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Effects of Sex Steroids on Innate and Adaptive Immunity
Estrogens and androgens are classically recognized as reproductive sex steroid hormones because of their well-documented effects on reproductive...
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Characterization of a missense variant in COG5 in a Tunisian patient with COG5-CDG syndrome and insights into the effect of non-synonymous variants on COG5 protein
The clinical diagnosis of patients with multisystem involvement including a pronounced neurologic damage is challenging. High-throughput sequencing...
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Potential of animal-welfare compliant and sustainably sourced serum from pig slaughter blood
The animal product most used as a stimulatory additive for cell cultivation is still fetal bovine serum (FBS). Besides the ethical concerns regarding...
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Genetic constraint at single amino acid resolution in protein domains improves missense variant prioritisation and gene discovery
BackgroundOne of the major hurdles in clinical genetics is interpreting the clinical consequences associated with germline missense variants in...
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Clinical Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing for Diagnosis of Central Nervous System Infections: Advances and Challenges
Central nervous system (CNS) infections carry a substantial burden of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and accurate and timely diagnosis is...
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A possible role of lncRNA MEG3 and lncRNA MAFG-AS1 on miRNA 147-b in the pathogenesis of Behcet’s disease
Behcet’s disease (BD) is a multisystem disease with altered Toll-like receptors (TLRs) on macrophages. Long noncoding RNA Maternally expressed gene 3...
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Expanding the phenotypic spectrum of CC2D2A-related ciliopathies: a rare homozygous nonsense variant in a patient with suspected nephronophthisis
Biallelic pathogenic variants in the gene CC2D2A cause a spectrum of ciliopathies, including Joubert and Meckel syndrome, which frequently involve...
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The obesity-related mutation gene on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing, leading to metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) characterized by excessive...
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Pharmacogenetics in Italy: current landscape and future prospects
Pharmacogenetics investigates sequence of genes that affect drug response, enabling personalized medication. This approach reduces drug-induced...
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Genomic variants associated with age at diagnosis of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes
Age at diagnosis (AAD) of Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is determined by the age at onset of the autoimmune attack and by the rate of beta cell destruction...
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Antiferromagnetic artificial neuron modeling of the withdrawal reflex
Replicating neural responses observed in biological systems using artificial neural networks holds significant promise in the fields of medicine and...
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Creation and validation of the first infinium DNA methylation array for the human imprintome
BackgroundDifferentially methylated imprint control regions (ICRs) regulate the monoallelic expression of imprinted genes. Their epigenetic...
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Short Tandem Repeats in the era of next-generation sequencing: from historical loci to population databases
In this study, we explore the landscape of short tandem repeats (STRs) within the human genome through the lens of evolving technologies to detect...
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Exome sequencing in undiagnosed congenital myopathy reveals new genes and refines genes–phenotypes correlations
BackgroundCongenital myopathies are severe genetic diseases with a strong impact on patient autonomy and often on survival. A large number of...
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Map** the influence of hydrocarbons mixture on molecular mechanisms, involved in breast and lung neoplasms: in silico toxicogenomic data-mining
BackgroundExposure to chemical mixtures inherent in air pollution, has been shown to be associated with the risk of breast and lung cancers. However,...
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A complete chromosome substitution map** panel reveals genome-wide epistasis in Arabidopsis
Chromosome substitution lines (CSLs) are tentatively supreme resources to investigate non-allelic genetic interactions. However, the difficulty of...
