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

“…MFISH and CGH revealed distinct instability of chromosome structure in RKO. Gene expression microarray of RKO versus 7 colon cancer lines (with active Wnt signaling) and 3 normal specimens revealed 611 differentially expressed genes. …”
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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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R-locus for roaned coat is associated with a tandem duplication in an intronic region of USH2A in dogs and also contributes to Dalmatian spotting. by Takeshi Kawakami, Meghan K Jensen, Andrea Slavney, Petra E Deane, Ausra Milano, Vandana Raghavan, Brett Ford, Erin T Chu, Aaron J Sams, Adam R Boyko

“…We identified a putative causal variant in this region, an 11-kb tandem duplication (11,131,835-11,143,237) characterized by sequence read coverage and discordant reads of whole-genome sequence data, microarray probe intensity data, and a duplication-specific PCR assay. …”
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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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Exploration of the shared pathways and common biomarkers in cervical and ovarian cancer using integrated bioinformatics analysis by Fang Liu, Min Wang, Tian Zhu, Cong Xu, Guangming Wang

“…Abstract Objective Searching for potential biomarkers and therapeutic targets for early diagnosis of gynecological tumors to improve patient survival. Methods Microarray datasets of cervical cancer (CC) and ovarian cancer (OC) were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, then, differential gene expression between cancerous and normal tissues in the datasets was analyzed. …”
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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

“…Blood samples from 15 patients with AITD and 15 controls were assessed by chromosome microarray to identify candidate genes. The copy number of candidate genes and urinary iodine level was determined in adults from areas of different iodine statuses including 158 patients and 181 controls. …”
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Enhancing Binary Classification Performance in Biomedical Datasets: Regularized ELM with SMOTE and Quantile Transforms Focused on Breast Cancer Analysis by Brilliant Friezka Aina, Meta Kallista, Ig. Prasetya Dwi Wibawa, Ginaldi Ari Nugroho, Ivana Meiska, Syifa Melinda Naf’an

“…Using microarray datasets, this research investigation addresses the problem of unbalanced data in binary classification tasks. …”
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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

“…Microarray analysis containing more than 29,000 known genes was performed on formalin-fixed-paraffin-embedded (FFPE) liver tissue from explanted livers. …”
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DNA Methylation Profiles of Blood Cells Are Distinct between Early-Onset Obese and Control Individuals by Je-Keun Rhee, Jin-Hee Lee, Hae Kyung Yang, Tae-Min Kim, Kun-Ho Yoon

“…Here, we performed microarray-based DNA methylation and gene expression profiling of peripheral white blood cells obtained from six young, obese individuals and six healthy controls. …”
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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

“…The transcriptome microarray data, validated by quantitative Real-Time PCR, was also confirmed by immunoblotting and customized Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISA) array showing significant increases in the protein expression levels of fibrogenic EGR1, SNAI1 and IL 6. …”
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miR-4780 Derived from N2-Like Neutrophil Exosome Aggravates Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition and Angiogenesis in Colorectal Cancer by Liang Wang, Yuqiang Shan, Sixin Zheng, Jiangtao Li, Peng Cui

“…Differentially expressed miRNA in neutrophil exosomes have been sequenced by microarray profile, and the effect of N2-like neutrophil-derived exosomal miR-4780 on epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and angiogenesis was investigated. …”
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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

“…Considering CpGs with at least 20X coverage, we yielded robust methylation detection with levels comparable to those obtained from the gold standard EPIC microarray analysis (Pearsons’s r: 0.96). Conclusions: The observed low specificity and uniformity indicate that smMIPs in their current form are not compatible with the lowered complexity of bisulfite-converted DNA.…”
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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

“…METHODS: The expression profiles of cuproptosis-related genes and immune signature in AMD based on the microarray dataset GSE29801 were analyzed. A total of 142 AMD samples were used to identify the cuproptosis-related differentially expressed genes (Cu-DEGs), together with the immune cell infiltration. …”
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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

“…Subsequent species identification was performed by DNA-microarray assay, sequencing of a 16S rRNA gene fragment and a C. psittaci specific qPCR. …”
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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

“…Androgens drive the onset and progression of prostate cancer (PCa) by modulating androgen receptor (AR) transcriptional activity. Although several microarray-based studies have identified androgen-regulated genes, here we identify in-parallel global androgen-dependent changes in both gene and alternative mRNA isoform expression by exon-level analyses of the LNCaP transcriptome. …”
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