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To test the performance of HOPE, we compare it with HOPE-one, HOPE-seq, and GraphSAGE, respectively, in three microbial metagenomic 16s rRNA sequencing datasets, including abalone gut, human gut, and gut of Penaeus monodon. Experiments demonstrate that HOPE outperforms baselines on almost all indexes in all experiments. Furthermore, HOPE reveals significant generalization ability. HOPE's basic idea is suitable for other related scenarios, such as the prediction of gene function based on gene co-expression networks. The source code of HOPE is freely available at https//github.com/adrift00/HOPE.Cancer, which refers to abnormal cell proliferative diseases with systematic pathogenic potential, is one of the leading threats to human health. The final causes for patients' deaths are usually cancer recurrence, metastasis, and drug resistance against continuing therapy. Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), which is the transformation of tumor cells (TCs), is a prerequisite for pathogenic cancer recurrence, metastasis, and drug resistance. Conventional biomarkers can only define and recognize large tissues with obvious EMT markers but cannot accurately monitor detailed EMT processes. In this study, a systematic workflow was established integrating effective feature selection, multiple machine learning models [Random forest (RF), Support vector machine (SVM)], rule learning, and functional enrichment analyses to find new biomarkers and their functional implications for distinguishing single-cell isolated TCs with unique epithelial or mesenchymal markers using public single-cell expression profiling. Our discovered signatures may provide an effective and precise transcriptomic reference to monitor EMT progression at the single-cell level and contribute to the exploration of detailed tumorigenesis mechanisms during EMT.Oculodentodigital dysplasia syndrome is associated with numerous pathogenic variants in GJA1, the gene encoding connexin43 gap junction protein. A novel in-frame deletion (p.Lys134del) was found in our clinic. The patient showed all the typical dysmorphic features of the syndrome. The functional consequences of this variant were also studied in an in vitro system. Cells expressed significantly less number of gap junction plaques with a great number of them retained intracellularly.Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive primary tumor of the central nervous system. As biomedicine advances, the researcher has found the development of GBM is closely related to immunity. In this study, we evaluated the GBM tumor immunoreactivity and defined the Immune-High (IH) and Immune-Low (IL) immunophenotypes using transcriptome data from 144 tumors profiled by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project based on the single-sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA) of five immune expression signatures (IFN-γ response, macrophages, lymphocyte infiltration, TGF-β response, and wound healing). Next, we identified six immunophenotype-related long non-coding RNA biomarkers (im-lncRNAs, USP30-AS1, HCP5, PSMB8-AS1, AL133264.2, LINC01684, and LINC01506) by employing a machine learning computational framework combining minimum redundancy maximum relevance algorithm (mRMR) and random forest model. Moreover, the expression level of identified im-lncRNAs was converted into an im-lncScore using the normalized principal component analysis. The im-lncScore showed a promising performance for distinguishing the GBM immunophenotypes with an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.928. Furthermore, the im-lncRNAs were also closely associated with the levels of tumor immune cell infiltration in GBM. In summary, the im-lncRNA signature had important clinical implications for tumor immunophenotyping and guiding immunotherapy in glioblastoma patients in future.Decitabine (DAC) is considered to be a profound global DNA demethylation, which can induce the re-expression of silenced tumor suppressor genes. Little is known about the function of tumor suppressor gene FOXO1 in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). To address this issue, the study firstly investigated differentially expressed genes (DEGs) for DAC treatment in MDS cell lines, then explored the role of FOXO1 through silencing its expression before DAC treatment in MDS. The results showed that FOXO1 exists in a hyperphosphorylated, inactive form in MDS-L cells. DAC treatment both induces FOXO1 expression and reactivates the protein in its low phosphorylation level. Additionally, the results also demonstrated that this FOXO1 activation is responsible for the DAC-induced apoptosis, cell cycle arrest, antigen differentiation, and immunoregulation in MDS-L cells. We also demonstrated DAC-induced FOXO1 activation upregulates anti-tumor immune response in higher-risk MDS specimens. Collectively, these results suggest that DAC induces FOXO1 activation, which plays an important role in anti-MDS tumors.Quantification of the simultaneous contributions of loci to multiple traits, a phenomenon called pleiotropy, is facilitated by the increased availability of high-throughput genotypic and phenotypic data. To understand the prevalence and nature of pleiotropy, the ability of multivariate and univariate genome-wide association study (GWAS) models to distinguish between pleiotropic and non-pleiotropic loci in linkage disequilibrium (LD) first needs to be evaluated. Therefore, we used publicly available maize and soybean genotypic data to simulate multiple pairs of traits that were either (i) controlled by quantitative trait nucleotides (QTNs) on separate chromosomes, (ii) controlled by QTNs in various degrees of LD with each other, or (iii) controlled by a single pleiotropic QTN. We showed that multivariate GWAS could not distinguish between QTNs in LD and a single pleiotropic QTN. In contrast, a unique QTN detection rate pattern was observed for univariate GWAS whenever the simulated QTNs were in high LD or pleiotropic. Collectively, these results suggest that multivariate and univariate GWAS should both be used to infer whether or not causal mutations underlying peak GWAS associations are pleiotropic. Therefore, we recommend that future studies use a combination of multivariate and univariate GWAS models, as both models could be useful for identifying and narrowing down candidate loci with potential pleiotropic effects for downstream biological experiments.Early-life adversity caused by poor social bonding and deprived maternal care is known to affect mental wellbeing and physical health. It is a form of chronic social stress that persists because of a negative environment, and the consequences are long-lasting on mental health. The presence of social stress during early life can have an epigenetic effect on the body, possibly resulting in many complex mental disorders, including depression in later life. PX-478 order Here, we review the evidence for early-life social stress-induced epigenetic changes that modulate juvenile and adult social behavior (depression and anxiety). This review has a particular emphasis on the interaction between early-life social stress and genetic variation of serotonin associate genes including the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTT; also known as SLC6A4), which are key molecules involved in depression.The dysregulation of caspase 4 (CASP4) expression is related to the occurrence, development, and outcome of many malignant tumors; however, its role in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) remains unclear. Herein, we investigated the expression of CASP4 in tumor tissues and its relationship with clinical prognosis, immune infiltration, and drug sensitivity status of ccRCC patients. Oncomine and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) databases were used to determine CASP4 mRNA expression in ccRCC patients. The correlation between CASP4 expression and disease prognosis was evaluated using Kaplan-Meier analysis. Related pathways were obtained from TCGA database via gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) and gene set variation analysis (GSVA). Meanwhile, genes co-expressing with CASP4 in ccRCC were investigated. Finally, we analyzed the proportion of tumor-infiltrating immune cells (TICs) using the CIBERSORT computational method and assessed CASP4 methylation and its relationship with drug sensitivity. ImmunohistochemicaC.Inborn errors of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation (FAO) comprise the most common group of disorders identified through expanded newborn screening mandated in all 50 states in the United States, affecting 110,000 newborns. While some of the morbidity in FAO disorders (FAODs) can be reduced if identified through screening, a significant gap remains between the ability to diagnose these disorders and the ability to treat them. At least 25 enzymes and specific transport proteins are responsible for carrying out the steps of mitochondrial fatty acid metabolism, with at least 22 associated genetic disorders. Common symptoms in long chain FAODs (LC-FAODs) in the first week of life include cardiac arrhythmias, hypoglycemia, and sudden death. Symptoms later in infancy and early childhood may relate to the liver or cardiac or skeletal muscle dysfunction, and include fasting or stress-related hypoketotic hypoglycemia or Reye-like syndrome, conduction abnormalities, arrhythmias, dilated or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, lly composed of three heptanoate (seven carbon fatty acid) molecules linked to glycerol through ester bonds that has the potential to replete TCA cycle intermediates through production of both acetyl-CoA and propionyl-CoA through medium chain FAO. Compassionate use, retrospective, and recently completed prospective studies demonstrate significant reduction of hypoglycemic events and improved cardiac function in LC-FAOD patients, but a less dramatic effect on muscle symptoms.Background Intervertebral disc degeneration impairs the quality of patients lives. Even though there has been development of many therapeutic strategies, most of them remain unsatisfactory due to the limited understanding of the mechanisms that underlie the intervertebral disc degeneration. Questions/purposes This study is meant to identify the key modules and hub genes related to the annulus fibrosus in intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) through (1) constructing a weighted gene co-expression network; (2) identifying key modules and hub genes; (3) verifying the relationships of key modules and hub genes with IDD; and (4) confirming the expression pattern of hub genes in clinical samples. Methods The Gene Expression Omnibus provided 24 sets of annulus fibrosus microarray data. Differentially expressed genes between the annulus fibrosus of degenerative and non-degenerative intervertebral disc samples have gone through the Gene Ontology (GO) and pathway analysis. The construction of a gene network and classitification of hub genes and the confirmation of their expression profile were also realized. Conclusions This study generated a comprehensive overview of the gene networks underlying annulus fibrosus in intervertebral disc degeneration. Clinical Relevance Modules and hub genes identified in this study are highly associated with intervertebral disc degeneration, and may serve as potential therapeutic targets for intervertebral disc degeneration.