Background Phenotypic heterogeneity in autism has long been conjectured to be a major
hindrance to the discovery of genetic risk factors, leading to numerous attempts to stratify …

Cruchaga et al. recently reported1 evidence for genetic association between Alzheimer's
disease risk and several rare DNA sequence variants in the phospholipase D3 gene …

Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that depends on the interplay of several factors.
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in host immune related genes have been …

Here we provide a detailed description of the genome-wide information available on the
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) sibling pair …

Objective Nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NSCL±P) is a common
craniofacial anomaly of complex etiology in people. WNT pathway genes have important …

The aim of this study was to assess the genetic association of F ilaggrin loss‐of‐function
(FLG LOF) genetic variants with food allergy, and to investigate the added value of this test …

The outcome of Leishmania infections varies substantially, depending on the host and the
parasite strain; infection may be asymptomatic or cause mild or severe skin ulcers …

Asthma is a complex, multifactorial disease resulting due to dysregulated immune
responses. Genetic factors contribute significantly to asthma pathogenesis, and identification …

In recent years, a myriad of new statistical methods have been proposed for detecting
associations of rare single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) with common diseases. These …

Background Conventional meta‐analysis based on genetic markers may be less powerful
for heterogeneous samples. In this study, we introduced a new meta‐analysis for 4 …