Personalized medical care focuses on prediction of disease risk and response to
medications. To build the risk models, access to both large-scale genomic resources and …

Summary The Taiwan Biobank (TWB) is an ongoing prospective study of> 150,000
individuals aged 20–70 in Taiwan. A comprehensive list of phenotypes was collected for …

The association between neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) and response to inhaled
corticosteroids (ICS) in asthma is unclear. To better understand this relationship, we …

Background The importance of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions on asthma is
well documented in literature, but a systematic analysis on the interaction between various …

Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are a group of common chemicals that ubiquitously exist in
wildlife and humans. Experimental data suggest that they may alter T-lymphocyte …

Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are functionally unique for their self-renewal ability
and pluripotency, but the molecular mechanisms giving rise to these properties are not fully …

Background The neuroprotective role of interleukin (IL)-33 is supported by numerous
preclinical studies, but it remains uninvestigated in clinical studies of Alzheimer's disease …

AIMS: The joint effect of obesity and asthma on hyperlipidemia has never been explored. We
aim to examine (1) the association of dyslipidemia and asthma,(2) the interaction effect of …

Brain degeneration in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) results from the accumulation
of pathological amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau protein tangles, leading to altered plasma …

Background We tested the hypothesis that multiple obesity‐related risk factors (obesity,
physical activity, cardiopulmonary physical fitness, sleep‐disorder breathing (SDB), and …