Primary age-related tauopathy (PART) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) share hippocampal phospho-tau (p-tau) pathology but differ in p-tau extent and ß-amyloid presence. As a result, PART uniquely enables investigation of amyloid-independent p-tau mechanisms during brain aging. We conducted an epigenome-wide association (EWAS) study of PART, nominating 13 new and robust p-tau/methylation associations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Wnt pathway stands out as a pivotal signal transduction pathway, operating through two distinct modes of signaling: the canonical/β-catenin pathway and the non-canonical pathway. Among these, the canonical pathway assumes a paramount role in various physiological and pathological processes within the human body. Particularly in the brain, Wnt exhibits involvement in fundamental physiological events including neuronal differentiation/survival, axonogenesis, neural stem cell regulation, synaptic plasticity, and cell cycle modulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ECG is a crucial tool in the medical field for recording the heartbeat signal over time, aiding in the identification of various cardiac diseases. Commonly, the interpretation of ECGs necessitates specialized knowledge. However, this paper explores the application of machine learning algorithms and deep learning algorithm to autonomously identify cardiac diseases in diabetic patients in the absence of expert intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPortable genomic sequencers such as Oxford Nanopore's MinION enable real-time applications in clinical and environmental health. However, there is a bottleneck in the downstream analytics when bioinformatics pipelines are unavailable, e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTriple-negative Breast Cancer (TNBC), the most aggressive breast cancer subtype, is characterized by the non-appearance of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). Clinically, TNBC is marked by its low survival rate, poor therapeutic outcomes, high aggressiveness, and lack of targeted therapies. Over the past few decades, many clinical trials have been ongoing for targeted therapies in TNBC.
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