Enrique Solorzano-Toala

Mr. Enrique Solorzano-Toala


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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9 October 2026 in Preprints.org
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DADamaris Asanza
Damaris Asanza
ESEnrique Solorzano-Toala
Enrique Solorzano-Toala
LRLuiza Campos Reis
Luiza Campos Reis
MCMarye Nigaj Alessandra Cucho-Hidalgo
Marye Nigaj Alessandra Cucho-Hidalgo
OCOscar Joel Oc Carrasco
Oscar Joel Oc Carrasco
FGFernando A Gonzales-Zubiate
Fernando A Gonzales-Zubiate
The microRNA-548 (miR-548) family is a large primate-specific microRNA group characterized by extensive sequence diversification, but the relationship between sequence evolution and disease-associated organization remains unclear. We integrated 81 curated mature miR-548 sequences with 134 literature-derived disease-association records and applied sequence alignment, entropy profiling, maximum-likelihood phylogenetics, Jaccard-based disease-profile clustering, network and intersection analyses, and sequence-function matrix correlation. Disease associations spanned 54 curated identifiers across cancer, infectious, inflammatory, and autoimmune categories and were broadly distributed across the phylogeny. After exact mature-sequence matching and collapse of three nomenclature aliases, the primary sequence-resolved analysis included 44 unique mature sequences. Mature-sequence distance showed no significant association with disease-profile distance (Spearman rho = -0.1103, permutation p = 0.1002; 946 pairwise comparisons; 5000 permutations). Restricting the analysis to experimentally supported associations yielded a comparable result (43 sequences; rho = -0.1150, p = 0.1008). These findings indicate that mature-sequence similarity is not a strong predictor of broad disease-association profile similarity within the miR-548 family and support disease-associated convergence across evolutionarily distributed family members.