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Review Article Published August 27, 2026 Article phci20260006

Expression profiling of mRNA and functional network analyses of genes regulated by human papilloma virus E6 and E7 proteins in HaCaT cells: Provenance, Traceability, and Auditability

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Abstract

A defensible evidence chain must show where data originated, how records were transformed, and which decisions can be reconstructed after publication. This structured evidence review evaluates "Expression profiling of mRNA and functional network analyses of genes regulated by human papilloma virus E6 and E7 proteins in HaCaT cells" alongside nine author-disjoint, topically matched publications in molecular expression profiling. It compares construct definitions, evaluation choices, operating assumptions, and reported limitations instead of treating bibliographic similarity as empirical equivalence. Viewed through data provenance and auditability, the map separates claims supported by the available record from questions that still require full-text extraction, replication, or new experiments. The synthesis is interpretive rather than meta-analytic and therefore does not present a pooled effect estimate or a new causal result. The resulting agenda emphasizes versioned data lineage, transformation logs, access controls, and auditable links between evidence and decisions.

Keywords
molecular expression profilingdata provenance and auditabilityevidence synthesisreproducibilityresearch evaluation
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Precision Health and Clinical Innovation
Volume
1 (2026)
Article number
phci20260006
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