Abstract:
Provided herein is a method for identifying patients at risk for suffering complications from pediatric Crohn's disease, and methods of treating those patients to prevent the development of penetrating complications.
Abstract:
In some aspects, the present disclosure provides methods for identifying sequence variants in a nucleic acid sample. In some embodiments, a method comprises identifying sequence differences between sequencing reads and a reference sequence, and calling a sequence difference that occurs in at least two different circular polynucleotides, such as two circular polynucleotides having different junctions, or two different sheared polynucleotides as the sequence variant. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides compositions and systems useful in the described methods.
Abstract:
The invention relates to improved methods of treating a cancer in a patient in need thereof using combination drug regimens that can improve therapeutic efficacy of kinase inhibitor(s). Such combination drug regimens may also reduce side effects of kinase inhibitor(s) and/or prevent or reduce cancer resistance to the kinase inhibitor(s).
Abstract:
Methods are described for the efficient and accurate detection of bladder cancer. In particular, the method utilizes microsatellite analysis of bladder cancer markers to determine the presence of loss of heterozygosity or microsatellite instability using matched buccal swab and urine samples from a patient. In some cancer marker panels, detected loss of heterozygosity or microsatellite instability in two markers can be indicative of bladder cancer.
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The invention features methods for assessing the quality of gene expression libraries and methods for identifying gene expression libraries meeting a quality threshold. The methods generally involve surveying a set of gene expression data (e.g., gene expression data corresponding to one or more gene expression libraries) for the presence and/or expression level of a plurality of predetermined markers. In some instances, the predetermined markers correspond to a set of coordinately regulated genes, such as ribosomal protein genes.
Abstract:
Provided are methods and compositions for the selection of targeting moieties capable of interacting with target moieties that are displayed on a target entity, as well as methods and compositions for the selection of entities capable of inducing phenotypic changes in target entities.
Abstract:
Novel genes exhibit minimal variation in expression level across different samples and which may be used as housekeeping genes for normalization of gene expression in quantitative gene expression measurements are disclosed. A novel method for the identification of housekeeping genes using whole Transcriptome Shotgun Sequencing (RNA-seq) is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A method for determining nucleotide sequences of a first polynucleotide and a second polynucleotide. The method includes: transcribing the first polynucleotide in the presence of a first template oligonucleotide to generate a first extended polynucleotide and transcribing the second polynucleotide in the presence of a second template oligonucleotide to generate a second extended polynucleotide, wherein the first template oligonucleotide is annealable to the second template oligonucleotide; annealing the first and second extended polynucleotides through the complementary sequences of the first and second template oligonucleotides; performing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to generate a linked polynucleotide having a sequence comprising the sequences of the first and the second polynucleotides; and decoding the sequence of the linked polynucleotide.
Abstract:
It is shown herein that the expression of the OcaB protein is modulated, in cardiomyocytes, during cardiac remodeling (e.g., heart mypertrophy and/or fibrosis) and aging. The present application thus provides methods of characterizing an individual susceptibility to develop a heart disease associated with cardiac remodeling, methods of diagnosing a heart disease associated with cardiac remodeling in an individual, methods of characterizing the effectiveness of an agent in the treatment, prevention or alleviation of symptoms of heart disease associated with cardiac remodeling in an individual, screening methods to identify agents useful in the treatment, prevention or alleviation of symptoms of heart disease associated with cardiac remodeling based on the assessment of a parameter of an OcaB-based reagent.