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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Malihe Aghasizadeh, Asieh Ahmadi Hoseini, Reza Sahebi, Tooba Kazemi, Parisa Asadiyan-Sohan, Habibollah Esmaily, Sara Samadi, Amir Avan, Gordon A Ferns, Saeede Khosravi, Hamideh Ghazizadeh, Ebrahim Miri-Moghaddam, Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan
BACKGROUND: Loss-of-function (LOF) variants of the angiopoietin-like 3 (ANGPTL3) gene are reported to be associated with serum triglyceride (TG) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) concentrations and thereby affect the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). OBJECTIVE: In the present study, we examined the association of rs10789117 in the ANGPTL 3 gene locus and the risk of CVD in the group of people who were part of the Mashhad-Stroke and Heart-Atherosclerotic-Disorders (MASHAD) cohort...
April 2024: Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lin-Lin Wang, Ping-Shan Pan, Hui Ma, Chun He, Zai-Long Qin, Wei He, Jing Huang, Shu-Yin Tan, Da-Hua Meng, Hong-Wei Wei, Ai-Hua Yin
BACKGROUND: Malformations of cortical development (MCD) are a group of congenital disorders characterized by structural abnormalities in the brain cortex. The clinical manifestations include refractory epilepsy, mental retardation, and cognitive impairment. Genetic factors play a key role in the etiology of MCD. Currently, there is no curative treatment for MCD. Phenotypes such as epilepsy and cerebral palsy cannot be observed in the fetus. Therefore, the diagnosis of MCD is typically based on fetal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, or genetic testing...
April 2024: Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
J Sebastian Garcia-Medina, Karolina Sienkiewicz, S Anand Narayanan, Eliah G Overbey, Kirill Grigorev, Krista A Ryon, Marissa Burke, Jacqueline Proszynski, Braden Tierney, Caleb M Schmidt, Nuria Mencia-Trinchant, Remi Klotz, Veronica Ortiz, Jonathan Foox, Christopher Chin, Deena Najjar, Irina Matei, Irenaeus Chan, Carlos Cruchaga, Ashley Kleinman, JangKeun Kim, Alexander Lucaci, Conor Loy, Omary Mzava, Iwijn De Vlaminck, Anvita Singaraju, Lynn E Taylor, Julian C Schmidt, Michael A Schmidt, Kelly Blease, Juan Moreno, Andrew Boddicker, Junhua Zhao, Bryan Lajoie, Andrew Altomare, Semyon Kruglyak, Shawn Levy, Min Yu, Duane C Hassane, Susan M Bailey, Kelly Bolton, Jaime Mateus, Christopher E Mason
BACKGROUND: The Inspiration4 (I4) mission, the first all-civilian orbital flight mission, investigated the physiological effects of short-duration spaceflight through a multi-omic approach. Despite advances, there remains much to learn about human adaptation to spaceflight's unique challenges, including microgravity, immune system perturbations, and radiation exposure. METHODS: To provide a detailed genetics analysis of the mission, we collected dried blood spots pre-, during, and post-flight for DNA extraction...
March 2024: Precision Clinical Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ping Yang, Huijun Lei, Yue Fu, Cheng Chen, Li Tang, Shuaishuai Xia, Yan Guo, Guangyu Chen, Mengzhou Xie, Jingjing Yang, Feng Li, Liang Li
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most prominent malignancies that originate in the epithelial cells of the gastric mucosa and is one of the main causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. New circulating biomarkers of exosomal RNA might have great potential for non-invasive early prognosis of GC. Sijunzi Decoction (SJZD) is a typical representative formula of the method of benefiting Qi and strengthening the spleen in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). However, the effects and mechanism of SJZD in treating GC remain unclear...
April 15, 2024: Heliyon
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REVIEW
Smitesh Padte, Vikramaditya Samala Venkata, Priyal Mehta, Sawsan Tawfeeq, Rahul Kashyap, Salim Surani
Critical care medicine in the 21st century has witnessed remarkable advancements that have significantly improved patient outcomes in intensive care units (ICUs). This abstract provides a concise summary of the latest developments in critical care, highlighting key areas of innovation. Recent advancements in critical care include Precision Medicine: Tailoring treatments based on individual patient characteristics, genomics, and biomarkers to enhance the effectiveness of therapies. The objective is to describe the recent advancements in Critical Care Medicine...
March 9, 2024: World Journal of Critical Care Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Boyu Tan, Xiaoxu Lan, Yifan Zhang, Pai Liu, Qiyao Jin, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhidong Liang, Wei Song, Ye Xuan, Yunxiao Sun, Youjie Li
The present study aimed to investigate the effect and mechanism of Pulsatilla compounds on lung adenocarcinoma. The representative drug chosen was the compound 23-HBA. GeneCards, Swiss target prediction, DisGeNET and TCMSP were used to screen out related genes, and MTT and flow cytometry assays were used to verify the inhibitory effect of Pulsatilla compounds on the proliferation of lung adenocarcinoma cells. Subsequently, the optimal target, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)-γ, was selected using bioinformatics analysis, and its properties of low expression in lung adenocarcinoma cells and its role as a tumor suppressor gene were verified by western blot assay...
June 2024: Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jia Huang, Dong Wu, Jia-Huan He, Jing-Yuan Wang, Xi Li, Zheng-Yuan Wang, Yue Wang, Hong-Yan Liu
OBJECTIVES: Regarding increased nuchal translucency (NT), the cutoff values used are heterogeneous in clinical practice, this study aims to assess the efficacy of prenatal detection for chromosomal abnormalities and pregnancy outcomes in fetuses with varying NT thicknesses, in order to provide data that supports informed prenatal diagnosis and genetic counseling for such cases. METHODS: We included 2,272 pregnant women under 35 with singleton pregnancies who underwent invasive prenatal diagnosis between 2014 and 2022...
2024: Frontiers in Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eman Ebissy, Asmaa Darwish, Amani A Hafez, Ahmed Ateya, Ahmed El-Sayed
BACKGROUND: Mastitis in goats is unquestionably a grave concern, with far-reaching implications for both animal well-being and productivity, while also presenting a potential threat to public health. AIM: The study aimed to compare culture methods and multiplex PCR (m-PCR) in the detection of the most three common mastitis-causing pathogens ( Staphylococcus aureus , Escherichia coli , and Streptococcus spp.) and investigate the gene expression, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), serum concentrations of immunological and antioxidant indicators linked to mastitis in Shami goats...
January 2024: Open Veterinary Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yifei Cheng, Lang Wu, Junyi Xin, Shuai Ben, Silu Chen, Huiqin Li, Lingyan Zhao, Meilin Wang, Gong Cheng, Mulong Du
BACKGROUND: Early-onset prostate cancer (EOPC, ≤ 55 years) has a unique clinical entity harboring high genetic risk, but the majority of EOPC patients still substantial opportunity to be early-detected thus suffering an unfavorable prognosis. A refined understanding of age-based polygenic risk score (PRS) for prostate cancer (PCa) would be essential for personalized risk stratification. METHODS: We included 167,517 male participants [4882 cases including 205 EOPC and 4677 late-onset PCa (LOPC)] from UK Biobank...
April 17, 2024: Journal of Translational Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xin Li, Jiang-Shan Tan, Jing Xu, Zhihui Zhao, Qing Zhao, Yi Zhang, Anqi Duan, Zhihua Huang, Sicheng Zhang, Luyang Gao, Yue Jin Yang, Tao Yang, Qi Jin, Qin Luo, Yanmin Yang, Zhihong Liu
BACKGROUND: Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) exhibit a distinct gut microbiota profile; however, the causal association between gut microbiota, associated metabolites, and PAH remains elusive. We aimed to investigate this causal association and to explore whether dietary patterns play a role in its regulation. METHODS: Summary statistics of gut microbiota, associated metabolites, diet, and PAH were obtained from genome-wide association studies...
April 17, 2024: BMC Pulmonary Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chihiro Mimura, Rei Takamiya, Shodai Fujimoto, Takafumi Fukui, Atsuhiko Yatani, Jun Yamada, Mizuki Takayasu, Naoya Takata, Hiroki Sato, Kiyoko Fukuda, Koichi Furukawa, Daisuke Hazama, Naoko Katsurada, Masatsugu Yamamoto, Shingo Matsumoto, Koichi Goto, Motoko Tachihara
BACKGROUND: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is essential for lung cancer treatment. It is important to collect sufficient tissue specimens, but sometimes we cannot obtain large enough samples for NGS analysis. We investigated the yield of NGS analysis by frozen cytology pellets using an Oncomine Comprehensive Assay or Oncomine Precision Assay. METHODS: We retrospectively enrolled patients with lung cancer who underwent bronchoscopy at Kobe University Hospital and were enrolled in the Lung Cancer Genomic Screening Project for Individualized Medicine...
April 17, 2024: BMC Cancer
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sylvanus Toikumo, Mariela V Jennings, Benjamin K Pham, Hyunjoon Lee, Travis T Mallard, Sevim B Bianchi, John J Meredith, Laura Vilar-Ribó, Heng Xu, Alexander S Hatoum, Emma C Johnson, Vanessa K Pazdernik, Zeal Jinwala, Shreya R Pakala, Brittany S Leger, Maria Niarchou, Michael Ehinmowo, Greg D Jenkins, Anthony Batzler, Richard Pendegraft, Abraham A Palmer, Hang Zhou, Joanna M Biernacka, Brandon J Coombes, Joel Gelernter, Ke Xu, Dana B Hancock, Nancy J Cox, Jordan W Smoller, Lea K Davis, Amy C Justice, Henry R Kranzler, Rachel L Kember, Sandra Sanchez-Roige
Tobacco use disorder (TUD) is the most prevalent substance use disorder in the world. Genetic factors influence smoking behaviours and although strides have been made using genome-wide association studies to identify risk variants, most variants identified have been for nicotine consumption, rather than TUD. Here we leveraged four US biobanks to perform a multi-ancestral meta-analysis of TUD (derived via electronic health records) in 653,790 individuals (495,005 European, 114,420 African American and 44,365 Latin American) and data from UK Biobank (ncombined = 898,680)...
April 17, 2024: Nature Human Behaviour
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Giulia Pagani, Paolo Gandellini
The role of alternative polyadenylation of mRNA in sustaining aggressive features of tumors is quite well established, as it is responsible for the 3'UTR shortening of oncogenes and subsequent relief from miRNA-mediated repression observed in cancer cells. However, the information regarding the vulnerability of cancer cells to the inhibition of cleavage and polyadenylation (CPA) machinery is very scattered. Only few recent reports show the antitumor activity of pharmacological inhibitors of CPSF3, one among CPA factors...
April 17, 2024: Cancer Gene Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Janet Vittone, David Gill, Alex Goldsmith, Eric A Klein, Jordan J Karlitz
US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines recommend single-cancer screening for select cancers (e.g., breast, cervical, colorectal, lung). Advances in genome sequencing and machine learning have facilitated the development of blood-based multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests intended to complement single-cancer screening. MCED tests can interrogate circulating cell-free DNA to detect a shared cancer signal across multiple tumor types. We report real-world experience with an MCED test that detected cancer signals in three individuals subsequently diagnosed with cancers of the ovary, kidney, and head/neck that lack USPSTF-recommended screening...
April 17, 2024: NPJ Precision Oncology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chang Zhang, Mei Jiang, Jingting Liu, Bin Wu, Chang Liu
Natural Antisense Transcripts (NATs) are a kind of complex regulatory RNAs that play crucial roles in gene expression and regulation. However, the NATs in Cannabis Sativa L., a widely economic and medicinal plant rich in cannabinoids remain unknown. In this study, we comprehensively predicted C. sativa NATs genome-wide using strand-specific RNA sequencing (ssRNA-Seq) data, and validated the expression profiles by strand-specific quantitative reverse transcription PCR (ssRT-qPCR). Consequently, a total of 307 NATs were predicted in C...
April 17, 2024: Plant Molecular Biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nicola J Wyatt, Hannah Watson, Carl A Anderson, Nicholas A Kennedy, Tim Raine, Tariq Ahmad, Dean Allerton, Michelle Bardgett, Emma Clark, Dawn Clewes, Cristina Cotobal Martin, Mary Doona, Jennifer A Doyle, Katherine Frith, Helen C Hancock, Ailsa L Hart, Victoria Hildreth, Peter M Irving, Sameena Iqbal, Ciara Kennedy, Andrew King, Sarah Lawrence, Charlie W Lees, Robert Lees, Laura Letchford, Trevor Liddle, James O Lindsay, Rebecca H Maier, John C Mansfield, Julian R Marchesi, Naomi McGregor, Rebecca E McIntyre, Jasmin Ostermayer, Tolulope Osunnuyi, Nick Powell, Natalie J Prescott, Jack Satsangi, Shriya Sharma, Tara Shrestha, Ally Speight, Michelle Strickland, James Ms Wason, Kevin Whelan, Ruth Wood, Gregory R Young, Xinyue Zhang, Miles Parkes, Christopher J Stewart, Luke Jostins-Dean, Christopher A Lamb
INTRODUCTION: Characterised by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) symptoms including diarrhoea, abdominal pain and fatigue can significantly impact patient's quality of life. Therapeutic developments in the last 20 years have revolutionised treatment. However, clinical trials and real-world data show primary non-response rates up to 40%. A significant challenge is an inability to predict which treatment will benefit individual patients...
April 17, 2024: BMJ Open
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REVIEW
Claudia Christowitz, Daniel W Olivier, Johann W Schneider, Maritha J Kotze, Anna-Mart Engelbrecht
A pathology-supported genetic testing (PSGT) framework was established in South Africa to improve access to precision medicine for patients with breast carcinomas. Nevertheless, the frequent identification of variants of uncertain significance (VUSs) with the use of genome-scale next-generation sequencing has created a bottleneck in the return of results to patients. This review highlights the importance of incorporating functional genomics into the PSGT framework as a proposed initiative. Here, we explore various model systems and experimental methods available for conducting functional studies in South Africa to enhance both variant classification and clinical interpretation...
April 15, 2024: Mutation Research. Reviews in Mutation Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chaohui Bao, Tingting Tan, Shan Wang, Chenxu Gao, Chang Lu, Siyue Yang, Yizhu Diao, Lulu Jiang, Duohui Jing, Liye Chen, Haitao Lv, Hai Fang
Cross-disease genome-wide association studies (GWASs) unveil pleiotropic loci, mostly situated within the non-coding genome, each of which exerts pleiotropic effects across multiple diseases. However, the challenge "W-H-W" (namely, whether, how, and in which specific diseases pleiotropy can inform clinical therapeutics) calls for effective and integrative approaches and tools. We here introduce a pleiotropy-driven approach specifically designed for therapeutic target prioritization and evaluation from cross-disease GWAS summary data, with its validity demonstrated through applications to two systems of disorders (neuropsychiatric and inflammatory)...
April 15, 2024: Cell Rep Methods
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Annette Onken, Sabrina Moyo, Mohammed Khamis Miraji, Jon Bohlin, Msafiri Marijani, Joel Manyahi, Kibwana Omar Kibwana, Fredrik Müller, Pål A Jenum, Khamis Ali Abeid, Marianne Reimers, Nina Langeland, Kristine Mørch, Bjørn Blomberg
BACKGROUND: Typhoid fever is a common cause of febrile illness in low- and middle-income countries. While multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi) has spread globally, fluoroquinolone resistance has mainly affected Asia. METHODS: Consecutively, 1038 blood cultures were obtained from patients of all age groups with fever and/or suspicion of serious systemic infection admitted at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital, Zanzibar in 2015-2016. S. Typhi were analyzed with antimicrobial susceptibility testing and with short read (61 strains) and long read (9 strains) whole genome sequencing, including three S...
April 17, 2024: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xin Dang, Barbara A Hanson, Zachary S Orban, Millenia Jimenez, Stephen Suchy, Igor J Koralnik
Viruses can infect the brain in individuals with and without HIV-infection: however, the brain virome is poorly characterized. Metabolic alterations have been identified which predispose people to substance use disorder (SUD), but whether these could be triggered by viral infection of the brain is unknown. We used a target-enrichment, deep sequencing platform and bioinformatic pipeline named "ViroFind", for the unbiased characterization of DNA and RNA viruses in brain samples obtained from the National Neuro-AIDS Tissue Consortium...
2024: PloS One
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