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Transcriptomic analysis of pathway activation after decitabine treatment in EBV+ vs EBV- gastric cancer [RNA-Seq]

GSE309938 Homo sapiens (human) RNA-seq (gene expression) 20 samples Submitted 2025/11/14 Platform GPL18573
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · human · 20 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Topic
Gastric cancerThis series is part of our curated briefing on it.
Samples
20 samples: 10 conditions, mostly in duplicateGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
Integrated transcriptomic and methylome analysis reveals retinoic acid pathway activation after decitabine treatment in EBV-associated gastric cancermBio · 2026
Summary (written by the submitters)
Epstein-Barr virus associated gastric cancer (EBVaGC) accounts for ∼9–10% of gastric cancers worldwide and is defined by a distinctive molecular profile, including extreme hypermethylation of the DNA. Targeting this aberrant methylation may be a potential therapeutic strategy. EBV ⁺ gastric cancer cell lines (YCCEL1, SNU719) and EBV ⁻ lines (AGS, SNU16, HGC27) were treated with a DNA methyl-transferase inhibitor (DNMT), decitabine (DCB), for three days followed by RNA sequencing to identify EBV-specific responses.
Published in
Integrated transcriptomic and methylome analysis reveals retinoic acid pathway activation after decitabine treatment in EBV-associated gastric cancer
Preston-Alp S, Wang Y, Bergonzoni M et al. · mBio 2026 · PMID 41665354 · doi:10.1128/mbio.03148-25
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE309938_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1364017 and SRA study SRP644777. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
10 conditions, mostly in duplicate
YCCEL1 cells, DMSO ×2 YCCEL1 cells, DCB ×2 SNU719 cells, DMSO ×2 SNU719 cells, DCB ×2 AGS cells, DMSO ×2 AGS cells, DCB ×2 SNU16 cells, DMSO ×2 SNU16 cells, DCB ×2 +2 more

Supports a between-group comparison across 20 samples.

How we read this: 10 replicated groups read from 20 sample titles; they account for 20 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

Samples in this study
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