Publications by authors named "Yangfan Zhao"

Objectives: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) is a group of systemic autoimmune diseases characterised by muscle involvement. This study aims to reveal the characteristics of IIM subtypes and explore the molecular mechanisms underlying IIM.

Methods: The STRING database was utilised to construct a protein-protein interaction network of differentially expressed genes obtained from the GSE128470, GSE3112, and GSE39454 datasets.

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Gene selection is a process of selecting discriminative genes from microarray data that helps to diagnose and classify cancer samples effectively. Swarm intelligence evolution-based gene selection algorithms can never circumvent the problem that the population is prone to local optima in the process of gene selection. To tackle this challenge, previous research has focused primarily on two aspects: mitigating premature convergence to local optima and escaping from local optima.

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Background: More than 75% of the population is seropositive for BK polyomavirus (BKV), which remains quiescent in the urothelium in immunocompetent hosts. However, it can reactivate in kidney transplant recipients (KTRs), and up to 30% of them will develop BKV viremia in the 2 years following transplant, with a risk of developing BKV-associated nephropathy (BKVAN). Viral reactivation is associated with the level of immunosuppression, but there is currently no way to predict which patients are at high risk for reactivation.

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Parkinson's disease (PD) affects millions of individuals worldwide, and it is the second most common late-onset neurodegenerative disorder. There is no cure and current treatments only alleviate symptoms. Modifiable risk factors have been explored as possible options for decreasing risk or developing drug targets to treat PD, including low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C).

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Retaining events containing action-related information in working memory (WM) is vital to daily activities such as action planning and social interaction. During processing of such events, action-related information is bound with other visual elements (e.g.

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Working memory mechanisms for binding have been examined extensively in the last decade, yet few studies have explored bindings relating to human biological motion (BM). Human BM is the most salient and biologically significant kinetic information encountered in everyday life and is stored independently from other visual features (e.g.

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