{"title":"Tipping the Scale Toward Gastric Disease: A Host-Pathogen Genomic Mismatch?","authors":"Gloria Tavera, Douglas R Morgan, Scott M Williams","doi":"10.1007/s40142-018-0153-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40142-018-0153-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Chronic infection with <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> infection is necessary but not sufficient to initiate development of intestinal-type gastric adenocarcinoma. It is not clear what additional factors tip the scale from commensal bacteria towards a pathogen that facilitates development of gastric cancer. Genetic variants in both the pathogen and host have been implicated, but neither alone explains a substantial portion of disease risk.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>In this review, we consider studies that address the important role of human and bacterial genetics, ancestry and their interactions in determining gastric disease risk. We observe gaps in the current literature that should guide future work to confirm the hypothesis of the interacting roles of host and bacterial genetics that will be necessary to translate these findings into clinically relevant information.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>We summarize genetic risk factors for gastric disease in both <i>H. pylori</i> and human hosts. However, genetic variation of one or the other organism in isolation insufficiently explains gastric disease risk. The most promising models of gastric disease risk simultaneously consider the genetic variation of both the <i>H. pylori</i> and human host, under a co-evolution model.</p>","PeriodicalId":72731,"journal":{"name":"Current genetic medicine reports","volume":"6 4","pages":"199-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40142-018-0153-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36976646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Soares-Souza, V. Borda, F. Kehdy, E. Tarazona-Santos
{"title":"Admixture, Genetics and Complex Diseases in Latin Americans and US Hispanics","authors":"G. Soares-Souza, V. Borda, F. Kehdy, E. Tarazona-Santos","doi":"10.1007/s40142-018-0151-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40142-018-0151-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72731,"journal":{"name":"Current genetic medicine reports","volume":"6 1","pages":"208-223"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40142-018-0151-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48415988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Micronuclei and What They Can Tell Us in Cytogenetic Diagnostics","authors":"G. Hovhannisyan, T. Harutyunyan, R. Aroutiounian","doi":"10.1007/s40142-018-0149-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40142-018-0149-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72731,"journal":{"name":"Current genetic medicine reports","volume":"6 1","pages":"144-154"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40142-018-0149-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46645693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards Cultural Competence in the Genomic Age: a Review of Current Health Care Provider Educational Trainings and Interventions","authors":"Molly A McGinniss, Amelia Tahmassi, Erica Ramos","doi":"10.1007/s40142-018-0150-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40142-018-0150-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72731,"journal":{"name":"Current genetic medicine reports","volume":"6 1","pages":"187-198"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40142-018-0150-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48111946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Bello Cioffi, O. Moreira-Filho, P. Ráb, A. Sember, W. F. Molina, L. Bertollo
{"title":"Conventional Cytogenetic Approaches—Useful and Indispensable Tools in Discovering Fish Biodiversity","authors":"M. Bello Cioffi, O. Moreira-Filho, P. Ráb, A. Sember, W. F. Molina, L. Bertollo","doi":"10.1007/s40142-018-0148-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40142-018-0148-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72731,"journal":{"name":"Current genetic medicine reports","volume":"6 1","pages":"176-186"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40142-018-0148-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42020889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Wilhelm, Constanze Pentzold, Sandra Schoener, A. Arakelyan, A. Hakobyan, K. Mrasek, A. Weise
{"title":"Fragile Sites as Drivers of Gene and Genome Evolution","authors":"K. Wilhelm, Constanze Pentzold, Sandra Schoener, A. Arakelyan, A. Hakobyan, K. Mrasek, A. Weise","doi":"10.1007/s40142-018-0154-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40142-018-0154-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72731,"journal":{"name":"Current genetic medicine reports","volume":"6 1","pages":"136-143"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40142-018-0154-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45811201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human Molecular Neurocytogenetics","authors":"Y. Yurov, S. Vorsanova, I. Iourov","doi":"10.1007/s40142-018-0152-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40142-018-0152-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72731,"journal":{"name":"Current genetic medicine reports","volume":"6 1","pages":"155-164"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40142-018-0152-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46707495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Significance of Cytogenetics in Leukemia Diagnostics","authors":"T. S. Wan, Eleanor K C Hui, M. Ng","doi":"10.1007/s40142-018-0147-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40142-018-0147-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72731,"journal":{"name":"Current genetic medicine reports","volume":"6 1","pages":"165-175"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2018-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40142-018-0147-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49364057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genetics of Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerosis.","authors":"Lawrence F Bielak, Patricia A Peyser","doi":"10.1007/s40142-018-0145-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40142-018-0145-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>This review highlights recent findings regarding genetics of coronary artery calcification (CAC), a marker of subclinical atherosclerosis burden, that is a precursor of clinical coronary artery disease.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>CAC quantity is heritable. Genome wide association studies of common single nucleotide polymorphisms have identified genomic regions explaining ~2.4% of CAC heritability. Low frequency and rare variants explain additional variation in CAC. Evidence suggests that there may be different genetic etiologies for variation in CAC progression than for cross-sectional measures of CAC. Studies integrating multiple -omics data are providing new insights into the pathobiology of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis.</p><p><strong>Summary: </strong>The future is promising for innovative studies utilizing whole genome sequencing data as well as other -omics such as epigenomic modifications of genes and gene expression. These studies may provide multiple sources of data pointing to the same gene or pathway, thus providing greater confidence in findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":72731,"journal":{"name":"Current genetic medicine reports","volume":"6 3","pages":"116-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40142-018-0145-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37041256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genetic and Epigenetic Regulations of Post-prandial Lipemia","authors":"Huichun Xu","doi":"10.1007/s40142-018-0146-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40142-018-0146-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72731,"journal":{"name":"Current genetic medicine reports","volume":"6 1","pages":"124-131"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2018-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s40142-018-0146-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42452879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}