Publications by authors named "Mehmet Alper Yilmaz"
Copy number variants (CNV) are shown to contribute to the etiology of several genetic disorders. Accurate detection of CNVs on whole exome sequencing (WES) data has been a long sought-after goal for use in clinics. This was not possible despite recent improvements in performance because algorithms mostly suffer from low precision and even lower recall on expert-curated gold standard call sets.
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- * Criteria from the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP-ATP III) were used to diagnose MetS among the participants, identifying that nearly 80% of the sarcoidosis patients were at stage 2.
- * Results indicated that sarcoidosis patients have a significantly higher risk of developing MetS (7.66 times) and insulin resistance (5.48 times) compared to healthy individuals.