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Madaan P, Sharma U, Tyagi N, Brar BK, Bansal S, Kushwaha HR, Kapoor HS, Jain A, Jain M. A panel of blood-based circulatory miRNAs with diagnostic potential in patients with psoriasis. Front Med (Lausanne) 2023; 10:1207993. [PMID: 37700769 PMCID: PMC10493330 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1207993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 09/14/2023] Open
Abstract
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with keratinocyte hyperproliferation and T cells as key mediators of lesional and systemic inflammatory changes. To date, no suitable differential biomarkers are available for the disease diagnosis. More recently, microRNAs have been identified as critical regulators of lesional and systemic immune changes in psoriasis with diagnostic potential. We have performed expression profiling of T cell-specific miRNAs in 38 plasma samples from psoriasis vulgaris patients and an equal number of age- and gender-matched healthy subjects. Our findings have identified a panel of five blood-based circulatory miRNAs with a significant change in their expression levels, comprising miR-215, miR-148a, miR-125b-5p, miR-223, and miR-142-3p, which can differentiate psoriasis vulgaris patients from healthy individuals. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for all five miRNAs individually and in combination exhibited a significant disease discriminatory area under the curve with an AUC of 0.762 and a p < 0.0001 for all the miRNAs together. Statistically, all five miRNAs in combination depicted the best-fit model in relation to disease severity (PASI) compared with individual miRNAs, with the highest R2 value of 0.94 and the lowest AIC score of 131.8. Each of the miRNAs also exhibited a significant association with at least one of the other miRNAs in the panel. Importantly, the five miRNAs in the panel regulate one or more immune-inflammation pathways based on target prediction, pathway network analysis, and validated roles in the literature. The miRNA panel provides a rationalized combination of biomarkers that can be tested further on an expanded cohort of patients for their diagnostic value.
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- Priyanka Madaan
- Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India
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- Department of Zoology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India
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- School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Skin and VD, Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, Faridkot, Punjab, India
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- Department of Dermatology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bathinda, Punjab, India
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- Department of Zoology, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Punjab, India
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Ariyaratne A, Kim SY, Pollo SMJ, Perera S, Liu H, Nguyen WNT, Leon Coria A, de Cassia Luzzi M, Bowron J, Szabo EK, Patel KD, Wasmuth JD, Nair MG, Finney CAM. Trickle infection with Heligmosomoides polygyrus results in decreased worm burdens but increased intestinal inflammation and scarring. Front Immunol 2022; 13:1020056. [PMID: 36569914 PMCID: PMC9773095 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1020056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Introduction Intestinal roundworms cause chronic debilitating disease in animals, including humans. Traditional experimental models of these types of infection use a large single-dose infection. However, in natural settings, hosts are exposed to parasites on a regular basis and when mice are exposed to frequent, smaller doses of Heligmosomoides polygyrus, the parasites are cleared more quickly. Whether this more effective host response has any negative consequences for the host is not known. Results Using a trickle model of infection, we found that worm clearance was associated with known resistance-related host responses: increased granuloma and tuft cell numbers, increased levels of granuloma IgG and decreased intestinal transit time, as well as higher serum IgE levels. However, we found that the improved worm clearance was also associated with an inflammatory phenotype in and around the granuloma, increased smooth muscle hypertrophy/hyperplasia, and elevated levels of Adamts gene expression. Discussion To our knowledge, we are the first to identify the involvement of this protein family of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in host responses to helminth infections. Our results highlight the delicate balance between parasite clearance and host tissue damage, which both contribute to host pathology. When continually exposed to parasitic worms, improved clearance comes at a cost.
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- Anupama Ariyaratne
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Host Parasite Interactions Training Network, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Division of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Host Parasite Interactions Training Network, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Host Parasite Interactions Training Network, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Host Parasite Interactions Training Network, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Host Parasite Interactions Training Network, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Host Parasite Interactions Training Network, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Host Parasite Interactions Training Network, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Host Parasite Interactions Training Network, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Host Parasite Interactions Training Network, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Division of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.,Host Parasite Interactions Training Network, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Wittenborn J, Weikert L, Hangarter B, Stickeler E, Maurer J. The use of micro RNA in the early detection of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. Carcinogenesis 2021; 41:1781-1789. [PMID: 32417880 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgaa046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Revised: 05/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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An important issue in current oncological research is prevention as well as early detection of cancer. This includes also the difficulty to predict the progression of early or pre-cancerous lesions to invasive cancer. In this context, the characterization and categorization of pre-neoplastic lesions of squamous cell carcinoma [cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN)] are an important task with major clinical impact. Screening programs are worldwide established with the aim to detect and eradicate such lesions with the potential to develop untreated into cervical cancer. From the literature it is known that around 5% of CIN 2 and 12% of CIN 3 cases will progress to cancer. The use of molecular markers extracted from cervical mucus might help to identify these high-risk cases and to exclude unnecessary biopsies or surgical treatment. Here we can show that micro RNA (miRNA) analysis from cervical mucus of 49 patients allowed us to distinguish between healthy patients and patients with CIN 3. The miRNA panel used in combination allowed for highly significant testing (P < 0.0001) of CIN 3 status. In parallel, the human papillomavirus status of the patients, the most important factor for the development of cervical cancer, significantly correlated with the miRNA markers hsa-miR-26b-5p, hsa-miR-191-5p and hsa-miR-143-3p, a subpanel of the original six miRNAs. We provide here a proof-of-concept for cervical mucus-based testing for pre-neoplastic stages of cervical squamous cell carcinoma.
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- Department of Pathology, University Hospital RWTH, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aachen, Germany
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Rouquette-Jazdanian AK, Kortum RL, Li W, Merrill RK, Nguyen PH, Samelson LE, Sommers CL. miR-155 Controls Lymphoproliferation in LAT Mutant Mice by Restraining T-Cell Apoptosis via SHIP-1/mTOR and PAK1/FOXO3/BIM Pathways. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0131823. [PMID: 26121028 PMCID: PMC4487994 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2015] [Accepted: 06/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Linker for Activation of T cells (LAT) is an adapter protein that is essential for T cell function. Knock-in mice with a LAT mutation impairing calcium flux develop a fatal CD4+ lymphoproliferative disease. miR-155 is a microRNA that is correlated with hyperproliferation in a number of cancers including lymphomas and leukemias and is overexpressed in mutant LAT T cells. To test whether miR-155 was merely indicative of T cell activation or whether it contributes to lymphoproliferative disease in mutant LAT mice, we interbred LAT mutant and miR-155-deficient mice. miR-155 deficiency markedly inhibited lymphoproliferative disease by stimulating BIM-dependent CD4+ T cell apoptosis, even though ERK activation and T cell proliferation were increased in double mutant CD4+ T cells. Bim/Bcl2l11 expression is activated by the forkhead transcription factor FOXO3. Using miR-155-deficient, LAT mutant T cells as a discovery tool, we found two connected pathways that impact the nuclear translocation and activation of FOXO3 in T cells. One pathway is mediated by the inositide phosphatase SHIP-1 and the serine/threonine kinases AKT and PDK1. The other pathway involves PAK1 and JNK kinase activation. We define crosstalk between the two pathways via the kinase mTOR, which stabilizes PAK1. This study establishes a role for PAK1 in T cell apoptosis, which contrasts to its previously identified role in T cell proliferation. Furthermore, miR-155 regulates the delicate balance between PAK1-mediated proliferation and apoptosis in T cells impacting lymphoid organ size and function.
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- Alexandre K. Rouquette-Jazdanian
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- * E-mail: (CLS)
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Hu Y, Wang C, Li Y, Zhao J, Chen C, Zhou Y, Tao Y, Guo M, Qin N, Ren T, Wen Z, Xu L. MiR-21 controls in situ expansion of CCR6⁺ regulatory T cells through PTEN/AKT pathway in breast cancer. Immunol Cell Biol 2015; 93:753-64. [PMID: 25735723 DOI: 10.1038/icb.2015.37] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2014] [Revised: 02/26/2015] [Accepted: 02/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Our recent evidence showed that prior expansion of CCR6(+) Foxp3(+) regulatory T cells (Tregs) was important for their dominant enrichment in tumor tissue, which was closely related to poor prognosis of breast cancer patients. However, the underlying regulation mechanism of expansion of CCR6(+) Tregs in situ remains largely unknown. In this study, we reported that miR-21 was highly expressed in CCR6(+) Tregs in tumor tissues from a murine breast cancer model. And silencing of miR-21 could significantly reduce the proliferation of CCR6(+) Tregs in vitro. Adoptive cell-transfer assay further showed that silencing of miR-21 could alter the enrichment of CCR6(+) Tregs in the tumor mass and endow effectively antitumor effect of CD8(+) T cells using a murine breast cancer model. Mechanistic evidence showed that silencing of miR-21 enhanced the expression of its target phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome ten (PTEN) and subsequently altered the activation of Akt pathway, which was ultimately responsible for reduced proliferation activity of CCR6(+) Tregs. Finally, we further revealed that miR-21 was also highly expressed on CCR6(+) Tregs in clinical breast cancer patients. Therefore, miR-21 can act as a fine tuner in the regulation of PTEN/Akt pathway transduction in the expansion of CCR6(+) Tregs in tumor sites and provided a novel insight into the development of therapeutic strategies for promoting T-cell immunity by regulating distinct subset of Tregs through targeting specific miRNAs.
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- Yan Hu
- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Medical Physics, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Institute for Immunobiology, Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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Zhao J, Li Y, Hu Y, Chen C, Zhou Y, Tao Y, Guo M, Qin N, Xu L. MicroRNAs expression profile in CCR6(+) regulatory T cells. PeerJ 2014; 2:e575. [PMID: 25279261 PMCID: PMC4179613 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2014] [Accepted: 08/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Backgroud. CCR6+ CD4+ regulatory T cells (CCR6+ Tregs), a distinct Tregs subset, played an important role in various immune diseases. Recent evidence showed that microRNAs (miRNAs) are vital regulators in the function of immune cells. However, the potential role of miRNAs in the function of CCR6+ Tregs remains largely unknown. In this study, we detected the expression profile of miRNAs in CCR6+ Tregs. Materials and Methods. The expression profile of miRNAs as well as genes in CCR6+ Tregs or CCR6- Tregs from Balb/c mice were detected by microarray. The signaling pathways were analyzed using the Keggs pathway library. Results. We found that there were 58 miRNAs significantly upregulated and 62 downregulated up to 2 fold in CCR6+ Tregs compared with CCR6- Tregs. Moreover, 1,391 genes were observed with 3 fold change and 20 signaling pathways were enriched using the Keggs pathway library. Conclusion. The present data showed CCR6+ Tregs expressed specific miRNAs pattern, which provides insight into the role of miRNAs in the biological function of distinct Tregs subsets.
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- Juanjuan Zhao
- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Medical Physics, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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- Department of Immunology, Zunyi Medical College, Guizhou, China
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Diao L, Marcais A, Norton S, Chen KC. MixMir: microRNA motif discovery from gene expression data using mixed linear models. Nucleic Acids Res 2014; 42:e135. [PMID: 25081207 PMCID: PMC4176157 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
microRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of ∼22nt non-coding RNAs that potentially regulate over 60% of human protein-coding genes. miRNA activity is highly specific, differing between cell types, developmental stages and environmental conditions, so the identification of active miRNAs in a given sample is of great interest. Here we present a novel computational approach for analyzing both mRNA sequence and gene expression data, called MixMir. Our method corrects for 3' UTR background sequence similarity between transcripts, which is known to correlate with mRNA transcript abundance. We demonstrate that after accounting for kmer sequence similarities in 3' UTRs, a statistical linear model based on motif presence/absence can effectively discover active miRNAs in a sample. MixMir utilizes fast software implementations for solving mixed linear models, which are widely used in genome-wide association studies (GWASs). Essentially we use 3' UTR sequence similarity in place of population cryptic relatedness in the GWAS problem. Compared to similar methods such as miReduce, Sylamer and cWords, we found that MixMir performed better at discovering true miRNA motifs in three mouse Dicer-knockout experiments from different tissues, two of which were collected by our group. We confirmed these results on protein and mRNA expression data obtained from miRNA transfection experiments in human cell lines. MixMir can be freely downloaded from https://github.com/ldiao/MixMir.
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- Liyang Diao
- BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology and Department of Genetics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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- CIRI, International Center for Infectiology Research, Université de Lyon, Inserm, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
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- BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology and Department of Genetics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA Department of Mathematics and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
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- BioMaPS Institute for Quantitative Biology and Department of Genetics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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