Platelet size has been demonstrated to reflect platelet activity and seems to be a useful
predictive and prognostic biomarker of cardiovascular events. It is associated with a variety …

Artificial intelligence (AI) broadly refers to analytical algorithms that iteratively learn from
data, allowing computers to find hidden insights without being explicitly programmed where …

Providing therapies tailored to each patient is the vision of precision medicine, enabled by
the increasing ability to capture extensive data about individual patients. In this position …

In genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for thousands of phenotypes in large biobanks,
most binary traits have substantially fewer cases than controls. Both of the widely used …

US Hispanic/Latino individuals are diverse in genetic ancestry, culture, and environmental
exposures. Here, we characterized and controlled for this diversity in genome-wide …

Advances in genotyping technology have, over the past decade, enabled the focused
search for common genetic variation associated with human diseases and traits. With the …

Several hundreds of studies recently investigated mean platelet volume (MPV) as measured
by electronic cell counters in a wide variety of acquired diseases, and most of them found …

Reduction of preventable hospital readmissions that result from chronic or acute conditions
like stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction and pneumonia remains a significant …

With the completion of the Human Genome Project1 as well as recent advances in genomic
science and comparative biological studies, a new era of individualized medicine is evolving …

Platelets are most important in providing cellular hemostasis but also take part in
inflammation and immune processes. Increased platelet size has been regarded as a …