BMC Medical Genomics

Section Editors

Jonas Almeida, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Struan Grant, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Patrick Tan, Graduate Medical School Singapore
Pearlly Yan, The Ohio State University

Executive Editor

Tim Sands , BioMed Central

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Dialysis affects immune function

Transcriptome profiles of patients undergoing haemodialysis show a different immune pattern compared to patients with chronic kidney disease without dialysis, although it cannot yet be ruled out that other confounding factors are responsible.

BMC Medical Genomics 2013, 6:17
Patient perceptions of biobank ethics

In a survey of perceptions of leukemia patients towards biobanking research ethics, majorities favoured one-time consent and retaining the right to withdrawal, and almost all favoured being informed of incidental findings relevant to their health.

BMC Medical Genomics 2013, 6:8
HIV-linked cognitive impairment

Re-analysis of existing transcriptomic datasets from the brains of patients with HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment, using a systems biology approach, corroborates their results but also identifies possible co-expression networks linked to neurocognitive impairment in HIV and Alzheimer’s disease.

BMC Medical Genomics 2013, 6:4
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gene names

Comment on: Serão et al. BMC Medical Genomics 2011, 4:49
Erratum

Comment on: Waaseth et al. BMC Medical Genomics 2011, 4:29
addendum to article

Comment on: Muggerud et al. BMC Medical Genomics 2009, 2:26

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Scope

BMC Medical Genomics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of functional genomics, genome structure, genome-scale population genetics, epigenomics, proteomics, systems analysis, and pharmacogenomics in relation to human health and disease.

It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field.

Editor's profile

Following posts in the UK, Australia, Iceland and Germany, Struan Grant has been the Associate Director of the Center for Applied Genomics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia since 2006. His current work focuses on metabolic disease, with a specific focus on pediatrics. Utilizing high-throughput genotyping technology, his goals include isolating genes involved in obesity and bone strength. Both of these phenotypes are known to be strongly determined by genetic factors and distillation of this component should be easier to determine in children, where the relatively short period of their lifetime limits the impact of environmental exposure.

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