Identification and Validation of Key miRNAs for Colon Cancer Based on miRNA-Gene Integration Analysis

Yi Ji, Jialin Gu, Hongqun Zhang, Houxi Xu · 2023

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Yi Ji, Jialin Gu, Hongqun Zhang, and Houxi Xu present a 2023 study hunting for marker molecules in colon cancer. MicroRNAs are tiny molecules that tune gene activity, and their patterns shift in cancer. Finding the key ones could aid early diagnosis and treatment.

The team mined two public gene datasets and found fourteen microRNAs changed in both. Software predicted the genes those molecules target, and a network map singled out three key microRNAs. Lab tests on patient samples confirmed the pattern. A large cancer database gave the same answer from independent data. The authors also probed links between the three markers and immune cells inside tumors, plus markers used to guide immune therapy.

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CREATORYi Ji, Jialin Gu, Hongqun Zhang, Houxi Xu
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE33 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10710248

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