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Special considerations in prognostic research in cancer involving genetic polymorphisms

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, June 2013
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Title
Special considerations in prognostic research in cancer involving genetic polymorphisms
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BMC Medicine, June 2013
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-11-149
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Sevtap Savas, Geoffrey Liu, Wei Xu

Abstract

Analysis of genetic polymorphisms may help identify putative prognostic markers and determine the biological basis of variable prognosis in patients. However, in contrast to other variables commonly used in the prognostic studies, there are special considerations when studying genetic polymorphisms. For example, variable inheritance patterns (recessive, dominant, codominant, and additive genetic models) need to be explored to identify the specific genotypes associated with the outcome. In addition, several characteristics of genetic polymorphisms, such as their minor allele frequency and linkage disequilibrium among multiple polymorphisms, and the population substructure of the cohort investigated need to be accounted for in the analyses. In addition, in cancer research due to the genomic differences between the tumor and non-tumor DNA, differences in the genetic information obtained using these tissues need to be carefully assessed in prognostic studies. In this article, we review these and other considerations specific to genetic polymorphism by focusing on genetic prognostic studies in cancer.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Australia 1 4%
Unknown 26 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 22%
Student > Bachelor 6 22%
Student > Master 4 15%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Professor 2 7%
Other 6 22%
Unknown 1 4%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 12 44%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 7%
Psychology 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 2 7%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 May 2015.
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#2,750,738
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#1,664
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#24,597
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#36
of 56 outputs
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