Peripheral blood transcriptome profiling enables monitoring disease progression in dystrophic mice and patients | EMBO Mol Med | April 2021 Mirko Signorelli, Mitra Ebrahimpoor, Olga Veth, Kristina Hettne, Nisha Verwey, Raquel García-Rodríguez,  Christa L Tanganyika-deWinter, Luz B Lopez Hernandez, Rosa Escobar Cedillo, Benjamín Gómez Díaz, Olafur T Magnusson, Hailiang Mei, Roula Tsonaka, Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, Pietro Spitali Abstract DMD is a rare disorder characterized by progressive muscle degeneration and [...]

Comprehensive diagnostics of acute myeloid leukemia by whole transcriptome RNA sequencing | January 2021 | Leukemia. 2021 Jan;35(1):47-61. doi: 10.1038/s41375-020-0762-8. Epub 2020 Mar 3. PMID: 32127641. Arindrarto W, Borràs DM, de Groen RAL, van den Berg RR, Locher IJ, van Diessen SAME, van der Holst R, van der Meijden ED, Honders MW, de Leeuw [...]

The Transcriptome in Transition: Global Gene Expression Profiles of Young Adult Fruit Flies Depend More Strongly on Developmental Than Adult Diet | March 2021 | Front. Ecol. Evol. May CM, van den Akker EB, Zwaan BJ Abstract Developmental diet is known to exert long-term effects on adult phenotypes in many animal species as well [...]

The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits | Nat Genet | June 2021 Chen J, Spracklen CN, Marenne G, Varshney A, Corbin LJ, Luan J, Willems SM, …, Erik van den Akker, …, Campbell A, Campbell H, Chang YC, de Geus EJC, Dehghan A. Abstract Glycemic traits are used to diagnose and monitor type [...]

Discovering fiber type architecture over the entire muscle using data-driven analysis | June 2021 | Cytometry A Bindellini D, Voortman LM, Olie Cyriel S, van Putten M, van den Akker EB, Raz V. Abstract Skeletal muscle function is inferred from the spatial arrangement of muscle fiber architecture, which corresponds to myofiber molecular and metabolic [...]