The Experience of a Tertiary Reference Hospital in the Study of Rare Neurological Diseases
Background and Objectives: Rare diseases (RDs) are life-threatening or chronically impairing conditions that affect about 6% of the world’s population. RDs are often called ‘orphan’ diseases, since people suffering from them attract little support from ...
Styliani-Aggeliki Sintila +16 more
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Comprehensive Clinical Genetics, Molecular and Pathological Evaluation Efficiently Assist Diagnostics and Therapy Selection in Breast Cancer Patients with Hereditary Genetic Background. [PDF]
Nagy P +7 more
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Penalized EM algorithm and copula skeptic graphical models for inferring networks for mixed variables [PDF]
In this article, we consider the problem of reconstructing networks for continuous, binary, count and discrete ordinal variables by estimating sparse precision matrix in Gaussian copula graphical models.
Abegaz, Fentaw, Wit, Ernst
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Case Report: Two New Cases of Chromosome 12q14 Deletions and Review of the Literature
Interstitial deletions on the long arm of chromosome 12 (12q deletions) are rare, and are associated with intellectual disability, developmental delay, failure to thrive and congenital anomalies.
Ruizhi Deng +3 more
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Bringing genetics into primary care: findings from a national evaluation of pilots in England [PDF]
Objectives: Developments in genetic knowledge and clinical applications are seen as rendering traditional modes of organizing genetics provision increasingly inappropriate.
Checkland K +8 more
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Towards precision medicine for hypertension: a review of genomic, epigenomic, and microbiomic effects on blood pressure in experimental rat models and humans [PDF]
Compelling evidence for the inherited nature of essential hypertension has led to extensive research in rats and humans. Rats have served as the primary model for research on the genetics of hypertension resulting in identification of genomic regions ...
Allbutt TC +34 more
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Increasing confidence and changing behaviors in primary care providers engaged in genetic counselling. [PDF]
BackgroundScreening and counseling for genetic conditions is an increasingly important part of primary care practice, particularly given the paucity of genetic counselors in the United States.
A Cull +42 more
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The Role of Deep Phenotyping of Precision Medicine for Rare Bone Diseases
Deep phenotyping is a precise and comprehensive approach used for the precise analysis and comprehensive assessment of multi-system phenotypes of the patients.
LI Guozhuang +5 more
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A prospective cohort study assessing clinical referral management & workforce allocation within a UK regional medical genetics service [PDF]
Ensuring patient access to genomic information in the face of increasing demand requires clinicians to develop innovative ways of working. This paper presents the first empirical prospective observational cohort study of UK multi-disciplinary genetic ...
A Norris +38 more
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Objective: Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) was associated with serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) in untreated Chinese. We investigated in the same cohort whether cfPWV, brachial-ankle (baPWV) and heart-brachial (hbPWV) pulse wave velocity (PWV)
Yi-Bang Cheng +8 more
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