Daily Archives: June 11, 2015

Genetics and Molecular Pathogenesis of Gastric Adenocarcinoma

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Patrick Tan, Khay-Guan Yeoh

Gastric cancer (GC) is globally the fifth most common cancer and third leading cause of cancer death. A complex disease arising from the interaction of environmental and host-associated factors, key contributors to GC’s high mortality include its sil… Continue reading →

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Patient Electronic Health Records as a Means to Approach Genetic Research in Gastroenterology

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, David Lieberman

Electronic health records (EHR) are being increasingly utilized and form a unique source of extensive data gathered during routine clinical care. Through use of codified and free text concepts identified using clinical informatics tools, disease labels… Continue reading →

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New Genetic and Genomic Approaches in the Post-GWAS Era – Back to the Future

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Joanne Ngeow, Charis Eng

The identification of all human genes and their regulatory regions provides the essential framework for our understanding of the molecular basis of disease. There is a lot of enthusiasm for applying next-generation sequencing methods towards achieving … Continue reading →

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