Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychiatric disorders worldwide. They often
onset early in life, with symptoms and consequences that can persist for decades. This …

Identified genetic variants from genome wide association studies frequently show only
modest effects on the disease risk, leading to the “missing heritability” problem. An avenue …

Quantitative trait loci (QTL) with small effects, which are pervasive in quantitative phenotypic
variation, are difficult to detect in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). To improve their …

Growing virus resistant varieties is a highly effective means to avoid yield loss due to
infection by many types of virus. The challenge is to be able to detect resistance donors …

MFGE8 is a major exosome (EV) protein known to mediate inflammation and atherosclerosis
in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in animal studies. The pathophysiological role of this …

Background. There is no conclusive evidence on the association between interleukin‐(IL‐) 6
gene polymorphism and type 2 diabetes mellitus (type 2 DM). Thus, this study is aimed at …

Cytogenetic studies suggested that chromosome 15q11-q13 might be a candidate region
that increases the risk of autism. Previous association studies in Caucasian populations …

Panic disorder (PD) is a common and debilitating neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by
panic attacks coupled with excessive anxiety. Both genetic factors and environmental factors …

Background There are many research studies have estimated the heritability of phenotypic
traits, but few have considered longitudinal changes in several phenotypic traits together …

Multiple testing procedures controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) are increasingly used
in the context of genome wide association studies (GWAS), and weighted multiple testing …