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Pervasive Sharing of Genetic Effects in Autoimmune Disease [PDF]
Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified numerous, replicable, genetic associations between common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and risk of common autoimmune and inflammatory (immune-mediated) diseases, some of which are shared ...
Klareskog, Lars +113 more
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Assessing the knowledge and awareness of the Taif community about genetic diseases
Background: Diseases have a genetic basis, wherein changes in the human deoxyribonucleic acid and variances in its activities, which the environment may influence, contribute to disease processes.
Ghaliah Alnefaie +6 more
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Genetic Variants behind Cardiovascular Diseases and Dementia
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and dementia are the leading causes of disability and mortality. Genetic connections between cardiovascular risk factors and dementia have not been elucidated.
Yah-Yuan Wu, Yi-Chun Chen, Wei-Min Ho
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Background: There is a high rate of consanguinity and related genetic diseases in the general population of Saudi Arabia. Studies have been conducted to address the level of awareness about consanguineous marriages (CM); however, targeted young female ...
Hadil Alahdal +7 more
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Protein Mutations and Stability, a Link with Disease: The Case Study of Frataxin
Protein mutations may lead to pathologies by causing protein misfunction or propensity to degradation. For this reason, several studies have been performed over the years to determine the capability of proteins to retain their native conformation under ...
Rita Puglisi
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A role for genetic modifiers in tubulointerstitial kidney diseases
With the increased availability of genomic sequencing technologies, the molecular bases for kidney diseases such as nephronophthisis and mitochondrially inherited and autosomal-dominant tubulointerstitial kidney diseases (ADTKD) has become increasingly ...
Leggatt, Gary P. +11 more
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Clinical and genetic characteristics of adult cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy
Objective·To summarize and analyze the clinical and genetic characteristics of adult cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy(ACALD ).Methods·The data of eight patients with ACALD who attended the Shanghai Sixth People′s Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ...
LIU Taotao +7 more
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Gene therapy for genetic diseases: challenges and future directions [PDF]
Qie B, Tuo J, Chen F, Ding H, Lyu L.
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Whole-Exome Sequencing (WES) has proven valuable in the characterization of underlying genetic defects in most rare diseases (RDs). Copy Number Variants (CNVs) were initially thought to escape detection.
Joanne Traeger-Synodinos +10 more
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The genetics of Parkinson's disease [PDF]
Parkinson's disease (PD) was previously described as the prototypical sporadic disease; however, rapid advances in population and molecular genetics have revealed the existence of a significant number genetic risk factors, prompting its redefinition as a primarily genetic disorder.Data for this review have been gathered from the published literature ...
Stephen, Mullin, Anthony, Schapira
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