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  1. Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is an inherited ciliopathy leading to chronic suppurative lung disease, chronic rhinosinusitis, middle ear disease, sub-fertility and situs abnormalities. As PCD is rare, it is im...

    Authors: Laura E. Gardner, Katie L. Horton, Amelia Shoemark, Jane S. Lucas, Kim G. Nielsen, Helene Kobbernagel, Bruna Rubbo, Robert A. Hirst, Panayiotis Kouis, Nicola Ullmann, Ana Reula, Nisreen Rumman, Hannah M. Mitchison, Andreia Pinto, Charlotte Richardson, Anne Schmidt…
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2020 14(Suppl 8):7
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 8

  5. Access to evidence-based mental health care for children is an international priority. However, there are significant challenges to advancing this public health priority in an efficient and equitable manner. T...

    Authors: Nicole A. Stadnick, Gregory A. Aarons, Lucy Blake, Lauren I. Brookman-Frazee, Paul Dourgnon, Thomas Engell, Florence Jusot, Anna S. Lau, Constance Prieur, Ane-Marthe Solheim Skar and Miya L. Barnett
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2020 14(Suppl 2):2
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 2

  6. The Republic of Moldova faces several concurrent health challenges most notably an increase in chronic non-communicable diseases, spiralling health care costs and widening health inequalities. To accelerate pr...

    Authors: Florence SĆ©cula, SĆ©verine Erismann, Carolina Cerniciuc, Angel Chater, Lion Shabab, Fiona Glen, Ala Curteanu, Aliona Serbulenco, Natalia Silitrari, Daniela Demiscan and Helen Prytherch
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2020 14(Suppl 1):1
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 14 Supplement 1

  7. Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal X-linked recessive neuromuscular disease, characterized by progressive loss of muscle strength. Respiratory failure is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in ...

    Authors: Kristy Iskandar, Sunartini, Andika Priamas Nugrahanto, Nissya Ilma, Alvin Santoso Kalim, Guritno Adistyawan, Siswanto and Roni Naning
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 11):21
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 11

  8. Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) is a common cause of health-care associated infections (HAIs) and has high levels of antibiotic resistance. These bacteria are well-known for their ability to produce biofilm...

    Authors: Hera Nirwati, Kian Sinanjung, Fahrina Fahrunissa, Fernando Wijaya, Sarastia Napitupulu, Vania P. Hati, Mohamad S. Hakim, Andreanita Meliala, Abu T. Aman and Titik Nuryastuti
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 11):20
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 11

  9. Biofilm is one of the causes of antibiotic resistance. One of the biofilm-producing bacteria is Staphylococcus epidermidis which has been proven to infect long-term users of urinary catheters and implant devices....

    Authors: Andre Krislee, Chaerul Fadly, Dwi Aris Agung Nugrahaningsih, Titik Nuryastuti, Febri Odel Nitbani, Jumina and Eti Nurwening Sholikhah
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 11):19
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 11

  10. Hirschsprung-associated enterocolitis (HAEC) is a life-threatening complication of Hirschsprung disease (HSCR), that might occur preoperatively. We investigated the risk factors of preoperative HAEC.

    Authors: Dicky Yulianda, Andy Indra Sati, Akhmad Makhmudi and Gunadi
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 11):18
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 11

  11. Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is one of the metabolic diseases which leads to fatty tissue injury, and consequently inducing lipotoxicity and cellular senescence. This condition contributes to endothelial dysfunction...

    Authors: Nur Arfian, Wiwit Ananda Wahyu Setyaningsih, Muhammad Mansyur Romi and Dwi Cahyani Ratna Sari
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 11):17
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 11

  12. Patients with congenital heart disease require surgery to correct the cardiac defect they had in order to prevent heart failure. Unfortunately, data regarding outcome of adult CHD in Indonesia is still limited...

    Authors: Juni Kurniawaty and Yunita Widyastuti
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 11):16
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 11

  13. Cutaneous melanoma is a rare, aggressive skin malignancy with a high mortality rate. Although only contributing 7.6% of the cases worldwide, Asia is responsible for 18.6% of deaths from cutaneous melanoma. BRA...

    Authors: Hanggoro Tri Rinonce, Rovi Panji Mustiko Aji, Niā€™mah Hayati, Maria Fransiska Pudjohartono, Bidari Kameswari and Irianiwati
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 11):15
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 11

  14. Keloids develop due to hyperactivity of keloid fibroblast (KF) in proliferation, migration, and collagen deposition along with low rates of collagen degradation. These are a result of the Wnt/Ī² catenin signali...

    Authors: Ishandono Dachlan, Yohanes Widodo Wirohadidjojo, Mae Sri Hartati Wahyuningsih, Teguh Aryandono, Hardyanto Soebono and Dwiki Afandy
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 11):14
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 11

  15. Abdominal tuberculosis is an uncommon variant of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. It accounts for 3.5% of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis is still a challenge due to its non-specif...

    Authors: Moh Nailul Fahmi and Annisaa Pelita Harti
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 11):13
    Content type: Case report Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 11

  16. Advanced glycation end products (AGE) is a toxic compound in the human body that can deteriorate health and induce an inflammatory response. One of the type of cells affected is Leydig cells, cells that produc...

    Authors: Dicky Moch Rizal, Aditya Rifqi Fauzi and Rustamaji
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 11):12
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 11

  18. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported the following author name error is the article:

    Authors: Olushayo Olu, Pamela Drameh-Avognon, Emil Asamoah-Odei, Francis Kasolo, Tomas Valdez, Grace Kabaniha, Humphrey Karamagi, Suvajee Good, Helena Oā€™Malley, Zabulon Yoti, Nirina Razakazoa, Etienne Minkoulou, Jean-Marie Dangou, Symplice Mbola Mbassi, Mariano Salazar Castellon, Joseph Cabore…
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13:11
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    The original article was published in BMC Proceedings 2019 13:7

  20. The demography of Botswana is rapidly changing. Successes in tackling communicable diseases and economic development increased life expectancy from 53.7ā€‰years in 2006 to 66.8ā€‰years in 2016. The prevalence of d...

    Authors: Barbara Lachana Onen, Ciara Harris, Agnieszka Ignatowicz, Justine Davies, Michalis Drouvelis, Andrew Howes, Oathokwa Nkomazana, Churchill Lukwiya Onen, Elizabeth Sapey, Billy Tsima and Daniel Lasserson
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 10):8
    Content type: Meeting Report Published on:

    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 10

  21. Inadequate access to quality health care services due to weak health systems and recurrent public health emergencies are impediments to the attainment of Universal Health Coverage and health security in Africa...

    Authors: Olushayo Olu, Pamela Drameh-Avognon, Emil Asamoah-Odei, Francis Kasolo, Thomas Valdez, Grace Kabaniha, Humphrey Karamagi, Suvajee Good, Helena Oā€™Malley, Zabulon Yoti, Nirina Razakazoa, Etienne Minkoulou, Jean-Marie Dangou, Symplice Mbola Mbassi, Mariano Salazar Castellon, Joseph Cabore…
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 9):7
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 9

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Proceedings 2019 13:11

  25. To address an urgent need to advance the field of community engaged research, faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Meharry Medical College organized the national meeting "Advancing the Science o...

    Authors: Al Richmond, Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, ElisƩo J. Perez-Stable, Usha Menon, Chanita Hughes-Halbert, Karriem S. Watson, Regina Greer-Smith, Courtney Clyatt, Jonathan N. Tobin and Consuelo H. Wilkins
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2019 13(Suppl 3):3
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 13 Supplement 3

  28. Natural disasters such as earthquakes, typhoons, floods, and volcanic eruptions frequently occur in Republic of Philippines and mental health care for children affected by these natural disasters is a major pu...

    Authors: Masahide Usami, Marian Fe Theresa Lomboy, Naoko Satake, Crystal Amiel M. Estrada, Mitsuya Kodama, Ernesto R. Gregorio Jr, Yuriko Suzuki, Ramir B. Uytico, Minerva P. Molon, Ikuhiro Harada, Keita Yamamoto, Kumi Inazaki, Hirokage Ushijima, Cynthia Leynes, Jun Kobayashi, Romeo R. Quizon…
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 14):65
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 14

  29. Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a chronic suppurative airways disease that is usually recessively inherited and has marked clinical phenotypic heterogeneity. Classic symptoms include neonatal respiratory d...

    Authors: Hannah Farley, Bruna Rubbo, Zuzanna Bukowy-Bieryllo, Mahmoud Fassad, Myrofora Goutaki, Katharine Harman, Claire Hogg, Claudia E. Kuehni, Susana Lopes, Kim G. Nielsen, Dominic P. Norris, Ana Reula, Nisreen Rumman, Amelia Shoemark, Hannah Wilkins, Agatha Wisse…
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 16):64
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 16

  31. Cholera remains a major public health problem in many countries. Poor sanitation and inappropriate clean water supply, insufficient health literacy and community mobilization, absence of national plans and cro...

    Authors: Mesbah Uddin Ahmed, Mario Baquilod, Claudio Deola, Nguyen Dong Tu, Dang Duc Anh, Cindy Grasso, Anu Gautam, Wan Mansor Hamzah, Seng Heng, Sopon Iamsirithaworn, Musal Kadim, S. K. Kar, Mai Le Thi Quynh, Anna Lena Lopez, Julia Lynch, Iqbal Memon…
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 13):62
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 13

  33. Statistical power, which is the probability of correctly rejecting a false null hypothesis, is a limitation of genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Sample size is a major component of statistical power that...

    Authors: Yuning Chen, Gina M. Peloso and JosƩe Dupuis
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):56
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  34. Because of the limited information from the GAW20 samples when only case-control or trio data are considered, we propose eLBL, an extension of the Logistic Bayesian LASSO (least absolute shrinkage and selectio...

    Authors: Xiaofei Zhou, Meng Wang, Han Zhang, William C. L. Stewart and Shili Lin
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):54
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  35. An increasing number of studies are focused on the epigenetic regulation of DNA to affect gene expression without modifications to the DNA sequence. Methylation plays an important role in shaping disease trait...

    Authors: Rui Sun, Haoyi Weng, Ruoting Men, Xiaoxuan Xia, Ka Chun Chong, William K. K. Wu, Benny Chung-Ying Zee and Maggie Haitian Wang
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):53
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  36. Triglycerides are an important measure of heart health. Although more than 90 genes have been found to be associated to lipids, they only explain 12 to 15% of the variance in lipid levels. Evidence suggests th...

    Authors: Tony Huayang Gao, Jianjun Zhang, Diaz Medina Miguelangel and Xuexia Wang
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):49
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  37. Triglyceride (TG) concentrations decrease in response to fenofibrate treatment, and also are associated with DNA methylation. But how interactions between fenofibrate response and DNA methylation affect TGs re...

    Authors: Jih-Chang Yu, Fang-Chi Hsu and Yen-Feng Chiu
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):48
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  38. Obesity is a risk factor for heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other chronic diseases. Some drugs, including fenofibrate, are used to treat obesity or excessive weight by lowering the l...

    Authors: Zheng Xu, Qing Duan, Juan Cui, Yumou Qiu, Qidong Jia, Cong Wu and Jennifer Clarke
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):46
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  39. Homozygosity disequilibrium (HD), indicating a nonrandom pattern of sizable runs of homozygosity that deviates from a random allocation of homozygous and heterozygous genotypes in the genome, is an important p...

    Authors: Hsin-Chou Yang and Chia-Wei Chen
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):45
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  40. The study of DNA methylation quantitative trait loci (meQTLs) helps dissect regulatory mechanisms underlying genetic associations of human diseases. In this study, we conducted the first genome-wide examinatio...

    Authors: Jiayi Wu Cox, Devanshi Patel, Jaeyoon Chung, Congcong Zhu, Samantha Lent, Virginia Fisher, Achilleas Pitsillides, Lindsay Farrer and Xiaoling Zhang
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):44
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  41. As part of GAW20, we analyzed the familiality and variability of methylation to identify cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) sites responsive to treatment with fenofibrate. Methylation was measured at approximate...

    Authors: Rita Cantor, Linda Navarro and Calvin Pan
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):43
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  42. In this paper we analyzed whole-genome genetic information provided by GAW20 from the Genetics of Lipid Lowering Drugs and Diet Network (GOLDN) study for family data. Lipid levels such as triglycerides (TGs) a...

    Authors: Sarmistha Das, Pronoy Kanti Mondal, Saurabh Ghosh and Indranil Mukhopadhyay
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):41
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  43. GAW20 provided participants with an opportunity to comprehensively examine genetic and epigenetic variation among related individuals in the context of drug treatment response. GAW20 used data from 188 families (

    Authors: Stella Aslibekyan, Laura Almasy, Michael A. Province, Devin M. Absher and Donna K. Arnett
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):35
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  44. The heritability of a phenotype is an estimation of the percent of variance in that phenotype that is attributable to additive genetic factors. Heritability is optimally estimated in family-based sample popula...

    Authors: Nicholas B. Blackburn, Arthur Porto, Juan M. Peralta and John Blangero
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):34
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  45. The main goal of this paper is to estimate the effect of triglyceride levels on methylation of cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) sites in multiple-case families. These families are selected because they have 2 ...

    Authors: Angga M. Fuady, Renaud L. M. Tissier and Jeanine J. Houwing-Duistermaat
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):33
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  46. Using the real data set from GAW20, we examined changes in the distribution of DNA methylation before and after treatment. Paired analysis of differences in both mean and variance had grossly inflated type 1 e...

    Authors: Angelo J. Canty and Andrew D. Paterson
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):32
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  47. Epigenome association studies that test a large number of methylation sites suffer from stringent multiple-testing corrections. This studyā€™s goals were to investigate region-based associations between DNA meth...

    Authors: Kaiqiong Zhao, Lai Jiang, Kathleen Klein, Celia M. T. Greenwood and Karim Oualkacha
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):30
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

  48. DNA methylation, an epigenetic modification, can be affected by environmental factors and thus regulate gene expression levels that can lead to alterations of certain phenotypes. Network analysis has been used...

    Authors: Elise Lim, Hanfei Xu, Peitao Wu, Daniel Posner, Jiayi Wu, Gina M. Peloso, Achilleas N. Pitsillides, Anita L. DeStefano, L. Adrienne Cupples and Ching-Ti Liu
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):27
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  49. Epigenetic modification has an effect on gene expression under the environmental alteration, but it does not change corresponding genome sequence. DNA methylation (DNAm) is one of the important epigenetic mech...

    Authors: Md. Mohaiminul Islam, Ye Tian, Yan Cheng, Yang Wang and Pingzhao Hu
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):21
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  50. Bayesian networks have been proposed as a way to identify possible causal relationships between measured variables based on their conditional dependencies and independencies. We explored the use of Bayesian ne...

    Authors: Richard A. J. Howey and Heather J. Cordell
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2018 12(Suppl 9):19
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 12 Supplement 9

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