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Discovery of bioactive microbial gene products in inflammatory bowel disease
Microbial communities and their associated bioactive compounds1–3 are often disrupted in conditions such as the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD)4. However, even in well-characterized environments (for example, t...
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Open AccessIdentifying novel associations in GWAS by hierarchical Bayesian latent variable detection of differentially misclassified phenotypes
Heterogeneity in the definition and measurement of complex diseases in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) may lead to misdiagnoses and misclassification errors that can significantly impact discovery of di...
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Open AccessRole of KRAS in regulating normal human airway basal cell differentiation
KRAS is a GTPase that activates pathways involved in cell growth, differentiation and survival. In normal cells, KRAS-activity is tightly controlled, but with specific mutations, the KRAS protein is persistent...
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Sequencing and beyond: integrating molecular 'omics' for microbial community profiling
Advances in DNA sequencing have enabled culture-independent profiling of microbial community membership and function — the field of metagenomics. These approac...