The content of yellow pigments in durum wheat (Titicum durum Desf.) grains: biosynthesis, genetic control, marker selection by P. N. Malchikov, M. G. Myasnikova

“…Molecular labeling of quantitative trait loci (QTL) that control the synthesis of the carotenoid pigment and the yellowness index (YI) found that they are distributed across all chromosomes of the durum wheat genome. The main QTLs, which determine 60 % of the variation of the trait, were mapped to 7AL and 7BL chromosome. …”
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Genetic association between immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and peripheral artery disease: a Mendelian randomization study by Haichao Wu, Dandan Zheng, Long Zhou, Qiang Wang, Tao Wang, Siyuan Liang

“…To corroborate previous research, we conducted Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis with the aim of clarifying the associations of various IMIDs with PAD. two-sample MR analysis was conducted to investigate the potential causal association between eight common IMIDs (including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Crohn’s disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), ankylosing spondylitis(AS), psoriasis(PSO), multiple sclerosis(MS), and hashimoto thyroiditis(HT)) and PAD. Genome-wide association study (GWAS) was used to identify genetic variants associated with IMIDs and PAD. …”
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Lipid-lowering drug targets and lung related diseases: a Mendelian randomization study by Haifeng Yu, Xiaofei Zhang, Bian Wen, Shuo Hu, Bin Ni

“…METHODS We extracted genetic variations of six drug target genes from a major genome-wide association study of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in individuals predominantly of European ancestry to represent the effects of LDL-C-lowering treatment. …”
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Hypoxia-induced CTCF mediates alternative splicing via coupling chromatin looping and RNA Pol II pause to promote EMT in breast cancer by Parik Kakani, Shruti Ganesh Dhamdhere, Deepak Pant, Rushikesh Joshi, Sachin Mishra, Anchala Pandey, Dimple Notani, Sanjeev Shukla

“…This further regulates the CTCF-mediated RNA polymerase II pause at COL5A1exon64A, leading to its inclusion in promoting the EMT under hypoxia. Genome-wide study indicates the association of gained CTCF occupancy with the alternative splicing of many cancer-related genes, similar to the proposed model. …”
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Glutathione reductase plays a role in the metabolism of methylmercury degradation in Rhodotorula mucilaginosa by Yi Guo, Wenlong Deng, Qigui Mo, You Yu, Zhenwang Zhang, Mingjie Wei, Ruiling Tang, Surui Lu, Yanting Su

“…Unlike the traditional microbial methylmercury degradation pathways, R. mucilaginosa’s genome does not encode the organomercury lyase gene MerB. …”
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ENO1 promotes PDAC progression by inhibiting CD8+ T cell infiltration through upregulating PD-L1 expression via HIF-1α signaling by Aziguli Tulamaiti, Shu-Yu Xiao, Yan Yang, Musitaba Mutailifu, Xia-Qing Li, Shi-Qi Yin, Hong-Tai Ma, Hong-Fei Yao, Lin-Li Yao, Li-Peng Hu, Jun Li, Shu-Heng Jiang, Zhi-Gang Zhang, Yan-Miao Huo, Dong-Xue Li, Xue-Li Zhang

“…Under hypoxic conditions, the “Warburg effect” occurs to meet the nutrient and energy demands of rapid genome replication, remodeling the tumor microenvironment (TME) and influencing tumor immunity. α-Enolase (ENO1) is a multifunctional protein, acting as a glycolytic enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of 2-phosphoglyceric acid to phosphoenolpyruvic acid. …”
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Novel functional eQTL-SNPs associated with susceptibility to occupational pulmonary fibrosis: A multi-stage study by Rui Zhao, Xiaobo Tao, Wendi Zhang, Siqi Li, Shenxuan Zhou, Anhui Ning, Zhenyu Li, Minjie Chu, Wei Wang, Junhong Jiang

“…Methods: We first integrated the genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of IPF and silicosis to obtain the shared SNPs. …”
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Multigene Panel Testing in Turkish Hereditary Cancer Syndrome Patients by Esra ARSLAN ATES, Ayberk TURKYILMAZ, Ceren ALAVANDA, Ozlem YILDIRIM, Ahmet Ilter GUNEY

“…In addition, 25 HCS-related genes were sequenced using a multigene panel, and variations were classified according to the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) criteria. In total, 218 HCS patients predominantly with breast, colorectal, ovarian, gastric, and endometrium cancers were included. …”
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Spatial transcriptome reveals histology-correlated immune signature learnt by deep learning attention mechanism on H&E-stained images for ovarian cancer prognosis by Chun Wai Ng, Kwong-Kwok Wong, Barrett C. Lawson, Sammy Ferri-Borgogno, Samuel C. Mok

“…Methods In this study, 773 WSIs of H&E-stained tumor sections from 335 patients with treatment naïve high-grade serous ovarian cancer who were included in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pan-Cancer study were used to train, and validate, and to test a ResNet101 CNN model modified with attention mechanism. …”
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The Prognostic Significance of TRs in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Insights from TCGA and GEO Databases by Hao Zhou, Weijie Wang, Ruopeng Liang, Rongtao Zhu, Jiahui Cao, Chenguang Sun, Yuling Sun

“…Methods: This study utilized Kaplan-Meier analysis of TR expression profiles from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Expression levels of TRs in HCC and immune single cells were assessed using datasets from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and TCGA, analyzed with R software. …”
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Polymorphism of microsattelite loci within the grape germplasm collection maintained at the Dagestan Experiment Station of VIR by M. M. Agakhanov, V. A. Volkov, P. S. Ulianich, K. M. Abdullaev, E. N. Kislin

“…As for any other large germplasm collections, the problem of genetic identification of the accessions and their originality is critical for the ampelographical collection. Genome of Vitis vinifera L. contains many polymorphic microsatellite loci, their allele diversity could be used to reveal the genetic structure of the ex situ collection as well as for the identification of duplicates. …”
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DHX37 Impacts Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Lung Adenocarcinoma through Immune Infiltration by Yanni Xu, Qiongchao Jiang, Hejun Liu, Xiaoyun Xiao, Dinghong Yang, Phei Er Saw, Baoming Luo

“…Coexpression genes, Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), and fundamental regulators were performed via LinkedOmics. …”
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Modification of Gene Expression Involved in Alkaloid Production in Opium Poppy by VIGS Combined With Pretreatment of Macerozyme Enzyme by Deniz Ece Özcan, Deniz Köm, Ozan Doğan, Semiha Erişen, Selma Onarici

“…The combination of VIGS and enzymatic pretreatment provides a robust platform for targeted metabolic engineering, offering insights into the regulation of morphine biosynthesis and paving the way for advancements in pharmaceutical alkaloid production and functional genomics in medicinal plants.…”
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SLC25A38 is required for mitochondrial pyridoxal 5’-phosphate (PLP) accumulation by Izabella A. Pena, Jeffrey S. Shi, Sarah M. Chang, Jason Yang, Samuel Block, Charles H. Adelmann, Heather R. Keys, Preston Ge, Shveta Bathla, Isabella H. Witham, Grzegorz Sienski, Angus C. Nairn, David M. Sabatini, Caroline A. Lewis, Nora Kory, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, Myriam Heiman

“…In this study, we used a genome-wide CRISPR interference screen in erythroleukemia cells and organellar metabolomics to identify the mitochondrial inner membrane protein SLC25A38 as a regulator of mitochondrial pyridoxal 5’-phosphate. …”
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Using spectrometric analysis for indirect estimation of 146S component concentration while measuring FMDV RNA amount by M. I. Doronin, D. V. Mikhalishin, N. Ye. Kamalova, A. V. Borisov

“…As expected, no FMDV genome or 146S particles were detected in the negative control sample.…”
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Revealing systematic changes in the transcriptome during the transition from exponential growth to stationary phase by Hyun Gyu Lim, Ye Gao, Kevin Rychel, Cameron Lamoureux, Xuwen A. Lou, Bernhard O. Palsson

“…This study demonstrates how the combination of genome-scale datasets and new data analytics reveals the fundamental characteristics of a key transition in the life cycle of bacteria.IMPORTANCENutrient limitations are critical environmental perturbations in bacterial physiology. …”
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Associations between sleep traits and colorectal cancer: a mendelian randomization analysis by Xiangyue Meng, Enshuo Fan, Dan Lv, Yongjing Yang, Shixin Liu

“…Publicly accessible GWAS (Genome-Wide Association Study) data were used to identify these variants to investigate the putative causal relationships between sleep traits and CRC. …”
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Intersection of rare pathogenic variants from TCGA in the All of Us Research Program v6 by Blaine A. Bates, Kylee E. Bates, Spencer A. Boris, Colin Wessman, David Stone, Justin Bryan, Mary F. Davis, Matthew H. Bailey

“…Summary: Using rare cancer predisposition alleles derived from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and high cancer prevalence (14% of participants) in All of Us (version 6), we assessed the impact of these rare alleles on cancer occurrence in six broad groups of genetic similarity provided by All of Us: African/African American (AFR), Admixed American/Latino (AMR), East Asian (EAS), European (EUR), Middle Eastern (MID), or South Asian (SAS). …”
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Chromatin environment-dependent effects of DOT1L on gene expression in male germ cells by Manon Coulée, Alberto de la Iglesia, Mélina Blanco, Clara Gobé, Clémentine Lapoujade, Côme Ialy-Radio, Lucia Alvarez-Gonzalez, Guillaume Meurice, Aurora Ruiz-Herrera, Pierre Fouchet, Julie Cocquet, Laïla El Khattabi

“…This coincides with a significant increase in DOT1L expression at this stage and a genome-wide acquisition of H3K79me2, particularly on the sex chromosomes. …”
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Exploring the bidirectional causality between neuroticism and frailty: a Mendelian randomization analysis by Yuhang Xing, Rui Pu, Mengdie Fu, Zhikang Wang, Zhen Wang, Xiaopeng Shang, Guoli Yang, Zhiwei Jiang

“…Methods The neuroticism genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from the UK Biobank contained twelve neuroticism-related traits with 489,212 participants. …”
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