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Volume 17 Supplement 3

Selected articles from the 12th Annual Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium: genomics

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Provo, UT, USA10-11 December 2015

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Edited by Perry Ridge and Mark Clement.

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  3. Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia in the elderly and the third most common cause of death in the United States. A vast number of genes regulate Alzheimer’s disease, including Presenilin 1 (PSEN...

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  4. Prostatic Acid Phosphatase (PAP) is an enzyme that is produced primarily in the prostate and functions as a cell growth regulator and potential tumor suppressor. Understanding the genetic regulation of this en...

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  5. CCL16 is a chemokine predominantly expressed in the liver, but is also found in the blood and brain, and is known to play important roles in immune response and angiogenesis. Little is...

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