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SUBMITTER: Hicks SD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7533415 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hicks Steven D SD Onks Cayce C Kim Raymond Y RY Zhen Kevin J KJ Loeffert Jayson J Loeffert Andrea C AC Olympia Robert P RP Fedorchak Gregory G DeVita Samantha S Rangnekar Aakanksha A Leddy John J Haider Mohammad N MN Gagnon Zofia Z McLoughlin Callan D CD Badia Matthew M Randall Jason J Madeira Miguel M Yengo-Kahn Aaron M AM Wenzel Justin J Heller Matthew M Zwibel Hallie H Roberts Aaron A Johnson Samantha S Monteith Chuck C Dretsch Michael N MN Campbell Thomas R TR Mannix Rebekah R Neville Christopher C Middleton Frank F
Clinical and translational medicine 20201001 6
<h4>Background</h4>Early, accurate diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) can improve clinical outcomes for patients, but mTBI remains difficult to diagnose because of reliance on subjective symptom reports. An objective biomarker could increase diagnostic accuracy and improve clinical outcomes. The aim of this study was to assess the ability of salivary noncoding RNA (ncRNA) to serve as a diagnostic adjunct to current clinical tools. We hypothesized that saliva ncRNA levels would demon ...[more]