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Epidemiological studies have indicated a potential link between the gut microbiome and autoimmune liver disease (AILD) such as autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), and primary scleros...
Vasomotor symptoms (VMS) can often significantly impact women’s quality of life at menopause. In vivo studies have shown that increased neurokinin B (NKB) / neurokinin 3 receptor (NK3R) signalling contributes ...
Ovarian cancer ranks the leading cause of gynecologic cancer-related death in the United States and the fifth most common cause of cancer-related mortality among American women. Increasing evidences have highl...
LMNA gene encodes lamin A/C protein which participates in the construction of nuclear lamina, the mutations of LMNA result in a wide variety of diseases known as laminopathies. LMNA-related dilated cardiomyopathy...
Increasing evidence suggests that the metabolism of lipids plays a crucial role in the progression of gastric cancer. However, the expression of lipid metabolism-related genes (LMGs) still does not serve as a ...
The most prevalent mutation in ovarian cancer is the TP53 mutation, which impacts the development and prognosis of the disease. We looked at how the TP53 mutation associates the immunophenotype of ovarian canc...
Pathogenic variants in the ATCAY gene are associated with a rare autosomal recessive disorder called Cayman cerebellar ataxia. Affected individuals display psychomotor retardation, cerebellar dysfunction, nystagm...
This study aimed to investigate a causal relationship between IBD and multiple kidney diseases using two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses.
Individuals with sepsis exhibited a higher likelihood of benefiting from early initiation of specialized treatment to enhance the prognosis of the condition. The objective of this study is to identify potentia...
To report novel pathogenic variants of X-linked genes in five Chinese families with early-onset high myopia (eoHM) by using whole-exome sequencing and analyzing the phenotypic features.
To explore the potential role of m6A methylation modification in Wilms Tumor (WT) by m6A-RNA Methylation (m6A) regulators.
Joubert syndrome (JS) is a group of rare ciliopathies, mainly characterized by cerebellar dysplasia representing the “molar tooth sign (MTS)” on neuroimaging, hypotonia, and developmental delay. Having a compl...
There is still a therapeutic challenge in treating gastric cancer (GC) due to its high incidence and poor prognosis. Collagen type V alpha 2 (COL5A2) is increased in various cancers, yet it remains unclear how...
The largest group of patients with breast cancer are estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) type. The estrogen receptor acts as a transcription factor and triggers cell proliferation and differentiation. Hence, investi...
This study aimed to uncover abnormally expressed genes regulated by competitive endogenous RNA (ceRNA) and DNA methylation nasopharyngeal carcinoma and to validate the role of lncRNAs in the ceRNA network on n...
Colorectal cancer is a malignant tumor that poses a serious threat to human health. The main objective of this study is to investigate the mechanism by which Jatrorrhizine (JAT), a root extract from Stephania Epi...
Polycystic ovary syndrome is a multifactorial endocrine disorder impacting women of reproductive age. Variations within the FTO gene have been linked to both obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Given that PCOS ...
Hereditary hemolytic anemia (HHA) refers to a heterogeneous group of genetic disorders that share one common feature: destruction of circulating red blood cells (RBCs). The destruction of RBCs may be due to me...
Dendritic cells (DCs) are most potent antigen-processing cells and play key roles in host defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) infection. In this study, hub genes in DCs during MTB infection were firs...
Considering the essential roles that genetic factors play in azoospermia and oligospermia, this study aims to identify abnormal chromosomes using karyotyping and CNVs and elucidate the associated genes in pati...
The correlation between smoking and alcohol consumption and the development of Dupuytren’s disease (DD) has been acknowledged. However, the definitive causal relationship between these two factors and DD remai...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a prevalent tumor that poses a significant threat to human health, with 80% of cases being primary HCC. At present, Early diagnosis and predict prognosis of HCC is challenging...
Cerebral ischaemia‒reperfusion (I/R) frequently causes late-onset neuronal damage. Breviscapine promotes autophagy in microvascular endothelial cells in I/R and can inhibit oxidative damage and apoptosis. Howe...
Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most common malignancies, affected by several genetic loci in the clinical phenotype. This study aimed to determine the association between PTGER4 and PRKAA1 gene polymorphisms a...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is commonly associated with developmental dyslexia (DD), which are both prevalent and complicated pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders that have a significant ...
Statin-induced myopathy is reported to be associated with the solute carrier organic anion transporter family member 1B1 gene single nucleotide polymorphism, c.521 T > C. There is no epidemiologic data on this...
To analyze the relationship between plasma metal elements, ApoE gene polymorphisms and the interaction between the two and impaired cognitive function in elderly population.
The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant has replaced the previously dominant Delta variant because of high transmissibility. However, studies on the impact of the Omicron variant on the severity of COVID-19 are still l...
The genetic architecture of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA) are still unclear. Although RA and OA have quite different causes, they share synovial inflammation, risk factors, and some disease...
Neurodevelopmental disorder with absent language and variable seizures (NEDALVS, # 618707) are characterized by delayed speech and motor development, ocular abnormalities, and seizures. NEDAVLS is an autosomal...
Functional changes in subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) occur earlier in the aging process and play an important role in the occurrence and development of age-related metabolic diseases. The mechanism of this ...
To screen the possible potential signaling pathways related to enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) based on ceRNA mechanism, and to analyze the correlation between E2H2 and depths of various immune cell infiltr...
Observational studies have reported controversial results on the association between obesity and head and neck cancer risk. This study aimed to perform a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to ass...
This study aimed to compare the performance of Sanger-based SARS-CoV-2 spike gene sequencing and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)-based full-genome sequencing for variant identification in saliva samples with ...
Osteoarthritis is a very common clinical disease in middle-aged and elderly individuals, and with the advent of ageing, the incidence of this disease is gradually increasing. There are few studies on the role ...
1q21.1q21.2 microdeletions/microduplications are rare and incompletely penetrant genetic mutations, and only a few reports regarding their prenatal diagnosis are currently available. Here, we analyzed the ultr...
Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is a self-healing muscle pain disorder. Inflammatory pain is the main feature of DOMS. More and more researchers have realized that changes in mitochondrial morphology are ...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) affects approximately 451 million adults globally. In this study, we identified the optimal combination of marker candidates for detecting T2DM using miRNA-Seq data from 95 samp...
Short stature is a common human trait. More severe and/or associated short stature is usually part of the presentation of a syndrome and may be a monogenic disease. The present study aimed to identify the gene...
Genodermatoses are a broad group of disorders with specific or non-specific skin-based phenotypes, most of which are monogenic disorders. However, it’s a great challenge to make a precise molecular diagnosis b...
Alport syndrome (AS; OMIM#308,940) is a hereditary kidney disease that progresses over time and is distinguished by hearing loss and ocular irregularities. The syndrome has three subtypes, namely X-linked (XL;...
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) has been confirmed to function critically in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) progression. Hitherto, the subtyping and prognostic predictive significance of m6A-correlated genes in AML is ...
Rhizomelic limb shortening with dysmorphic features (RLSDF) has already been a disorder of the rare autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia, just having a few reported cases. RLSDF is caused by protein kinase d...
Wilms tumour (WT) is a mixed type of embryonal tumour that usually occurs in early childhood. However, our knowledge of the pathogenesis or progression mechanism of WT is inadequate, and there is a scarcity of...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the deadliest malignancies worldwide, with late detection, ineffective treatment and poor overall survival. Immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) t...
Observational studies have suggested a close association between atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF), yet the causal effect remains uncertain. In this study, we employed a bidirectional Mendelian r...
Xeroderma pigmentosum group E (XP-E) is one of the least common forms of XP, a rare syndrome where patients are prone to develop skin cancer in exposed sunlight areas. XP-E patients are generally not diagnosed...
Infantile myofibromatosis (IM) is a rare disorder characterized by the formation of nodules in the skin, muscle, bone, and, more rarely, visceral organs. Very few cases are detected prenatally, and the final d...
Although immunotherapy has been considered as a potent strategy for lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), only a small part of patients was served as potentially clinical benefiters. Immunogenic cell death (ICD), a type...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a highly heterogeneous mental illness and a major public health problem worldwide. A large number of observational studies have demonstrated a clear association between MDD a...
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