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Genetic epidemiology and genetic associations

This section considers studies of the statistical associations between genetic factors and disease states in families and populations, and the contribution of genetic factors to disease risk.

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  1. Prior studies suggest a role for a variant (rs5743836) in the promoter of toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) in asthma and other inflammatory diseases. We performed detailed genetic association studies of the functio...

    Authors: Nancy E Lange, Xiaobo Zhou, Jessica Lasky-Su, Blanca E Himes, Ross Lazarus, Manuel Soto-Quirós, Lydiana Avila, Juan C Celedón, Catherine M Hawrylowicz, Benjamin A Raby and Augusto A Litonjua
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:26
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  2. Asthma and allergy represent complex phenotypes, which disproportionately burden ethnic minorities in the United States. Strong evidence for genomic factors predisposing subjects to asthma/allergy is available...

    Authors: Bonnie R Joubert, David M Reif, Stephen W Edwards, Kevin A Leiner, Edward E Hudgens, Peter Egeghy, Jane E Gallagher and Elaine Cohen Hubal
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:25
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  3. Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ten chromosomal loci have been shown to predispose to colorectal cancer (CRC) in genome-wide association studies. A plausible biological mechanism of CRC suscep...

    Authors: Iina Niittymäki, Sari Tuupanen, Yilong Li, Heikki Järvinen, Jukka-Pekka Mecklin, Ian PM Tomlinson, Richard S Houlston, Auli Karhu and Lauri A Aaltonen
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:23
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  4. Chronic hyperglycemia confers increased risk for long-term diabetes-associated complications and repeated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) measures are a widely used marker for glycemic control in diabetes treatment and...

    Authors: Jens K Hertel, Stefan Johansson, Helge Ræder, Carl GP Platou, Kristian Midthjell, Kristian Hveem, Anders Molven and Pål R Njølstad
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:20
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  5. Polymorphisms in intron 15 of potassium voltage-gated channel, KQT-like subfamily member 1 (KCNQ1) gene have been associated with type II diabetes (T2D) in Japanese genome-wide association studies (GWAS). More re...

    Authors: Latonya F Been, Sarju Ralhan, Gurpreet S Wander, Narinder K Mehra, JaiRup Singh, John J Mulvihill, Christopher E Aston and Dharambir K Sanghera
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:18
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  6. Intellectual disability (ID) is frequently associated with sleep disorders. Treatment with melatonin demonstrated efficacy, suggesting that, at least in a subgroup of patients, the endogenous melatonin level m...

    Authors: Cecile Pagan, Hany Goubran Botros, Karine Poirier, Anne Dumaine, Stéphane Jamain, Sarah Moreno, Arjan de Brouwer, Hilde Van Esch, Richard Delorme, Jean-Marie Launay, Andreas Tzschach, Vera Kalscheuer, Didier Lacombe, Sylvain Briault, Frédéric Laumonnier, Martine Raynaud…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:17
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  7. Lynch syndrome (LS) is an autosomal dominant inherited cancer syndrome characterized by early onset cancers of the colorectum, endometrium and other tumours. A significant proportion of DNA variants in LS pati...

    Authors: Adela Castillejo, Carla Guarinos, Ana Martinez-Canto, Victor-Manuel Barbera, Cecilia Egoavil, Maria-Isabel Castillejo, Lucia Perez-Carbonell, Ana-Beatriz Sanchez-Heras, Angel Segura, Enrique Ochoa, Rafael Lazaro, Clara Ruiz-Ponte, Luis Bujanda, Montserrat Andreu, Antoni Castells, Angel Carracedo…
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:12
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  9. The thrifty gene hypothesis posits that, in populations that experienced periods of feast and famine, natural selection favoured individuals carrying thrifty alleles that promote the storage of fat and energy....

    Authors: Sean Myles, Rod A Lea, Jun Ohashi, Geoff K Chambers, Joerg G Weiss, Emilie Hardouin, Johannes Engelken, Donia P Macartney-Coxson, David A Eccles, Izumi Naka, Ryosuke Kimura, Tsukasa Inaoka, Yasuhiro Matsumura and Mark Stoneking
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:10
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  10. The BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation spectrum and mutation detection rates according to different family histories were investigated in 521 subjects from 322 unrelated Slovenian cancer families with breast and/or ovarian...

    Authors: Vida Stegel, Mateja Krajc, Janez Žgajnar, Erik Teugels, Jacques De Grève, Marko Hočevar and Srdjan Novaković
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:9
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  11. Qualitative and quantitative changes in human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have been implicated in various cancer types. A 4,977 bp deletion in the major arch of the mitochondrial genome is one of the most common...

    Authors: Tao Chen, Jing He, Lijun Shen, Hezhi Fang, Hezhongrong Nie, Tao Jin, Xiaosong Wei, Yijuan Xin, Yulin Jiang, Hongzhi Li, Guorong Chen, Jianxin Lu and Yidong Bai
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:8
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  12. Low serum paraoxonase (PON) activity is associated with the risk of coronary artery disease, diabetes and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Our prior studies have shown that the PON1/rs662 (p.Gln192Arg), PON1/r...

    Authors: Sudeshna Dasgupta, F Yesim Demirci, Amy S Dressen, Amy H Kao, Elisa Y Rhew, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Susan Manzi, Candace M Kammerer and M Ilyas Kamboh
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:7
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  13. Genome-wide linkage studies in multiple ethnic populations found chromosome 1q21-q25 was the strongest and most replicable linkage signal in the human chromosome. Studies in Pima Indian, Caucasians and African...

    Authors: Cheng Hu, Rong Zhang, Congrong Wang, Xiaojing Ma, Jie Wang, Yuqian Bao, Kunsan Xiang and Weiping Jia
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:3
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  14. In a recent report of large-scale association analysis, a type 2 diabetes susceptibility locus near HNF1A was identified in predominantly European descent populations. A population-specific G319S polymorphism in

    Authors: Sylvia H Ley, Robert A Hegele, Stewart B Harris, Mary Mamakeesick, Henian Cao, Philip W Connelly, Joel Gittelsohn, Ravi Retnakaran, Bernard Zinman and Anthony J Hanley
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2011 12:1
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  15. In a genome-wide association scan, the single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs738409 in the patatin-like phospholipase 3 gene (PNPLA3) was strongly associated with increased liver fat content. We investigated whe...

    Authors: Kikuko Hotta, Masato Yoneda, Hideyuki Hyogo, Hidenori Ochi, Seiho Mizusawa, Takato Ueno, Kazuaki Chayama, Atsushi Nakajima, Kazuwa Nakao and Akihiro Sekine
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2010 11:172
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  16. SLC19A3 (solute carrier family 19, member 3) is a thiamin transporter with 12 transmembrane domains. Homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in SLC19A3 cause two distinct clinical phenotypes, biotin-respons...

    Authors: Kenichiro Yamada, Kiyokuni Miura, Kenju Hara, Motomasa Suzuki, Keiko Nakanishi, Toshiyuki Kumagai, Naoko Ishihara, Yasukazu Yamada, Ryozo Kuwano, Shoji Tsuji and Nobuaki Wakamatsu
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2010 11:171
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  17. Toll like receptors (TLRs) signaling pathways, including the adaptor protein Mal encoded by the TIRAP gene, play a central role in the development of acute lung injury (ALI). Recently, the TIRAP variants have bee...

    Authors: Zhenju Song, Chaoyang Tong, Zhan Sun, Yao Shen, Chenling Yao, Jinjun Jiang, Jun Yin, Lei Gao, Yuanlin Song and Chunxue Bai
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2010 11:168
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  18. Obesity has a strong genetic influence, with some variants showing stronger associations among women than men. Women are also more likely to distribute weight in the abdomen following menopause. We investigate...

    Authors: Linda E Kelemen, Elizabeth J Atkinson, Mariza de Andrade, V Shane Pankratz, Julie M Cunningham, Alice Wang, Christopher A Hilker, Fergus J Couch, Thomas A Sellers and Celine M Vachon
    Citation: BMC Medical Genetics 2010 11:156
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