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  1. Content type: Meeting Report

    The exposome is defined as “the totality of environmental exposures encountered from birth to death” and was developed to address the need for comprehensive environmental exposure assessment to better understa...

    Authors: Caroline H. Johnson, Toby J. Athersuch, Gwen W. Collman, Suraj Dhungana, David F. Grant, Dean P. Jones, Chirag J. Patel and Vasilis Vasiliou

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:32

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  2. Content type: Primary Research

    Genomic profiling of malignant tumours has assisted clinicians in providing targeted therapies for many serious cancer-related illnesses. Although the characterisation of somatic mutations is the primary aim o...

    Authors: Yasmin Bylstra, Tamra Lysaght, Jyothi Thrivikraman, Sangeetha Watson and Patrick Tan

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:31

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  3. Content type: Primary Research

    Peptidylglycine-α-amidating monooxygenase (PAM) may play a role in the secretion of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), which is a hormone involved in the maintenance of blood pressure (BP). The objective of the...

    Authors: Hye Jin Yoo, Minjoo Kim, Minkyung Kim, Jey Sook Chae, Sang-Hyun Lee and Jong Ho Lee

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:29

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  4. Content type: Primary Research

    Most mitochondrial and cytoplasmic aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) are encoded by nuclear genes. Syndromic disorders resulting from mutation of aaRSs genes display significant phenotypic heterogeneity. We e...

    Authors: Abdulaziz Alsemari, Banan Al-Younes, Ewa Goljan, Dyala Jaroudi, Faisal BinHumaid, Brian F. Meyer, Stefan T. Arold and Dorota Monies

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:28

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Human Genomics 2017 11:33

  6. Content type: Primary Research

    Lymphedema (LE) is a chronic clinical manifestation of filarial nematode infections characterized by lymphatic dysfunction and subsequent accumulation of protein-rich fluid in the interstitial space—lymphatic ...

    Authors: Linda Batsa Debrah, Anna Albers, Alexander Yaw Debrah, Felix F. Brockschmidt, Tim Becker, Christine Herold, Andrea Hofmann, Jubin Osei-Mensah, Yusif Mubarik, Holger Fröhlich, Achim Hoerauf and Kenneth Pfarr

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:26

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  7. Content type: Primary Research

    Five affected individuals with syndromic tremulous dystonia, spasticity, and white matter disease from a consanguineous extended family covering a period of over 24 years are presented. A positional cloning ap...

    Authors: Dorota Monies, Hussam Abou Al-Shaar, Ewa A. Goljan, Banan Al-Younes, Muna Monther Abdullah Al-Breacan, Maher Mohammed Al-Saif, Salma M. Wakil, Brian F. Meyer, Khalid S. A. Khabar and Saeed Bohlega

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:25

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  8. Content type: Primary Research

    Human erythropoiesis is characterized by distinct gene expression profiles at various developmental stages. Previous studies suggest that fetal-to-adult hemoglobin switch is regulated by a complex mechanism, i...

    Authors: Vasiliki Chondrou, Petros Kolovos, Argyro Sgourou, Alexandra Kourakli, Alexia Pavlidaki, Vlasia Kastrinou, Anne John, Argiris Symeonidis, Bassam R. Ali, Adamantia Papachatzopoulou, Theodora Katsila and George P. Patrinos

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:24

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  9. Content type: Opinion Article

    There are bioethical, institutional, economic, legal, and cultural obstacles to creating the robust-precompetitive-data resource that will be required to advance the vision of “precision medicine,” the ability...

    Authors: Maynard V. Olson

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:23

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  10. Content type: Primary Research

    Observations of recurrent somatic mutations in tumors have led to identification and definition of signaling and other pathways that are important for cancer progression and therapeutic targeting. As tumor cel...

    Authors: Jamie K. Teer, Yonghong Zhang, Lu Chen, Eric A. Welsh, W. Douglas Cress, Steven A. Eschrich and Anders E. Berglund

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:22

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  11. Content type: Primary Research

    Growing evidence suggests that spiritual/religious involvement may have beneficial effects on both psychological and physical functions. However, the biological basis for this relationship remains unclear. Thi...

    Authors: Junji Ohnishi, Satoshi Ayuzawa, Seiji Nakamura, Shigeko Sakamoto, Miyo Hori, Tomoko Sasaoka, Eriko Takimoto-Ohnishi, Masakazu Tanatsugu and Kazuo Murakami

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:21

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  12. Content type: Opinion

    This paper considers the tensions created in genomic research by public and private for-profit ideals. Our intent is to strengthen the public good at a time when doing science is strongly motivated by market p...

    Authors: Benjamin Capps, Ruth Chadwick, Yann Joly, John J. Mulvihill, Tamra Lysaght and Hub Zwart

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:20

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  13. Content type: Primary Research

    Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a rare bone disorder. In 90% of cases, OI is caused by mutations in the COL1A1/2 genes, which code procollagen α1 and α2 chains. The main aim of the current research was to identif...

    Authors: Lidiia Zhytnik, Katre Maasalu, Ene Reimann, Ele Prans, Sulev Kõks and Aare Märtson

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:19

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  14. Content type: Primary Research

    Autosomal recessive forms of retinitis punctata albescens (RPA) have been described. RPA is characterized by progressive retinal degeneration due to alteration in visual cycle and consequent deposit of photopi...

    Authors: Concetta Scimone, Luigi Donato, Teresa Esposito, Carmela Rinaldi, Rosalia D’Angelo and Antonina Sidoti

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:18

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  16. Content type: Primary Research

    The ciliopathies represent an umbrella group of >50 clinical entities that share both clinical features and molecular etiology underscored by structural and functional defects of the primary cilium. Despite th...

    Authors: Benjamin M. Helm, Jason R. Willer, Azita Sadeghpour, Christelle Golzio, Eric Crouch, Samantha Schrier Vergano, Nicholas Katsanis and Erica E. Davis

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:16

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  17. Content type: Primary Research

    Human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) causes adult T cell leukemia (ATL) in a proportion of infected individuals after a long latency period. Development of ATL is a multistep clonal process that can be ...

    Authors: Amir Farmanbar, Sanaz Firouzi, Wojciech Makałowski, Masako Iwanaga, Kaoru Uchimaru, Atae Utsunomiya, Toshiki Watanabe and Kenta Nakai

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:15

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  18. Content type: Primary Research

    Breast cancer is the most common among women worldwide, and ovarian cancer is the most difficult gynecological tumor to diagnose and with the lowest chance of cure. Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes increase the...

    Authors: Ana Lígia Buzolin, Caroline Mônaco Moreira, Patricia Rossi Sacramento, Andre Yuji Oku, Alexandre Ricardo dos Santos Fornari, David Santos Marco Antonio, Caio Robledo D Angioli Costa Quaio, Wagner Rosa Baratela and Miguel Mitne-Neto

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:14

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  19. Content type: Review

    Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) #162200) is an autosomal dominantly inherited tumour predisposition syndrome. Heritable constitutional mutations in the NF1 gene result in...

    Authors: Charlotte Philpott, Hannah Tovell, Ian M. Frayling, David N. Cooper and Meena Upadhyaya

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:13

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  20. Content type: Review

    Neurodegenerative diseases (NGDs) such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are debilitating and largely untreatable conditions strongly linked to age. The clinical, neuropathological, and genetic components of NGDs...

    Authors: Yiru Anning Wang, Jan Edward Kammenga and Simon Crawford Harvey

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:12

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  21. Content type: Primary research

    The identification of disease-causing variants in autosomal dominant diseases using exome-sequencing data remains a difficult task in small pedigrees. We combined several strategies to improve filtering and pr...

    Authors: Teresa Requena, Alvaro Gallego-Martinez and Jose A. Lopez-Escamez

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:11

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  22. Content type: Primary Research

    Genetic variant effect prediction algorithms are used extensively in clinical genomics and research to determine the likely consequences of amino acid substitutions on protein function. It is vital that we bet...

    Authors: Khalid Mahmood, Chol-hee Jung, Gayle Philip, Peter Georgeson, Jessica Chung, Bernard J. Pope and Daniel J. Park

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:10

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  23. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    A reservoir of HIV-1 is a major obstacle in eliminating HIV-1 in patients because it can reactivate in stopping antiretroviral therapy (ART). Histone modifications, such as acetylation and methylation, play a ...

    Authors: Kyung-Chang Kim, Sunyoung Lee, Junseock Son, Younghyun Shin, Cheol-Hee Yoon, Chun Kang and Byeong-Sun Choi

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:9

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  24. Content type: Primary Research

    Epidemiological studies of DNA methylation profiles may uncover the molecular mechanisms through which genetic and environmental factors contribute to the risk of multifactorial diseases. There are two types o...

    Authors: Itsuki Taniguchi, Chihiro Iwaya, Keizo Ohnaka, Hiroki Shibata and Ken Yamamoto

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:8

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  25. Content type: Primary Research

    SPINK1 (serine protease inhibitor, kazal-type, 1), which encodes human pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor, is one of the most extensively studied genes underlying chronic pancreati...

    Authors: Wen-Bin Zou, Hao Wu, Arnaud Boulling, David N. Cooper, Zhao-Shen Li, Zhuan Liao, Jian-Min Chen and Claude Férec

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:7

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  26. Content type: Primary research

    Polycythemia vera (PV), characterized by massive production of erythrocytes, is one of the myeloproliferative neoplasms. Most patients carry a somatic gain-of-function mutation in JAK2, c.1849G > T (p.Val617Phe),...

    Authors: Elina A. M. Hirvonen, Esa Pitkänen, Kari Hemminki, Lauri A. Aaltonen and Outi Kilpivaara

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:6

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  28. Content type: Primary research

    A growing number of severe Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP) cases have been reported recently. However, the pathogenesis of severe MPP is not clear. In the current study, transcriptome sequencing was used to...

    Authors: Kuo Wang, Man Gao, Mingyue Yang, Fanzheng Meng, Deli Li, Ruihua Lu, Yan Wang, Huadong Zhuang, Mengyao Li, Genhong Cheng and Xiaosong Wang

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:4

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  29. Content type: Primary research

    Genetic predisposition to the clinical categories of coronary artery disease (anatomical viz., insignificant, single, double, and triple vessel diseases and phenotypic severity categories viz., angina, acute c...

    Authors: Rayabarapu Pranavchand, Arramraju Sreenivas Kumar and Battini Mohan Reddy

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:3

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  30. Content type: Primary research

    Salivary amylase in humans is encoded by the copy variable gene AMY1 in the amylase gene cluster on chromosome 1. Although the role of salivary amylase is well established, the consequences of the copy number var...

    Authors: Danielle Carpenter, Laura M. Mitchell and John A. L. Armour

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:2

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  31. Content type: Primary research

    Congenital hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism (CHH) and Kallmann syndrome (KS) are caused by disruption to the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (H-P-G) axis. In particular, reduced production, secretion or action of...

    Authors: Katie L. Ayers, Aurore Bouty, Gorjana Robevska, Jocelyn A. van den Bergen, Achmad Zulfa Juniarto, Nurin Aisyiyah Listyasari, Andrew H. Sinclair and Sultana M. H. Faradz

    Citation: Human Genomics 2017 11:1

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  33. Content type: Primary research

    Head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) differs between smokers and nonsmokers in etiology and clinical presentation. Because of demonstrated unequivocal involvement in smoking-induced cancer in laborato...

    Authors: Lucia F. Jorge-Nebert, Ge Zhang, Keith M. Wilson, Zhengwen Jiang, Randall Butler, Jack L. Gluckman, Susan M. Pinney and Daniel W. Nebert

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10:39

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  34. Content type: Primary research

    Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a monogenic, hereditary, small vessel disease of the brain causing stroke and vascular dementia in adults...

    Authors: Neven Maksemous, Robert A. Smith, Larisa M. Haupt and Lyn R. Griffiths

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10:38

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  35. Content type: Primary research

    Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) causes progressive loss of renal function in adults as a consequence of the accumulation of cysts. ADPKD is the most common genetic cause of end-stage renal...

    Authors: Rita M. C. de Almeida, Sherry G. Clendenon, William G. Richards, Michael Boedigheimer, Michael Damore, Sandro Rossetti, Peter C. Harris, Britney-Shea Herbert, Wei Min Xu, Angela Wandinger-Ness, Heather H. Ward, James A. Glazier and Robert L. Bacallao

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10:37

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  36. Content type: Primary research

    Genome-wide profiling of rare tumors is crucial for improvement of diagnosis, treatment, and, consequently, achieving better outcomes. Desmoplastic small round cell tumor (DSRCT) is a rare type of sarcoma aris...

    Authors: Elisa Napolitano Ferreira, Bruna Durães Figueiredo Barros, Jorge Estefano de Souza, Renan Valieris Almeida, Giovana Tardin Torrezan, Sheila Garcia, Ana Cristina Victorino Krepischi, Celso Abdon Lopes de Mello, Isabela Werneck da Cunha, Clóvis Antonio Lopes Pinto, Fernando Augusto Soares, Emmanuel Dias-Neto, Ademar Lopes, Sandro José de Souza and Dirce Maria Carraro

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10:36

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  38. Content type: Primary research

    Celiac disease is a complex chronic immune-mediated disorder of the small intestine. Today, the pathobiology of the disease is unclear, perplexing differential diagnosis, patient stratification, and decision-m...

    Authors: Angeliki Balasopoulou, Biljana Stanković, Angeliki Panagiotara, Gordana Nikčevic, Brock A. Peters, Anne John, Effrosyni Mendrinou, Apostolos Stratopoulos, Aigli Ioanna Legaki, Vasiliki Stathakopoulou, Aristoniki Tsolia, Nikolaos Govaris, Sofia Govari, Zoi Zagoriti, Konstantinos Poulas, Maria Kanariou…

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10:34

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  39. Content type: Primary research

    Accurate annotation of protein functions is still a big challenge for understanding life in the post-genomic era. Many computational methods based on protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks have been propos...

    Authors: Bihai Zhao, Sai Hu, Xueyong Li, Fan Zhang, Qinglong Tian and Wenyin Ni

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10:33

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  40. Content type: Primary research

    Fifty random genetically unstudied families (limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD)/myopathy) were screened with a gene panel incorporating 759 OMIM genes associated with neurological disorders. Average coverag...

    Authors: Dorota Monies, Hindi N. Alhindi, Mohamed A. Almuhaizea, Mohamed Abouelhoda, Anas M. Alazami, Ewa Goljan, Banan Alyounes, Dyala Jaroudi, Abdulelah AlIssa, Khalid Alabdulrahman, Shazia Subhani, Mohamed El-Kalioby, Tariq Faquih, Salma M. Wakil, Nada A. Altassan, Brian F. Meyer…

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10:32

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  41. Content type: Letter to the Editor

    The change in epigenetic signatures, in particular DNA methylation, has been proposed as risk markers for various age-related diseases. However, the course of variation in methylation levels with age, the diff...

    Authors: Shui-Ying Tsang, Tanveer Ahmad, Flora W. K. Mat, Cunyou Zhao, Shifu Xiao, Kun Xia and Hong Xue

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10:31

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  43. Content type: Review

    Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an important clinical issue that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite research advances over the past decades, the complex pathophysiology of AKI is not ...

    Authors: Pei-Chun Fan, Chia-Chun Chen, Yung-Chang Chen, Yu-Sun Chang and Pao-Hsien Chu

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10:29

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  44. Content type: Primary research

    Periodontitis is the most common chronic inflammatory disease caused by complex interaction between the microbial biofilm and host immune responses. In the present study, high-throughput RNA sequencing was uti...

    Authors: Yong-Gun Kim, Minjung Kim, Ji Hyun Kang, Hyo Jeong Kim, Jin-Woo Park, Jae-Mok Lee, Jo-Young Suh, Jae-Young Kim, Jae-Hyung Lee and Youngkyun Lee

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10:28

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  45. Content type: Primary research

    The genetics of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) have not been studied in a Vietnamese population before. We performed mutational analysis of the COL1A1 and COL1A2 genes in 91 unrelated OI patients of Vietnamese orig...

    Authors: Binh Ho Duy, Lidiia Zhytnik, Katre Maasalu, Ivo Kändla, Ele Prans, Ene Reimann, Aare Märtson and Sulev Kõks

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10:27

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  46. Content type: Research

    Snail is a typical transcription factor that could induce epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and cancer progression. There are some related reports about the clinical significance of snail protein express...

    Authors: Xiaoya Chen, Jinjun Li, Ling Hu, William Yang, Lili Lu, Hongyan Jin, Zexiong Wei, Jack Y. Yang, Hamid R. Arabnia, Jun S. Liu, Mary Qu Yang and Youping Deng

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10(Suppl 2):22

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 2

  47. Content type: Research

    Chronic inflammation has been widely considered to be the major risk factor of coronary heart disease (CHD). The goal of our study was to explore the possible association with CHD for inflammation-related sing...

    Authors: Xiaomin Chen, Xiaoying Chen, Yan Xu, William Yang, Nan Wu, Huadan Ye, Jack Y. Yang, Qingxiao Hong, Yanfei Xin, Mary Qu Yang, Youping Deng and Shiwei Duan

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10(Suppl 2):21

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 2

  48. Content type: Research

    Green tea polyphenol epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) has been demonstrated to inhibit cancer in experimental studies through its antioxidant activity and modulations on cellular functions by binding specific...

    Authors: Hong Zhou, Joseph Manthey, Ekaterina Lioutikova, William Yang, Kenji Yoshigoe, Mary Qu Yang and Hong Wang

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10(Suppl 2):19

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 2

  49. Content type: Research

    Methylation changes are frequent in cancers, but understanding how hyper- and hypomethylated region changes coordinate, associate with genomic features, and affect gene expression is needed to better understan...

    Authors: Garima Kushwaha, Mikhail Dozmorov, Jonathan D. Wren, Jing Qiu, Huidong Shi and Dong Xu

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10(Suppl 2):18

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 2

  50. Content type: Research

    Protein complexes play an important role in biological processes. Recent developments in experiments have resulted in the publication of many high-quality, large-scale protein-protein interaction (PPI) dataset...

    Authors: Xueyong Li, Jianxin Wang, Bihai Zhao, Fang-Xiang Wu and Yi Pan

    Citation: Human Genomics 2016 10(Suppl 2):17

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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 2

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