Online genetic databases informing human genome epidemiology [PDF]
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2007 Background With the advent of high throughput genotyping technology and the information available via projects such as the human genome sequencing and the HapMap project, more and more data relevant to the study of genetics and disease risk will be ...
Higgins Julian PT, Frodsham Angela J
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A scoping review of human genetic resources management policies and databases in high- and middle-low-income countries [PDF]
BMC Medical EthicsBackground This review examines global human genetic resources management, focusing on genetic data policies and repositories in high- and middle-low-income countries.
Hongwei Liu +11 more
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Spatio-temporal Functional Regression on Paleo-ecological Data [PDF]
arXiv, 2008 The influence of climate on biodiversity is an important ecological question. Various theories try to link climate change to allelic richness and therefore to predict the impact of global warming on genetic diversity. We model the relationship between genetic diversity in the European beech forests and curves of temperature and precipitation ...
Bar-Hen, Avner +3 more
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Use of Clinical Public Databases in Hidradenitis Suppurativa Research
Interactive Journal of Medical ResearchIn this viewpoint, we argue that recent studies using clinical public databases have revolutionized our understanding of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a chronic inflammatory skin condition with significant impacts on patients’ quality of life.
Xu Liu, Linghong Guo, Xian Jiang
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Genetic databases and donor anonymity [PDF]
Human Reproduction, 2019 Harper, J, Kennett, D, Reisel, D
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Analysis of informed consent forms of patients undergoing cancer genetic testing in the era of next-generation sequencing [PDF]
Hereditary Cancer in Clinical PracticeBackground The Department of Clinical Cancer Genetics at the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana offers genetic counselling and testing to cancer patients and their relatives. Before undergoing genetic testing, patients sign the informed consent form.
Tina Kerševan +3 more
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DisVar: an R library for identifying variants associated with diseases using large-scale personal genetic information [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Genetic variants may potentially play a contributing factor in the development of diseases. Several genetic disease databases are used in medical research and diagnosis but the web applications used to search these databases for disease ...
Khunanon Chanasongkhram +2 more
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Prevalence estimation of ATTRv in China based on genetic databases
Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 Introduction: Amyloid transthyretin (ATTR) is divided into either hereditary (ATTRv) or sporadic (ATTRwt) and ATTRv is a rare hereditary disease transmitted as an autosomal dominant manner.
Zheng Yongsheng +7 more
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Indian genetic disease database [PDF]
Nucleic Acids Research, 2010 Indians, representing about one-sixth of the world population, consist of several thousands of endogamous groups with strong potential for excess of recessive diseases. However, no database is available on Indian population with comprehensive information on the diseases common in the country.
Sumit K. Bag +6 more
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Diagnostics of hereditary cancer syndromes by ngs. A database creation experience [PDF]
Клиническая практика, 2021 Background: More than 500 thousand new cases of malignant neoplasms are registered annually in the Russian Federation, of which more than 50 thousand new cases are due to hereditary forms.
Ivan S. Abramov +8 more
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