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  1. Article ; Online: Expression and regulatory roles of lncRNAs in G-CIMP-low vs G-CIMP-high Glioma

    Indrani Datta / Houtan Noushmehr / Chaya Brodie / Laila M. Poisson

    Journal of Translational Medicine, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    an in-silico analysis

    2021  Volume 9

    Abstract: Abstract Background Clinically relevant glioma subtypes, such as the glioma-CpG island methylator phenotype (G-CIMP), have been defined by epigenetics. In this study, the role of long non-coding RNAs in association with the poor-prognosis G-CMIP-low ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Background Clinically relevant glioma subtypes, such as the glioma-CpG island methylator phenotype (G-CIMP), have been defined by epigenetics. In this study, the role of long non-coding RNAs in association with the poor-prognosis G-CMIP-low phenotype and the good-prognosis G-CMIP-high phenotype was investigated. Functional associations of lncRNAs with mRNAs and miRNAs were examined to hypothesize influencing factors of the aggressive phenotype. Methods RNA-seq data on 250 samples from TCGA’s Pan-Glioma study, quantified for lncRNA and mRNAs (GENCODE v28), were analyzed for differential expression between G-CIMP-low and G-CIMP-high phenotypes. Functional interpretation of the differential lncRNAs was performed by Ingenuity Pathway Analysis. Spearman rank order correlation estimates between lncRNA, miRNA, and mRNA nominated differential lncRNA with a likely miRNA sponge function. Results We identified 4371 differentially expressed features (mRNA = 3705; lncRNA = 666; FDR ≤ 5%). From these, the protein-coding gene TP53 was identified as an upstream regulator of differential lncRNAs PANDAR and PVT1 (p = 0.0237) and enrichment was detected in the “development of carcinoma” (p = 0.0176). Two lncRNAs (HCG11, PART1) were positively correlated with 342 mRNAs, and their correlation estimates diminish after adjusting for either of the target miRNAs: hsa-miR-490-3p, hsa-miR-129-5p. This suggests a likely sponge function for HCG11 and PART1. Conclusions These findings identify differential lncRNAs with oncogenic features that are associated with G-CIMP phenotypes. Further investigation with controlled experiments is needed to confirm the molecular relationships.
    Keywords Long non-coding RNAs ; Glioma ; G-CIMP subtypes ; Medicine ; R
    Subject code 500
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher BMC
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  2. Article ; Online: New functionalities in the TCGAbiolinks package for the study and integration of cancer data from GDC and GTEx.

    Mohamed Mounir / Marta Lucchetta / Tiago C Silva / Catharina Olsen / Gianluca Bontempi / Xi Chen / Houtan Noushmehr / Antonio Colaprico / Elena Papaleo

    PLoS Computational Biology, Vol 15, Iss 3, p e

    2019  Volume 1006701

    Abstract: The advent of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies has opened new perspectives in deciphering the genetic mechanisms underlying complex diseases. Nowadays, the amount of genomic data is massive and substantial efforts and new tools are required ... ...

    Abstract The advent of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies has opened new perspectives in deciphering the genetic mechanisms underlying complex diseases. Nowadays, the amount of genomic data is massive and substantial efforts and new tools are required to unveil the information hidden in the data. The Genomic Data Commons (GDC) Data Portal is a platform that contains different genomic studies including the ones from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatments (TARGET) initiatives, accounting for more than 40 tumor types originating from nearly 30000 patients. Such platforms, although very attractive, must make sure the stored data are easily accessible and adequately harmonized. Moreover, they have the primary focus on the data storage in a unique place, and they do not provide a comprehensive toolkit for analyses and interpretation of the data. To fulfill this urgent need, comprehensive but easily accessible computational methods for integrative analyses of genomic data that do not renounce a robust statistical and theoretical framework are required. In this context, the R/Bioconductor package TCGAbiolinks was developed, offering a variety of bioinformatics functionalities. Here we introduce new features and enhancements of TCGAbiolinks in terms of i) more accurate and flexible pipelines for differential expression analyses, ii) different methods for tumor purity estimation and filtering, iii) integration of normal samples from other platforms iv) support for other genomics datasets, exemplified here by the TARGET data. Evidence has shown that accounting for tumor purity is essential in the study of tumorigenesis, as these factors promote confounding behavior regarding differential expression analysis. With this in mind, we implemented these filtering procedures in TCGAbiolinks. Moreover, a limitation of some of the TCGA datasets is the unavailability or paucity of corresponding normal samples. We thus integrated into TCGAbiolinks the possibility ...
    Keywords Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 020
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  3. Article ; Online: Interpreting pathways to discover cancer driver genes with Moonlight

    Antonio Colaprico / Catharina Olsen / Matthew H. Bailey / Gabriel J. Odom / Thilde Terkelsen / Tiago C. Silva / André V. Olsen / Laura Cantini / Andrei Zinovyev / Emmanuel Barillot / Houtan Noushmehr / Gloria Bertoli / Isabella Castiglioni / Claudia Cava / Gianluca Bontempi / Xi Steven Chen / Elena Papaleo

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2020  Volume 17

    Abstract: Identification of cancer driver genes, especially those that can act as tumour suppressors or oncogenes depending on context, remains a challenge. Here, the authors introduce Moonlight, a tool that integrates multi-omic data to address this challenge and ...

    Abstract Identification of cancer driver genes, especially those that can act as tumour suppressors or oncogenes depending on context, remains a challenge. Here, the authors introduce Moonlight, a tool that integrates multi-omic data to address this challenge and identify numerous dual-role cancer genes.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  4. Article ; Online: Interpreting pathways to discover cancer driver genes with Moonlight

    Antonio Colaprico / Catharina Olsen / Matthew H. Bailey / Gabriel J. Odom / Thilde Terkelsen / Tiago C. Silva / André V. Olsen / Laura Cantini / Andrei Zinovyev / Emmanuel Barillot / Houtan Noushmehr / Gloria Bertoli / Isabella Castiglioni / Claudia Cava / Gianluca Bontempi / Xi Steven Chen / Elena Papaleo

    Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2020  Volume 17

    Abstract: Identification of cancer driver genes, especially those that can act as tumour suppressors or oncogenes depending on context, remains a challenge. Here, the authors introduce Moonlight, a tool that integrates multi-omic data to address this challenge and ...

    Abstract Identification of cancer driver genes, especially those that can act as tumour suppressors or oncogenes depending on context, remains a challenge. Here, the authors introduce Moonlight, a tool that integrates multi-omic data to address this challenge and identify numerous dual-role cancer genes.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  5. Article ; Online: TCGA Workflow

    Tiago C. Silva / Antonio Colaprico / Catharina Olsen / Fulvio D'Angelo / Gianluca Bontempi / Michele Ceccarelli / Houtan Noushmehr

    F1000Research, Vol

    Analyze cancer genomics and epigenomics data using Bioconductor packages [version 2; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

    2016  Volume 5

    Abstract: Biotechnological advances in sequencing have led to an explosion of publicly available data via large international consortia such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), and The NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping ... ...

    Abstract Biotechnological advances in sequencing have led to an explosion of publicly available data via large international consortia such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), and The NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping Consortium (Roadmap). These projects have provided unprecedented opportunities to interrogate the epigenome of cultured cancer cell lines as well as normal and tumor tissues with high genomic resolution. The Bioconductor project offers more than 1,000 open-source software and statistical packages to analyze high-throughput genomic data. However, most packages are designed for specific data types (e.g. expression, epigenetics, genomics) and there is no one comprehensive tool that provides a complete integrative analysis of the resources and data provided by all three public projects. A need to create an integration of these different analyses was recently proposed. In this workflow, we provide a series of biologically focused integrative analyses of different molecular data. We describe how to download, process and prepare TCGA data and by harnessing several key Bioconductor packages, we describe how to extract biologically meaningful genomic and epigenomic data. Using Roadmap and ENCODE data, we provide a work plan to identify biologically relevant functional epigenomic elements associated with cancer. To illustrate our workflow, we analyzed two types of brain tumors: low-grade glioma (LGG) versus high-grade glioma (glioblastoma multiform or GBM). This workflow introduces the following Bioconductor packages: AnnotationHub, ChIPSeeker, ComplexHeatmap, pathview, ELMER, GAIA, MINET, RTCGAToolbox, TCGAbiolinks.
    Keywords Bioinformatics ; Genomics ; Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 004
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher F1000 Research Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  6. Article ; Online: Comprehensive functional annotation of seventy-one breast cancer risk Loci.

    Suhn Kyong Rhie / Simon G Coetzee / Houtan Noushmehr / Chunli Yan / Jae Mun Kim / Christopher A Haiman / Gerhard A Coetzee

    PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 5, p e

    2013  Volume 63925

    Abstract: Breast Cancer (BCa) genome-wide association studies revealed allelic frequency differences between cases and controls at index single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). To date, 71 loci have thus been identified and replicated. More than 320,000 SNPs at ... ...

    Abstract Breast Cancer (BCa) genome-wide association studies revealed allelic frequency differences between cases and controls at index single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). To date, 71 loci have thus been identified and replicated. More than 320,000 SNPs at these loci define BCa risk due to linkage disequilibrium (LD). We propose that BCa risk resides in a subgroup of SNPs that functionally affects breast biology. Such a shortlist will aid in framing hypotheses to prioritize a manageable number of likely disease-causing SNPs. We extracted all the SNPs, residing in 1 Mb windows around breast cancer risk index SNP from the 1000 genomes project to find correlated SNPs. We used FunciSNP, an R/Bioconductor package developed in-house, to identify potentially functional SNPs at 71 risk loci by coinciding them with chromatin biofeatures. We identified 1,005 SNPs in LD with the index SNPs (r(2)≥0.5) in three categories; 21 in exons of 18 genes, 76 in transcription start site (TSS) regions of 25 genes, and 921 in enhancers. Thirteen SNPs were found in more than one category. We found two correlated and predicted non-benign coding variants (rs8100241 in exon 2 and rs8108174 in exon 3) of the gene, ANKLE1. Most putative functional LD SNPs, however, were found in either epigenetically defined enhancers or in gene TSS regions. Fifty-five percent of these non-coding SNPs are likely functional, since they affect response element (RE) sequences of transcription factors. Functionality of these SNPs was assessed by expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analysis and allele-specific enhancer assays. Unbiased analyses of SNPs at BCa risk loci revealed new and overlooked mechanisms that may affect risk of the disease, thereby providing a valuable resource for follow-up studies.
    Keywords Medicine ; R ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 616
    Language English
    Publishing date 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  7. Article ; Online: Super-Enhancer-Associated LncRNA UCA1 Interacts Directly with AMOT to Activate YAP Target Genes in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

    Xianzhi Lin / Tassja J. Spindler / Marcos Abraão de Souza Fonseca / Rosario I. Corona / Ji-Heui Seo / Felipe Segato Dezem / Lewyn Li / Janet M. Lee / Henry W. Long / Thomas A. Sellers / Beth Y. Karlan / Houtan Noushmehr / Matthew L. Freedman / Simon A. Gayther / Kate Lawrenson

    iScience, Vol 17, Iss , Pp 242-

    2019  Volume 255

    Abstract: Summary: Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as critical regulators of tumorigenesis, and yet their mechanistic roles remain challenging to characterize. Here, we integrate functional proteomics with lncRNA-interactome profiling to characterize ... ...

    Abstract Summary: Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as critical regulators of tumorigenesis, and yet their mechanistic roles remain challenging to characterize. Here, we integrate functional proteomics with lncRNA-interactome profiling to characterize Urothelial Cancer Associated 1 (UCA1), a candidate driver of ovarian cancer development. Reverse phase protein array (RPPA) analysis indicates that UCA1 activates transcription coactivator YAP and its target genes. In vivo RNA antisense purification (iRAP) of UCA1 interacting proteins identified angiomotin (AMOT), a known YAP regulator, as a direct binding partner. Loss-of-function experiments show that AMOT mediates YAP activation by UCA1, as UCA1 enhances the AMOT-YAP interaction to promote YAP dephosphorylation and nuclear translocation. Together, we characterize UCA1 as a lncRNA regulator of Hippo-YAP signaling and highlight the UCA1-AMOT-YAP signaling axis in ovarian cancer development. : Cancer Systems Biology; Omics; Proteomics; Systems Biology Subject Areas: Cancer Systems Biology, Omics, Proteomics, Systems Biology
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  8. Article ; Online: A Study of High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer Origins Implicates the SOX18 Transcription Factor in Tumor Development

    Kate Lawrenson / Marcos A.S. Fonseca / Annie Y. Liu / Felipe Segato Dezem / Janet M. Lee / Xianzhi Lin / Rosario I. Corona / Forough Abbasi / Kevin C. Vavra / Huy Q. Dinh / Navjot Kaur Gill / Ji-Heui Seo / Simon Coetzee / Yvonne G. Lin / Tanja Pejovic / Paulette Mhawech-Fauceglia / Amy C. Rowat / Ronny Drapkin / Beth Y. Karlan /
    Dennis J. Hazelett / Matthew L. Freedman / Simon A. Gayther / Houtan Noushmehr

    Cell Reports, Vol 29, Iss 11, Pp 3726-3735.e

    2019  Volume 4

    Abstract: Summary: Fallopian tube secretory epithelial cells (FTSECs) are likely the main precursor cell type of high-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSOCs), but these tumors may also arise from ovarian surface epithelial cells (OSECs). We profiled global ... ...

    Abstract Summary: Fallopian tube secretory epithelial cells (FTSECs) are likely the main precursor cell type of high-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSOCs), but these tumors may also arise from ovarian surface epithelial cells (OSECs). We profiled global landscapes of gene expression and active chromatin to characterize molecular similarities between OSECs (n = 114), FTSECs (n = 74), and HGSOCs (n = 394). A one-class machine learning algorithm predicts that most HGSOCs derive from FTSECs, with particularly high FTSEC scores in mesenchymal-type HGSOCs (padj < 8 × 10−4). However, a subset of HGSOCs likely derive from OSECs, particularly HGSOCs of the proliferative type (padj < 2 × 10−4), suggesting a dualistic model for HGSOC origins. Super-enhancer (SE) landscapes were also more similar between FTSECs and HGSOCs than between OSECs and HGSOCs (p < 2.2 × 10−16). The SOX18 transcription factor (TF) coincided with a HGSOC-specific SE, and ectopic overexpression of SOX18 in FTSECs caused epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, indicating that SOX18 plays a role in establishing the mesenchymal signature of fallopian-derived HGSOCs. : Lawrenson et al. profile gene expression and active chromatin in ∼200 ovarian and fallopian epithelial isolates and implement machine learning to demonstrate that most high-grade serous ovarian cancers (HGSOCs) derive from fallopian tube epithelial cells, but a subset may originate from ovarian epithelia. SOX18 induces mesenchymal features to drive early neoplasia in fallopian tube precursors. Keywords: high-grade serous ovarian cancer, ovarian surface epithelial cell, fallopian tube secretory epithelial cell, super enhancers, transcription factors, SOX18, single-cell RNA-seq, RNA-seq, machine learning, one-class logistic regression models, dual origins
    Keywords Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  9. Article ; Online: A Distinct DNA Methylation Shift in a Subset of Glioma CpG Island Methylator Phenotypes during Tumor Recurrence

    Camila Ferreira de Souza / Thais S. Sabedot / Tathiane M. Malta / Lindsay Stetson / Olena Morozova / Artem Sokolov / Peter W. Laird / Maciej Wiznerowicz / Antonio Iavarone / James Snyder / Ana deCarvalho / Zachary Sanborn / Kerrie L. McDonald / William A. Friedman / Daniela Tirapelli / Laila Poisson / Tom Mikkelsen / Carlos G. Carlotti, Jr. / Steven Kalkanis /
    Jean Zenklusen / Sofie R. Salama / Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan / Houtan Noushmehr

    Cell Reports, Vol 23, Iss 2, Pp 637-

    2018  Volume 651

    Abstract: Summary: Glioma diagnosis is based on histomorphology and grading; however, such classification does not have predictive clinical outcome after glioblastomas have developed. To date, no bona fide biomarkers that significantly translate into a survival ... ...

    Abstract Summary: Glioma diagnosis is based on histomorphology and grading; however, such classification does not have predictive clinical outcome after glioblastomas have developed. To date, no bona fide biomarkers that significantly translate into a survival benefit to glioblastoma patients have been identified. We previously reported that the IDH mutant G-CIMP-high subtype would be a predecessor to the G-CIMP-low subtype. Here, we performed a comprehensive DNA methylation longitudinal analysis of diffuse gliomas from 77 patients (200 tumors) to enlighten the epigenome-based malignant transformation of initially lower-grade gliomas. Intra-subtype heterogeneity among G-CIMP-high primary tumors allowed us to identify predictive biomarkers for assessing the risk of malignant recurrence at early stages of disease. G-CIMP-low recurrence appeared in 9.5% of all gliomas, and these resembled IDH-wild-type primary glioblastoma. G-CIMP-low recurrence can be characterized by distinct epigenetic changes at candidate functional tissue enhancers with AP-1/SOX binding elements, mesenchymal stem cell-like epigenomic phenotype, and genomic instability. Molecular abnormalities of longitudinal G-CIMP offer possibilities to defy glioblastoma progression. : IDH-mutant lower-grade glioma glioblastoma often progresses to a more aggressive phenotype upon recurrence. de Souza et al. examines the intra-subtype heterogeneity of initial G-CIMP-high and use this information to identify predictive biomarkers for assessing the risk of recurrence and malignant transformation. Keywords: longitudinal gliomas, DNA methylation, IDH mutation, G-CIMP-high, intra-subtype heterogeneity, malignant transformation and recurrence, G-CIMP-low, stem cell-like glioblastoma, predictive biomarkers
    Keywords Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5
    Subject code 610
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
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  10. Article ; Online: Global Genetic Cartography of Urban Metagenomes and Anti-Microbial Resistance

    David C Danko / Daniela Bezdan / Ebrahim Afshinnekoo / Sofia Ahsanuddin / Josue Alicea / Chandrima Bhattacharya / Malay Bhattacharyya / Ran Blekhman / Daniel J Butler / Eduardo Castro-Nallar / Ana M Canas / Aspassia D Chatziefthimiou / Kern Rei Chng / David A Coil / Denise Syndercombe Court / Robert W Crawford / Christelle Desnues / Emmanuel Dias-Neto / Daisy Donnellan /
    Marius Dybwad / Jonathan A Eisen / Eran Elhaik / Danilo Ercolini / Francesca De Filippis / Alina Frolova / Alexandra B Graf / David C Green / Patrick K H Lee / Jochen Hecht / Mark Hernandez / Soojin Jang / Andre Kahles / Mikhail Karasikov / Kaymisha Knights / Nikos C Kyrpides / Per Ljungdahl / Abigail Lyons / Gabriella Mason-Buck / Ken McGrath / Emmanuel F Mongodin / Harun Mustafa / Beth Mutai / Niranjan Nagarajan / Russell Y Neches / Amanda Ng / Marina Nieto-Caballero / Olga Nikolayeva / Tatyana Nikolayeva / Houtan Noushmehr / Manuela Oliveira / Stephan Ossowski / Olayinka O Osuolale / David Paez-Espino / Eileen Png / Nicolas Rascovan / Hugues Richard / Gunnar Ratsch / Jorge L Sanchez / Lynn M Schriml / Heba Shaaban / Leming Shi / Maria A Sierra / Le Huu Song / Haruo Suzuki / Dominique Thomas / Klas I Udekwu / Juan A Ugalde / Brandon Valentine / Dimitar I Vassilev / Elena Vayndorf / Marcus H Y Leung / Ben Young / Maria M Zambrano / Jifeng Zhu / Sibo Zhu / Pawel P Labaj / Christopher E Mason

    Abstract: Although studies have shown that urban environments and mass-transit systems have distinct genetic profiles, there are no systematic worldwide studies of these dense, human microbial ecosystems. To address this gap in knowledge, we created a global ... ...

    Abstract Although studies have shown that urban environments and mass-transit systems have distinct genetic profiles, there are no systematic worldwide studies of these dense, human microbial ecosystems. To address this gap in knowledge, we created a global metagenomic and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) atlas of urban mass transit systems from 60 cities, spanning 4,728 samples and 4,424 taxonomically-defined microorganisms collected for three years. This atlas provides an annotated, geospatial profile of microbial strains, functional characteristics, antimicrobial resistance markers, and novel genetic elements, including 10,928 novel predicted viral species, 1302 novel bacteria, and 2 novel archaea. Urban microbiomes often resemble human commensal microbiomes from the skin and airways, but also contain a consistent "core" of 31 species which are predominantly not human commensal species. Samples show distinct microbial signatures which may be used to accurately predict properties of their city of origin including population, proximity to the coast, and taxonomic profile. These data also show that AMR density across cities varies by several orders of magnitude, including many AMRs present on plasmids with cosmopolitan distributions. Together, these results constitute a high-resolution, global metagenomic atlas, which enables the discovery of new genetic components of the built human environment, highlights potential forensic applications, and provides an essential first draft of the global AMR burden of the world's cities.
    Keywords covid19
    Publisher biorxiv
    Document type Article ; Online
    DOI 10.1101/724526
    Database COVID19

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