AIMC Topic: Genetic Association Studies

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Genetic Variation in CD36 Is Associated with Decreased Fat and Sugar Intake in Obese Children and Adolescents.

Journal of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Taste is recognized as an important predictor of food choices. Thus, polymorphisms in genes encoding taste receptors may explain the variability in food preference and intake. Here, we aimed to determine whether genetic variation in ...

Who's Who? Detecting and Resolving Sample Anomalies in Human DNA Sequencing Studies with Peddy.

American journal of human genetics
The potential for genetic discovery in human DNA sequencing studies is greatly diminished if DNA samples from a cohort are mislabeled, swapped, or contaminated or if they include unintended individuals. Unfortunately, the potential for such errors is...

The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2017.

Nucleic acids research
Deep phenotyping has been defined as the precise and comprehensive analysis of phenotypic abnormalities in which the individual components of the phenotype are observed and described. The three components of the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO; www.hum...

Integrating network, sequence and functional features using machine learning approaches towards identification of novel Alzheimer genes.

BMC genomics
BACKGROUND: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex progressive neurodegenerative disorder commonly characterized by short term memory loss. Presently no effective therapeutic treatments exist that can completely cure this disease. The cause of Alzheim...

Using the Generalized Index of Dissimilarity to Detect Gene-Gene Interactions in Multi-Class Phenotypes.

PloS one
To find genetic association between complex diseases and phenotypic traits, one important procedure is conducting a joint analysis. Multifactor dimensionality reduction (MDR) is an efficient method of examining the interactions between genes in genet...

Influence of vascular endothelial growth factor and alpha-fetoprotein on hepatocellular carcinoma.

Genetics and molecular research : GMR
We evaluated the influence of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) -C936T polymorphism on prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), cirrhosis, and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Serum VEGF and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels were deter...

Prioritizing Clinically Relevant Copy Number Variation from Genetic Interactions and Gene Function Data.

PloS one
It is becoming increasingly necessary to develop computerized methods for identifying the few disease-causing variants from hundreds discovered in each individual patient. This problem is especially relevant for Copy Number Variants (CNVs), which can...

Prediction of drug gene associations via ontological profile similarity with application to drug repositioning.

Methods (San Diego, Calif.)
The amount of biomedical literature has been increasing rapidly during the last decade. Text mining techniques can harness this large-scale data, shed light onto complex drug mechanisms, and extract relation information that can support computational...

Learning genotype-phenotype associations from gaps in multi-species sequence alignments.

Briefings in bioinformatics
Understanding the genetic basis of phenotypic variation is fundamental to biology. Here we introduce GAP, a novel machine learning framework for predicting binary phenotypes from gaps in multi-species sequence alignments. GAP employs a neural network...