Murgia F

ORCID: 0000-0002-3608-845X · 2 papers in corpus

2019

Exome genotyping and linkage analysis identifies two novel linked regions and replicates two others for myopia in Ashkenazi Jewish families.

BMC medical genetics ·doi:10.1186/s12881-019-0752-8

BackgroundMyopia is one of most common eye diseases in the world and affects 1 in 4 Americans. It is a complex disease caused by both environmental and genetics effects; the genetics effects are still not well understood. In this study, we …

2018

BRCAmut and "founder effect": a prospective study in a single academic institution.

Oncotarget ·doi:10.18632/oncotarget.24959

IntroductionAbout 25% of ovarian cancers can be classified as hereditary. Of these, 80-90% are correleted with the Hereditary Breast-Ovarian Cancer Syndrome (HBOC), which is linked to BRCA 1/2 genes mutations. Our study was set up to study …