Oral Microbiome and Treatment Resistance Status in Schizophrenia: A Cross-sectional Study by Anoop Sankaranarayanan, Preethi Ramanathan, Martha Zakrzewski, Deepali Vasani, Ramanathan Ganapathy, Vlasios Brakoulias, Mark W. Douglas

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Kernel Sliced Inverse Regression: Regularization and Consistency by Qiang Wu, Feng Liang, Sayan Mukherjee

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HERVs Endophenotype in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Human Endogenous Retroviruses, Specific Immunoreactivity, and Disease Association in Different Family Members by Marco Bo, Alessandra Carta, Chiara Cipriani, Vanna Cavassa, Elena Rita Simula, Nguyen Thi Huyen, Giang Thi Hang Phan, Marta Noli, Claudia Matteucci, Stefano Sotgiu, Emanuela Balestrieri, Leonardo Antonio Sechi

“…In this review, we discuss recent advances in genetic research on ASD, with a particular emphasis on the implications of HERVs on neurodevelopment and future genomic initiatives aimed at discovering ASD-related genes through Artificial Intelligence. …”
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Meningococcal B Vaccination (4CMenB) in Infants and Toddlers by Susanna Esposito, Claudia Tagliabue, Samantha Bosis

“…Serogroup B has long been a challenge but the discovery of the complete genome sequence of an MenB strain has allowed the development of a specific four-component vaccine (4CMenB). …”
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A Rare Interstitial Duplication of 8q22.1–8q24.3 Associated with Syndromic Bilateral Cleft Lip/Palate by Regina Ferreira Rezek, Ana Angélica Rodrigues Abbas, Juliana Forte Mazzeu, Siliana Maria Duarte Miranda, Cibele Velloso-Rodrigues

“…We have compared this case with other “pure” trisomies of 8q patients reported in the literature and with genome wide association studies recently published. …”
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Big Data Analytics for Healthcare Industry: Impact, Applications, and Tools by Sunil Kumar, Maninder Singh

“…We also explore the conceptual architecture of big data analytics for healthcare which involves the data gathering history of different branches, the genome database, electronic health records, text/imagery, and clinical decisions support system.…”
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Deconstruction of Vulnerability to Complex Diseases: Enhanced Effect Sizes and Power of Intermediate Phenotypes by David Goldman, Francesca Ducci

“…Systematic searches for genes influencing complex disorders, including bipolar disorder, have recently been completed using whole genome association (WGA), identifying a series of validated loci. …”
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Precision oncology through next generation sequencing in hepatocellular carcinoma by Sayali Shinde, Carola Maria Bigogno, Ana Simmons, Nikita Kathuria, Aruni Ghose, Vedika Apte, Patricia Lapitan, Shania Makker, Aydin Caglayan, Stergios Boussios

“…Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) plays a crucial role in overcoming this issue by sequencing both viral and host genomes to identify mutations and genetic heterogeneity. …”
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Targeting EBV Episome for Anti-Cancer Therapy: Emerging Strategies and Challenges by Febri Gunawan Sugiokto, Renfeng Li

“…The presence of EBV in tumor cells provides a unique advantage in targeting the viral genome (also known as episome), to develop anti-cancer therapeutics. …”
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On Programmed Cell Death in Plasmodium falciparum: Status Quo by Dewaldt Engelbrecht, Pierre Marcel Durand, Thérèsa Louise Coetzer

“…Furthermore, we present genomic evidence for PCD machinery in P. falciparum. …”
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The Immune Landscape and Its Potential for Immunotherapy in Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer by Andry Santoso, Iris Levink, Rille Pihlak, Ian Chau

“…Biliary tract cancers (BTC) are a highly heterogeneous group of cancers at the genomic, epigenetic and molecular levels. The vast majority of patients initially present at an advanced (unresectable) disease stage due to a lack of symptoms and an aggressive tumour biology. …”
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Angioimmunoblastic T-Cell Lymphoma: A Questionable Association with Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma by Daniel Benharroch, Miriam Zekzer, Karen Nalbandyan

“…We raise herein the issue of the borderline area between advanced follicular dendritic cell expansion in angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma and a massive follicular dendritic cell proliferation consistent with follicular dendritic cells sarcoma, in the absence of a genomic analysis.…”
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Epigenetic Application of ATAC-Seq Based on Tn5 Transposase Purification Technology by Wangchun Li, U Tim Wu, Yu Cheng, Yanhao Huang, Lipeng Mao, Menghan Sun, Congling Qiu, Lin Zhou, Lijuan Gao

“…Assays of transposase accessible chromatin sequencing (ATAC-seq) is an efficient assay to investigate chromatin accessibility, which depends on the activity of a robust Tn5 transposase to fragment the genome while cutting in the sequencing adapters. Methods. …”
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Smart breeding driven by advances in sequencing technology by Chenji Zhang, Sirong Jiang, Yangyang Tian, Xiaorui Dong, Jianjia Xiao, Yanjie Lu, Tiyun Liang, Hongmei Zhou, Dabin Xu, Han Zhang, Ming Luo, Zhiqiang Xia

“…This review provides an overview of breeding techniques from traditional selective breeding and crossbreeding to modern breeding based on molecular marker‐assisted and genomic selection. Systematic analysis of the mainstream genotyping approaches based on principle, application scenario and supporting software revealed that the changes in genotyping technology have led to an explosion in data. …”
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Protocol for correlating the gut microbiome and metabolomics in patients with intracranial aneurysms by Hongyu Xu, Zetian Jia, Junhui Liu, Runming Liu, Wei Wei, Xiang Li

“…We describe steps for sample collection, fecal genomic DNA extraction, rRNA PCR amplification, sequencing library construction, and rRNA sequencing. …”
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Comprehensive cDNA cloning and putative feature analysis of endogenous cellulases possessed by the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas. by Manabu Wen-Liu Tanimura, Kazuhiko Koike, Motoki Kayama, Kazumi Matsuoka

“…Therefore, our objective was to identify the cellulases present in C. gigas through transcriptome and genomic analyses. The results showed that there are 10 cellulase orthologs, seven of which are endogenous. …”
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The Impact of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on Cytotoxicity, Genotoxicity, and miRNA Expression in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Seedlings by Ilona Plaksenkova, Inese Kokina, Anastasija Petrova, Marija Jermaļonoka, Vjačeslavs Gerbreders, Marina Krasovska

“…The results demonstrate that zinc oxide nanoparticles enhance barley seed germination, shoot/root elongation, and H2O2 stress level and decrease root cell viability and genomic template stability and up- and downregulated miRNAs in barley seedlings.…”
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Substrates, regulation, cellular functions, and disease associations of P4-ATPases by Hye-Won Shin, Hiroyuki Takatsu

“…These enzymes are conserved across all eukaryotes, and the human genome encodes 14 distinct P4-ATPases. Initially identified as aminophospholipid translocases, P4-ATPases have since been found to translocate other phospholipids, including phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylinositol, and even glycosphingolipids. …”
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A genetically confirmed hybrid between Natrix astreptophora and N. maura, two deeply divergent and ancient snake species by Andrea Criado-Flórez, Juan Pablo González de la Vega, Gabriel Martínez del Marmol, Uwe Fritz

“…In the face of previously published genomic signatures for ancient gene flow between N. astreptophora and N. maura, our finding raises the question of whether occasional hybridization still contributes to a continued exchange of genetic information between these two deeply divergent and old taxa.…”
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Molecular Mechanisms and Functions of lncRNAs in the Inflammatory Reaction of Diabetes Mellitus by Linjuan Huang, Xiaolei Hu

“…Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), a new area of genomic research for gene regulation, have complex biological functions in various aspects of cellular biological activity. …”
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