Do genome-wide association scans have potential for translation?

Articles in the same Issue

1. Editorials
2. Biological variation and reference change values: an essential piece of the puzzle of laboratory testing
3. Copeptin for acute coronary syndrome: diamond or decoy?
4. Reviews
5. Gold nanoparticles in the clinical laboratory: principles of preparation and applications
6. The physiology and pathobiology of human kallikrein-related peptidase 6 (KLK6)
7. Mini Review
8. From “Clinical Proteomics” to “Clinical Chemistry Proteomics”: considerations using quantitative mass-spectrometry as a model approach
9. Opinion Paper
10. Considerations for early acute myocardial infarction rule-out for emergency department chest pain patients: the case of copeptin
11. Perspectives
12. Do genome-wide association scans have potential for translation?
13. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
14. Strategies of reducing input sample volume for extracting circulating cell-free nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA in plasma
15. Evaluation of Maxwell^® 16 for automated DNA extraction from whole blood and formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue
16. Screening for mutations in the α-globin genes leading to abnormal hemoglobin variants with high resolution melting analysis
17. Alternative methods to a TaqMan assay to detect a tri-allelic single nucleotide polymorphism rs757210 in the HNF1β gene
18. Gender- and obesity-specific effect of apolipoprotein C3 gene (APOC3) –482C>T polymorphism on triglyceride concentration in Turkish adults
19. Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism and circulating ACE levels are not associated with outcome in critically ill septic patients
20. Detection of internal tandem duplications in the FLT3 gene by different electrophoretic methods
21. Functional polymorphisms of GSTA1 and GSTO2 genes associated with asthma in Italian children
22. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
23. Optimisation of whole blood and plasma manganese assay by ICP-MS without use of a collision cell
24. Quantitative performance of antibody array technology in a prenatal screening setting
25. A comparison of the acute effects of calcium and strontium ranelate on the serum marker of bone resorption
26. A new dot immunoassay for simultaneous detection of celiac specific antibodies and IgA-deficiency
27. Preferentially immunoglobulin (IgG) subclasses production in primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients
28. Development of control material for hemoglobin analysis
29. Evaluation of nucleated red blood cells in the peripheral blood of hematological diseases
30. The effect of hematocrit on the results of measurements using glucose meters based on different techniques
31. Lupus anticoagulant testing: analyzing fresh samples after a single centrifugation and after a 6–8 h delay
32. Pseudoeosinophilia of synovial fluid is caused by crystals mimicking the distinct light scattering fractions of eosinophilic granules
33. The effect of acidification and oxalate concentration on urine calcium measurements in EQAS materials and patient samples
34. Cancer Diagnostics
35. The multi-cancer marker, rs6983267, located at region 3 of chromosome 8q24, is associated with prostate cancer in Greek patients but does not contribute to the aggressiveness of the disease
36. Cardiovascular Diseases
37. Heart type fatty acid binding protein in relation to pharmacologic scintigraphy in coronary artery disease
38. Effects of fibrates on C-reactive protein concentrations: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
39. Letters to the Editor
40. Comparison of Bio-Plex measurements with standard techniques
41. Interference of hemoglobin (Hb) Las Palmas with HPLC measurement of HbA_1c in 87 patients
42. False-positive calcitonin results in patients with benign goiter
43. Erratum
44. Heterophilic antibody interference in commercial immunoassays; a screening study using paired native and pre-blocked sera
45. Congress Abstracts
46. Advances and Controversies in B-Vitamins and Choline
47. Prelims