Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been widely used for identifying common variants associated with complex diseases. Despite remarkable success in uncovering many risk variants and providing novel insights into disease biology, genetic variants identified to date fail to explain the vast majority of the heritability for most complex diseases. One explanation is that there are still a ...

Plant β-galactosidases (BGALs) are the important glycosidase that hydrolyses non-reductive terminaβ-D-galactosidase residues from glycochains, glycolipids and glycoproteins. In order to reveal regulation mechanism of in cotton development, whole genome analysis of  BGAL  gene family were carried out this study, which laid a foundation for further understanding function ...

resistin (retn), recently found to be relevant to inflammation and inflammatory disorders. we, therefore, aimed to investigate the potential role of retn gene polymorphism in pathogenesis of acne vulgaris with familial history. we investigated the retn-420c/g polymorphism in 180 patients with acne vulgaris and 180 healthy individuals in a case-control association analysis. in this study, we als...

cardiovascular disease has become the main factor of death and birth defects in the world and also in iran. new clinical studies have shown that early diagnosis of patients with coronary artery disease (cad) can contribute to effective prevention or therapeutic structures, which reduce mortality or the next chance of cardiovascular events, and increase the quality of life. most studies on cad d...

Although deregulation of miR-146a has been reported in type 2 diabetes repeatedly, the direction of deregulation events (up or down) remained to be inconsistent in literatures.  Therefore, in this study, we performed a meta-analysis on the possible association between miR-146a expression levels and type 2 diabetes. A systematic literature searching of PubMed, ISI Web of Science and Google ...

intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (icam-1) lys469glu (k469e) polymorphism and gly 241arg (g241r) polymorphism might play important roles in cancer development and progression. however, the results of previous studies are inconsistent. the aim of this study was to evaluate the association between icam-1 k469e and g241r polymorphisms and the risk of cancer by meta-analysis.a comprehensive literat...

background :cytotoxic t lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (ctla-4) is an important negative regulator of t-cell responses. the -1722tc polymorphism of the ctla-4 gene may be associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) risk, but related results from previous studies have been inconsistent. we carried out a meta-analysis to assess this association more precisely.   methods : a systematic sea...

Several studies examined the relationship between STAT3 rs1053004 polymorphism and the risk of some human cancers, but the findings remains inconclusive. To evaluate the impact of STAT3 rs1053004 on cancer risk, we conducted a meta-analysis of all available studies including 4,605 cancer cases and 5,248 controls. Eligible studies were identified by searching PubMed, Web of Sci...