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Trial reportMedical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research2016

Long Non-Coding RNA: Potential Diagnostic and Therapeutic Biomarker for Major Depressive Disorder.

Xuelian Cui, Xinyang Sun, Wei Niu, Lingming Kong, Mingjun He, Aifang Zhong, Shengdong Chen, Kunhong Jiang, Liyi Zhang, Zaohuo Cheng

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Trial report in Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Circulating long noncoding RNA: New frontiers in biomarker research for mood disorders.Genomic psychiatry : advancing science from genes to society · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Xuelian CuiDepartment of Women Health Care, Changzhou Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital Affiliated with Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China (mainland).
Xinyang SunDepartment of Psychology and Psychiatry, PingAn Health Cloud Company Ltd. of China, Shanghai, China (mainland).
Wei NiuDepartment of Rehabilitation, No. 102 Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China (mainland).
Lingming KongPrevention and Treatment Center for Psychological Diseases, No. 102 Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China (mainland).
Mingjun HePrevention and Treatment Center for Psychological Diseases, No. 102 Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China (mainland).
Aifang ZhongDepartment of Laboratory, No. 102 Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China (mainland).
Shengdong ChenDepartment of Neurology, No. 102 Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China (mainland).
Kunhong JiangPrevention and Treatment Center for Psychological Diseases, No. 102 Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China (mainland).
Liyi ZhangPrevention and Treatment Center for Psychological Diseases, No. 102 Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China (mainland).
Zaohuo ChengWuxi Mental Health Center Affiliated with Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China (mainland).
Soochow University · CNChinese People's Liberation Army · CNChinese People 's Liberation Army No. 85 Hospital · CNFourth People's Hospital of Changzhou · CNNanjing Medical University · CNWuxi People's Hospital · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND The criteria for diagnosing depression are based on behavioral observation and self-reporting of symptoms by the patients or guardians without any biological validation of the disease. This study aimed to identify long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) as robust and predictive biomarkers for diagnosis and therapy response in major depressive disorder (MDD). MATERIAL AND METHODS We used human lncRNA 3.0 microarray profiling (which covers 30,586 human lncRNAs), using PBMCs from five MDD patients and five controls. Differentially expressed lncRNAs in the PBMCs of MDD patients were identified, of which 10 candidate lncRNAs were selected for real-time quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) analysis in a larger cohort of 138 MDD patients and 63 healthy controls. Then among the 138 MDD patients who received standard antidepressant treatment, 30 were randomly selected for lncRNAs expression retesting and symptomatology assessments after three-weeks and six-weeks of antidepressant treatment. RESULTS Six lncRNAs (TCONS_00019174, ENST00000566208, NONHSAG045500, ENST00000517573, NONHSAT034045, and NONHSAT142707) were significantly downregulated in MDD patients compared to control patients, and the area under the receiver operator curve (ROC) of these six lncRNAs cases, combined, was 0.719 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.617-0.821). There was no difference in the expression of these six lncRNAs based on gender (p>0.05) or age (p>0.05). CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that the combined expression of six lncRNAs in PBMCs may serve as a potential biomarker for diagnosis and therapy response of MDD in the clinical setting.

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AdultAntidepressive AgentsBiomarkersCase-Control StudiesFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationGene OntologyHumansMajor Depressive DisorderMaleOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisReal-Time Polymerase Chain ReactionReproducibility of ResultsRNA, Long NoncodingROC CurveAntidepressive AgentsBiomarkersRNA, Long Noncoding

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PMID28039689
PMCPMC5221417
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