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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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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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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urg1: a uracil-regulatable promoter system for fission yeast with short induction and repression times. by Stephen Watt, Juan Mata, Luis López-Maury, Samuel Marguerat, Gavin Burns, Jürg Bähler

“…The kanMX6 and natMX6 markers allow selection under urg1 induced and repressed conditions, respectively. …”
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Quantification of the heterogeneity of prognostic cellular biomarkers in ewing sarcoma using automated image and random survival forest analysis. by Claudia Bühnemann, Simon Li, Haiyue Yu, Harriet Branford White, Karl L Schäfer, Antonio Llombart-Bosch, Isidro Machado, Piero Picci, Pancras C W Hogendoorn, Nicholas A Athanasou, J Alison Noble, A Bassim Hassan

“…Using material from cohorts of genetically diagnosed Ewing sarcoma with EWSR1 chromosomal translocations, confocal images of tissue microarrays were segmented with level sets and watershed algorithms. …”
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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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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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A nomogram for predicting 3-year total weight loss percentage following LSG: insights from visceral adipose tissue inflammatory methylation sites by Zhehong Li, Liang Wang, Zheng Wang, Qiqige Wuyun, Buhe Amin, Dongbo Lian, Guangzhong Xu, Nengwei Zhang, Dezhong Wang

“…Comparative analyses of 850K methylation microarrays from VAT samples were performed to identify methylation sites associated with INF-related genes. …”
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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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Rotterdam Oncology Documentation (RONCDOC) – a high-quality data warehouse and tissue collection for head and neck cancer by Arta Hoesseini, Emilie A. C. Dronkers, Eveline Dieleman, Maria J. De Herdt, Marjan. H. Wieringa, Marie-Louise F. van Velthuysen, Marinella P. J. Offerman, Aniel Sewnaik, Dominiek Monserez, Stijn Keereweer, Jose A. U. Hardillo, Robert Jan Baatenburg de Jong

“…Furthermore, a comprehensive validation protocol was developed to guarantee the quality of the data. Tissue microarrays (TMAs) were constructed from resection specimens of patients with primary oral squamous cell carcinoma. …”
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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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Decoding the prognostic landscape of LUAD: the interplay between N6-methyladenosine modification and immune microenvironment by Quan Chen, Quan Chen, Weijun Wan, Qing Zhao, Juan Li, Juan Li, Yanli Xiong, Yanli Xiong, Yuchuan Yuan, Lu Tang, Xiaofeng Wu, Wei Xing, Wei Guo, Di Lu, Luoquan Ao, Xiang Xu, Xiang Xu, Xiang Xu, Xiang Ao, Xiang Ao, Xiang Ao

“…A risk score model was constructed using least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression and validated in two independent cohorts and LUAD tissue microarrays. …”
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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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