K. Po’e and Shari L. Barkin
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:34
  10. Tudor domain-containing proteins (TDRDs) play a critical role in piRNA biogenesis and germ cell development. piRNAs, small regulatory RNAs, act by silencing of transposons during germline development and it ha...

    Authors: Emad Babakhanzadeh, Ali Khodadadian, Saadi Rostami, Iraj Alipourfard, Mohsen Aghaei, Majid Nazari, Mehdi Hosseinnia, Mohammad Yahya Vahidi Mehrjardi, Yalda Jamshidi and Nasrin Ghasemi
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:33
  11. The involvement of cytokines in pathogenesis of pseudoexfoliation syndrome and glaucoma has been demonstrated in several studies. The aim of the present study was to explore the association between three promo...

    Authors: Ghasem Fakhraie, Farshid Parvini, Jalaledin Ghanavi, Shima Saif and Poopak Farnia
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:32
  12. Intellectual disability (ID) constitutes the most common group of neurodevelopmental disorders. Exome sequencing has enabled the discovery of genetic mutations responsible for a wide range of ID disorders.

    Authors: Yanyan Qian, Bingbing Wu, Yulan Lu, Wenhao Zhou, Sujuan Wang and Huijun Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:31
  13. 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
  14. The goal of this study was to review relevant case-control studies to determine the association of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) gene polymorphisms and coronary artery disease (CAD) susceptibility.

    Authors: Rui Huang, Su-Rui Zhao, Ya Li, Fang Liu, Yue Gong, Jun Xing and Ze-Sheng Xu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:29
  15. Stickler syndrome is the most common genetic cause of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) in children, and has a high risk of blindness. Type I (STL1) is the most common subtype, caused by COL2A1 mutations. T...

    Authors: Dan-Dan Wang, Feng-Juan Gao, Fang-Yuan Hu, Sheng-Hai Zhang, Ping Xu and Ji-Hong Wu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:27
  16. While Miller-Dieker syndrome critical region deletions are well known delineated anomalies, submicroscopic duplications in this region have recently emerged as a new distinctive syndrome. So far, only few case...

    Authors: Meriam Hadj Amor, Sarra Dimassi, Amel Taj, Wafa Slimani, Hanene Hannachi, Adnene Mlika, Khaled Ben Helel, Ali Saad and Soumaya Mougou-Zerelli
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:26
  17. The aim of this study was to explore the association between diabetic retinopathy (DR) and the variants of uncoupling proteins (UCPs) genes in a Chinese population of type 2 diabetes, in total and in patients ...

    Authors: Peiyao Jin, Zhiqiang Li, Xian Xu, Jiangnan He, Jianhua Chen, Xun Xu, Xuan Du, Xuelin Bai, Bo Zhang, Xiangui He, Lina Lu, Jianfeng Zhu, Yongyong Shi and Haidong Zou
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:25
  18. The prevalence of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is increasing in sub-Saharan Africa, but little is known about the genetics of PD in these populations. Due to their unique ancestry and diversity, sub-Saharan Africa...

    Authors: Oluwafemi G. Oluwole, Helena Kuivaniemi, Shameemah Abrahams, William L. Haylett, Alvera A. Vorster, Carel J. van Heerden, Colin P. Kenyon, David L. Tabb, Michael B. Fawale, Taofiki A. Sunmonu, Abiodun Ajose, Matthew O. Olaogun, Anastasia C. Rossouw, Ludo S. van Hillegondsberg, Jonathan Carr, Owen A. Ross…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:23
  19. Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA), which is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder, is caused by mutations in methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MUT) gene. As a result, the conversion of methylmalonyl-CoA to succinyl-CoA is...

    Authors: Parham Habibzadeh, Zahra Tabatabaei, Mohammad Ali Farazi Fard, Laila Jamali, Aazam Hafizi, Pooneh Nikuei, Leila Salarian, Mohammad Hossein Nasr Esfahani, Zahra Anvar and Mohammad Ali Faghihi
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:22
  20. More than 95% of individuals with RTT have mutations in methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2), whose protein product modulates gene transcription. The disorder is caused by mutations in a single gene and the di...

    Authors: Carla Caffarelli, Stefano Gonnelli, Maria Dea Tomai Pitinca, Silvia Camarri, Antonella Al Refaie, Joussef Hayek and Ranuccio Nuti
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:21
  21. X-linked ichthyosis (XLI; OMIM# 308100) is a recessive keratinization disorder characterized by the presence of dark brown, polygonal, adherent scales on different parts of the body surface. It almost exclusiv...

    Authors: Sibtain Afzal, Khushnooda Ramzan, Sajjad Ullah, Salma M. Wakil, Arshad Jamal, Sulman Basit and Ahmed Bilal Waqar
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:20
  22. Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a condition characterized by dilatation and systolic dysfunction of the left ventricle in the absence of severe coronary artery disease or abnormal loading conditions. Mutations...

    Authors: Krista Heliö, Tiia Kangas-Kontio, Sini Weckström, Sari U. M. Vanninen, Katriina Aalto-Setälä, Tero-Pekka Alastalo, Samuel Myllykangas, Tiina M. Heliö and Juha W. Koskenvuo
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:19
  23. Joubert syndrome is a genetically heterogeneous autosomal recessive ciliopathy characterized by the combination of hypoplasia/aplasia of the cerebellar vermis, thickened and elongated superior cerebellar pedun...

    Authors: Thi Phuong Hoa Bui, Ngoc Tu Nguyen, Van Doan Ngo, Hoai-Nghia Nguyen, Thi Thanh Ha Ly, Huy Duong Do and Minh-Tuan Huynh
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:18
  24. Several reports were published on the relationship between the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) -2578C > A gene polymorphism and lung cancer risk; however, the results are debatable. This meta-analysi...

    Authors: Hui-liu Zhao, Jia-hua Yu, Ling-sha Huang, Pei-zhang Li, Ming Lao, Bo Zhu and Chao Ou
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:17
  25. Autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy (ARB) is a retinal degenerative disorder caused by BEST1 mutations with autosomal recessive inheritance. We aim to map a comprehensive genomic and metabolomic profile of a con...

    Authors: Panpan Ye, Jia Xu, Yueqiu Luo, Zhitao Su and Ke Yao
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:16
  26. Proteus syndrome (PS) is an extremely rare disease characterized by excessive chimeric growth of cells, and progressive and irregular asymmetrical hyperplasia.

    Authors: Xiaoyun Zeng, Xiaoming Wen, Xinxin Liang, Lina Wang and Lingling Xu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:15
  27. The DENND1A gene is one of the most important sites associated with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). We attempted to analyze the correlation between five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the DENND1A gen...

    Authors: Ya-nan Zhu, Yi-ting Zhang, Qin Liu, Shan-mei Shen, Xiang Zou, Yun-xia Cao, Wen-jun Wang, Long Yi, Qian Gao, Wei-dong Yang and Yong Wang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:14
  28. Mutations of the WFS1 gene are responsible for most cases of Wolfram syndrome (WS), a rare, recessively inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by juvenile-onset non-autoimmune diabetes mellitus and op...

    Authors: Maryam Sobhani, Mohammad Amin Tabatabaiefar, Soudeh Ghafouri-Fard, Asadollah Rajab, Asal Hojjat, Abdol-Mohammad Kajbafzadeh and Mohammad Reza Noori-Daloii
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:13

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:58

  29. 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
  30. The role of deleterious copy number variations in schizophrenia is well established while data regarding pathogenic variations remain scarce. We report for the first time a case of schizophrenia in a child wit...

    Authors: Alice Poisson, Nicolas Chatron, Audrey Labalme, Pierre Fourneret, Dorothée Ville, Marie Laure Mathieu, Damien Sanlaville, Caroline Demily and Gaëtan Lesca
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:10
  31. Coagulation factor XIII (FXIII) plays an essential role in maintaining hemostasis by crosslinking fibrin. Deficiency in FXIII affects clot stability and increases the risk of severe bleeding. Congenital FXIII ...

    Authors: Jun Deng, Dan Li, Heng Mei, Liang Tang, Hua-fang Wang and Yu Hu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:9
  32. Psoriasis is a multifactorial disorder, impacted by both genetic and environmental factors. Herein, a meta-analysis assessed the association of angiotensin-converting enzyme gene insertion/deletion (ACE I/D) poly...

    Authors: Mazaher Ramezani, Elisa Zavattaro and Masoud Sadeghi
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:8
  33. Osteocraniostenosis (OCS) is a rare genetic disorder characterised by premature closure of cranial sutures, gracile bones and perinatal lethality. Previously, diagnosis has only been possible postnatally on cl...

    Authors: Lara Pemberton, Robert Barker, Anna Cockell, Vijaya Ramachandran, Andrea Haworth and Tessa Homfray
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:7
  34. Hypertension is one of the risk factors for obesity-related cardiovascular diseases. We investigated whether genetic variations in serotonin 2A receptor (HTR2A) were associated with hypertension.

    Authors: Jung Ran Choi, Minhee Jeon and Sang Baek Koh
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:5
  35. Chediak-Higashi Syndrome (CHS) is a rare autosomal recessive disease caused by loss of function of the lysosomal trafficking regulator protein. The causative gene LYST/CHS1 was cloned and identified in 1996, whic...

    Authors: Yinsen Song, Zhengping Dong, Shuying Luo, Junmei Yang, Yuebing Lu, Bo Gao and Tianli Fan
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:4
  36. Liquid biopsies of blood plasma cell free DNA can be used to monitor treatment response and potentially detect mutations that are present in resistant clones in metastatic cancer patients.

    Authors: Alexander Hendricks, Philip Rosenstiel, Sebastian Hinz, Greta Burmeister, Christoph Röcken, Kathrin Boersch, Clemens Schafmayer, Thomas Becker, Andre Franke and Michael Forster
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:3
  37. Our preliminary bioinformatics analysis showed that lncRNA TINCR may absorb miR-214-5p by serving is sponge, while miR-214-5p targets ROCK1. This study aimed to investigate the interactions among these 3 facto...

    Authors: Min Hu, Yaowu Han, Ying Zhang, Yuanfeng Zhou and Lin Ye
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:2

    The Retraction Note to this article has been published in BMC Medical Genetics 2021 21:1178

  38. Hearing loss (HL) represents the most common congenital sensory impairment with an incidence of 1–5 per 1000 live births. Non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL) is an isolated finding that is not part of any other ...

    Authors: Athar Khalil, Samer Bou Karroum, Rana Barake, Gabriel Dunya, Samer Abou-Rizk, Amina Kamar, Georges Nemer and Marc Bassim
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2020 21:1
  39. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare neuromuscular disorder threating hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. And the severity of SMA differs among different clinical types, which has been demonstrated to...

    Authors: Jianping Jiang, Jinwei Huang, Jianlei Gu, Xiaoshu Cai, Hongyu Zhao and Hui Lu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:204
  40. Synpolydactyly type 1 (SPD1), also known as syndactyly type II, is an autosomal dominant limb deformity generally results in webbing of 3rd and 4th fingers, duplication of 4th or 5th toes. It is most commonly ...

    Authors: Tahir Zaib, Wei Ji, Komal Saleem, Guangchen Nie, Chao Li, Lin Cao, Baijun Xu, Kexian Dong, Hanfei Yu, Xuguang Hao, Yan Xue, Shuhan Si, Xueyuan Jia, Jie Wu, Xuelong Zhang, Rongwei Guan…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:203
  41. The morbidity and mortality of endometrial tumors, a common type of malignant cancer in women, have increased in recent years. POLE encodes the DNA polymerase ε, which is responsible for the leading strand DNA...

    Authors: Yiran Li, Yiding Bian, Kai Wang and Xiao-Ping Wan
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:202
  42. 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
  43. Schmid-type metaphyseal chondrodysplasia (MCDS) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by COL10A1 mutations, which is characterized by short stature, waddling gait, coxa vara and bowing of the long bones. Howev...

    Authors: Lingchi Kong, Li Shi, Wenbo Wang, Rongtai Zuo, Mengwei Wang and Qinglin Kang
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:200
  44. Neurological disorders are a common cause of morbidity and mortality within Pakistani populations. It is one of the most important challenges in healthcare, with significant life-long socio-economic burden.

    Authors: Shazia Khan, Lettie E. Rawlins, Gaurav V. Harlalka, Muhammad Umair, Asmat Ullah, Shaheen Shahzad, Muhammad Javed, Emma L. Baple, Andrew H. Crosby, Wasim Ahmad and Asma Gul
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:199
  45. Perrault syndrome is a genetically heterogenous, very rare disease, characterized clinically by sensorineural hearing loss, ovarian dysfunction and neurological symptoms. We present the case of a 33 years old ...

    Authors: Bálint Fekete, Klára Pentelényi, Gabor Rudas, Anikó Gál, Zoltán Grosz, Anett Illés, Jimoh Idris, Gabor Csukly, Andor Domonkos and Maria Judit Molnar
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:198
  46. We explored the association of leucine-rich repeats and calponin homology domain containing 1 (LRCH1) gene polymorphisms with genetic susceptibility to delayed encephalopathy after acute carbon monoxide poison...

    Authors: Jiapeng Gu, Jiao Zeng, Xi Wang, Xin Gu, Xiaoli Zhang, Ping Zhang, Fan Zhang, Yongkai Han, Yazhou Han, Hongxing Zhang, Wenqiang Li and Renjun Gu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2019 20:197