Retroelements: molecular features and implications for disease

Endogenous retroelements and autoimmune disease.

Innate immune sensors of foreign nucleic acids are essential for antiviral immunity, but these same sensors can cause autoimmune disease through inappropriate detection of self-nucleic acids. The sources of the endogenous RNA and DNA that trigger autoreactive responses include chromatin and ribonucleoproteins that are the targets of autoantibodies in numerous autoimmune diseases, including syst...

Consensus Molecular Subtypes of Colorectal Cancer and their Clinical Implications

The colorectal cancer (CRC) subtyping consortium has unified six independent molecular classification systems, based on gene expression data, into a single consensus system with four distinct groups, known as the consensus molecular subtypes (CMS); clinical implications are discussed in this review based on articles relevant to the CMS of CRC indexed in PubMed as well as the authors’ own ...

Molecular biology and respiratory disease. 5. Molecular biology of receptors: implications for lung disease.

Molecular Features and Their Clinical Implications on Gastric Adenocarcinoma

DUX4 activates germline genes, retroelements, and immune mediators: implications for facioscapulohumeral dystrophy.

Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is one of the most common inherited muscular dystrophies. The causative gene remains controversial and the mechanism of pathophysiology unknown. Here we identify genes associated with germline and early stem cell development as targets of the DUX4 transcription factor, a leading candidate gene for FSHD. The genes regulated by DUX4 are reliably detected in FS...