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  1. Article ; Online: Integrative Analyses of Mendelian Randomization and Transcriptomic Data Reveal No Association between Leptin and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

    Zhang, Ao / Tian, Suyan

    COPD

    2023  Volume 20, Issue 1, Page(s) 321–326

    Abstract: As a key adipokine, leptin has been extensively investigated for its potential role in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, concordant conclusions have not been attained. In this study, we investigated the ... ...

    Abstract As a key adipokine, leptin has been extensively investigated for its potential role in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, concordant conclusions have not been attained. In this study, we investigated the relationship between leptin and COPD using an integrative analysis that combined a Mendelian randomization (MR) study with transcriptomic data analysis. Here, the MR analysis was performed on the online platform MR-Base, and the bioinformatics analyses were performed with the aid of R Bioconductor packages. No evidence was found by the integrative analysis to support the association of the two attributes. All methods detected a null causal effect of leptin on COPD in the MR analysis. In particular, when the genetically predicted leptin level increased one unit, the risk of developing COPD was estimated as 0.999 (
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Transcriptome ; Leptin/genetics ; Mendelian Randomization Analysis ; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/genetics ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Genome-Wide Association Study
    Chemical Substances Leptin
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-09
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2171107-0
    ISSN 1541-2563 ; 1541-2555
    ISSN (online) 1541-2563
    ISSN 1541-2555
    DOI 10.1080/15412555.2023.2260890
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  2. Article ; Online: Identification of monotonically differentially expressed genes for non-small cell lung cancer.

    Tian, Suyan

    BMC bioinformatics

    2019  Volume 20, Issue 1, Page(s) 177

    Abstract: Background: Monotonically expressed genes (MEGs) are genes whose expression values increase or decrease monotonically as a disease advances or time proceeds. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a multistage progression process resulting from genetic ... ...

    Abstract Background: Monotonically expressed genes (MEGs) are genes whose expression values increase or decrease monotonically as a disease advances or time proceeds. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a multistage progression process resulting from genetic sequences mutations, the identification of MEGs for NSCLC is important.
    Results: With the aid of a feature selection algorithm capable of identifying MEGs - the MFSelector method - two sets of potential MEGs were selected in this study: the MEGs across the different pathologic stages and the MEGs across the risk levels of death for the NSCLC patients at early stages. For the lung adenocarcinoma (AC) subtypes no statistically significant MEGs were identified across pathologic stages, however dozens of MEGs were identified across the risk levels of death. By contrast, for the squamous cell lung carcinoma (SCC) there were no statistically significant MEGs as either stage or risk level advanced.
    Conclusions: The pathologic stage of non-small cell lung cancer patients at early stages has no prognostic value, making the identification of prognostic gene signatures for them more meaningful and highly desirable.
    MeSH term(s) Algorithms ; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/diagnosis ; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/genetics ; Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/metabolism ; Computational Biology/methods ; Gene Expression Profiling/methods ; Humans ; Lung Neoplasms/diagnosis ; Lung Neoplasms/genetics ; Lung Neoplasms/metabolism ; Prognosis
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-04-11
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2041484-5
    ISSN 1471-2105 ; 1471-2105
    ISSN (online) 1471-2105
    ISSN 1471-2105
    DOI 10.1186/s12859-019-2775-8
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  3. Article ; Online: Exploring the causal relationship between Takayasu arteritis and inflammatory bowel disease using Mendelian randomization.

    Pang, Xiaoli / Yang, Huizhong / Wang, Chi / Tian, Suyan

    Immunologic research

    2024  

    Abstract: Takayasu arteritis (TA) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are two distinct diseases; however, previous studies have reported many cases of IBD-TA coexistence. Additionally, the incidence of IBD in patients with TA is estimated to be significantly ... ...

    Abstract Takayasu arteritis (TA) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are two distinct diseases; however, previous studies have reported many cases of IBD-TA coexistence. Additionally, the incidence of IBD in patients with TA is estimated to be significantly higher than the incidence in the general population. Therefore, the two diseases are anticipated to be linked. Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis assesses whether an exposure might causally affect an outcome by using genetic variants inherited randomly at conception, thereby reducing the impact of confounding and reverse causality. The present study aimed to investigate the potential causal relationship between TA and IBD using MR analysis. Two-sample MR analysis, in which TA and IBD were regarded as the exposure and outcome, respectively, was conducted to investigate whether the two diseases are causally related using the R TwoSampleMR package. Summary GWAS data of TA consisted of 516 Turkish cohorts and 462 controls, and 119 patients and 993 controls of European ancestry. Summary data of IBD was from a sub-study of the International Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium (IIBDGC) that comprised 31,665 cases and 33,977 controls of European ancestry. Additionally, separate MR analyses stratified by the two major subtypes of IBD, Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), were performed. Various statistical tests, including the intercept of MR-Egger regression, funnel plots, Cochran's Q tests, and leave-one-out sensitivity analyses, were employed to assess the presence of heterogeneity and horizontal pleiotropy among single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). In the primary analysis using the inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method, the risk of developing IBD for a patient with TA compared to a non-TA control increased 1.053 times (Odds Ratio (OR) = 1.053, P = 0.065). The MR-Egger method (OR = 1.025, P = 0.470) yielded results consistent with this null finding. However, both the weighted median method (OR = 1.038, P = 0.002) and the weighted mode method (OR = 1.051, P = 0.009) identified a significant harmful causal effect. The MR outcomes from separate subgroup analyses slightly diverged from those of IBD and TA. Specifically, for CD, three methods indicated that TA is a risk factor: IVW estimated the OR as 1.045 (P = 0.032), MR-Egger as 0.997 (P = 0.957), weighed median as 1.028 (P = 0.021), and weighted mode as 1.031 (P = 0.022), respectively. This study represents one of the initial investigations into the potential causal association between TA and IBD. With three MR methods, including the primary IVW approach, indicating a notable effect on TA on CD, our analysis findings offer some indication that TA could be a contributing risk factor for CD.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-27
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 632857-x
    ISSN 1559-0755 ; 0257-277X
    ISSN (online) 1559-0755
    ISSN 0257-277X
    DOI 10.1007/s12026-024-09476-7
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  4. Article: Identification of subtype-specific prognostic signatures using Cox models with redundant gene elimination.

    Tian, Suyan

    Oncology letters

    2018  Volume 15, Issue 6, Page(s) 8545–8555

    Abstract: Lung cancer (LC) is a leading cause of cancer-associated mortalities worldwide. Adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) account for ~70% of all cases of LC. Since AC and SCC are two distinct diseases, their corresponding prognostic genes ... ...

    Abstract Lung cancer (LC) is a leading cause of cancer-associated mortalities worldwide. Adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) account for ~70% of all cases of LC. Since AC and SCC are two distinct diseases, their corresponding prognostic genes associated with patient survival time are expected to be different. To date, only a few studies have distinguished patients with good prognosis from those with poor prognosis for each specific subtype. In the present study, the Cox filter model, a feature selection algorithm that identifies subtype-specific prognostic genes to incorporate pathway information and eliminate redundant genes, was adopted. By applying the proposed model to data on non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), it was demonstrated that both redundant gene elimination and search space restriction can improve the predictive capacity and the model stability of resulting prognostic gene signatures. To conclude, a pre-filtering procedure that incorporates pathway information for screening likely irrelevant genes prior to complex downstream analysis is recommended. Furthermore, a feature selection algorithm that considers redundant gene elimination may be preferable to one without such a consideration.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-04-04
    Publishing country Greece
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2573196-8
    ISSN 1792-1082 ; 1792-1074
    ISSN (online) 1792-1082
    ISSN 1792-1074
    DOI 10.3892/ol.2018.8418
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  5. Article: Classification and survival prediction for early-stage lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma patients.

    Tian, Suyan

    Oncology letters

    2017  Volume 14, Issue 5, Page(s) 5464–5470

    Abstract: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide. Adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are two primary histological subtypes of NSCLC, accounting for ~70% of lung cancer cases. Increasing ... ...

    Abstract Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a leading cause of cancer-associated mortality worldwide. Adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are two primary histological subtypes of NSCLC, accounting for ~70% of lung cancer cases. Increasing evidence suggests that AC and SCC differ in the composition of genes and molecular characteristics. Previous research has focused on distinguishing AC from SCC or predicting the NSCLC patient survival rates using gene expression profiles, usually with the aid of a feature selection method. The present study conducted a pre-filtering to identify the genes that have significant expression values and a high connection with other genes in the gene network, and then used the radial coordinate visualization method to identify relevant genes. By applying the proposed procedure to NSCLC data, it was demonstrated that there is a clear segmentation between AC and SCC, however not between patients with a good prognosis and bad prognosis. The focus of discriminating AC and SCC differs from survival prediction and there are almost no overlaps between the two gene signatures. Overall, a supervised learning method is preferred and future studies aiming to identify prognostic gene signatures with an increased prediction efficiency are required.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2017-08-28
    Publishing country Greece
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2573196-8
    ISSN 1792-1082 ; 1792-1074
    ISSN (online) 1792-1082
    ISSN 1792-1074
    DOI 10.3892/ol.2017.6835
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  6. Article ; Online: Integrative analysis of Mendelian randomization and gene expression profiles reveals a null causal relationship between adiponectin and diabetic retinopathy.

    Zhang, Ao / Wu, Hui / Wang, Chi / Tian, Suyan

    Adipocyte

    2023  Volume 12, Issue 1, Page(s) 2234522

    Abstract: Observational studies have been conducted to investigate the correlation between adiponectin and diabetic retinopathy (DR), but no consistent relationship has been established. In this study, we employed an integrative analysis that combined Mendelian ... ...

    Abstract Observational studies have been conducted to investigate the correlation between adiponectin and diabetic retinopathy (DR), but no consistent relationship has been established. In this study, we employed an integrative analysis that combined Mendelian randomization (MR) and bioinformatics analyses to comprehensively explore the association between DR and adiponectin, aiming to provide a unified answer of their relationship. Using the inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method, the odd ratio (OR) of developing DR per 1 mg/dL increment in genetically predicted log-transformed adiponectin concentration was estimated to be 0.949 (
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Diabetic Retinopathy/genetics ; Adiponectin/genetics ; Transcriptome ; Mendelian Randomization Analysis ; Risk Factors ; Diabetes Mellitus
    Chemical Substances Adiponectin
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-17
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2681769-X
    ISSN 2162-397X ; 2162-397X
    ISSN (online) 2162-397X
    ISSN 2162-397X
    DOI 10.1080/21623945.2023.2234522
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  7. Article ; Online: An ensemble of the iCluster method to analyze longitudinal lncRNA expression data for psoriasis patients.

    Tian, Suyan / Wang, Chi

    Human genomics

    2021  Volume 15, Issue 1, Page(s) 23

    Abstract: Background: Psoriasis is an immune-mediated, inflammatory disorder of the skin with chronic inflammation and hyper-proliferation of the epidermis. Since psoriasis has genetic components and the diseased tissue of psoriasis is very easily accessible, it ... ...

    Abstract Background: Psoriasis is an immune-mediated, inflammatory disorder of the skin with chronic inflammation and hyper-proliferation of the epidermis. Since psoriasis has genetic components and the diseased tissue of psoriasis is very easily accessible, it is natural to use high-throughput technologies to characterize psoriasis and thus seek targeted therapies. Transcriptional profiles change correspondingly after an intervention. Unlike cross-sectional gene expression data, longitudinal gene expression data can capture the dynamic changes and thus facilitate causal inference.
    Methods: Using the iCluster method as a building block, an ensemble method was proposed and applied to a longitudinal gene expression dataset for psoriasis, with the objective of identifying key lncRNAs that can discriminate the responders from the non-responders to two immune treatments of psoriasis.
    Results: Using support vector machine models, the leave-one-out predictive accuracy of the 20-lncRNA signature identified by this ensemble was estimated as 80%, which outperforms several competing methods. Furthermore, pathway enrichment analysis was performed on the target mRNAs of the identified lncRNAs. Of the enriched GO terms or KEGG pathways, proteasome, and protein deubiquitination is included. The ubiquitination-proteasome system is regarded as a key player in psoriasis, and a proteasome inhibitor to target ubiquitination pathway holds promises for treating psoriasis.
    Conclusions: An integrative method such as iCluster for multiple data integration can be adopted directly to analyze longitudinal gene expression data, which offers more promising options for longitudinal big data analysis. A comprehensive evaluation and validation of the resulting 20-lncRNA signature is highly desirable.
    MeSH term(s) Cross-Sectional Studies ; Gene Expression Profiling/methods ; Gene Expression Regulation/genetics ; Gene Regulatory Networks/genetics ; Humans ; Psoriasis/genetics ; Psoriasis/pathology ; RNA, Long Noncoding/genetics ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Skin/metabolism ; Skin/pathology ; Transcriptome/genetics
    Chemical Substances RNA, Long Noncoding ; RNA, Messenger
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-04-20
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2147618-4
    ISSN 1479-7364 ; 1479-7364
    ISSN (online) 1479-7364
    ISSN 1479-7364
    DOI 10.1186/s40246-021-00323-6
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  8. Article ; Online: ncRNAs-mediated TIMELESS overexpression in lung adenocarcinoma correlates with reduced tumor immune cell infiltration and poor prognosis.

    Gao, Xinliang / Tang, Mingbo / Tian, Suyan / Li, Jialin / Wei, Shixiong / Hua, Shucheng / Liu, Wei

    PloS one

    2024  Volume 19, Issue 1, Page(s) e0296829

    Abstract: Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) has a poor prognosis. Circadian genes such as TIMELESS have been associated with several pathologies, including cancer. The expression of TIMELESS and the relationship between TIMELESS, infiltration of tumors and prognosis in ... ...

    Abstract Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) has a poor prognosis. Circadian genes such as TIMELESS have been associated with several pathologies, including cancer. The expression of TIMELESS and the relationship between TIMELESS, infiltration of tumors and prognosis in LUAD requires further investigation. In this study, we investigated the expression of TIMELESS and its association with survival across several types of human cancer using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Genotype-Tissue Expression Program. Noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) regulating overexpression of TIMELESS in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) were explored with expression, correlation, and survival analyses. Immune cell infiltration and biomarkers were analyzed between different TIMELESS expression levels. The relationship between TIMELESS expression and immunophenoscores, which were used to predict response to immunotherapy, was evaluated. TIMELESS was identified as a potential oncogene in LUAD. NcRNA analysis showed MIR4435-2HG/hsa-miR-1-3p may interact with TIMELESS in a competitive endogenous RNA network in LUAD tumor tissues. Most immune cells were significantly decreased in TCGA LUAD tumor tissues with high TIMELESS expression except for CD4+T cells and Th2 cells. TIMELESS expression in LUAD tumor tissues was significantly negatively correlated with neutrophil biomarkers, dendritic cell biomarkers (HLA-DPB1, HLA-DQB1, HLA-DRA, HLA-DPA1, CD1C) and an immunophenoscore that predicted outcomes associated with the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors. These findings imply that ncRNAs-mediated TIMELESS overexpression in LUAD tumor tissues correlated with poor prognosis, reduced immune cell infiltration in the tumor microenvironment, and poor response to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Adenocarcinoma of Lung ; Biomarkers ; Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors ; Lung Neoplasms ; Oncogenes ; RNA, Untranslated ; Tumor Microenvironment
    Chemical Substances Biomarkers ; Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors ; RNA, Untranslated ; TIMELESS protein, human
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0296829
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  9. Article: Clinical Evidence of the Relationship Between Alanine Aminotransferase and Diabetic Kidney Disease.

    Bi, Yaru / Yang, Yang / Yuan, Xiaojie / Wang, Jiping / Liu, Zhiyuan / Tian, Suyan / Sun, Chenglin

    Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy

    2024  Volume 17, Page(s) 261–269

    Abstract: Aim: Multiple studies have investigated the association between alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and diabetes mellitus (DM); however, only a few studies have specifically examined the relationship between ALT and diabetic kidney disease (DKD). This study ... ...

    Abstract Aim: Multiple studies have investigated the association between alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and diabetes mellitus (DM); however, only a few studies have specifically examined the relationship between ALT and diabetic kidney disease (DKD). This study aimed to investigate the relationship between ALT and DKD using clinical data.
    Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 668 individuals that included non-DM (N=281), DM without DKD (N=160), and DKD (N=227) patients. A generalized additive model (GAM) was used to examine the dose-response relationship between ALT and DKD risk. We also analyzed the data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2015-2018 using the same statistical methods; 4481, 1110, and 671 individuals were included in the non-DM, DM without DKD, and DKD groups, respectively.
    Results: The changes in ALT activity among the non-DM, DM without DKD, and DKD groups showed a similar pattern in both our clinical data and the NHANES dataset. ALT activity increases with the onset of DM, whereas ALT activity decreases when DM progresses to DKD. The GAM revealed a nonlinear
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    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-20
    Publishing country New Zealand
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2494854-8
    ISSN 1178-7007
    ISSN 1178-7007
    DOI 10.2147/DMSO.S442165
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  10. Article ; Online: White blood cells and type 2 diabetes: A Mendelian randomization study.

    Bi, Yaru / Gao, Yuan / Xie, Yao / Zhou, Meng / Liu, Zhiyuan / Tian, Suyan / Sun, Chenglin

    PloS one

    2024  Volume 19, Issue 3, Page(s) e0296701

    Abstract: Background: Observational studies have demonstrated an association between white blood cells (WBC) subtypes and type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk. However, it is unknown whether this relationship is causal. We used Mendelian randomization (MR) to investigate ... ...

    Abstract Background: Observational studies have demonstrated an association between white blood cells (WBC) subtypes and type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk. However, it is unknown whether this relationship is causal. We used Mendelian randomization (MR) to investigate the causal effect of WBC subtypes on T2D and glycemic traits.
    Methods: The summary data for neutrophil, lymphocyte, monocyte, eosinophil, and basophil counts were extracted from a recent genome-wide association study (n = 173,480). The DIAGRAM and MAGIC consortia offered summary data pertaining to T2D and glycemic characteristics, including fasting glucose (FG) (n = 133,010), glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) (n = 46,368), and homeostatic model assessment-estimated insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) (n = 37,037). A series of MR analyses (univariable MR, multivariable MR, and reverse MR) were used to investigate the causal association of different WBC subtypes with T2D and glycemic traits.
    Results: Using the inverse-variance weighted method, we found one standard deviation increases in genetically determined neutrophil [odd ratio (OR): 1.086, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.877-1.345], lymphocyte [0.878 (0.766-1.006)], monocyte [1.010 (0.906-1.127)], eosinophil [0.995 (0.867-1.142)], and basophil [0.960 (0.763-1.207)] were not causally associated with T2D risk. These findings were consistent with the results of three pleiotropy robust methods (MR-Egger, weighted median, and mode-based estimator) and multivariable MR analyses. Reverse MR analysis provided no evidence for the reverse causation of T2D on WBC subtypes. The null causal effects of WBC subtypes on FG, HbA1c, and HOMA-IR were also identified.
    Conclusions: WBCs play no causal role in the development of insulin resistance and T2D. The observed association between these factors may be explained by residual confounding.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/complications ; Glycated Hemoglobin/genetics ; Insulin Resistance/genetics ; Mendelian Randomization Analysis ; Genome-Wide Association Study ; Glucose ; Basophils
    Chemical Substances Glycated Hemoglobin ; Glucose (IY9XDZ35W2)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0296701
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