Transcriptome profiling research in urothelial cell carcinoma
Abstract
Urothelial cell carcinoma (UCC) is the ninth most common cancer that accounts for 4.7% of all the new cancer cases globally. UCC development and progression are due to complex and stochastic genetic programmes. To study the cascades of molecular events underlying the poor prognosis that may lead to limited treatment options for advanced disease and resistance to conventional therapies in UCC, transcriptomics technology (RNA-Seq), a method of analysing the RNA content of a sample using modern high-throughput sequencing platforms has been employed. Here we review the principles of RNA-Seq technology and summarize recent studies on human bladder cancer that employed this technique to unravel the pathogenesis of the disease, identify biomarkers, discover pathways and classify the disease state. We list the commonly used computational platforms and software that are publicly available for RNA-Seq analysis. Moreover, we discussed the future perspectives for RNA-Seq studies on bladder cancer and recommend the application of new technology called single cell sequencing (scRNA-Seq) to further understand the disease. Keywords: Transcriptome profiling, RNA-sequencing, genomics, bioinformatics, bladder cancer
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@article{arxiv.2011.10372,
title = {Transcriptome profiling research in urothelial cell carcinoma},
author = {Umar Ahmad and Buhari Ibrahim and Mustapha Mohammed and Ahmed Faris Aldoghachi and Mahmood Usman and Abdulbasit Haliru Yakubu and Abubakar Sadiq Tanko and Khadijat Abubakar Bobbo and Usman Adamu Garkuwa and Abdullahi Adamu Faggo and Sagir Mustapha and Mahmoud Al-Masaeed and Syahril Abdullah and Yong Yoke Keong and Abhi Veerakumarasivam},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.10372},
year = {2021}
}
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47 pages, 2 figures, 2 Tables