Published in Current Oncology Reports
Purpose of ReviewMolecular subtyping in medulloblastoma (MB) has diagnostic and prognostic values which impact therapy. This paper provides guidance for the clinician caring for pediatric and adult patients with medulloblastoma in the modern era.Recent FindingsMedulloblastoma comprises four molecularly distinct subgroups: wingless activated (WNT), ...
Published in Genome Biology
Single-cell sequencing assay for transposase-accessible chromatin (scATAC-seq) is the state-of-the-art technology for analyzing genome-wide regulatory landscapes in single cells. Single-cell ATAC-seq data are sparse and noisy, and analyzing such data is challenging. Existing computational methods cannot accurately reconstruct activities of individu...
Published in BMC Bioinformatics
BackgroundExome and genome sequencing is becoming the method of choice for rare disease diagnostics. One of the key challenges remaining is distinguishing the disease causing variants from the benign background variation. After analysis and annotation of the sequencing data there are typically thousands of candidate variants requiring further inves...
INTRODUCTION:The Pierre-Robin sequence (PRS) is a pattern of congenital facial abnormalities comprising micrognathia, glossoptosis, and airway obstruction. Associated spinal pathologies have rarely been reported with PRS. METHODS:We explore the molecular genetic basis of this association through a systematic review of spinal disease in patients wit...
Published in BMC Microbiology
BackgroundWolbachia are the most widely spread endosymbiotic bacteria, present in a wide variety of insects and two families of nematodes. As of now, however, relatively little genomic data has been available. The Wolbachia symbiont can be parasitic, as described for many arthropod systems, an obligate mutualist, as in filarial nematodes or a combi...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundGenomic risk information, based on common genomic susceptibility variants associated with risk of complex diseases such as cancer, may be incorporated into personalised prevention and screening strategies. We aimed to engage with members of the public, who are important stakeholders in this process, to further inform program development a...
Published in Future Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences
BackgroundThere has been a significant increase in the cost and timeline of delivering new drugs for clinical use over the last three decades. Despite the increased investments in research infrastructure by pharmaceutical companies and technological advances in the scientific tools available, efforts to increase the number of molecules coming throu...
Published in BMC Biology
BackgroundPlants have evolved a panoply of specialized metabolites that increase their environmental fitness. Two examples are caffeine, a purine psychotropic alkaloid, and crocins, a group of glycosylated apocarotenoid pigments. Both classes of compounds are found in a handful of distantly related plant genera (Coffea, Camellia, Paullinia, and Ile...
Published in Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG
Monogenic diabetes is a rare type of diabetes resulting from mutations in a single gene. To date, most cases remain genetically unexplained, posing a challenge for accurate diabetes treatment, which leads to on a molecular diagnosis. Therefore, a trio exome scan was performed in a lean, nonsyndromic Caucasian girl with diabetes onset at 2½ years wh...
By offering an unprecedented picture of the human genome, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been expected to fully explain the genetic background of complex diseases. So far, the results have been mitigated to say the least. This, among other things, can be partially attributed to the adopted statistical methodology, which does not often ...
