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Blood metabolite markers of preclinical Alzheimer's disease in two longitudinally followed cohorts of older individuals

Ramon Casanova, Sudhir Varma, Brittany Simpson et al. · 2016 · Alzheimer s & Dementia

INTRODUCTION: Recently, quantitative metabolomics identified a panel of 10 plasma lipids that were highly predictive of conversion to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in cognitively normal older individuals (n = 28, area under the curve [AUC] =…

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Statistical correction of the Winner’s Curse explains replication variability in quantitative trait genome-wide association studies

Cameron D. Palmer, Itsik Pe’er · 2017 · PLoS Genetics

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified hundreds of SNPs responsible for variation in human quantitative traits. However, genome-wide-significant associations often fail to replicate across independent cohorts, in apparent inconsistency with their apparent strong effects in discovery cohorts. This limited success of replication raises pervasive questions about the utility of the GWAS field. We identify all 332 studies of quantitative traits from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Database with attempted replication. We find that the majority of studies provide insufficient data to evaluate repl

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An epigenome-wide association study in whole blood of measures of adiposity among Ghanaians: the RODAM study

Karlijn Meeks, Peter Henneman, Andrea Venema et al. · 2017 · Clinical Epigenetics

Epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) have identified DNA methylation loci involved in adiposity. However, EWAS on adiposity in sub-Saharan Africans are lacking despite the high burden of adiposity among African populations. We undertook an EWAS for anthropometric indices of adiposity among Ghanaians aiming to identify DNA methylation loci that are significantly associated. The Illumina 450k DNA methylation array was used to profile DNA methylation in whole blood samples of 547 Ghanaians from the Research on Obesity and Diabetes among African Migrants (RODAM) study. Differentially methylat

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A genome-wide association study for extremely high intelligence

Delilah Zabaneh, Eva Krapohl, Héléna A. Gaspar et al. · 2017 · Molecular Psychiatry

We used a case-control genome-wide association (GWA) design with cases consisting of 1238 individuals from the top 0.0003 (~170 mean IQ) of the population distribution of intelligence and 8172 unselected population-based controls. The…

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Analysis of 60 Reported Glioma Risk SNPs Replicates Published GWAS Findings but Fails to Replicate Associations From Published Candidate‐Gene Studies

Kyle M. Walsh, Erik L. Anderson, Helen M. Hansen et al. · 2012 · Genetic Epidemiology

Genomewide association studies (GWAS) and candidate-gene studies have implicated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in at least 45 different genes as putative glioma risk factors. Attempts to validate these associations have yielded…

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Fecal microbiota transplantation plus pembrolizumab and axitinib in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: the randomized phase 2 TACITO trial

Serena Porcari, Chiara CICCARESE, Vitor Heidrich et al. · 2026 · Nature Medicine

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a common malignancy with limited durable responses to first-line immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-based therapies. Emerging evidence implicates the gut microbiome in modulating ICI efficacy. In the…

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Identification of Statistically Significant Features from Random Forests

Jérôme Paul, Michel Verleysen, Pierre Dupont · 2013

Abstract. Embedded feature selection can be performed by analyzing the variables used in a Random Forest. Such a multivariate selection takes into account the interactions between variables but is not easy to interpret in a statistical…

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A specific microRNA profile as predictive biomarker for systemic treatment in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Dennis Poel, Elske C. Gootjes, Lotte Bakkerus et al. · 2020 · Cancer Medicine

BACKGROUND: Palliative systemic therapy is currently standard of care for patients with extensive metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). A biomarker predicting chemotherapy benefit which prevents toxicity from ineffective treatment is urgently needed. Therefore, a previously developed tissue-derived microRNA profile to predict clinical benefit from chemotherapy was evaluated in tissue biopsies and serum from patients with mCRC. METHODS: Samples were prospectively collected from patients (N = 132) who were treated with capecitabine or 5-FU/LV with oxaliplatin ± bevacizumab. Response evaluation wa

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