Determination of mutagenicity of chemical compounds, physical factors and environmental pollutants by the Drosophila melanogaster wing somatic mutation and recombination test by L. P. Zakharenko, I. K. Zakharov

“…SMART can be used to evaluate the effect of various factors on the genome: physical (temperature, various types of radiation, electromagnetic fields), biogenic (genetic, physiological, infectious factors) and a wide range of chemical compounds. …”
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Bioinformatic Prediction of Novel microRNAs Encoded in Krüppel-like Factor 4 Gene by Mina Zahiri, Maryam Hassanlou, Amir-Reza Javanmard, Nooshin Bijari

“…The analysis of the obtained sequences showed that they are highly conserved, which indicates their importance in the genome. The results obtained in this study show the power and functionality of bioinformatics tools. …”
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Expression of genes of cytokines, transcription factors and differentiation antigens in human dendritic cells activated by double-stranded DNA by A. S. Proskurina, K. E. Orishchenko, E. A. Potter, E. V. Dolgova, A. V. Spaselnikova, G. S. Ritter, N. A. Varaksin, T. G. Ryabicheva, O. Y. Leplina, A. A. Ostanin, E. R. Chernykh, S. S. Bogachev

“…It was for the first time shown that genomic “self” double-stranded DNA as a mono agent activates mRNA synthesis of cytokines IFN-α, IFN-β, IFN-γ, IL­8, IL­10, and VEGF in DCs at 6 hours of induction.…”
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Low-Level Zoonotic Transmission of Clade C MERS-CoV in Africa: Insights from Scoping Review and Cohort Studies in Hospital and Community Settings by Andrew Karani, Cynthia Ombok, Silvia Situma, Robert Breiman, Marianne Mureithi, Walter Jaoko, M. Kariuki Njenga, Isaac Ngere

“…Ongoing research focuses on genomic comparisons between clade C and the more virulent clades A and B, alongside the surveillance of viral evolution. …”
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Clinical Report of a 17q12 Microdeletion with Additionally Unreported Clinical Features by Jennifer L. Roberts, Stephanie K. Gandomi, Melissa Parra, Ira Lu, Chia-Ling Gau, Majed Dasouki, Merlin G. Butler

“…Subsequently, a 400 K array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) + SNP analysis was performed which identified a de novo suspected pathogenic deletion on chromosome 17q12 encompassing 28 genes. …”
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Comprehensive Pan-Cancer Analysis and Functional Studies Reveal SLC2A6 as a Ferroptosis Modulator in Hepatocellular carcinoma by Guohong Yan, Hailian Huang, Ziyan Lu, Meifeng Chen, Xiang Wang, Pei Zhong, Chongjiu Qin, Shutian Mo, Chuangye Han, Xiaoling Luo, Xinping Ye

“…Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment analyses were conducted. …”
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Creation of a novel zebrafish model with low DHA status to study the role of maternal nutrition during neurodevelopment by Katherine M. Ranard, Bruce Appel

“…Here, we create a novel DHA-deficient zebrafish model by 1) disrupting elovl2, a key gene in the DHA biosynthesis pathway, via CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, and 2) feeding mothers a DHA-deficient diet. …”
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Unveiling the role of SYNGR4 in breast cancer development: a novel target for immunotherapy by Jie Ma, Hongtao Wang, Zhengwei Gui, Yuanrong Yang

“…IntroductionSYNGR4 is considered to be one of the causative genes for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but its role in breast cancer development has not been revealed.MethodsThe expression of SYNGR4 in a variety of malignancies including breast cancer was analyzed using Genotype Tissue Expression (GTEx) and the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) databases and verified by specimens collected from our center. …”
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Identification of KRT16 and ANXA10 as cell cycle regulation genes for lung adenocarcinoma based on self-transcriptome sequencing of surgical samples and TCGA public data mining by Wen-jian Liu, Jia-pan Shen, Ren-quan Zhang, Xiao-yun Fan

“…Methods Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified by self-transcriptome sequencing of tumor tissues and paracancerous tissues resected during surgery and combined with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data to screen for the genes associated with LUAD prognosis. …”
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Smoking as a causative factor in chronic kidney disease: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study by Yue Yang, Zheng Zhang, Hai-tao Lu, Qian-qian Xu, Li Zhuo, Wen-ge Li

“…This study applied bivariate causal analysis and two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) methods to examine the association between various smoking behaviors – initiation, cessation, age at initiation, cigarettes smoked per day, and lifetime smoking – and CKD, using genome-wide data. The inverse variance weighted (IVW) method was the primary analytical tool, supported by sensitivity analyses, pleiotropy assessments, and mediation analyses. …”
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Identification and Characterization of the <i>ROP GTPase</i> Gene Family in Strawberry and the Positive Role of <i>FveROP4</i> in Fruit Resistance to Gray Mold by Shuai Zhao, Baode Zhu, Zhijun Zou, Yushan Zhai, Sufeng Liao, Ming Xu, Kunyang Li, Nasir Mehmood, Xiong Liao

“…In this study, we identified 53 <i>ROP</i> genes across the genomes of six Rosaceae species. Based on sequence homology, they were classified into three distinct phylogenetic clades. …”
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Estimation of population structure in emmer wheat germplasm conserved in the National Genebank of India by Jatin Tanwar, Sandhya Tyagi, Shivani Sharma, Preeti Jakhar, Gaurav Kumar, Sherry R. Jacob, Amit Kumar Singh, Shailendra K. Jha, Jyoti Kumari

“…Indigenous and exotic collections were categorized into distinct subclusters within the same cluster with some overlapping suggesting limited genomic differentiation between these collections. …”
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Lysosome and Cytoskeleton Pathways Are Robustly Enriched in the Blood of Septic Patients: A Meta-Analysis of Transcriptomic Data by Jie Ma, Chuanxi Chen, Andreas S. Barth, Chris Cheadle, Xiangdong Guan, Li Gao

“…We identified 6 cohorts consisting of 450 individuals (sepsis = 323, control = 127) providing genome-wide messenger RNA (mRNA) expression data. …”
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Clinical relevance and druggability of sole reciprocal kinase fusions: A large‐scale study by Jiao Feng, Tonghui Ma, Chunyang Wang, Baoming Wang, Qian Liu, Zhengchuang Liu, Houquan Tao, Zaiyuan Ye

“…Abstract Background Building on our prior work that RNA alternative splicing modulates the druggability of kinase fusions, this study probes the clinical significance of sole reciprocal fusions. These rare genomic arrangements, despite lacking kinase domains at the DNA level, demonstrated potential RNA‐level druggability in sporadic cases from our prior research. …”
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Adaptive Evolution Coupled with Retrotransposon Exaptation Allowed for the Generation of a Human-Protein-Specific Coding Gene That Promotes Cancer Cell Proliferation and Metastasis... by Spyros I. Papamichos, Dimitrios Margaritis, Ioannis Kotsianidis

“…Till date whether human genome includes species-specific cancer-related genes that could potentially contribute to a higher cancer susceptibility remains obscure. …”
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The development of a new bread wheat genotype carrying two loci for endosperm softness by A. V. Simonov, A. K. Chistyakova, E. V. Morozova, L. V. Shchukina, A. Börner, T. A. Pshenichnikova

“…In addition, these lines may serve as a genetic model for the study of the functional activity of homoeoallelic genes in the complex polyploid genomes of plants.…”
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Generation of barcoded plasmid libraries for massively parallel analysis of chromatin position effects by M. O. Lebedev, L. A. Yarinich, A. V. Ivankin, A. V. Pindyurin

“…To study this effect in a high-throughput mode and at the genome-wide level, the Thousands of Reporters Integrated in Parallel (TRIP) approach based on the usage of barcoded reporter gene constructs was recently developed. …”
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Drug repurposing screen for the rare disease ataxia-telangiectasia by Namrata Jayanth, Gurvan Mahé, Matthew Campbell, Mike Lipkin, Shushant Jain, Rhea van de Bospoort, Jennifer Thornton, Brad Margus, David F. Fischer

“…It is caused by bi-allelic mutations impacting a gene encoding a serine/threonine kinase ATM (Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated), which plays a crucial role in DNA repair and maintenance of genomic stability. The disorder primarily affects the nervous system, leading to a range of neurological issues, including cerebellar ataxia. …”
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Simple and Fail-safe Method to Transform Miniprep Escherichia coli Strain K12 Plasmid DNA Into Viable Agrobacterium tumefaciens EHA105 Cells for Plant Genetic Transformation by Beenzu Siamalube, Emmanuel Ehinmitan, Maina Ngotho, Justus Onguso, Steven Runo

“…It enables the introduction of foreign DNA into plant genomes. Conventionally, plant genetic transformation has relied on time-consuming, costly, and technically demanding procedures, such as electroporation and chimeric viruses or biolistic methods, which usually yield variable transformation efficiencies. …”
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Prevalence, Antibiotic Resistance, and Genetic Diversities of Clostridium difficile in Meat Nuggets from Various Sources in Isfahan, Iran by Parvin Ghorbani Filabadi, Ebrahim Rahimi, Amir Shakerian, Zahra Esfandiari

“…A mutation would be the basis for the absence of the tcdC gene in the genome of all isolates.…”
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