Project description:Monitoring microbial communities can aid in understanding the state of these habitats. Environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques provide efficient and comprehensive monitoring by capturing broader diversity. Besides structural profiling, eDNA methods allow the study of functional profiles, encompassing the genes within the microbial community. In this study, three methodologies were compared for functional profiling of microbial communities in estuarine and coastal sites in the Bay of Biscay. The methodologies included inference from 16S metabarcoding data using Tax4Fun, GeoChip microarrays, and shotgun metagenomics.
Project description:Chromophobic renal cell carcinomas (chRCC) typically have a hypodiploid genome, including a loss of chromosomes 1, 2, 6, 10, 13, 17 and 21, but few cases in the literature showed a gain of many chromosomes, suggesting a tetraploidy. The detection of this characteristic performed by comparative genomic hybridization (CGH-array), is very helpful for the diagnosis. To better characterize the phenomenon of tetraploidization and to explore the consequence and the difficulties of its detection, we studied a subset of 26 chRCC, including five cases of tetraploid chRCC, for which complementary analyses were performed. Our main objective was to determine whether these four cases displayed chromosomal losses typical of chRCC whitin a near-polyploid genome instead within a near-diploid one. We discuss the hazards and limitations of different molecular methods in the detection of polyploidization and its potential clinical consequences. In our study we show that this phenomenon of tetraploidization affects about 19% of chRCC and that is probably overlooked using standard molecular methods. The potential clinical consequences of this phenomenon are not identified yet.
2019-11-15 | GSE140390 | GEO
Project description:Optimising species detection probability and sampling effort in lake fish eDNA surveys
| PRJNA1032436 | ENA
Project description:Fish community eDNA sequencing
| PRJNA729802 | ENA
Project description:Marine fish eDNA metabarcoding