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ArticleFrontiers in molecular biosciences2025

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Weina Xue, Shuying Xie, Tong Wu, Ruixi Li, Dingyan Lu, Shuaishuai Chen, Yue Xu, Yonglin Wang

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Article in Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Weina XueState Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Engineering Research Center for the Development and Application of Ethnic Medicine and TCM (Ministry of Education), Guizhou Key Laboratory of Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine Creation, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
Shuying XieState Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Engineering Research Center for the Development and Application of Ethnic Medicine and TCM (Ministry of Education), Guizhou Key Laboratory of Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine Creation, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
Tong WuState Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Engineering Research Center for the Development and Application of Ethnic Medicine and TCM (Ministry of Education), Guizhou Key Laboratory of Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine Creation, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
Ruixi LiState Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Engineering Research Center for the Development and Application of Ethnic Medicine and TCM (Ministry of Education), Guizhou Key Laboratory of Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine Creation, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
Dingyan LuState Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Engineering Research Center for the Development and Application of Ethnic Medicine and TCM (Ministry of Education), Guizhou Key Laboratory of Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine Creation, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
Shuaishuai ChenState Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Engineering Research Center for the Development and Application of Ethnic Medicine and TCM (Ministry of Education), Guizhou Key Laboratory of Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine Creation, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
Yue XuLeslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Yonglin WangState Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Engineering Research Center for the Development and Application of Ethnic Medicine and TCM (Ministry of Education), Guizhou Key Laboratory of Modern Traditional Chinese Medicine Creation, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Tumor staging is critical for guiding therapeutic decisions and determining prognosis in liver hepatocellular carcinoma (LIHC). This study aimed to identify potential tissue biomarkers intrinsically linked to disease stage to enhance our understanding of LIHC biology. Methods: Transcriptome and clinical data from LIHC patients were obtained from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database. Differential expression analysis was conducted using the "limma" package. Weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) was used to identify the gene module most strongly associated with LIHC and to extract hub genes. The hub genes then underwent differential expression, prognostic, and clinical staging analyses, immunohistochemical validation, and multivariable Cox regression analysis. Results: This analysis included data from 373 LIHC tumors and 50 solid tissue normal samples obtained from the TCGA database. Differential expression analysis identified 319 upregulated and 853 downregulated genes in LIHC tumors compared to these normal samples. An enrichment analysis highlighted key pathways, including cell cycle, DNA replication, and base excision repair. Three independent validation datasets confirmed 18 downregulated and 7 upregulated genes. Among them, Conclusion: Our results identified

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bioinformaticsbiomarkerclinical stageDNASE1L3liver hepatocellular carcinoma

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