Browsing by Subject "Genetics"

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    • Association Between Periodontitis and COVID-19 

      Al-Hadeethi, Tayeb; Charde, Priti; Sunil, Sruthi; Marouf, Nadya; Tamimi, Faleh ( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)
      Purpose of Review: Periodontitis has been linked to various systemic diseases and conditions. Given their shared comorbidities, extensive research has been carried out to explore the link between periodontitis and COVID-19. ...

    • Chromosomal abnormalities in infertile men with azoospermia and severe oligozoospermia in Qatar and their association with sperm retrieval intracytoplasmic sperm injection outcomes 

      Arafa M.M.; Majzoub A.; AlSaid S.S.; ElAnsari W.; Al Ansari A.; ... more authors ( Arab Association of Urology , 2018 , Article)
      Objective: To study the types and incidence of chromosomal abnormalities in infertile men with azoospermia and severe oligozoospermia in Qatar, and to compare the hormonal changes, testicular sperm retrieval rate, and ...

    • Entrepreneurship and genetics: New Evidence 

      Diallo, Boubacar ( Elsevier Inc , 2019 , Article)
      This paper seeks to better understand the differences in entrepreneurship rates across administrative regions and countries. Using several measures of entrepeneurship, as well as regional and panel data of countries, it ...

    • Genetic polymorphisms associated with obesity in the Arab world: a systematic review 

      Younes, Salma; Ibrahim, Amal; Al-Jurf, Rana; Zayed, Hatem ( Springer Nature , 2021 , Article Review)
      Background: Obesity, one of the most common chronic health conditions worldwide, is a multifactorial disease caused by complex genetic and environmental interactions. Several association studies have revealed a considerable ...

    • Genetic variants associated with warfarin dose in African-American individuals: a genome-wide association study 

      Perera, Minoli A; Cavallari, Larisa H; Limdi, Nita A; Gamazon, Eric R; Konkashbaev, Anuar; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2013 , Article)
      Summary BackgroundVKORC1 and CYP2C9 are important contributors to warfarin dose variability, but explain less variability for individuals of African descent than for those of European or Asian descent. We aimed to identify ...

    • Genetics of glutamate and its receptors in autism spectrum disorder 

      Nisar, Sabah; Bhat, Ajaz A.; Masoodi, Tariq; Hashem, Sheema; Akhtar, Sabah; ... more authors ( Springer Nature , 2022 , Article Review)
      Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental impairment characterized by deficits in social interaction skills, impaired communication, and repetitive and restricted behaviors that are thought to be due to altered ...

    • Hepatic circadian clock oscillators and nuclear receptors integrate microbiome-derived signals 

      Montagner, Alexandra; Korecka, Agata; Polizzi, Arnaud; Lippi, Yannick; Blum, Yuna; ... more authors ( Nature Publishing Group , 2016 , Article)
      The liver is a key organ of metabolic homeostasis with functions that oscillate in response to food intake. Although liver and gut microbiome crosstalk has been reported, microbiome-mediated effects on peripheral circadian ...

    • Holistic health record for Hidradenitis suppurativa patients. 

      Tricarico, Paola Maura; Moltrasio, Chiara; Gradišek, Anton; Marzano, Angelo V; Flacher, Vincent; ... more authors ( Nature Research , 2022 , Article)
      Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a recurrent inflammatory skin disease with a complex etiopathogenesis whose treatment poses a challenge in the clinical practice. Here, we present a novel integrated pipeline produced by ...

    • Host specificity of pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from patients with cystic fibrosis and patients from different clinical backgrounds. 

      AbdulWahab, Atqah; Taj-Aldeen, Saad J; Ibrahim, Emad; Hussain, Shaikha; Muhammed, Ramees; ... more authors ( European Respiratory Society: ERJ , 2014 , Article)
      Background: Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the primary pathogens being isolated more frequently in cystic fibrosis (CF) and exhibits innate resistant to a wide range of antibiotics. Purpose: To determine whether the ...

    • Implicating genes, pleiotropy, and sexual dimorphism at blood lipid loci through multi-ancestry meta-analysis 

      Kanoni, Stavroula; Graham, Sarah E.; Wang, Yuxuan; Surakka, Ida; Ramdas, Shweta; ... more authors ( BioMed Central , 2022 , Article)
      Background: Genetic variants within nearly 1000 loci are known to contribute to modulation of blood lipid levels. However, the biological pathways underlying these associations are frequently unknown, limiting understanding ...

    • Insights into the Middle Eastern paternal genetic pool in Tunisia: high prevalence of T-M70 haplogroup in an Arab population 

      Elkamel, Sarra; Marques, Sofia L.; Alvarez, Luis; Gomes, Veronica; Boussetta, Sami; ... more authors ( Nature Research , 2021 , Article)
      To obtain refreshed insights into the paternal lineages of Tunisian populations, Y-chromosome diversity was assessed in two populations belonging to an Arab genealogical lineage, Kairouan and Wesletia, as well as in four ...

    • SARS-CoV-2 antibody-positivity protects against reinfection for at least seven months with 95% efficacy 

      Laith J., Abu-Raddad; Chemaitelly, Hiam; Coyle, Peter; Malek, Joel A.; Ahmed, Ayeda A.; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)
      Background Reinfection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been documented, raising public health concerns. SARS-CoV-2 reinfections were assessed in a cohort of antibody-positive persons ...