To date, significant progress has been made in understanding the control of beta-cell function and fate by focusing on specific candidate genes and pathways [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16].
Since more extensive genomic profiling of tumors is likely to become commonplace in the future epidemiologists will be focusing increasing attention on the task of discovering etiologically distinct sub-types, rather than on studies restricted to sub-types defined by specific candidate markers.
Next-generation sequencing is not limited by the pre-selection of specific candidate genes for absolute gene expression analysis and the digital readout of gene sequence is superior to the relative fluorescence methods used in qRT-PCR and microarray analyses [ 22].
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The second step involves the selection of specific candidate proteins.
In this sense, one is "loading the dice" when testing for specific candidate gene-by-environment interaction effects with an environment that already has been shown to moderate the overall importance of genetic influences on that outcome.
The detected variants are analyzed using an in-house, validated software package, focusing first on specific candidate genes nominated by the referring clinicians to limit the chances of incidental, potentially unrelated findings.
Such selection experiments may also focus directly on the sex-differential fitness consequences of putative sexually antagonistic alleles, by breeding or selecting individuals for specific candidate genotypes and determining the sex-specific effects on associated phenotypes and components of fitness, preferably in relatively natural environments (Mokkonen et al. 2011).
Because we do not have information about specific pesticides used by the women during pregnancy, we cannot examine exposure involving these specific candidate pesticides.
The goal is to infer the class-specific candidate gene signature by identifying weak to moderate, but coherent gene expressions that significantly influence tumorigenic pathways and survival.
