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Phospholipids and insulin resistance in psychosis: a lipidomics study of twin pairs discordant for schizophrenia
Matej Oresic, Tuulikki Seppanen-Laakso, Daqiang Sun, Jing Tang, Sebastian Therman, Rachael Viehman, Ulla Mustonen, Theo GM van Erp, Tuulia Hyotylainen, Paul Thompson, Arthur W Toga, Matti O Huttunen, Jaana Suvisaari, Jaakko Kaprio, Jouko Lonnqvist, Tyrone D Cannon Genome Medicine 2012, 4:1 (18 January 2012)
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Lipidomic, imaging and neurocognitive analysis of twin pairs reveals lipid biomarkers linked to decreased cognitive speed and potentially increased susceptibility to infection in schizophrenia.
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Looking back at genomic medicine in 2011
Charles Auffray, Timothy Caulfield, Muin J Khoury, James R Lupski, Matthias Schwab, Timothy Veenstra Genome Medicine 2012, 4:9 (30 January 2012)
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An editorial by our Section Editors provides their highlights of the past year and hints at likely future developments in genomic medicine.
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Gut microbiome-host interactions in health and disease
James M Kinross, Ara W Darzi, Jeremy K Nicholson Genome Medicine 2011, 3:14 (4 March 2011)
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The gut microbiome plays an important role in human disease and further understanding microbiome activity is crucial for the development of future personalized treatment strategies.
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Emerging patterns of genetic overlap across autoimmune disorders
Corinne Richard-Miceli, Lindsey A Criswell Genome Medicine 2012, 4:6 (27 January 2012)
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Lindsey Criswell and Corinne Richard-Miceli review risk loci that are shared among autoimmune disorders and how this information might help to explain common disease mechanisms.
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The balance of expression of PTPN22 splice forms is significantly different in rheumatoid arthritis patients compared with controls
Marcus Ronninger, Yongjing Guo, Klementy Shchetynsky, Andrew Hill, Mohsen Khademi, Tomas Olsson, Padmalatha S Reddy, Maria Seddighzadeh, James D Clark, Lih-Ling Lin, Margot O'Toole, Leonid Padyukov Genome Medicine 2012, 4:2 (20 January 2012)
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Genotyping and phenotyping of cells from rheumatoid arthritis patients and healthy controls reveals different patterns of expression for the protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor 22 gene.
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Improving bioinformatic pipelines for exome variant calling
Hanlee P Ji Genome Medicine 2012, 4:7 (30 January 2012)
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Hanlee Ji discusses the Atlas2 suite, a new set of tools for calling variants in exome sequencing data that is faster and easier to use than comparable tools and could thus be useful in diagnostics.
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Embryonic stem cell-specific signatures in cancer: insights into genomic regulatory networks and implications for medicine
Jonghwan Kim, Stuart H Orkin Genome Medicine 2011, 3:75 (29 November 2011)
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Jonghwan Kim and Stuart Orkin review recent genome-scale and systems approaches to understand the regulatory networks that are common to embryonic stem (ES) cells and cancer.
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Future medical applications of single-cell sequencing in cancer
Nicholas Navin, James Hicks Genome Medicine 2011, 3:31 (31 May 2011)
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Navin and Hicks provide an overview of recent methods for sequencing in single cells and discuss how this approach will be useful for detection of copy number variation for improving cancer outcomes.
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Hematopoietic stem cells, hematopoiesis and disease: lessons from the zebrafish model
Corey S Martin, Akemi Moriyama, Leonard I Zon Genome Medicine 2011, 3:83 (29 December 2011)
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Martin, Moriyama and Zon review the advantages of zebrafish for studying early development of blood cells and highlight recent discoveries using this model that show clinical promise.
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From hepatitis to hepatocellular carcinoma: a proposed model for cross-talk between inflammation and epigenetic mechanisms
Marion Martin, Zdenko Herceg Genome Medicine 2012, 4:8 (31 January 2012)
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Marion Martin and Zdenko Herceg discuss how cross-talk between inflammation and epigenetic mechanisms might be involved in the development of liver cancer.
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Pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine: the plunge into next-generation sequencing
Mia Wadelius, Ana Alfirevic Genome Medicine 2011, 3:78 (28 December 2011)
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Mia Wadelius and Ana Alfirevic present highlights from the Cold Spring Harbor and the Wellcome Trust 2011 meeting on 'Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine'.
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Stem cell approaches for diabetes: towards beta cell replacement
Gordon C Weir, Claudia Cavelti-Weder, Susan Bonner-Weir Genome Medicine 2011, 3:61 (27 September 2011)
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Gordon Weir at al. review advances in understanding diabetes at the genomic level, and discuss how stem-cell-based approaches might be used for replacing beta cells and for treating the various forms of diabetes.
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DNA methylation is associated with downregulation of the organic cation transporter OCT1 (SLC22A1) in human hepatocellular carcinoma
Elke Schaeffeler, Claus Hellerbrand, Anne T Nies, Stefan Winter, Stephan Kruck, Ute Hofmann, Heiko van der Kuip, Ulrich M Zanger, Hermann Koepsell, Matthias Schwab Genome Medicine 2011, 3:82 (23 December 2011)
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First evidence that decreased protein expression of the transporter SLC22A1 in hepatocellular carcinoma correlates with increased methylation of individual CpG sites.
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Predicting responses to sunitinib using single nucleotide polymorphisms: Progress and recommendations for future trials
Ram N Ganapathi, Ronald M Bukowski Genome Medicine 2011, 3:79 (30 December 2011)
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Ganapathi and Bukowski discuss the advances and pitfalls of a recent study of single nucleotide polymorphisms to predict the activity or toxicity of sunitinib for clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
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A year of great leaps in genome research
Jingde Zhu Genome Medicine 2012, 4:4 (30 January 2012)
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Jingde Zhu presents the recent progress made and highlights of the Beijing Genomics Institute's 6th International Conference on Genomics (ICG-VI), held in Shenzhen, China.
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Pharmacogenetics in type 2 diabetes: potential implications for clinical practice
Chunmei Huang, Jose C Florez Genome Medicine 2011, 3:76 (29 November 2011)
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Chunmei Huang and Jose Florez review recent insights into type 2 diabetes that are emerging from pharmacogenetic and pharmacogenomic studies, and discuss the potential for clinical translation.
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Health care providers and direct-to-consumer access and advertising of genetic testing in the United States
Melanie F Myers Genome Medicine 2011, 3:81 (28 December 2011)
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Melanie Myers reviews the impact of advertising and selling of genetic testing direct to consumers on health care providers and asks whether providers are ready to deal with this issue.
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Systems medicine: the future of medical genomics and healthcare
Charles Auffray, Zhu Chen, Leroy Hood Genome Med 2009, 1:2 (20 January 2009)
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Systems approaches to medicine will transform the way drugs are developed and will enable medicine to become predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory.
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Metabolome in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders: a general population-based study
Matej Orešič, Jing Tang, Tuulikki Seppänen-Laakso, Ismo Mattila, Suoma E Saarni, Samuli I Saarni, Jouko Lönnqvist, Marko Sysi-Aho, Tuulia Hyötyläinen, Jonna Perälä, Jaana Suvisaari Genome Medicine 2011, 3:19 (23 March 2011)
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A population-based metabolomics study in Finland reveals disease-specific metabolic abnormalities associated with schizophrenia, compared with other psychotic disorders.
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Recycling side-effects into clinical markers for drug repositioning
Miquel Duran-Frigola, Patrick Aloy Genome Medicine 2012, 4:3 (27 January 2012)
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Miquel Duran-Frigola and Patrick Aloy discuss a new computational approach to systematically exploring novel potential applications of already marketed drugs in distinct therapeutic areas.
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Epigenomics of human embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells: insights into pluripotency and implications for disease
Alvaro Rada-Iglesias, Joanna Wysocka Genome Medicine 2011, 3:36 (7 June 2011)
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Wysocka and Rada-Iglesias review advances in epigenomic profiling of human pluripotent stem cells, highlighting the roles of regulatory elements and the implications for disease.
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The long journey of stem cell therapeutics
Sarah Crawford Genome Medicine 2012, 4:5 (27 January 2012)
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Sarah Crawford presents the highlights and roadblocks of therapeutic applications from the Euroepistem 2011 meeting on 'Epigenomic Programming and Stem Cells for Drug Discovery'.
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Capturing Alzheimer's disease genomes with induced pluripotent stem cells: prospects and challenges
Mason A Israel, Lawrence SB Goldstein Genome Medicine 2011, 3:49 (27 July 2011)
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Mason Israel and Lawrence Goldstein review the prospects and challenges for studying Alzheimer's disease genes and modeling pathogenesis using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).
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The $1,000 genome, the $100,000 analysis?
Elaine R Mardis Genome Medicine 2010, 2:84 (26 November 2010)
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Lowered price and speed brings routine clinical use of whole-genome sequencing ever closer, but improved reference and functional data and dedicated analysis pipelines are required to make it a reality.
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Transcriptomic analysis of pluripotent stem cells: insights into health and disease
Jia-Chi Yeo, Huck-Hui Ng Genome Medicine 2011, 3:68 (27 October 2011)
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Jia-Chi Yeo and Huck-Hui Ng review recent progress in understanding the transcriptional networks of pluripotent stem cells, and discuss how this knowledge has impacted translational medicine.
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