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  1. First-generation college graduates, racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and those from disadvantaged backgrounds are gravely underrepresented in the health research workforce representing b...

    Authors: Guido G. Urizar Jr, Laura Henriques, Chi-Ah Chun, Paul Buonora, Kim-Phuong L. Vu, Gino Galvez and Laura Kingsford
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 12):26
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  2. The underrepresentation of minority students in the sciences constrains innovation and productivity in the U.S. The SF BUILD project mission is to remove barriers to diversity by taking a “fix the institution”...

    Authors: Mica Estrada, Alegra Eroy-Reveles, Avi Ben-Zeev, Teaster Baird Jr, Carmen Domingo, Cynthia A. Gómez, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Audrey Parangan-Smith and Leticia Márquez-Magaña
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 12):25
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  3. Effective mentorship is critical to the success of early stage investigators, and has been linked to enhanced mentee productivity, self-efficacy, and career satisfaction. The mission of the National Research M...

    Authors: Christine A. Sorkness, Christine Pfund, Elizabeth O. Ofili, Kolawole S. Okuyemi, Jamboor K. Vishwanatha, Maria Elena Zavala, Theresa Pesavento, Mary Fernandez, Anthony Tissera, Alp Deveci, Damaris Javier, Alexis Short, Paige Cooper, Harlan Jones, Spero Manson, Dedra Buchwald…
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 12):22
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  4. The NIH-funded National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) aims to increase the representation and success of underrepresented groups (URGs) in biomedical research by enhancing the training and career developme...

    Authors: Lourdes R. Guerrero, Jennifer Ho, Christina Christie, Eileen Harwood, Christine Pfund, Teresa Seeman, Heather McCreath and Steven P. Wallace
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 12):14
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  5. Most postsecondary institutions in the state of Alaska (USA) have a broad mission to serve diverse students, many of whom come from schools in rural villages that are accessible only by plane, boat, or snowmob...

    Authors: Barbara E. Taylor, Arleigh J. Reynolds, Kathy E. Etz, Nicole M. G. MacCalla, Paul A. Cotter, Tiffany L. DeRuyter and Karsten Hueffer
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 12):13
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  6. With funding from the National Institutes of Health, BUILDing SCHOLARS was established at The University of Texas at El Paso with the goal of implementing, evaluating and sustaining a suite of institutional, f...

    Authors: Timothy W. Collins, Stephen B. Aley, Thomas Boland, Guadalupe Corral, Marc B. Cox, Lourdes E. Echegoyen, Sara E. Grineski, Osvaldo F. Morera and Homer Nazeran
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 12):12
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 12

  7. Following the publication of the original supplement article [1], it was brought to our attention that the supplement title unfortunately contains an error: “Proceedings of the 16th Annual UT-KBRIN Bioinformat...

    Authors: Eric Rouchka
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11:20
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    The original article was published in BMC Proceedings 2017 11:9

  8. Authors: L. Leon Dent, Sammed N. Mandape, Siddharth Pratap, Jianan Dong, Jamaine Davis, Jennifer A. Gaddy, Kofi Amoah, Steve Damo, Dana R. Marshall, Jacob Jones, Toni Brandt, Gilberto Diaz, Qingguo Wang, Todd Gary, Ashwini Yenamandra, Marina Z. Ghattas…
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 9):9
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 9

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Proceedings 2017 11:20

  9. Persons of Hispanic/Latino descent may represent different ancestries, ethnic and cultural groups and countries of birth. In the U.S., the Hispanic/Latino population is projected to constitute 29% of the popul...

    Authors: M. Larissa Avilés-Santa, John Heintzman, Nangel M. Lindberg, Rafael Guerrero-Preston, Kenneth Ramos, Ana L. Abraído-Lanza, Jonca Bull, Adolph Falcón, Mary Ann McBurnie, Ernest Moy, George Papanicolaou, Ileana L. Piña, Jennifer Popovic, Shakira F. Suglia and Miguel A. Vázquez
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 11):11
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 11

  11. The 5th CIHLMU Infectious Disease Symposium, Munich, Germany, March 12, 2016 brought together Tuberculosis Experts from developed and low middle-income countries to discuss the control of drug resistance Tubercul...

    Authors: Celso Khosa, Krutarth Patel, Karlygash Abdiyeva, Nurkeldi Turebekov, Bettina Prüller and Norbert Heinrich
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 10):0
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 10

  12. Given the steady rise of overdose morbidity and mortality in North America, and increasing frequency of sudden clusters of non-fatal and fatal overdoses in other jurisdictions, regional preparedness plans to r...

    Authors: Kieran Michael Moore, Nicholas Papadomanolakis-Pakis, Adrienne Hansen-Taugher, Tianxiu H. Guan, Brian Schwartz, Paula Stewart, Pamela Leece and Richard Bochenek
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 7):8
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 7

  13. In October 2016, the Global Healthcare Policy and Management Forum was held at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. The goal of the forum was to discuss the role of the state in regulating and supporting the...

    Authors: Valorie A. Crooks, Meghann Ormond and Ki Nam Jin
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 8):6
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 8

  17. Authors: Andrea Teti, Lars Gabrys, Thomas Ziese, Christa Scheidt-Nave, Christin Heidemann, Lars Gabrys, Christian Schmidt, Andrea Teti, Ingrid-Katharina Wolf, Yong Du, Rebecca Paprott, Jens Baumert, Thomas Ziese, Christa Scheidt-Nave, Edward W. Gregg, Linda Geiss…
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 3):3
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 3

  18. The fifth annual meeting of the African cholera surveillance network (Africhol) took place on 10–11 June 2015 in Lomé, Togo. Together with international partners, representatives from the 11 member countries -...

    Authors: Aline Munier, Berthe-Marie Njanpop-Lafourcade, Delphine Sauvageot, Raymond B. Mhlanga, Léonard Heyerdahl, Johara Nadri, Richard Wood, Issaka Ouedraogo, Alexandre Blake, Laurent Akilimali Mukelenge, Jean-Claude B. Anné, Abiba Banla Kere, Lucienne Dempouo, Sakoba Keita, José P. M. Langa, Issa Makumbi…
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 1):2
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 1

  19. Vaccination is a complex ecosystem with several components that interact with one another and with the environment. Today’s vaccine ecosystem is defined by the pursuit of polio eradication, the drive to get as...

    Authors: Mitra Saadatian-Elahi, David Bloom, Stanley Plotkin, Valentina Picot, Jacques Louis and Michael Watson
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2017 11(Suppl 2):1
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 11 Supplement 2

  20. Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare heterogenous condition that causes progressive suppurative lung disease, chronic rhinosinusitis, chronic otitis media, infertility and abnormal situs. ‘Better Experim...

    Authors: Bruna Rubbo, Laura Behan, Eleonora Dehlink, Myrofora Goutaki, Claire Hogg, Panayiotis Kouis, Claudia E. Kuehni, Philipp Latzin, Kim Nielsen, Dominic Norris, Sylvia Nyilas, Mareike Price and Jane S. Lucas
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 9):66
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 9

  21. Several variants have been implicated earlier on ULK4 and MAP4 genes on chromosome 3 to be associated with hypertension. As a natural follow-up step, we explore association of haplotypes in those genes. We consid...

    Authors: Ananda S. Datta, Yuan Zhang, Lei Zhang and Swati Biswas
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):44
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 7

  22. The main focus of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 19 (GAW19) is identification of genes related to the occurrence of hypertension in the cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The aim of our st...

    Authors: Piotr Radkowski, Gracjan Wątor, Jan Skupien, Anna Bogdali and Paweł Wołkow
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):64
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    This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 10 Supplement 7

  23. The new generation of whole genome sequencing platforms offers great possibilities and challenges for dissecting the genetic basis of complex traits. With a very high number of sequence variants, a naïve multi...

    Authors: Marcio Almeida, Lucy Blondell, Juan M. Peralta, Jack W. Kent Jr, Goo Jun, Tanya M. Teslovich, Christian Fuchsberger, Andrew R. Wood, Alisa K. Manning, Timothy M. Frayling, Pablo E. Cingolani, Robert Sladek, Thomas D. Dyer, Goncalo Abecasis, Ravindranath Duggirala and John Blangero
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):63
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  24. Genome-wide association studies have made substantial progress in identifying common variants associated with human diseases. Despite such success, a large portion of heritability remains unexplained. Evolutio...

    Authors: Sneha Jadhav, Olga A. Vsevolozhskaya, Xiaoran Tong and Qing Lu
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):60
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  25. Genome-wide microarray expression is a rich source of functional genomic data. We examined evidence for differences in expression from peripheral blood mononuclear cells between individuals, examined some of f...

    Authors: Michael Gallaugher, Angelo J. Canty and Andrew D. Paterson
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):58
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  26. Recent work on genetic association studies suggests that much of the heritable variation in complex traits is unexplained, which indicates a need for using more biologically meaningful modeling approaches and ...

    Authors: Stefan Konigorski, Yildiz E. Yilmaz and Tobias Pischon
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):57
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  27. Structural equation modeling (SEM) has been used in a wide range of applied sciences including genetic analysis. The recently developed R package, strum, implements a framework for SEM for general pedigree data. ...

    Authors: Yeunjoo E. Song, Nathan J. Morris and Catherine M. Stein
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):55
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  28. Meta-analysis has been widely used in genetic association studies to increase sample size and to improve power, both in the context of single-variant analysis, as well as for gene-based tests. Meta-analysis ap...

    Authors: Shuai Wang, Virginia A. Fisher, Yuning Chen and Josée Dupuis
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):51
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  29. We present a novel approach to detect potential cis-acting regulatory loci that combines the functional potential, an empirical DNase-seq based estimate of the allele-specificity of DNase-I hypersensitivity sites...

    Authors: Juan Manuel Peralta, Marcio Almeida, Lawrence J. Abraham, Eric Moses and John Blangero
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):50
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  30. We explore causal relationships between genotype, gene expression and phenotype in the Genetic Analysis Workshop 19 data. We compare the use of structural equation modeling and a Bayesian unified framework app...

    Authors: Holly F. Ainsworth and Heather J. Cordell
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):49
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  31. Recent focus on studying rare variants makes imputation accuracy of rare variants an important issue. Many approaches have been proposed to increase imputation accuracy among rare variants, from reference pane...

    Authors: Samantha Lent, Xuan Deng, L. Adrienne Cupples, Kathryn L. Lunetta, CT Liu and Yanhua Zhou
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):48
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  32. Advances in whole genome sequencing have enabled the investigation of rare variants, which could explain some of the missing heritability that genome-wide association studies are unable to detect. Most methods...

    Authors: Burcu F. Darst and Corinne D. Engelman
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):46
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  34. A central goal in the biomedical and biological sciences is to link variation in quantitative traits to locations along the genome (single nucleotide polymorphisms). Sequencing technology has rapidly advanced ...

    Authors: Katherine L. Thompson and David W. Fardo
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):43
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  35. Although many genes have been implicated as hypertension candidates, to date, few studies have integrated different types of genomic data for the purpose of biomarker selection.

    Authors: Hongbao Cao, Wei Guo, Haide Qin, Mengyuan Xu, Benjamin Lehrman, Yu Tao and Yin-Yao Shugart
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):40
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  36. Estimating the causal effect of a single nucleotide variant (SNV) on clinical phenotypes is of interest in many genetic studies. The effect estimation may be confounded by other SNVs as a result of linkage dis...

    Authors: Chi Wang, Jinpeng Liu and David W. Fardo
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):38
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  37. Identifying variants that regulate gene expression and delineating their genetic architecture is a critical next step in our endeavors to better understand the genetic etiology of complex diseases. The appropr...

    Authors: Rita M. Cantor, Calvin Pan and Kimberly Siegmund
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):37
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  38. Machine learning methods continue to show promise in the analysis of data from genetic association studies because of the high number of variables relative to the number of observations. However, few best prac...

    Authors: Elizabeth Held, Joshua Cape and Nathan Tintle
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):34
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  39. Common complex traits may involve multiple genetic and environmental factors and their interactions. Many methods have been proposed to identify these interaction effects, among them several machine learning a...

    Authors: Damian Gola and Inke R. König
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):33
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  40. The incorporation of longitudinal data into genetic epidemiological studies has the potential to provide valuable information regarding the effect of time on complex disease etiology. Yet, the majority of rese...

    Authors: Phillip E. Melton, Juan M. Peralta and Laura Almasy
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):30
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  41. With the development of the next-generation sequencing technology, the influence of rare variants on complex disease has gathered increasing attention. In this paper, we propose a clustering-based approach, th...

    Authors: Rui Sun, Qiao Deng, Inchi Hu, Benny Chung-Ying Zee and Maggie Haitian Wang
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):24
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  42. Current rare-variant, gene-based tests of association often suffer from a lack of statistical power to detect genotype–phenotype associations as a result of a lack of prior knowledge of genetic disease models ...

    Authors: Alden Green, Kaitlyn Cook, Kelsey Grinde, Alessandra Valcarcel and Nathan Tintle
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):23
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  43. Both population-based and family-based designs are commonly used in genetic association studies to identify rare variants that underlie complex diseases. For any type of study design, the statistical power wil...

    Authors: Huanhuan Zhu, Zhenchuan Wang, Xuexia Wang and Qiuying Sha
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):22
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  44. Several statistical group-based approaches have been proposed to detect effects of variation within a gene for each of the population- and family-based designs. However, unified tests to combine gene-phenotype...

    Authors: Yuriko Katsumata and David W. Fardo
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):21
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  45. The Genetic Analysis Workshops (GAW) are a forum for development, testing, and comparison of statistical genetic methods and software. Each contribution to the workshop includes an application to a specified d...

    Authors: John Blangero, Tanya M. Teslovich, Xueling Sim, Marcio A. Almeida, Goo Jun, Thomas D. Dyer, Matthew Johnson, Juan M. Peralta, Alisa Manning, Andrew R. Wood, Christian Fuchsberger, Jack W. Kent Jr, David A. Aguilar, Jennifer E. Below, Vidya S. Farook, Rector Arya…
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):20
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  46. We used our extension of the kernel score test to family data to analyze real and simulated baseline systolic blood pressure in extended pedigrees. We compared the power for different kernels and for different...

    Authors: Dörthe Malzahn, Stefanie Friedrichs and Heike Bickeböller
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):17
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  47. Whereas genome-wide association study (GWAS) has proven to be an important tool for discovery of variants influencing many human diseases and traits, unfortunately its performance has not been much of all-arou...

    Authors: Bamidele O. Tayo, Liping Tong and Richard S. Cooper
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):15
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  48. Interactions between genes are an important part of the genetic architecture of complex diseases. In this paper, we use literature-guided individual genes known to be associated with type 2 diabetes (referred ...

    Authors: Adeline Lo, Michael Agne, Jonathan Auerbach, Rachel Fan, Shaw-Hwa Lo, Pei Wang and Tian Zheng
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):13
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  49. The advent of affordable sequencing has enabled researchers to discover many variants contributing to disease, including rare variants. There are methods for determining the most informative individuals for se...

    Authors: Rachel Sippy, Jill M Kolesar, Burcu F Darst and Corinne D Engelman
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):11
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  50. Population-based identity by descent (IBD) mapping is a statistical method for detection of genetic loci that share an ancestral segment among “unrelated” pairs of individuals for a disease. As a complementary...

    Authors: Xiao-Qing Liu, Jillian Fazio, Pingzhao Hu and Andrew D. Paterson
    Citation: BMC Proceedings 2016 10(Suppl 7):8
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