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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2021

Telomere Maintenance Pathway Activity Analysis Enables Tissue- and Gene-Level Inferences.

Lilit Nersisyan, Arman Simonyan, Hans Binder, Arsen Arakelyan

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Lilit NersisyanBioinformatics Group, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia.
Arman SimonyanBioinformatics Group, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia.
Hans BinderInterdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Arsen ArakelyanBioinformatics Group, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia.
National Academy of Sciences of Armenia · AMInstitute of Molecular Biology · AMLeipzig University · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Telomere maintenance is one of the mechanisms ensuring indefinite divisions of cancer and stem cells. Good understanding of telomere maintenance mechanisms (TMM) is important for studying cancers and designing therapies. However, molecular factors triggering selective activation of either the telomerase dependent (TEL) or the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) pathway are poorly understood. In addition, more accurate and easy-to-use methodologies are required for TMM phenotyping. In this study, we have performed literature based reconstruction of signaling pathways for the ALT and TEL TMMs. Gene expression data were used for computational assessment of TMM pathway activities and compared with experimental assays for TEL and ALT. Explicit consideration of pathway topology makes bioinformatics analysis more informative compared to computational methods based on simple summary measures of gene expression. Application to healthy human tissues showed high ALT and TEL pathway activities in testis, and identified genes and pathways that may trigger TMM activation. Our approach offers a novel option for systematic investigation of TMM activation patterns across cancers and healthy tissues for dissecting pathway-based molecular markers with diagnostic impact.

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