supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFD1201504);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2662022YLYJ010,2021ZKPY018,2662021JC008,SZYJY2021003);the Major Science and Technology Project of Hubei Province(2021AFB002);the Major Project of Hubei Hongshan Laboratory(2022HSZD031);the Yingzi Tech&Huazhong Agricultural University Intelligent Research Institute of Food Health(IRIFH202209)。
Detecting genes that affect specific traits(such as human diseases and crop yields)is important for treating complex diseases and improving crop quality.A genome-wide association study(GWAS)provides new insights and d...
funded by the Hainan Province Clinical Medical Center(82171084);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(82371086).
Background:Diabetic retinopathy(DR)urgently needs novel and effective therapeutic targets.Integrated analyses of plasma proteomic and genetic markers can clarify the causal relevance of proteins and discover novel tar...
supported by grants from the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund(2020-YWF-YB-02);the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32202652);China Agriculture Research System of MOF and MARA(CARS-37);the Science and Technology Project of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region(2020GG0210).
Background A detailed understanding of genetic variants that affect beef merit helps maximize the efficiency of breeding for improved production merit in beef cattle.To prioritize the putative variants and genes,we ra...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31970692)(X.Hu);the Corbett Estate Fund for Cancer Research(USA)(No.62285-531021-41800,62285-531021-51800,62285-531021-61800,and 62285-531021-71800)(E.Wu).
Aptamers,short single DNA or RNA oligonucleotides,have shown immense application potential as molecular probes for the early diagnosis and therapy of cancer.However,conventional cell-SELEX technologies for aptamer dis...
funding from the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation program(MIAMi project-Grant agreement N°814645);ARD-CVL Biopharmaceutical program of the Region Centre Val de Loire(ETOPOCentre project),Le Studium Institute(Consortium Fellowship)and ANR(project MIACYC-ANR-20-CE43-0010).
Synthetic biology is constantly making progress for producing compounds on demand.Recently,Yocum and collaborators have developed an outstanding approach based on the anchoring of biosynthetic enzymes to the peroxisom...
the Intramural Research Program(Grant No.1ZIACP010201);the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics Informatics Tool Challenge of NCI.
Genome-wide association studies(GWAS)have identified thousands of genomic loci associated with complex diseases and traits,including cancer.The vast majority of common traitassociated variants identified via GWAS fall...
Brain derived neurotrophic factor(BDNF)in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus(PVN)can regulate food intake and energy expenditure.However,the regulatory mediator of BDNF positive neurons in the PVN remains...
This work is supported by NIH R35GM127063(HT)and NIH AG066206(ZH).
Background:Genome-wide association studies(GWAS)have been widely adopted in studies of human complex traits and diseases.Results:This review surveys areas of active research:quantifying and partitioning trait heritabi...
supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism(NIAAA)Neurobiology of Adolescent Drinking In Adulthood(NADIA)Grant#2U01AA019925(to HSS);the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism(NIAAA)R00AA022651(to TAW);the National Institute on Drug Abuse(NIDA)R01DA041455(to KJR)
Adolescent alcohol abuse is a substantive public health problem that has been the subject of intensive study in recent years.Despite reports of a wide range of effects of adolescent intermittent ethanol(AIE)exposure o...
This project was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2016YFA0101100);National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81700339 and No.31330029);Scientific Research Training Program for Young Talents sponsored by Union Hospital,Tongji Medical College,Huazhong University of Science and Technology。
Summary:Interleukin 17A(IL 17A)is reported to be involved in many inflammatory processes,but its role in aortic valve diseases remains unknown.We examined the role of IL17A based on an ApoE^-/-mouse model with strateg...