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Disease heterogeneity has been a critical challenge for precision diagnosis and treatment, especially in neurologic and neuropsychiatric diseases. Many diseases can display multiple distinct brain phenotypes across individuals, potentially…
Genome sequence analysis plays a pivotal role in enabling many medical and scientific advancements in personalized medicine, outbreak tracing, and forensics. However, the analysis of genome sequencing data is currently bottlenecked by the…
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There are hundreds of methods for analysis of data obtained in mRNA-sequencing. The most of them are focused on small number of genes. In this study, we propose an approach that reduces the analysis of several thousand genes to analysis of…
Revealing relationships between genes and disease phenotypes is a critical problem in biomedical studies. This problem has been challenged by the heterogeneity of diseases. Patients of a perceived same disease may form multiple subgroups,…
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