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Genetic bases of human comorbidity

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In this review, the development of ideas focused on the phenomenon of disease combination (comorbidity) in humans is discussed. The genetic bases of the three forms of the phenomenon, comorbidity (syntropias), inverse comorbidity (dystropias), and comorbidity of Mendelian and multifactorial diseases, are analyzed. The results of personal genome-wide association studies of the genetic risk profile that may predispose an individual to cardiovascular disease continuum (CDC), including coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia (CDC syntropy), as well as the results of bioinformatic analysis of common genes and the networks of molecular interactions for two (bronchial asthma and pulmonary tuberculosis) diseases rarely found in one patient (dystropy), are presented. The importance of the diseasome and network medicine concepts in the study of comorbidity is emphasized. Promising areas in genomic studies of comorbidities for disease classification and the development of personalized medicine are designated.

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  1. Institute of Medical Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Tomsk, 634050, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.P. Puzyrev, 2015, published in Genetika, 2015, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 491–502.

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Puzyrev, V.P. Genetic bases of human comorbidity. Russ J Genet 51, 408–417 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795415040092

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