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Genes, Volume 11, Issue 12

December 2020 - 140 articles

Cover Story: Multiple myeloma is a genetically heterogeneous disease, arising and progressing through the appearance and accumulation of a tangle of genomic aberrations. In the last decade, cheap and widely applicable sequencing technologies have allowed significant advantages in its biological knowledge. However, a divide between the enormous bulk of available preclinical data and the scalability of these data in the clinical setting still exists.
This review aims to focus on genomic events that drive plasma cell disorders, including their clinical significance according to evidence available from phase 3 randomized trials. View this paper
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Articles (140)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,989 Views
13 Pages

Latitudinal Cline in Chromosome Numbers of Ice Cod A. glacialis (Gadidae) from Northeast Greenland

  • Laura Ghigliotti,
  • Jørgen S. Christiansen,
  • Erica Carlig,
  • Davide Di Blasi and
  • Eva Pisano

18 December 2020

The ice cod Arctogadus glacialis (Peters, 1872) is one of the few fish species endemic to the Arctic. With a circumpolar distribution, the species is confined to the fjords and shelves of the Arctic seas. Biological information on A. glacialis is sca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,347 Views
15 Pages

Carriage and Gene Content Variability of the pESI-Like Plasmid Associated with Salmonella Infantis Recently Established in United States Poultry Production

  • Elizabeth A. McMillan,
  • Jamie L. Wasilenko,
  • Kaitlin A. Tagg,
  • Jessica C. Chen,
  • Mustafa Simmons,
  • Sushim K. Gupta,
  • Glenn E. Tillman,
  • Jason Folster,
  • Charlene R. Jackson and
  • Jonathan G. Frye

18 December 2020

Salmonella Infantis carrying extended spectrum β-lactamase blaCTX-M-65 on a pESI-like megaplasmid has recently emerged in United States poultry. In order to determine the carriage rate and gene content variability of this plasmid in U.S. Salmone...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,853 Views
10 Pages

Bi-Allelic Pathogenic Variations in MERTK Including Deletions Are Associated with an Early Onset Progressive Form of Retinitis Pigmentosa

  • Cathrine Jespersgaard,
  • Mette Bertelsen,
  • Farah Arif,
  • Helene Gry Gellert-Kristensen,
  • Mingyan Fang,
  • Hanne Jensen,
  • Thomas Rosenberg,
  • Zeynep Tümer,
  • Lisbeth Birk Møller and
  • Karen Brøndum-Nielsen
  • + 1 author

18 December 2020

Bi-allelic pathogenic variants in MERTK cause retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Since deletions of more than one exon have been reported repeatedly for MERTK, CNV (copy number variation) analysis of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data has proven important...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,891 Views
8 Pages

The First Case of Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome Caused by a Large Homozygous Deletion in the C-Terminal Region of COLQ (Collagen Like Tail Subunit of Asymmetric Acetylcholinesterase) Protein

  • Nicola Laforgia,
  • Lucrezia De Cosmo,
  • Orazio Palumbo,
  • Carlotta Ranieri,
  • Michela Sesta,
  • Donatella Capodiferro,
  • Antonino Pantaleo,
  • Pierluigi Iapicca,
  • Patrizia Lastella and
  • Manuela Capozza
  • + 4 authors

18 December 2020

Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMSs) are caused by mutations in genes that encode proteins involved in the organization, maintenance, function, or modification of the neuromuscular junction. Among these, the collagenic tail of endplate acetylcholin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,696 Views
21 Pages

You Had Me at “MAGIC”!: Four Barley MAGIC Populations Reveal Novel Resistance QTL for Powdery Mildew

  • Fluturë Novakazi,
  • Lene Krusell,
  • Jens Due Jensen,
  • Jihad Orabi,
  • Ahmed Jahoor,
  • Therése Bengtsson and
  • on behalf of the PPP Barley Consortium

18 December 2020

Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei (Bgh), the causal agent of barley powdery mildew (PM), is one of the most important barley leaf diseases and is prevalent in most barley growing regions. Infection decreases grain quality and yields on average by 30%....

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,405 Views
16 Pages

Genetic Variants behind Cardiovascular Diseases and Dementia

  • Wei-Min Ho,
  • Yah-Yuan Wu and
  • Yi-Chun Chen

18 December 2020

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and dementia are the leading causes of disability and mortality. Genetic connections between cardiovascular risk factors and dementia have not been elucidated. We conducted a scoping review and pathway analysis to revea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,559 Views
11 Pages

Distribution of the Warmblood Fragile Foal Syndrome Type 1 Mutation (PLOD1 c.2032G>A) in Different Horse Breeds from Europe and the United States

  • Simone Reiter,
  • Barbara Wallner,
  • Gottfried Brem,
  • Elisabeth Haring,
  • Ludwig Hoelzle,
  • Monika Stefaniuk-Szmukier,
  • Bogusława Długosz,
  • Katarzyna Piórkowska,
  • Katarzyna Ropka-Molik and
  • Julia Malvick
  • + 2 authors

18 December 2020

Warmblood fragile foal syndrome (WFFS) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by a single nucleotide variant in the procollagen-lysine-2-oxoglutarate-5-dioxygenase 1 gene (PLOD1:c.2032G>A, p.Gly678Arg). Homozygosity for the PLOD1 variant causes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,300 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2020

For medical genetic counseling, estimating the chance of a child being born with chromosome abnormality is crucially important. Cytogenetic diagnostics of parents with a balanced karyotype are a special case. Such chromosome rearrangements cannot be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,138 Views
15 Pages

Exon-Trapping Assay Improves Clinical Interpretation of COL11A1 and COL11A2 Intronic Variants in Stickler Syndrome Type 2 and Otospondylomegaepiphyseal Dysplasia

  • Lucia Micale,
  • Silvia Morlino,
  • Annalisa Schirizzi,
  • Emanuele Agolini,
  • Grazia Nardella,
  • Carmela Fusco,
  • Stefano Castellana,
  • Vito Guarnieri,
  • Roberta Villa and
  • Maria Francesca Bedeschi
  • + 3 authors

17 December 2020

Stickler syndrome (SS) is a hereditary connective tissue disorder affecting bones, eyes, and hearing. Type 2 SS and the SS variant otospondylomegaepiphyseal dysplasia (OSMED) are caused by deleterious variants in COL11A1 and COL11A2, respectively. In...

  • Review
  • Open Access
89 Citations
10,435 Views
24 Pages

16 December 2020

Personalized medicine strives to optimize drug treatment for the individual patient by taking into account both genetic and non-genetic factors for drug response. Inflammation is one of the non-genetic factors that has been shown to greatly affect th...

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