Variant calling: considerations, practices, and developments

S Zverinova, V Guryev - Human mutation, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The success of many clinical, association, or population genetics studies critically relies on
properly performed variant calling step. The variety of modern genomics protocols …

Digital Determinants of Health: Health data poverty amplifies existing health disparities—A scoping review

KE Paik, R Hicklen, F Kaggwa, CV Puyat… - PLOS Digital …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have an immense potential to transform
healthcare as already demonstrated in various medical specialties. This scoping review …

MHC Variants Associated With Symptomatic Versus Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Highly Exposed Individuals

EC Castelli, MV De Castro, MS Naslavsky… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite the high number of individuals infected by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) who develop coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) symptoms …

Qatar genome: Insights on genomics from the Middle East

H Mbarek, G Devadoss Gandhi, S Selvaraj… - Human …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite recent biomedical breakthroughs and large genomic studies growing momentum,
the Middle Eastern population, home to over 400 million people, is underrepresented in the …

Sarcoglycanopathies: an update

M Vainzof, LS Souza, J Gurgel-Giannetti… - Neuromuscular Disorders, 2021 - Elsevier
Sarcoglycanopathies are the most severe forms of autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular
dystrophies (LGMDs), constituting about 10–25% of LGMDs. The clinical phenotype is …

HLA-G genetic diversity and evolutive aspects in worldwide populations

EC Castelli, BS de Almeida, YCN Muniz, NSB Silva… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
HLA-G is a promiscuous immune checkpoint molecule. The HLA-G gene presents
substantial nucleotide variability in its regulatory regions. However, it encodes a limited …

[HTML][HTML] An immunogenetic view of COVID-19

VRC Aguiar, DG Augusto, EC Castelli… - … and Molecular Biology, 2021 - SciELO Brasil
Meeting the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic requires an interdisciplinary
approach. In this context, integrating knowledge of immune function with an understanding …

Immunogenetics of resistance to SARS-CoV-2 infection in discordant couples

EC Castelli, MV de Castro, MS Naslavsky, MO Scliar… - Medrxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
Background Despite the high number of individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 who develop
COVID-19 symptoms worldwide, many exposed individuals remain asymptomatic and/or …

In silico approach to identify non-synonymous missense variants in human obesity-related genes: Comprehensive analyses in variants reported in Brazilian …

LOS Bratti, BF Nunes, DM Gorges, FB Filippin-Monteiro - Human Gene, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the search for understanding the pathophysiology of obesity has been
intense, especially in understanding satiety signs in the hypothalamus and brain regions …

Unraveling the genetic architecture of hepatoblastoma risk: birth defects and increased burden of germline damaging variants in gastrointestinal/renal cancer …

T Aguiar, A Teixeira, MO Scliar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The ultrarare hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common pediatric liver cancer. HB risk is
related to a few rare syndromes, and the molecular bases remain elusive for most cases. We …