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The aim of this study was to carry out a case control study comparing the HPV genome in patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OC-SCC) to normal patients using metagenomic shotgun sequencing. We re...
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Open AccessMitochondrial somatic mutations and the lack of viral genomic variation in recurrent respiratory papillomatosis
Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (RRP) is a rare disease of the aerodigestive tract caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) that manifests as profoundly altered phonatory and upper respiratory anatomy. C...
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Open AccessDrinking alcohol is associated with variation in the human oral microbiome in a large study of American adults
Dysbiosis of the oral microbiome can lead to local oral disease and potentially to cancers of the head, neck, and digestive tract. However, little is known regarding exogenous factors contributing to such micr...
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Quantitative Approach in Clinical Microbiology: A Paradigm Shift Toward Culture-Free Methods
Traditional diagnostic methods in clinical bacteriology rely heavily on the culturing of single pathogen colonies. These techniques have three main drawbacks: they depend on the bacteria being able to reproduc...
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Open AccessErratum to: The first microbial environment of infants born by C-section: the operating room microbes
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Open AccessThe first microbial environment of infants born by C-section: the operating room microbes
Newborns delivered by C-section acquire human skin microbes just after birth, but the sources remain unknown. We hypothesized that the operating room (OR) environment contains human skin bacteria that could be...
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Foregut Microbiome, Development of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, Project
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Microbial Dysbiosis and Esophageal Diseases
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Open AccessA comprehensive evaluation of multicategory classification methods for microbiomic data
Recent advances in next-generation DNA sequencing enable rapid high-throughput quantitation of microbial community composition in human samples, opening up a new field of microbiomics. One of the promises of t...
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Microbiome, Foregut
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Human Microbiome and HIV/AIDS
Understanding of the human microbiome continues to grow rapidly; however, reports on changes in the microbiome after HIV infection are still limited. This review surveys the progress made in methodology associ...
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Foregut Microbiome, Development of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, Project
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Distinct function of androgen receptor coactivator ARA70α and ARA70β in mammary gland development, and in breast cancer
Steroid receptor coactivators are important in regulating the function of the receptors in endocrine organ development and in cancers, including breast. Androgen receptor (AR) coactivator ARA70, was first iden...
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Open AccessSimrank: Rapid and sensitive general-purpose k-mer search tool
Terabyte-scale collections of string-encoded data are expected from consortia efforts such as the Human Microbiome Project http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/hmp
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Open AccessThe effect of H. pylori eradication on meal-associated changes in plasma ghrelin and leptin
Appetite and energy expenditure are regulated in part by ghrelin and leptin produced in the gastric mucosa, which may be modified by H. pylori colonization. We prospectively evaluated the effect of H. pylori erad...
