Glycan-specific molecularly imprinted polymers towards cancer diagnostics: merits, applications, and future perspectives

P Li, Z Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Aberrant glycans are a hallmark of cancer states. Notably, emerging evidence has
demonstrated that the diagnosis of cancers with tumour-specific glycan patterns holds great …

Brain stars take the lead during critical periods of early postnatal brain development: relevance of astrocytes in health and mental disorders

E Vivi, B Di Benedetto - Molecular Psychiatry, 2024 - nature.com
In the brain, astrocytes regulate shape and functions of the synaptic and vascular
compartments through a variety of released factors and membrane-bound proteins. An …

CTD tetramers: a new online tool that computationally links curated chemicals, genes, phenotypes, and diseases to inform molecular mechanisms for environmental …

AP Davis, TC Wiegers, J Wiegers, B Wyatt… - Toxicological …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The molecular mechanisms connecting environmental exposures to adverse endpoints are
often unknown, reflecting knowledge gaps. At the Comparative Toxicogenomics Database …

Genetic and biological drivers of prostate cancer disparities in Black men

J Gong, DM Kim, MR Freeman, H Kim, L Ellis… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Black men with prostate cancer have historically had worse outcomes than white men with
prostate cancer. The causes of this disparity in outcomes are multi-factorial, but a potential …

Shaping immunity: The influence of natural selection on population immune diversity

HE Randolph, KA Aracena, YL Lin, Z Mu… - Immunological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Humans exhibit considerable variability in their immune responses to the same immune
challenges. Such variation is widespread and affects individual and population‐level …

Characterizing the pathogenicity of genetic variants: the consequences of context

TH Ciesielski, G Sirugo, SK Iyengar… - NPJ Genomic …, 2024 - nature.com
Beyond initial discovery of a pathogenic variant, establishing that a variant is recurrently
associated with disease is important for understanding clinical impact and disease etiology …

Genotype× environment interactions in gene regulation and complex traits

C Boye, S Nirmalan, A Ranjbaran, F Luca - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Genotype× environment interactions (GxE) have long been recognized as a key mechanism
underlying human phenotypic variation. Technological developments over the past 15 years …

Microbiota implications in endocrine-related diseases: from development to novel therapeutic approaches

VJ Clemente-Suárez, L Redondo-Flórez… - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
This comprehensive review article delves into the critical role of the human microbiota in the
development and management of endocrine-related diseases. We explore the complex …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing diversity of functional genetics studies to advance biological discovery and human health

SHL George, A Medina-Rivera, Y Idaghdour… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
In this perspective we discuss the current lack of genetic and environmental diversity in
functional genomics datasets. There is a well-described Eurocentric bias in genetic and …

Gene–environment interactions in human health

E Herrera-Luis, K Benke, H Volk… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Gene–environment interactions (G× E), the interplay of genetic variation with environmental
factors, have a pivotal impact on human complex traits and diseases. Statistically, G× E can …