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Genetic contribution of caspase-8 variants and haplotypes to breast cancer risk and prognosis: a case-control study in Iran
PurposeMultiple genome-wide and candidate-gene association studies have been conducted to search for common risk variants of breast cancer. Recent...
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High-throughput circular RNA sequencing reveals the profiles of circular RNA in non-cirrhotic hepatocellular carcinoma
BackgroundLiver cirrhosis is a well-known risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, some HCC cases can also originate from...
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Publication Integrity, Authorship, and Misconduct
Research is an outcome of innate human inquisitiveness and self-driven efforts to know the unknown. The new knowledge and technology generated... -
Biological roles of SLC16A1-AS1 lncRNA and its clinical impacts in tumors
Recent studies have increasingly highlighted the aberrant expression of SLC16A1-AS1 in a variety of tumor types, where it functions as either an...
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Defective HIV-1 genomes and their potential impact on HIV pathogenesis
Defective HIV-1 proviruses represent a population of viral genomes that are selected for by immune pressures, and clonally expanded to dominate the...
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The Use of Saliva for Genetic and Epigenetic Research
Minimally invasive sampling methods for collecting oral fluids or cells are preferred in genetic research involving children and in large-scale... -
CircPIAS1 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma progression by inhibiting ferroptosis via the miR-455-3p/NUPR1/FTH1 axis
BackgroundThe role of circRNAs in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression remains unclear. CircPIAS1 (circBase ID: hsa_circ_0007088) was...
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Technologies Used for Analysis of Extracellular Vesicle-Omics
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are naturally occurring and secreted membrane vesicles that carry proteins, lipids, and RNAs (mRNAs, microRNAs [miRNAs],... -
Targeting the MALAT1 gene with the CRISPR/Cas9 technique in prostate cancer
BackgroundThe MALAT1 lncRNA acts as an oncogene in Prostate cancer (PC); thus, it can be severe as a cancer biomarker.
MethodsUsing bioinformatics...
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From Whole Blood to Isolated Pro-Metastasis Immune Cells: An Ex Vivo Approach to Isolate and Manipulate Immune Cells Contributing to Tumor Metastasis
Immune evasion hallmark has grabbed wide attention in cancer progression on the clinical level. Accordingly, innate and adaptive immune cells... -
A complete telomere-to-telomere assembly of the maize genome
A complete telomere-to-telomere (T2T) finished genome has been the long pursuit of genomic research. Through generating deep coverage ultralong...
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Polymorphonuclear Neutrophils and Tumors: Friend or Foe?
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a dynamic network that apart from tumor cells includes also cells of the immune system, e.g., neutrophils, which are... -
Toward a comprehensive catalog of regulatory elements
Regulatory elements are the genomic regions that interact with transcription factors to control cell-type-specific gene expression in different...
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Analysis of lncRNA sequences: FAM3D-AS1, LINC01230, LINC01315 and LINC01468 in endometrial cancer
BackgroundThe analysis of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) in endometrial cancer is a novel field of science. Although numerous lncRNA sequences have...
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Silencing of LINE-1 retrotransposons is a selective dependency of myeloid leukemia
Transposable elements or transposons are major players in genetic variability and genome evolution. Aberrant activation of long interspersed...
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Population genetics: past, present, and future
We present selected topics of population genetics and molecular phylogeny. As several excellent review articles have been published and generally...
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lncRNA FOXD2-AS1 promotes hemangioma progression through the miR-324-3p/PDRG1 pathway
BackgroundLong non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) FOXD2 adjacent opposite strand RNA 1 (FOXD2-AS1) are reported could function as tumor promoter in several...
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Interpretation of the role of germline and somatic non-coding mutations in cancer: expression and chromatin conformation informed analysis
BackgroundThere has been extensive scrutiny of cancer driving mutations within the exome (especially amino acid altering mutations) as these are more...
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Tracing vitamins on the long non-coding lane of the transcriptome: vitamin regulation of LncRNAs
A major revelation of genome-scale biological studies in the post-genomic era has been that two-thirds of human genes do not encode proteins. The...
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New genes helped acorn barnacles adapt to a sessile lifestyle
Barnacles are the only sessile lineages among crustaceans, and their sessile life begins with the settlement of swimming larvae (cyprids) and the...