1. Expression profiles of circRNAs and the potential diagnostic value of serum circMARK3 in human acute Stanford type A aortic dissection.
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Tian, Congcong, Tang, Xinlong, Zhu, Xiyu, Zhou, Qing, Guo, Yuting, Zhao, Rui, Wang, Dongjin, and Gong, Bing
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AORTIC dissection , *NUCLEOTIDE sequence , *FALSE discovery rate , *RECEIVER operating characteristic curves , *GENE regulatory networks , *PROTEIN-tyrosine kinases - Abstract
CircRNAs are involved in a variety of human diseases, however, the expression profiles and the potential diagnostic value of circRNAs in human acute Stanford type A aortic dissection (AAAD) remains largely unknown. In this study, high-throughput RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) was used to investigate the differentially expressed circRNAs, microRNAs (miRs) and mRNAs in human AAAD tissues (n = 10) compared with normal aortic tissues (n = 10). The results of RNA-Seq revealed that 506 circRNAs were significantly dysregulated (P<0.05, false discovery rate, FDR<0.05, fold change>2). The subsequent weighted gene correlation network analysis and the following co-expression network analysis revealed that tyrosine-protein kinase Fgr might play important roles in the occurrence and development of AAAD. According to the circRNA-miRNA-mRNA network, we found that the upstream regulatory molecule of Fgr is circMARK3. Finally, a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to evaluate the diagnostic value of the serum circMARK3 as biomarkers for AAAD (cutoff value = 1.497, area under the curve = 0.9344, P < 0.0001, sensitivity = 90.0%, specificity = 86.7%). These results provided a preliminary landscape of circRNAs expression profiles and indicated that circMARK3 was a potential biomarker for AAAD diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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