We investigated the cumulative contribution of rare, exonic genetic variants on the concentration of 1,487 metabolites and 53,714 metabolite ratios in urine by performing gene-based tests based on 226,233 variants from up to 4,864 participants of the German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD)...
Leishmania donovani is the responsible agent for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Indian subcontinent (ISC). The disease is lethal without treatment and causes 0.2 to 0.4 million cases each year. Recently, reports of VL in Nepalese hilly districts have increased as well as VL cases cau...
As people are being widely exposed to microplastics (MPs), it is urgent to elucidate their toxicity mechanisms and identify intervention strategies to mitigate their adverse effects. This study firstly designed a two-phase population trial, comprising a pilot population (n = 151) to investigate t...
Contamination of fresh produce with human pathogens remains a serious public health and economic concerns due to the absence of effective kill steps in the farm-to-fork chain. In particular, the pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 has been implicated in multiple illness outbreaks linked to lettuc...
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified thousands of genetic loci associated with complex plant traits, including many traits of agronomical importance. However, functional interpretation of GWAS results remains challenging because of large candidate regions due to linkage disequilibriu...
PURPOSE: Detecting signals of micrometastatic disease in early breast cancer (EBC) patients could improve risk stratification and allow better tailoring of adjuvant therapies. We have previously shown that postoperative serum metabolomic profiles are predictive of relapse in a si...