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The results showed that DElncRNAs were mainly involved in PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, focal adhesion, MAPK signaling pathway, apoptosis, and p53 signaling pathway. Furthermore, RTL1, IGF2, MEF2C, Pax7, and other well-known muscle development regulators were included in a co-expression network of differentially expressed target genes and lncRNAs. These data will help to further clarify the function of lncRNAs in the different stages of skeletal muscle developmental in yak. Copyright © 2020 Ma, Fu, Chu, Ding, Wu, Guo, Kalwar, Pei, Bao, Liang and Yan.Objective Despite several clinicopathological factors being integrated as prognostic biomarkers, the individual variants and risk stratification have not been fully elucidated in lower grade glioma (LGG). With the prevalence of gene expression profiling in LGG, and based on the critical role of the immune microenvironment, the aim of our study was to develop an immune-related signature for risk stratification and prognosis prediction in LGG. Methods RNA-sequencing data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Genome Tissue Expression (GTEx), and Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas (CGGA) were used. Immune-related genes were obtained from the Immunology Database and Analysis Portal (ImmPort). Univariate, multivariate cox regression, and Lasso regression were employed to identify differentially expressed immune-related genes (DEGs) and establish the signature. A nomogram was constructed, and its performance was evaluated by Harrell's concordance index (C-index), receiver operating characteristic (ROC), and calibration curv study constructed a robust six immune-related gene signature and established a prognostic nomogram effective in risk stratification and prediction of overall survival in primary LGG. Copyright © 2020 Zhang, Wang, Chen, Zhang and Hong.Single-cell transcriptomics was used to profile cells of the normal murine middle ear. selleck Clustering analysis of 6770 transcriptomes identified 17 cell clusters corresponding to distinct cell types five epithelial, three stromal, three lymphocyte, two monocyte, two endothelial, one pericyte and one melanocyte cluster. Within some clusters, cell subtypes were identified. While many corresponded to those cell types known from prior studies, several novel types or subtypes were noted. The results indicate unexpected cellular diversity within the resting middle ear mucosa. The resolution of uncomplicated, acute, otitis media is too rapid for cognate immunity to play a major role. Thus innate immunity is likely responsible for normal recovery from middle ear infection. The need for rapid response to pathogens suggests that innate immune genes may be constitutively expressed by middle ear cells. We therefore assessed expression of innate immune genes across all cell types, to evaluate potential for rapid responses to middle ear infection. Resident monocytes/macrophages expressed the most such genes, including pathogen receptors, cytokines, chemokines and chemokine receptors. Other cell types displayed distinct innate immune gene profiles. Epithelial cells preferentially expressed pathogen receptors, bactericidal peptides and mucins. Stromal and endothelial cells expressed pathogen receptors. Pericytes expressed pro-inflammatory cytokines. Lymphocytes expressed chemokine receptors and antimicrobials. The results suggest that tissue monocytes, including macrophages, are the master regulators of the immediate middle ear response to infection, but that virtually all cell types act in concert to mount a defense against pathogens. Copyright © 2020 Ryan, Nasamran, Pak, Draf, Fisch, Webster and Kurabi.Accumulating biological and clinical evidence has confirmed the important associations between microRNAs (miRNAs) and a variety of human diseases. Predicting disease-related miRNAs is beneficial for understanding the molecular mechanisms of pathological conditions at the miRNA level, and facilitating the finding of new biomarkers for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of complex human diseases. However, the challenge for researchers is to establish methods that can effectively combine different datasets and make reliable predictions. In this work, we propose the method of Multi-Similarity based Combinative Hypergraph Learning for Predicting MiRNA-disease Association (MSCHLMDA). To establish this method, complex features were extracted by two measures for each miRNA-disease pair. Then, K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and K-means algorithm were used to construct two different hypergraphs. Finally, results from combinative hypergraph learning were used for predicting miRNA-disease association. In order to evaluate the prediction performance of our method, leave-one-out cross validation and 5-fold cross validation was implemented, showing that our method had significantly improved prediction performance compared to previously used methods. Moreover, three case studies on different human complex diseases were performed, which further demonstrated the predictive performance of MSCHLMDA. It is anticipated that MSCHLMDA would become an excellent complement to the biomedical research field in the future. Copyright © 2020 Wu, Wang, Gao, Ni and Zheng.Candida auris is a recently emerged multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen causing severe illness in hospitalized patients. C. auris is most closely related to a few environmental or rarely observed but cosmopolitan Candida species. However, C. auris is unique in the concern it is generating among public health agencies for its rapid emergence, difficulty to treat, and the likelihood for further and more extensive outbreaks and spread. To date, five geographically distributed and genetically divergent lineages have been identified, none of which includes isolates that were collected prior to 1996. Indeed, C. auris' ecological niche(s) and emergence remain enigmatic, although a number of hypotheses have been proposed. Recent genomic and transcriptomic work has also identified a variety of gene and chromosomal features that may have conferred C. auris with several important clinical phenotypes including its drug-resistance and growth at high temperatures. In this review we discuss nine major lines of enquiry into C.