Genetic variation and antioxidant response gene expression in the bronchial airway epithelium of smokers at risk for lung cancer. by Xuting Wang, Brian N Chorley, Gary S Pittman, Steven R Kleeberger, John Brothers, Gang Liu, Avrum Spira, Douglas A Bell

“…Prior microarray studies of smokers at high risk for lung cancer have demonstrated that heterogeneity in bronchial airway epithelial cell gene expression response to smoking can serve as an early diagnostic biomarker for lung cancer. …”
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Polymorphisms in the mitochondrial DNA control region and frailty in older adults. by Ann Z Moore, Mary L Biggs, Amy Matteini, Ashley O'Connor, Sarah McGuire, Brock A Beamer, M Danielle Fallin, Linda P Fried, Jeremy Walston, Aravinda Chakravarti, Dan E Arking

“…At baseline, frailty was identified as the presence of three or more of five indicators (weakness, slowness, shrinking, low physical activity, and exhaustion). mtDNA variation was assessed in a pilot study, including 315 individuals selected as extremes of the frailty phenotype, using an oligonucleotide sequencing microarray based on the Revised Cambridge Reference Sequence. …”
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The Role of Chromosomal Instability and Epigenetics in Colorectal Cancers Lacking β-Catenin/TCF Regulated Transcription by Wael M. Abdel-Rahman, Johanna E. Lotsari-Salomaa, Sippy Kaur, Anni Niskakoski, Sakari Knuutila, Heikki Järvinen, Jukka-Pekka Mecklin, Päivi Peltomäki

“…The immunohistochemistry of selected genes (IFI16, RGS4, MCTP1, DGKI, OBCAM/OPCML, and GLIPR1) confirmed that they were differentially expressed in clinical specimens. …”
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Bioinformatics and network pharmacology-based study to elucidate the multi-target pharmacological mechanism of the indigenous plants of Medina valley in treating HCV-related hepato... by Mubarak A. Alamri

“…But the findings were not validated in actual patients, so further investigation is needed to confirm the potential use of selected medicinal plants towards HCV-related HC.…”
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EsoDetect: computational validation and algorithm development of a novel diagnostic and prognostic tool for dysplasia in Barrett’s esophagus by Migla Miskinyte, Benilde Pondeca, José B. Pereira-Leal, Joana Cardoso

“…Specifically, for the diagnostic application, three RNAseq datasets were employed, while for the prognostic application, nine microarray datasets were identified, and 25 previously described genes were validated. …”
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Identification of Novel Biomarkers in Huntington’s Disease Based on Differential Gene Expression Meta-Analysis and Machine Learning Approach by Nayan Dash, Md Abul Bashar, Jeonghan Lee, Raju Dash

“…Therefore, to discover the key biomarkers associated with the progression of HD, we employed bioinformatics and machine learning (ML) to create a robust pipeline that integrated differentially expressed gene (DEG) analysis with ML to select potential biomarkers. We performed a meta-analysis to identify DEGs using three Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) microarray datasets from different platforms related to HD-affected brain tissue, applying both relaxed and strict criteria to identify differentially expressed genes. …”
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Copy Number Variation of Immune-Related Genes and Their Association with Iodine in Adults with Autoimmune Thyroid Diseases by Xing Jin, Yunfeng Guan, Hongmei Shen, Yi Pang, Lixiang Liu, Qingzhen Jia, Fangang Meng, Xiaoye Zhang

“…The immune-related genes, SIRPB1 and TMEM91, were selected as candidate genes. The distribution of SIRPB1 CNV in AITD patients and controls was significantly different and was considered a risk factor for AITD. …”
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Molecular Signatures of Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma Secondary to Hepatitis C Virus following Liver Transplantation by Trina Das, Deborah L. Diamond, Matthew Yeh, Sajida Hassan, Janine T. Bryan, Jorge D. Reyes, James D. Perkins

“…Two groups of patients were selected, one including patients with HCV who developed HCC recurrence (HCC-R) ≤3 years from LT and the second group including patients with HCV who did not have recurrent HCC (HCC-NR). …”
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Circulating exosomal microRNAs as biomarkers of colon cancer. by Hiroko Ogata-Kawata, Masashi Izumiya, Daisuke Kurioka, Yoshitaka Honma, Yasuhide Yamada, Koh Furuta, Toshiaki Gunji, Hideki Ohta, Hiroyuki Okamoto, Hikaru Sonoda, Masatoshi Watanabe, Hitoshi Nakagama, Jun Yokota, Takashi Kohno, Naoto Tsuchiya

“…The high sensitivities of the seven selected exosomal miRNAs were confirmed by a receiver operating characteristic analysis.…”
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Metastatic melanoma: An integrated analysis to identify critical regulators associated with prognosis, pathogenesis and targeted therapies. by Zeinab Chaharlashkar, Yousof Saeedi Honar, Meghdad Abdollahpour-Alitappeh, Sepideh Parvizpour, Abolfazl Barzegar, Effat Alizadeh

“…Subsequently, the hub genes were selected using GEPIA. Survival analysis was performed using the TCGA. …”
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MicroRNA controlled adenovirus mediates anti-cancer efficacy without affecting endogenous microRNA activity. by Ryan Cawood, Suet-Ling Wong, Ying Di, Dilair F Baban, Leonard W Seymour

“…These were then filtered to select mRNAs that were only altered by Ad5mir122 and the remaining 21 mRNAs were compared to predicted mir122 targets. …”
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Prolonged application of high fluid shear to chondrocytes recapitulates gene expression profiles associated with osteoarthritis. by Fei Zhu, Pu Wang, Norman H Lee, Mary B Goldring, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos

“…Confirmation of the expression patterns of select genes was obtained by qRT-PCR. Using significance analysis of microarrays with a 5% false discovery rate, 71 and 60 non-redundant transcripts were identified to be ≥2-fold up-regulated and ≤0.6-fold down-regulated, respectively, in sheared chondrocytes. …”
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Early Regulation of Profibrotic Genes in Primary Human Cardiac Myocytes by Trypanosoma cruzi. by Aniekanabassi N Udoko, Candice A Johnson, Andrey Dykan, Girish Rachakonda, Fernando Villalta, Sammed N Mandape, Maria F Lima, Siddharth Pratap, Pius N Nde

“…Early during infection, T. cruzi significantly upregulated transcription factors including activator protein 1 (AP1) transcription factor network components (including FOSB, FOS and JUNB), early growth response proteins 1 and 3 (EGR1, EGR3), and cytokines/chemokines (IL5, IL6, IL13, CCL11), which have all been implicated in the onset of fibrosis. The changes in our selected genes of interest did not all start at the same time point. …”
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Stroma regulates increased epithelial lateral cell adhesion in 3D culture: a role for actin/cadherin dynamics. by Karen F Chambers, Joanna F Pearson, Naveed Aziz, Peter O'Toole, David Garrod, Shona H Lang

“…The upregulated growth factors TGFβ2, CXCL12 and FGF10 were selected for further analysis because of previous associations with morphology. …”
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Investigating Single-Molecule Molecular Inversion Probes for Medium-Scale Targeted DNA Methylation Analysis by Roy B. Simons, Hieab H. H. Adams, Manfred Kayser, Athina Vidaki

“…Then, to optimize the capture process, we performed single-probe capture for ten selected, representative smMIPs. Based on this pilot, the full smMIP panel was tested under varying capture conditions, including hybridization and elongation temperature, smMIP and template DNA amounts, dNTP concentration and elongation time. …”
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HSPA6 augments garlic extract-induced inhibition of proliferation, migration, and invasion of bladder cancer EJ cells; Implication for cell cycle dysregulation, signaling pathway a... by Seung-Shick Shin, Jun-Hui Song, Byungdoo Hwang, Dae-Hwa Noh, Sung Lyea Park, Won Tae Kim, Sung-Soo Park, Wun-Jae Kim, Sung-Kwon Moon

“…In addition, GE impeded the migration and invasion of EJ cells via inhibition of MMP-9 expression followed by decreased binding activities of AP-1, Sp-1, and NF-κB motifs. Based on microarray datasets, we selected Heat shock protein A6 (HSPA6) as the most up-regulated gene responsible for the inhibitory effects of GE. …”
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Cuproptosis-related signature and immune infiltration in age-related macular degeneration by Chen Li, Yi-Cheng Lu, Ming-Xuan Chen

“…Next, SLC31A1 and VEGFA was selected as hub genes by performance evaluation in an external dataset GSE160011, further analysis showed that SLC31A1 and VEGFA were associated with pathways related to immune signaling and immune function, which were then observed in relation to infiltrating immune cells. …”
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Chlamydiaceae in wild, feral and domestic pigeons in Switzerland and insight into population dynamics by Chlamydia psittaci multilocus sequence typing. by Prisca Mattmann, Hanna Marti, Nicole Borel, Martina Jelocnik, Sarah Albini, Barbara Renate Vogler

“…Additionally, multilocus sequence typing of twelve selected C. psittaci-positive samples revealed closely related sequence types (ST) between and within different Swiss cities. …”
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Identification of novel androgen-regulated pathways and mRNA isoforms through genome-wide exon-specific profiling of the LNCaP transcriptome. by Prabhakar Rajan, Caroline Dalgliesh, Phillippa J Carling, Thomas Buist, Chaolin Zhang, Sushma N Grellscheid, Kelly Armstrong, Jacqueline Stockley, Cedric Simillion, Luke Gaughan, Gabriela Kalna, Michael Q Zhang, Craig N Robson, Hing Y Leung, David J Elliott

“…We also identified 1279 putative androgen-regulated alternative events, of which 325 (∼25%) mapped to known alternative splicing events or alternative first/last exons. We selected 30 androgen-dependent alternative events for RT-PCR validation, including mRNAs derived from genes encoding tumour suppressors and cell cycle regulators. …”
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Exploring the predictive values of SERP4 and FRZB in dilated cardiomyopathy based on an integrated analysis by Bin Qi, Hai-Yan Wang, Xiao Ma, Yu-Feng Chi, Chun Gui

“…Methods Five DCM-related microarray datasets were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). …”
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