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Linhuan H, Liangying Z, Shaobin L, Caixia Z, Danlei C, Siqi H, Peiming H, Shu K, Yingjun X, Yanmin L. Effect of MSX1 on the cellular function of cardiomyocytes. Gene 2024; 916:148419. [PMID: 38556116 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2024.148419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2024] [Revised: 03/14/2024] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
Abstract
MSX1 (Muscle Segment Homeobox 1) has pleiotropic effects in various tissues, including cardiomyocytes, while the effect of MSX1 on cardiomyocyte cellular function was not well known. In this study, we used AC16 cell culture, real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR (qPCR), protein blotting (Western blot), flow cytometry apoptosis assay and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbnent Assay) to investigate the effect of the MSX1 gene on cardiomyocyte function. The results showed that MSX1 plays a protective role against hypoxia of cardiomyocytes. However, further studies are required to fully understand the role of MSX1 in the regulation of LDH expression in different cell types and under different conditions.
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- Huang Linhuan
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510100, Guangdong Province, PR China.
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510100, Guangdong Province, PR China.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510100, Guangdong Province, PR China.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510100, Guangdong Province, PR China.
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- Department of Ultrasound, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510100, Guangdong Province, PR China.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Higher Education Joint Laboratory of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510150, Guangdong Province, PR China.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Higher Education Joint Laboratory of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510150, Guangdong Province, PR China.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Higher Education Joint Laboratory of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510150, Guangdong Province, PR China.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Major Obstetric Diseases, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Higher Education Joint Laboratory of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510150, Guangdong Province, PR China.
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510100, Guangdong Province, PR China.
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Chavez DE, Gronau I, Hains T, Dikow RB, Frandsen PB, Figueiró HV, Garcez FS, Tchaicka L, de Paula RC, Rodrigues FHG, Jorge RSP, Lima ES, Songsasen N, Johnson WE, Eizirik E, Koepfli KP, Wayne RK. Comparative genomics uncovers the evolutionary history, demography, and molecular adaptations of South American canids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2205986119. [PMID: 35969758 PMCID: PMC9407222 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2205986119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The remarkable radiation of South American (SA) canids produced 10 extant species distributed across diverse habitats, including disparate forms such as the short-legged, hypercarnivorous bush dog and the long-legged, largely frugivorous maned wolf. Despite considerable research spanning nearly two centuries, many aspects of their evolutionary history remain unknown. Here, we analyzed 31 whole genomes encompassing all extant SA canid species to assess phylogenetic relationships, interspecific hybridization, historical demography, current genetic diversity, and the molecular bases of adaptations in the bush dog and maned wolf. We found that SA canids originated from a single ancestor that colonized South America 3.9 to 3.5 Mya, followed by diversification east of the Andes and then a single colonization event and radiation of Lycalopex species west of the Andes. We detected extensive historical gene flow between recently diverged lineages and observed distinct patterns of genomic diversity and demographic history in SA canids, likely induced by past climatic cycles compounded by human-induced population declines. Genome-wide scans of selection showed that disparate limb proportions in the bush dog and maned wolf may derive from mutations in genes regulating chondrocyte proliferation and enlargement. Further, frugivory in the maned wolf may have been enabled by variants in genes associated with energy intake from short-chain fatty acids. In contrast, unique genetic variants detected in the bush dog may underlie interdigital webbing and dental adaptations for hypercarnivory. Our analyses shed light on the evolution of a unique carnivoran radiation and how it was shaped by South American topography and climate change.
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- Daniel E. Chavez
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095
- Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287
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- Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, Reichman University, Herzliya 46150, Israel
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- Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637
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- Data Science Lab, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560
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- Data Science Lab, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560
- Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602
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- Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Center for Species Survival, Front Royal, VA 22630
- School of Health and Life Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 90619-900, Brazil
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- School of Health and Life Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 90619-900, Brazil
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- Rede de Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia da Amazônia, Curso de Pós-Graduação em Recursos Aquáticos e Pesca, Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, São Luis, 2016-8100, Brazil
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- Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Mamíferos Carnívoros, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, 12952-011, Atibaia, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, Ecology and Evolution, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil
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- Centro Nacional de Avaliação da Biodiversidade e de Pesquisa e Conservação do Cerrado, Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Brasilia, 70670-350, Brazil
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- Private address, Nova Xavantina, MT, 78690-000, Brazil
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- Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Center for Species Survival, Front Royal, VA 22630
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- Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Center for Species Survival, Front Royal, VA 22630
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- School of Health and Life Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 90619-900, Brazil
- Instituto Pró-Carnívoros, Atibaia, 12945-010, Brazil
- Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Ecologia Evolução Conservação da Biodiverside, Universidade Federal de GoiásGoiânia, 74690-900, Brazil
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- Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Center for Species Survival, Front Royal, VA 22630
- Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, VA 22630
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Zhu S, Bao H, Zhang MC, Liu H, Wang Y, Lin C, Zhao X, Liu SL. KAZN as a diagnostic marker in ovarian cancer: a comprehensive analysis based on microarray, mRNA-sequencing, and methylation data. BMC Cancer 2022; 22:662. [PMID: 35710397 PMCID: PMC9204993 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-022-09747-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Background Ovarian cancer (OC) is among the deadliest malignancies in women and the lack of appropriate markers for early diagnosis leads to poor prognosis in most cases. Previous studies have shown that KAZN is involved in multiple biological processes during development, such as cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis, so defects or aberrant expression of KAZN might cause queer cell behaviors such as malignancy. Here we evaluated the KAZN expression and methylation levels for possible use as an early diagnosis marker for OC. Methods We used data from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) microarrays, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), and Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) to investigate the correlations between KAZN expression and clinical characteristics of OC by comparing methylation levels of normal and OC samples. The relationships among differentially methylated sites in the KAZN gene, corresponding KAZN mRNA expression levels and prognosis were analyzed. Results KAZN was up-regulated in ovarian epithelial tumors and the expression of KAZN was correlated with the patients’ survival time. KAZN CpG site cg17657618 was positively correlated with the expression of mRNA and the methylation levels were significantly differential between the group of stage “I and II” and the group of stage “III and IV”. This study also presents a new method to classify tumor and normal tissue in OC using DNA methylation pattern in the KAZN gene body region. Conclusions KAZN was involved in ovarian cancer pathogenesis. Our results demonstrate a new direction for ovarian cancer research and provide a potential diagnostic biomarker as well as a novel therapeutic target for clinical application. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12885-022-09747-2.
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- Songling Zhu
- Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,HMU-UCCSM Centre for Infection and Genomics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,HMU-UCCSM Centre for Infection and Genomics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,HMU-UCCSM Centre for Infection and Genomics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,HMU-UCCSM Centre for Infection and Genomics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,HMU-UCCSM Centre for Infection and Genomics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,HMU-UCCSM Centre for Infection and Genomics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin, China
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- Physical Examination Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), College of Pharmacy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China. .,HMU-UCCSM Centre for Infection and Genomics, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China. .,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Harbin, China. .,Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
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Limeres J, Serrano C, De Nova JM, Silvestre-Rangil J, Machuca G, Maura I, Cruz Ruiz-Villandiego J, Diz P, Blanco-Lago R, Nevado J, Diniz-Freitas M. Oral Manifestations of Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome: Genotype-Phenotype Correlation Analysis. J Clin Med 2020; 9:jcm9113556. [PMID: 33158290 PMCID: PMC7694380 DOI: 10.3390/jcm9113556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2020] [Revised: 10/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/31/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background: Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS) is a rare disease caused by deletion in the distal moiety of the short arm of chromosome 4. The objectives of this study were to report the most representative oral findings of WHS, relate them with other clinical characteristics of the disease, and establish possible phenotype-genotype correlation. Methods: The study was conducted at 6 reference centers distributed throughout Spain during 2018–2019. The study group consisted of 31 patients with WHS who underwent a standardized oral examination. Due to behavioral reasons, imaging studies were performed on only 11 of the children 6 years of age or older. All participants had previously undergone a specific medical examination for WHS, during which anatomical, functional, epilepsy-related, and genetic variables were recorded. Results: The most prevalent oral manifestations were delayed tooth eruption (74.1%), bruxism (64.5%), dental agenesis (63.6%), micrognathia (60.0%), oligodontia (45.5%), and downturned corners of the mouth (32.3%). We detected strong correlation between psychomotor delay and oligodontia (p = 0.008; Cramér’s V coefficient, 0.75). The size of the deletion was correlated in a statistically significant manner with the presence of oligodontia (p = 0.009; point-biserial correlation coefficient, 0.75). Conclusion: Certain oral manifestations prevalent in WHS can form part of the syndrome’s phenotypic variability. A number of the characteristics of WHS, such as psychomotor delay and epilepsy, are correlated with oral findings such as oligodontia and bruxism. Although most genotype-phenotype correlations are currently unknown, most of them seem to be associated with larger deletions, suggesting that some oral-facial candidate genes might be outside the critical WHS region, indicating that WHS is a contiguous gene syndrome.
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- Jacobo Limeres
- Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain; (J.L.); (C.S.); (M.D.-F.)
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- Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain; (J.L.); (C.S.); (M.D.-F.)
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- Department of Stomatology IV, School of Dentistry, University Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain;
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- Department of Special Care in Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Seville, 41009 Sevilla, Spain;
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- Service of Pediatric Dentistry, Barcelona University Children’s Hospital HM Nens, 08009 Barcelona, Spain;
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- Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain; (J.L.); (C.S.); (M.D.-F.)
- Correspondence:
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- Service of Neuropediatrics, University Hospital Central de Asturias, 33011 Oviedo, Spain;
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- Medical and Molecular Genetics Institute (INGEMM), La Paz University Hospital, IdiPAZ, 28046 Madrid, Spain;
- Institute of Rare Diseases Research (IIER) & Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain
- ERN (European Reference Network)-ITHACA, La Paz University Hospital, 28046 Madrid, Spain
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- Medical-Surgical Dentistry Research Group (OMEQUI), Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain; (J.L.); (C.S.); (M.D.-F.)
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Guo M, Xu C, Chen YZ, Sun QW, Zhao XY, Liu X, Yang Y, Hu YY, Li FF, Liu SL. Associations of CXCL1 gene 5'UTR variations with ovarian cancer. J Ovarian Res 2020; 13:43. [PMID: 32326946 PMCID: PMC7181480 DOI: 10.1186/s13048-020-00640-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2019] [Accepted: 03/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND There are about 2.4 hundred thousand new cases and 1.5 hundred thousand deaths of ovarian cancer (OC) annually in the world. Chronic inflammation is a risk factor for OC. C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 1 (CXCL1) defects may facilitate inflammation and transactivate EGFR in ovarian cancer, but the precise haplotypes associated with the potential diseases remained largely unknown. In this work, we characterized CXCL1 gene variations to elucidate their possible associations with OC. METHODS We analyzed the CXCL1 gene for 300 OC patients with 400 healthy participants as controls. The statistical analyses and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium tests of the patients and control populations were conducted using the SPSS software (version 19.0) and Plink (version 1.9). RESULTS The variants rs11547681, rs201090116, rs199791199, rs181868085, rs4074 and rs1814092 within or near the CXCL1 gene were characterized. The genetic heterozygosity of rs11547681 and rs4074 was very high. Statistical analysis showed that the variant rs11547681 in the gene was closely associated with the risk of OC in the Chinese Han population, although this variant was not associated with FIGO stages or pathological grades of the patients. CONCLUSIONS Rs11547681 in CXCL1 gene was associated with the risk of OC in the Chinese Han population.
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- Man Guo
- Genomics Research Center, College of Pharmacy (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center, College of Pharmacy (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Department of Colorectal Surgery of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center, College of Pharmacy (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center, College of Pharmacy (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Blood Dialysis, Heilongjiang Agricultural Reclamation Bureau General Hospital, Harbin, China
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- Fifth Hospital Gynecology the City of Xiamen, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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- Genomics Research Center, College of Pharmacy (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center, College of Pharmacy (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Genomics Research Center, College of Pharmacy (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China. .,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Hegang, Heilongjiang, China.
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- Genomics Research Center, College of Pharmacy (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China. .,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Hegang, Heilongjiang, China. .,Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
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Zhang Q, Zhou J, Lei H, Zhu CY, Li FF, Zheng D, Liu SL. RBPJ polymorphisms associated with cerebral infarction diseases in Chinese Han population: A Clinical Trial/Experimental Study (CONSORT Compliant). Medicine (Baltimore) 2018; 97:e11420. [PMID: 30075508 PMCID: PMC6081149 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000011420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
TRIAL DESIGN Cerebral small vessel diseases (CSVDs) are a group of brain pathological processes involving cerebral small arteries, brain venules, and capillaries. The recombination signal-binding protein Jκ (RBPJ) is implicated in the pathogenesis of these diseases but its actual roles need confirmation. The aim of this work was to evaluate variations in RBPJ gene for their possible associations with the disease. METHODS The RBPJ gene was sequenced for 400 patients with cerebral infarction disease and 600 normal controls. The statistical analyses and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium tests of the patients and control populations were conducted using the SPSS software (version 19.0) and Plink (version 1.9), Haploview software, and online software SNPSpD. RESULTS We characterized variants rs2871198, rs1397731, rs3822223, rs2077777, rs2270226, and rs2788861 within or near the RBPJ gene. The genetic heterozygosity of rs2871198, rs1397731, rs3822223, rs2077777, and rs2270226 was very high. Statistical analysis showed that the variants rs2270226 and rs2077777 in the gene were associated with the risk of cerebral infarction diseases in the Chinese Han population. CONCLUSIONS rs2270226 and rs2077777 in the RBPJ gene were associated with the risk of cerebral infarction diseases in the Chinese Han population.
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- Qiong Zhang
- College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University
- Department of Antibiotics, Heilongjiang Institute for Food and Drug Control
- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin
- Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin
- Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang
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- Department of Neurology, Daqing Oilfield General Hospital, Daqing, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin
- Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang
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- College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin
- Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Gu M, Zhang Y, Liu H, Liu J, Zhu D, Yang X. MSH homeobox 1 polymorphisms and the risk of non-syndromic orofacial clefts: a meta-analysis. Eur J Oral Sci 2018; 126:180-185. [PMID: 29664137 DOI: 10.1111/eos.12414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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- Min Gu
- Department of Dentistry; The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University; The First People's Hospital of Changzhou; Changzhou China
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- Department of Dentistry; The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University; The First People's Hospital of Changzhou; Changzhou China
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- Department of Dentistry; The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University; The First People's Hospital of Changzhou; Changzhou China
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- Department of Dentistry; The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University; The First People's Hospital of Changzhou; Changzhou China
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- Department of Oncology; The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University; The First People's Hospital of Changzhou; Changzhou China
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- Department of Dentistry; The Third Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University; The First People's Hospital of Changzhou; Changzhou China
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Sun CY, Sun C, Cheng R, Shi S, Han Y, Li XQ, Zhi JX, Li FF, Liu SL. Rs2459976 in ZW10 gene associated with congenital heart diseases in Chinese Han population. Oncotarget 2017; 9:3867-3874. [PMID: 29423089 PMCID: PMC5790506 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.23240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2017] [Accepted: 12/01/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
Abstract
Congenital heart diseases (CHD) are a large group of prevalent and complex anatomic malformations of the heart, with the genetic basis remaining largely unknown. Since genes or factors associated with the differentiation of human embryonic stem (HES) cells would affect the development of all embryonic tissues, including cardiac progenitor cells, we postulated their potential roles in CHD. In this study, we focused on ZW10, a kinetochore protein involved in the process of proper chromosome segregation, and conducted comparative studies between CHD patients and normal controls matched in gender and age in Chinese Han populations. We identified three variations in the ZW10 gene, including rs2885987, rs2271261 and rs2459976, which all had high genetic heterozygosity. Association analysis of these genetic variations with CHD showed correlation between rs2459976 and the risk of CHD. We conclude that rs2459976 in the ZW10 gene is associated with CHD in Chinese Han populations.
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- Chao-Yu Sun
- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy and Genomics Research Center, State-Province Key Laboratory of Biopharmaceutical Engineering, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Department of Cardiology, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy and Genomics Research Center, State-Province Key Laboratory of Biopharmaceutical Engineering, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Department of Cardiology, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy and Genomics Research Center, State-Province Key Laboratory of Biopharmaceutical Engineering, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Department of Cardiology, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy and Genomics Research Center, State-Province Key Laboratory of Biopharmaceutical Engineering, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy and Genomics Research Center, State-Province Key Laboratory of Biopharmaceutical Engineering, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang, China.,Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Li FF, Zhao ZX, Yan P, Wang S, Liu Z, Zhang Q, Zhang XN, Sun CH, Wang XS, Wang GY, Liu SL. Different effection of p.1125Val>Ala and rs11954856 in APC on Wnt signaling pathway. Oncotarget 2017; 8:70854-70864. [PMID: 29050326 PMCID: PMC5642601 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.20106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2017] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
Abstract
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the most common and fatal forms of solid tumors worldwide and more than two thirds of CRC and adenomas patients have APC gene mutations. APC is a key regulator in the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway but its roles in CRC remains to be elucidated. In this study, we compared APC genes between CRC patients and controls to determine possible associations of nucleotide changes in the APC gene with the pathways involved in CRC pathogenesis. All participants received physical and enteroscopic examinations. The APC gene was sequenced for 300 Chinese Han CRC patients and 411 normal controls, and the expression levels of genes in the signaling pathway were analyzed using Western Blotting. Statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS (version 19.0) software. We found that rs11954856 in the APC gene was associated with colorectal cancer and could increase the expression levels of APC, β-catenin, TCF7L1, TCF7L2 and LEF1 genes in the pathway in the CRC patients, demonstrating the involvement of APC in the pathological processes leading to CRC.
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- Fei-Feng Li
- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Antibiotics, Heilongjiang Province Food and Drug Inspection Testing Institute, Harbin, China
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- Department of Antibiotics, Heilongjiang Province Food and Drug Inspection Testing Institute, Harbin, China
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- Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Public Health College, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang, China.,Department of Colorectal Surgery of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.,Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang, China.,Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Zhu CY, Wang Y, Zeng QX, Qian Y, Li H, Yang ZX, Yang YM, Zhang Q, Li FF, Liu SL. Combined effects of age and polymorphisms in Notch3 in the pathogenesis of cerebral infarction disease. Metab Brain Dis 2016; 31:1157-64. [PMID: 27370894 DOI: 10.1007/s11011-016-9868-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2016] [Accepted: 06/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Cerebral infarction disease is a severe hypoxic ischemic tissue necrosis in the brain, often leading to long-term functional disability and residual impairments. The Notch signaling pathway plays key roles in proliferation and survival of the stem/progenitor cells of the central and peripheral nervous systems. Notch3 is an important member of the pathway, but the relationships between the genetic abnormalities and cerebral infarction disease still remain unclear. The aim of this work was to evaluate variations in Notch3 gene for their possible associations with the cerebral infarction disease. We sequenced the Notch3 gene for 260 patients with cerebral infarction disease, 300 normal controls with old ages and 300 normal controls with younger ages, and identified the variations. The statistical analyses were conducted using Chi-Square Tests as implemented in SPSS (version 19.0). The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test of the population was carried out using the online software OEGE. Six variations, including rs1044116, rs1044009, rs1044006, rs10408676, rs1043996 and rs16980398 within or near the Notch3 gene, were found. The genetic heterozygosity of rs1044116, rs1044009, rs1044006, and rs1043996 was very high, whereas that of rs10408676 and rs16980398 was very low. Statistical analyses showed that rs1044009 and rs1044006 were associated with the risk of cerebral infarction disease in the Chinese Han agedness population. The SNPs rs1044009 and rs1044006 in the Notch3 gene were associated with the risk of cerebral infarction diseases in the Chinese Han agedness population.
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- Chun-Yu Zhu
- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
- Department of Neurology, Daqing Oilfield General Hospital, Daqing, China
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- Department of Occupational Health, College of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Department of Antibiotics, Heilongjiang province food and drug inspection testing Institute, Harbin, China
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
- Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang, China.
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- Systemomics Center, College of Pharmacy, and Genomics Research Center (State-Province Key Laboratories of Biomedicine-Pharmaceutics of China), Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
- Translational Medicine Research and Cooperation Center of Northern China, Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, Heilongjiang, China.
- Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
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