Genetics
Polymorphic loci of AC026703.1 and HFE genes are associated with severe hypertension
Volume 9, Issue №1, 2023
Background: Hypertension (HT) is characterized by high blood pressure (BP) and is one of the most common diseases in the world. At the moment, there is information in the ...
Molecular cytogenetic and cytopostgenomic analysis of the human genome
Volume 8, Issue №4, 2022
Background: Despite the achievements of human genomics, comprehensive genome analysis, including acquiring the knowledge about intercellular and interindividual variations at (sub)chromosomal/cytogenomic level, remains a difficult task. This basically results ...
Knock-out of α-, β-, and γ-synuclein genes in mice leads to changes in the distribution of several lipids in the liver and blood plasma
Volume 8, Issue №4, 2022
Background: In addition to the role of synuclein proteins in synaptic transmission through binding with lipid membranes, the function of synucleins in reactions of the synthesis of lipids and ...
Study of the exosomal microRNA-126 and microRNA-218 expression profiles in patients with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS)
Volume 8, Issue №4, 2022
Background: Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS), caused by orthohantaviruses, occupies one of the leading places among natural focal human diseases, for which there are no modern accurate and highly ...
Association of the rs10508336 polymorphism of the TAF3 transcription factor gene with the risk of lower limb arterial disease in the Russian population
Volume 8, Issue №4, 2022
Background: Atherosclerosis obliterans (AO) and diabetic angiopathy (DA) are known to be peripheral artery diseases (PAD) of multifactorial origin, in which genetic and environmental factors play a synergetic role. ...
Genetic markers of severe preeclampsia
Volume 8, Issue №3, 2022
Background: In modern medicine, close attention is paid to the issues of reducing maternal morbidity and mortality, to the structure of which hypertensive disorders of gestation, especially preeclampsia, make ...
Genetic variation of ERN1 and susceptibility to type 2 diabetes
Volume 8, Issue №3, 2022
Background: The endoribonuclease IRE1 (ERN1) is an important sensor for the endoplasmic reticulum unfolded protein response (UPR), and its activation happens as a result of the accumulation of unfolded ...
C9orf16 (BBLN) gene, encoding a member of Hero proteins, is a novel marker in ischemic stroke risk
Volume 8, Issue №3, 2022
Background: Ischemic stroke (IS) is the leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Chaperone proteins protect brain cells from the ischemic damage by restoring the structures of damaged proteins. Chaperone ...
Study of the cytokine genes SNPs association with the characteristics of the immunological status of children with recurrent respiratory infection
Volume 8, Issue №3, 2022
Background: Herpesvirus infections are one of the most common human infections that play a special role in children with recurrent respiratory infection cohort formation. The immunological status of such ...
The role of highly penetrant mutations in BRCA1 and CHEK2 genes in the pattern of associations of matrix metalloproteinase gene polymorphisms with breast cancer
Volume 8, Issue №2, 2022
Background: Breast cancer (BC) is a malignant breast tumor, which occupies a leading place both in the structure of oncological diseases in women and among the causes of female ...
Germline mutations as possible biomarkers of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy efficacy in patients with renal cell carcinoma (mini review)
Volume 8, Issue №2, 2022
Background: The use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) is a promising therapy in cancer treatment, in particular renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Despite the revolutionary breakthrough in cancer treatment, a ...
The association of inflammatory status and immunological parameters with single-nucleotide polymorphisms of cytokine and Toll-like receptor genes in patients with schizophrenia
Volume 8, Issue №2, 2022
Background: Schizophrenia is a multifactorial and clinically polymorphic disease with a significant hereditary component. The study of the influence of functionally significant polymorphisms of the genes regulating immune response ...
Association of polymorphism rs10841855 in the glycogen synthase 2 gene with hypercholesterolemia and type 2 diabetes mellitus
Volume 8, Issue №2, 2022
Background: Glycogen synthase 2 (GYS2) catalyzes a key step in glycogenesis in the liver. Loss-of-function mutations in the GYS2 gene are associated with type 0a glycogenosis with characteristic fasting ...
Expression of stem cell markers in meningioma among Sudanese patients
Volume 8, Issue №1, 2022
Background: Meningioma is the second most common primary intracranial tumor of the central nervous system, surgical total excision of meningioma offers a better survival to patients; however, a ...
Studying the role of interlocus interactions of folate cycle genes and matrix metalloproteinases in the formation of fetal growth retardation
Volume 8, Issue №1, 2022
Background: Fetal growth retardation (FGR) is one of the most common pregnancy complications that can adversely affect the short- and long-term health of newborns. The search for maternal polymorphisms ...
Epigenetic and genomic mechanisms in the pathogenesis of posttraumatic stress disorder (review)
Volume 8, Issue №1, 2022
Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder is one of the most prominent examples of gene-environment interactions. Psychological traumatization is a dominant, but not the only etiological factor. Over the past 20 ...
Analysis of the level of population endogamia as the basis of population-genetic and medical-genetic studies
Volume 7, Issue №4, 2021
Background: When conducting population-genetic and genetic-epidemiological studies, the endogamy index should be taken into account to assess the level of the elementary population, characteristics of the migration ...
Ovarian cancer as part of hereditary cancer syndromes (review)
Volume 7, Issue №4, 2021
Background: Hereditary forms of ovarian cancer (OC) account for more than one fifth of cases of malignant neoplasms of this localization. The discovery of new molecular genetic predictors of ...
Essentially pure partial trisomy 6(p21.31-p25) (case report and literature review)
Volume 7, Issue №4, 2021
Background: In reviewed literature, several patients with duplication or partial trisomy of the 6p region have been described. Most of these cases are associated with a partial monosomy ...
Interrelation of IL1B and IL6 genes polymorphism with blood eosinophilia and histological picture of polyps in patients with chronic polypous rhinosinusitis
Volume 7, Issue №4, 2021
Background: The problem of chronic polyposis rhinosinusitis is one of the most common diseases in modern otorhinolaryngology with an etiopathogenesis that is not fully understood. A widely studied theory ...
