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ReviewFrontiers in genetics2023

Leveraging transcriptomics for precision diagnosis: Lessons learned from cancer and sepsis.

Maria Tsakiroglou, Anthony Evans, Munir Pirmohamed

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Review in Frontiers in genetics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  18. Gene Expression Dysregulation in Whole Blood of Patients withInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  19. Special Issue "Transcriptomics in the Study of Insect Biology".International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Maria TsakiroglouDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Anthony EvansComputational Biology Facility, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Munir PirmohamedDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diagnostics require precision and predictive ability to be clinically useful. Integration of multi-omic with clinical data is crucial to our understanding of disease pathogenesis and diagnosis. However, interpretation of overwhelming amounts of information at the individual level requires sophisticated computational tools for extraction of clinically meaningful outputs. Moreover, evolution of technical and analytical methods often outpaces standardisation strategies. RNA is the most dynamic component of all -omics technologies carrying an abundance of regulatory information that is least harnessed for use in clinical diagnostics. Gene expression-based tests capture genetic and non-genetic heterogeneity and have been implemented in certain diseases. For example patients with early breast cancer are spared toxic unnecessary treatments with scores based on the expression of a set of genes (e.g., Oncotype DX). The ability of transcriptomics to portray the transcriptional status at a moment in time has also been used in diagnosis of dynamic diseases such as sepsis. Gene expression profiles identify endotypes in sepsis patients with prognostic value and a potential to discriminate between viral and bacterial infection. The application of transcriptomics for patient stratification in clinical environments and clinical trials thus holds promise. In this review, we discuss the current clinical application in the fields of cancer and infection. We use these paradigms to highlight the impediments in identifying useful diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers and propose approaches to overcome them and aid efforts towards clinical implementation.

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biomarkercancerdiagnosissepsistranscriptomics

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PMID36968610
PMCPMC10036914

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