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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Accurately identifying subjects at high-risk of CVD may improve CVD outcomes. We sought to systematically examine the feasibility and performance of 7 widely used machine learning (ML) algorithms in predicting CVD risks. The final analysis included 1508 Kazakh subjects in China without CVD at baseline who completed follow-up. All subjects were randomly divided into the training set (80%) and the test set (20%). Stem Cells antagonist L1-penalized logistic regression (LR), support vector machine with radial basis function (SVM), decision tree (DT), random forest (RF), k-nearest neighbors (KNN), Gaussian naive Bayes (NB), and extreme gradient boosting (XGB) were employed for prediction CVD outcomes. Ten-fold cross-validation was used during model developing and hyperparameters tuning in the training set. Model performance was evaluated in the test set in light of discrimination, calibration, and clinical usefulness. RF was applied to obtain the variable impred to ensure their accuracies. Among all subtypes, patients with triple-negative (TN) breast cancer is known for their poor outcome and their higher risk of harboring or pathogenic mutations. Identification of such mutations has clinical impact on breast and ovarian cancer prevention and treatment decisions. We here report on patterns and prevalence of and mutations among Arab patients diagnosed with TN subtype. Patients with TN-breast cancer (n=197) were enrolled regardless of their age or family history. Following a detailed genetic counseling, BRCA1/2 testing was performed at reference labs. and variants were classified as negative, pathogenic/likely pathogenic (positive) and variants of uncertain significance (VUS). Median age of enrolled patients was 42 (range, 19-74) years and 27 (13.7%) were non-Jordanian Arabs. Among the study group, 50 (25.4%) were tested positive for (n=36, 18.3%) or (n=14, 7.1%), while 14 (7.1%) others had VUS. Compared to older ones, mutation rates were higher among patients <40 years (32.9%, P= 0.034), those with close relatives with breast, ovarian, pancreatic or prostate cancer (37.8%, P=0.002) and those with two or more breast cancers (41.4%, P=0.032). Among eligible patients, 23 (63.9%) patients underwent prophylactic mastectomy, while 19 (52.8%) patients had risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy. None of the patients with VUS underwent any prophylactic surgery. Arab patients with TN-breast cancer have relatively high or mutation rates. Young age at diagnosis and personal and family history of breast cancer further increase this risk.Arab patients with TN-breast cancer have relatively high BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation rates. Young age at diagnosis and personal and family history of breast cancer further increase this risk. CircRNA CircRIMS has been characterized as an oncogenic circRNA in gastric cancer, while its role in other cancers is unknown. This study aimed to explore the role of CircRIMS in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Tissues collected from 60 ESCC patients were subjected to extractions of total RNA and RT-qPCRs to analyze the differential expression of CircRIMS and miR-613. The 60 ESCC patients were followed up for 5 years to analyze the prognostic value of CircRIMS for ESCC. The interaction between CircRIMS and miR-613 was showed by luciferase activity assay and fluorescence in situ hybridization. The role of CircRIMS in regulating miR-613 expression and methylation was analyzed by overexpression experiments, RT-qPCRs and Western blot assay. The role of CircRIMS and miR-613 in regulating cell proliferation was analyzed using the BrdU assay. ESCC xenograft model was used to demonstrate the role of CircRIMS and miR-613 in vivo. We found that CircRIMS was overexpressed in ESCC and predicted poor survival. In addition, miR-613 was under expressed in ESCC and inversely correlated with CircRIMS. In ESCC cells, CircRIMS overexpression decreased the expression of miR-613 and increased the methylation of miR-613 gene. Cell proliferation assay showed that CircRIMS overexpression reduced the inhibitory effects of miR-613 overexpression on cell proliferation. Animal experience finally illustrated that CircRNA CircRIMS downregulated miR-613 through methylation to promote tumor growth. Therefore, CircRIMS may downregulate miR-613 through methylation to increase cell proliferation in ESCC.Therefore, CircRIMS may downregulate miR-613 through methylation to increase cell proliferation in ESCC. The functions of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and Ki-67 in breast cancer have been explored. This study was carried out to explore ER, PR, HER-2 and Ki-67 expression levels in breast cancer patients and their relationship with ultrasound signs and prognosis. A total of 274 female primary breast cancer patients received preoperative ultrasound examination. ER, PR, HER-2 and Ki-67 expression levels in breast cancer tissues were detected by immunohistochemical staining after surgery. The correlations of ER, PR, HER-2 and Ki-67 expression with ultrasound signs and prognosis of breast cancer patients were analyzed. The positive expression rate of ER, PR and HER-2 and Ki-67 high expression in 274 breast cancer patients was 73.36% (201/274), 59.85% (164/274), 24.09% (66/274) and 66.06% (181/274), respectively. ER-positive expression had association with lymph node metastasis (LNM) and blood flow grading; HER-2-positive expression was associated with LNM, while Ki-67-positive expression was related to the tumor diameter, LNM, and blood flow grading. LNM and Ki-67 high expression were risk factors for OS; PR-positive was a protective factor for OS; TNM stage, tumor diameter, LNM and Ki-67 high expression were risk factors for DFS in breast cancer patients. ER, PR, HER-2 and Ki-67 in breast cancer are related to the ultrasound signs and prognosis of breast cancer patients. The joint detection of multiple indicators provides a reference for the individualized treatment of targeted drugs.ER, PR, HER-2 and Ki-67 in breast cancer are related to the ultrasound signs and prognosis of breast cancer patients. The joint detection of multiple indicators provides a reference for the individualized treatment of targeted drugs.