Edited by Emidio Capriotti, Yana Bromberg and Hannah Carter
Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 2):425
Volume 17 Supplement 2
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Edited by Emidio Capriotti, Yana Bromberg and Hannah Carter
Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 2):425
Next generation sequencing (NGS) provides a key technology for deciphering the genetic underpinnings of human diseases. Typical NGS analyses of a patient depict tens of thousands non-reference coding variants,...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 2):444
The association between aberrant signal processing by protein kinases and human diseases such as cancer was established long time ago. However, understanding the link between sequence variants in the protein k...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 2):396
The regulatory effect of inherited or de novo genetic variants occurring in promoters as well as in transcribed or even coding gene regions is gaining greater recognition as a contributing factor to disease proce...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 2):393
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) represents the most common form of dementia in elder populations with approximately 30 million cases worldwide. Genome wide genotyping and sequencing studies have identified many genet...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 2):445
Modern genomic techniques allow to associate several Mendelian human diseases to single residue variations in different proteins. Molecular mechanisms explaining the relationship among genotype and phenotype a...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 2):397
An important step towards personalizing cancer treatment is to integrate heterogeneous evidences to catalog mutational hotspots that are biologically and therapeutically relevant and thus represent where targe...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 2):394
Somatic mutations in cancer cells affect various genomic elements disrupting important cell functions. In particular, mutations in DNA binding sites recognized by transcription factors can alter regulator bind...
Citation: BMC Genomics 2016 17(Suppl 2):395
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