MicroRNAs as novel biomarkers for prenatal fetal congenital heart disease – systematic literature review by Adrianna Kondracka, Paulina Gil-Kulik, Magda Rybak-Krzyszkowska, Jakub Staniczek, Anna Oniszczuk, Bartosz Kondracki

“…The included studies utilized advanced technologies, such as next-generation sequencing (e.g., Illumina HiSeq, NovaSeq) and microarrays, for discovery-phase experiments, while validation predominantly employed qRT-PCR techniques. …”
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Value of Optical Genome Mapping (OGM) for Diagnostics of Rare Diseases: A Family Case Report by Kovanda A, Miljanović O, Lovrečić L, Maver A, Hodžić A, Peterlin B

“…Optical genome mapping (OGM) is a novel method enabling the detection of structural genomic variants. The method is based on the laser image acquisition of single, labeled, high-molecular-weight DNA molecules and can detect structural genomic variants such as translocations, inversions, insertions, deletions, duplications, and complex structural rearrangements. …”
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A Narrative Review of Molecular, Immunohistochemical and In-Situ Techniques in Dermatopathology by J. A. Gabriel, N. Weerasinghe, P. Balachandran, R. Salih, G. E. Orchard

“…Gene expression profiling techniques, such as microarrays and RNA sequencing, have provided insights into dysregulated pathways and molecular signatures associated with conditions ranging from inflammatory skin disorders to cutaneous malignancies. …”
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Novel genotyping algorithms for rare variants significantly improve the accuracy of Applied Biosystems™ Axiom™ array genotyping calls: Retrospective evaluation of UK Biobank array... by Orna Mizrahi-Man, Marcos H Woehrmann, Teresa A Webster, Jeremy Gollub, Adrian Bivol, Sara M Keeble, Katherine H Aull, Anuradha Mittal, Alan H Roter, Brant A Wong, Jeanette P Schmidt

“…The UK Biobank genotyped about 500k participants using Applied Biosystems Axiom microarrays. Participants were subsequently sequenced by the UK Biobank Exome Sequencing Consortium. …”
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Identification and Cross-Platform Validation of Sparse Molecular Classifiers for Antibody-Mediated and T-Cell–Mediated Rejection After Kidney Transplantation by Jasper Callemeyn, Josué Manik Nava-Sedeño, Dany Anglicheau, Jack Beadle, Jan Hinrich Bräsen, Marian C. Clahsen-van Groningen, Iacopo Cristoferi, Henriette de Loor, Andreas Deutsch, Marie Essig, Wilfried Gwinner, Philip F. Halloran, Dennis A. Hesselink, Priyanka Koshy, Dirk Kuypers, Evelyne Lerut, Pierre Marquet, Robert C. Minnee, Candice Roufosse, Ben Sprangers, Amaryllis H. Van Craenenbroeck, Haralampos Hatzikirou, Maarten Naesens

“…Methods: In a discovery cohort of 224 kidney transplant biopsies, lasso regression was applied on microarray gene expression data to derive a molecular classifier for ABMR and TCMR, respectively. …”
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Novel Hypomorphic Mutation in FANCD2 Gene Observed in a Fetus with Multiple Congenital Anomalies by Radoslava Vazharova, Svetlana Vragaleva, Violeta Dimitrova, Samuil Ivanov, Lubomir Balabanski, Maxim Malinov, Draga Toncheva

“…The case illustrates that patients/families affected by rare monogenic disorders may benefit from application of modern technologies like microarrays and NGS.…”
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Effect of PM2.5 exposure on susceptibility to allergic asthma in elderly rats treated with allergens by Lianlian Zhao, Xiaolin Ding, Li Zhou, Chenchen Song, Taisheng Kang, Yanfeng Xu, Yunpeng Liu, Yunlin Han, Wenjie Zhao, Boxiang Zhang, Dan Xu, Jianguo Guo

“…Ten metabolites and 11 metabolic pathways were uniquely detected in OVA-treated rats before PM2.5 exposure. …”
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Microsatellite Instability and Loss of Heterozygosity in CCND1 Microsatellite loci at Chr.11q13 in OSCC Patients with Therapeutic Validation by Seema Gupta, Shally Batham, Biswajit Maity

“…Molecular laboratory techniques like microarrays, microsatellites, and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have created new opportunities for diagnosing diseases, identifying chromosomal aberrations, and detecting point mutations for medical verification. …”
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MMP14 and DDR2 are potential molecular markers for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer by Rabeah Al-Temaimi, Rasheed Ahmad, Fahd Al-Mulla

“…Here, we utilized TNBC tissue microarrays to determine the protein expression of seven matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and Discoidin domain receptor 2 (DDR2) in metastatic and non-metastatic TNBC to identify potential targets for immunotherapy. …”
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Evaluation of the diagnostic concordance of FDA-approved PD-L1 assays in clear cell renal cell carcinoma by Yoko Koh, Taigo Kato, Gaku Yamamichi, Eisuke Tomiyama, Makoto Matsushita, Koji Hatano, Atsunari Kawashima, Norio Nonomura, Motohide Uemura

“…In this study, we constructed tissue microarrays from 286 clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) tissue samples and evaluated PD-L1 expression using the 22C3, 28 − 8, SP142, and SP263 PD-L1 assays. …”
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HERV activation segregates ME/CFS from fibromyalgia while defining a novel nosologic entity by Karen Giménez-Orenga, Eva Martín-Martínez, Lubov Nathanson, Elisa Oltra

“…By using HERV-V3 high-density microarrays (including over 350k HERV elements and more than 1500 immune-related genes) to interrogate the transcriptomes of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from female patients diagnosed with ME/CFS, FM, or both, and matched healthy controls (n = 43), this study fills this gap of knowledge. …”
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Survivin Expression in Placentas with Intrauterine Growth Restriction by Pavo Perković, Sanja Štifter-Vretenar, Marina Perković, Marko Štefančić, Ena Holjević, Andrea Dekanić, Tea Štimac

“…<b>Methods</b>: Survivin presence was determined in 153 archival formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded placental tissues from IUGR (N = 122) and uncomplicated (N = 31) term pregnancies. Tissue microarrays (TMAs) were constructed, and survivin expression was assessed using immunohistochemistry (IHC). …”
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Multi-institutional TSA-amplified Multiplexed Immunofluorescence Reproducibility Evaluation (MITRE) Study by Bernard A Fox, Chichung Wang, Kristin Roman, Carla Coltharp, Carmen Ballesteros-Merino, Shawn M Jensen, Janis M Taube, David L Rimm, Cliff Hoyt, Mei Jiang, Edwin R Parra, Ignacio Wistuba, Elizabeth L Engle, John McGuire, Bethany Remeniuk, Darren Locke

“…Serial sections from tonsil and breast carcinoma and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tissue microarrays (TMAs), TSA-Opal fluorescent detection reagents, and antibodies were distributed to the six sites equipped with a Leica Bond Rx autostainer and a Vectra Polaris multispectral imaging platform. …”
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Effects of tumour-associated macrophages on cardia carcinoma progression by Zhixiong Zhang, Zihong Xu, Yaowu Cai, Xintong Chen, Chaoqing Huang, Xuefeng Xu

“…Methods Cancer tissue and pericancer tissue samples from 80 patients with cardia carcinoma who underwent D2 radical surgery between January 2014 and January 2015 at Putian First Hospital were selected. Tissue microarrays were fabricated, and immunohistochemistry technology was used to detect the infiltration of TAMs (CD163 as a marker) and to analyse their relationship with the clinicopathological characteristics of the patients. …”
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Distribution of Recessive Genetic Defect Carriers in Holstein Friesian Cattle: A Polish Perspective by Marta Gozdek, Sebastian Mucha, Adam Prostek, Dariusz Kamola, Tomasz Sadkowski

“…The studies were performed using Illumina Infinium microarrays. Among both bulls and cows, the highest numbers of carriers were detected for HH5 (appropriately 6.7% and 5.4%). …”
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Imputation of variants from the 1000 Genomes Project modestly improves known associations and can identify low-frequency variant-phenotype associations undetected by HapMap based i... by Andrew R Wood, John R B Perry, Toshiko Tanaka, Dena G Hernandez, Hou-Feng Zheng, David Melzer, J Raphael Gibbs, Michael A Nalls, Michael N Weedon, Tim D Spector, J Brent Richards, Stefania Bandinelli, Luigi Ferrucci, Andrew B Singleton, Timothy M Frayling

“…Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have been limited by the reliance on common variants present on microarrays or imputable from the HapMap Project data. …”
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History and prospects of flax genetic markers by Daiana A. Zhernova, Elena N. Pushkova, Tatiana A. Rozhmina, Elena V. Borkhert, Alexander A. Arkhipov, Alexander A. Arkhipov, Elizaveta A. Sigova, Elizaveta A. Sigova, Ekaterina M. Dvorianinova, Ekaterina M. Dvorianinova, Alexey A. Dmitriev, Alexey A. Dmitriev, Nataliya V. Melnikova

“…Cost-effective and accurate analysis of large number of genotypes for multiple markers simultaneously using microarrays or targeted deep sequencing became available, as well as HRM, TaqMan, KASP, and other fluorescence-based high-throughput methods for detecting DNA polymorphisms. …”
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Serum LncRNAs Profiles Serve as Novel Potential Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of HBV-Positive Hepatocellular Carcinoma. by Kang Wang, Wei Xing Guo, Nan Li, Chun Fang Gao, Jie Shi, Yu Fu Tang, Feng Shen, Meng Chao Wu, Shan Rong Liu, Shu Qun Cheng

“…<h4>Methods</h4>lncRNA microarrays were utilized to measure the differential expression of lncRNAs between tumor tissues and corresponding non-tumor tissues in HBV-positive hapatocellular carcinoma. uc001ncr and AX800134 were selected as candidate lncRNAs and detected in three independent cohorts containing a total of 684 participants (healthy individuals and chronic HBV patients and HBV-positive HCC patients) who were recruited between March 2011 and December 2012. …”
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HERV-derived epitopes represent new targets for T-cell-based immunotherapies in ovarian cancer by Qing Wang, Maha Ayyoub, Olivia Le Saux, Paola Bonaventura, Isabelle Treilleux, Nicolas Chopin, Clarisse Dubois, Virginie Mutez, Nicolas Chuvin, Yann Estornes, Jenny Valladeau-Guilemond, Stephane Depil, Nicolas Gadot, Marie Michelas, Audrey Page, Olivier Tabone, Marie Delles, Sarah Moran, Thibault Richard, Marjorie Lacourrège, Dina M Tawfik, Ema Etchegaray, Adrian Valente, Rasha E Boulos, Gabriel Jimenez Dominguez

“…Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs) are aberrantly expressed by tumor cells and may represent a source of shared T-cell epitopes for cancer immunotherapy regardless of the tumor mutational burden.Methods A transcriptomic analysis based on RNA sequencing was developed to quantify the expression of HERV-K sequences containing the selected epitopes. The presence of HERV-K/HML-2 Gag antigen was then assessed by immunohistochemistry (IHC) on tumor microarrays from ovarian cancer samples and normal ovarian tissues. …”
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Development and In Vitro Characterization of [³H]GMC-058 as Radioligand for Imaging Parkinsonian-Related Proteinopathies by Andrea Varrone, Vasco C. Sousa, Manolo Mugnaini, Sandra Biesinger, Gunnar Nordvall, Lee Kingston, Ileana Guzzetti, Charles S. Elmore, Dan Sunnemark, Dinahlee Saturnino Guarino, Sjoerd J. Finnema, Magnus Schou

“…[³H]GMC-058 was the only compound with negligible binding in controls, and was further evaluated using tissue microarrays, autoradiography on fresh-frozen brain slices, and in vitro saturation binding assay on brain homogenates. …”
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