Comparison of human prepuberal articular and growth plate cartilage
Gremlin 1, frizzled-related protein, and Dkk-1 are key regulators of human articular cartilage homeostasis.
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View Samplesbulk RNAseq of MUC1 kidney disease patient derived kidney epithelial cells compare to normal kidney cells. The goal of this study was to elucidate the biological mechanism underlying MUC1 kidney disease using MUC1 expressing cells derived from either a patient or a healthy individual kidney Overall design: Bulk RNAseq of immortalized patient compare to normal cell line
Small Molecule Targets TMED9 and Promotes Lysosomal Degradation to Reverse Proteinopathy.
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View SamplesPurpose: Osteoblast cells mature from a mesenchymal stem cell pool to become cells capable of forming bone matrix and mineralizing this matrix. The goal of this study was to characterize temporal changes in the transcriptome across osteoblast maturation, starting with committed mesenchymal stem cell/ early pre-osteoblast stage through to mature osteoblasts capable of matrix mineralization. Methods: Enriched populations of pre-osteoblast like cells were obtained from neonatal calvaria from C57BL/6J mice expressing CFP under the control of the Col3.6 promoter. These cells were placed into culture for 4 days, removed from culture and subjected FACS sorting based on the presence/absence of CFP expression. Cells expressing CFP were returned to culture, subjected to an osteoblast differentiation cocktail and RNA was collected at 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 days post differentiation. Methods II: mRNA profiles for each time point were generated by next generation RNA sequencing, using an Illumina HiSeq 2000. Three technical replicates per samples were sequenced. The alignments for abundance estimation of transcripts was conducted using Bowtie version 0.12.9, using the NCBIm37 reference genome. Expression level per gene was calculated using RSEM version 1.2.0 with the parameters of --fragment-length-mean 280 and --fragment-length-sd 50, and the expression level for each sample was normalized relative to the per sample upper quartile. Overall design: Gene expression in calvarial osteoblasts from neonatal C57BL/6J-Col3.6 CFP mice at 9 time points post differentiation
Identification of 153 new loci associated with heel bone mineral density and functional involvement of GPC6 in osteoporosis.
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Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesSamples were collected from 'control participants' of the Heart and Vascular Health (HVH) study that constitutes a group of population based case control studies of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, venous thromboembolism (VTE), and atrial fibrillation (AF) conducted among 30-79 year old members of Group Health, a large integrated health care organization in Washington State.
Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesSamples were collected from 'control participants' of the Heart and Vascular Health (HVH) study that constitutes a group of population based case control studies of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, venous thromboembolism (VTE), and atrial fibrillation (AF) conducted among 30-79 year old members of Group Health, a large integrated health care organization in Washington State.
Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations.
Sex, Specimen part
View SamplesThe data presented is intended to analyse the changes in the expression profiles of human MSCs (Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells) associated to different tissue specific stimulus.
Insights into the human mesenchymal stromal/stem cell identity through integrative transcriptomic profiling.
Specimen part
View SamplesAlternative mRNA splicing represents an effective mechanism of regulating gene function and is a key element to increase the coding capacity of the human genome. Today, an increasing number of reports illustrates that aberrant splicing events are common and functionally important for cancer development. However, more comprehensive analyses are warranted to get novel insights into the biology underlying malignancies like e.g. acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Here, we performed a genome-wide screening of splicing events in AML using an exon microarray platform. We analyzed complex karyotype and core binding factor (CBF) AML cases (n=64) in order to evaluate the ability to detect alternative splicing events distinguishing distinct leukemia subgroups. Testing different commercial and open source software tools to compare the respective AML subgroups, we could identify a large number of potentially alternatively spliced transcripts with a certain overlap of the different approaches. Selected candidates were further investigated by PCR and sequence analysis: out of 24 candidate genes studied, we could confirm alternative splice forms in 8 genes of potential pathogenic relevance, such as PRMT1 regulating transcription through histone methylation and participating in DNA damage response, and PTPN6, which encodes for a negative regulator of cell cycle control and apoptosis. In summary, this first large Exon microarray based study demonstrates that transcriptome splicing analysis in AML is feasible but challenging, in particular with regard to the currently available software solutions. Nevertheless, our results show that alternatively spliced candidate genes can be detected, and we provide a guide how to approach such analyses.
A robust estimation of exon expression to identify alternative spliced genes applied to human tissues and cancer samples.
Specimen part, Disease, Disease stage
View SamplesThe C-terminus of CBF-SMMHC, the fusion protein produced by a chromosome 16 inversion in acute myeloid leukemia subtype M4Eo, contains domains for self-mulimerization and transcriptional repression, both of which have been proposed to be important for leukemogenesis by CBF-SMMHC. To test the role of the fusion protein's C-terminus in vivo, we generated knock-in mice expressing a C-terminally truncated CBF-SMMHC (CBF-SMMHCC95). Embryos with a single copy of CBF-SMMHCDC95 were viable and showed no defects in hematopoiesis, while embryos homozygous for the CBF-SMMHCC95 allele had hematopoietic defects and died in mid-gestation, similar to embryos with a single-copy of the full-length CBF-SMMHCC95.
The C-terminus of CBFβ-SMMHC is required to induce embryonic hematopoietic defects and leukemogenesis.
Specimen part
View SamplesWe used manual macrodissection or laser capture microdissection (LCM) to isolate tissue sections of the hippocampus area of Ras-GRF1 wild type and knockout mice brains, and analyzed their transcriptional patterns using commercial oligonucleotide microarrays. Comparison between the transcriptomes of macrodissected and microdissected samples showed that the LCM samples allowed detection of significantly higher numbers of differentially expressed genes, with higher statistical rates of significance. These results validate LCM as a reliable technique for in vivo genomic studies in the brain hippocampus, where contamination by surrounding areas (not expressing Ras-GRF1) increases background noise and impairs identification of differentially expressed genes. Comparison between wild type and knockout LCM hippocampus samples revealed that Ras-GRF1 elimination caused significant gene expression changes, mostly affecting signal transduction and related neural processes. The list of 36 most differentially expressed genes included loci concerned mainly with Ras/G protein signaling and cytoskeletal organization (i.e. 14-3-3/, Kcnj6, Clasp2) or related, cross-talking pathways (i.e. jag2, decorin, strap). Consistent with the phenotypes shown by Ras-GRF1 knockout mice, many of these differentially expressed genes play functional roles in processes such as sensory development and function (i.e. Sptlc1, antiquitin, jag2) and/or neurological development/neurodegeneration processes affecting memory and learning. Indeed, potential links to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disease (AD) or Creutzfeldt-Jacobs disease (CJD), have been reported for a number of differentially expressed genes identified in this study (Ptma, Aebp2,Clasp2, Hebp1, 14-3-3/, Csnk1, etc.). These data, together with the previously described role of IRS and insulin (known Ras-GRF1 activators) in AD, warrant further investigation of a potential functional link of Ras-GRF1 to neurodegenerative processes.
Laser microdissection and microarray analysis of the hippocampus of Ras-GRF1 knockout mice reveals gene expression changes affecting signal transduction pathways related to memory and learning.
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