Phen2Disease: A Phenotype-driven Semantic Similarity-based Integrated Model for Disease and Gene Prioritization

W Zhai, X Huang, N Shen, S Zhu - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
ABSTRACT By utilizing the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO), recent approaches to
prioritizing disease-causing genes for patients become popular. However, these …

Ophthalmic genetics in South America

M Daich Varela, R Moya… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
South America comprises of heterogeneous topographies, populations, and health care
systems. Therefore, it is not surprising to see differences among the countries regarding …

Kinases on double duty: A review of uniProtKB annotated bifunctionality within the kinome

AM Rangwala, VR Mingione, G Georghiou… - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Phosphorylation facilitates the regulation of all fundamental biological processes, which has
triggered extensive research of protein kinases and their roles in human health and disease …

Distinct gene-selective roles for a network of core promoter factors in Drosophila neural stem cell identity

A Neves, RN Eisenman - Biology open, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
The transcriptional mechanisms that allow neural stem cells (NSC) to balance self-renewal
with differentiation are not well understood. Employing an in vivo RNAi screen we identify …

A comprehensive clinical and genetic study in 127 patients with ID in Kinshasa, DR Congo

A Lumaka, V Race, H Peeters… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Pathogenic variants account for 4 to 41% of patients with intellectual disability (ID) or
developmental delay (DD). In Sub‐Saharan Africa, the prevalence of ID is thought to be …

Detecting X‐linked common and rare variant effects in family‐based sequencing studies

AS Turkmen, S Lin - Genetic Epidemiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The breakthroughs in next generation sequencing have allowed us to access data
consisting of both common and rare variants, and in particular to investigate the impact of …

[HTML][HTML] A new pathologic KMT2B variant associated with childhood onset dystonia presenting as variable phenotypes among family members

LR Owczarzak, KE Hogan, RT Dineen… - Tremor and Other …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: KMT2B-related dystonia is a primarily childhood-onset movement disorder
characterized by progressive dystonia, spasticity, and developmental delay. A minority of …

A hemizygous 370 kilobase microduplication at Xq13. 1 in a three-year-old boy with autism and speech delay

E Gumus - Fetal and Pediatric Pathology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background: Alterations of Neuroligin 3 (NLGN3), located on Xq13, have been
reported in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and include the less frequent Xq13 duplication …

Asynchronous temporal variance in learning behaviour and neural gene expression in a butterfly

YT Ter, EL Westerman - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Mate preference learning, including imprinting-like learning, is pervasive across animal taxa,
and can affect the selection and maintenance of certain phenotypes. However, not much is …

Variation in TAF1 Expression in Female Carrier-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Human Brain Ontogeny Has Implications for Adult Neostriatum Vulnerability in X …

L D'ignazio, RS Jacomini, B Qamar, KJM Benjamin… - Eneuro, 2022 - eneuro.org
X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP) is an inherited, X-linked, adult-onset movement
disorder characterized by degeneration in the neostriatum. No therapeutics alter disease …