Transcriptional profiling in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy to identify candidate biomarkers

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a progressive neuromuscular disorder caused by contractions of repetitive elements within the macrosatellite D4Z4 on chromosome 4q35. The pathophysiology of FSHD is unknown and, as a result, there is currently no effective treatment available for this disease. To better understand the pathophysiology of FSHD and develop mRNA-based biomarkers of affected muscles, we compared global analysis of gene expression in two distinct muscles obtained from a large number of FSHD subjects and their unaffected first-degree relatives. Gene expression in two muscle types was analyzed using GeneChip Gene 1.0 ST arrays: biceps, which typically shows an early and severe disease involvement; and deltoid, which is relatively uninvolved. For both muscle types, the expression differences were mild: using relaxed cutoffs for differential expression (fold change ≥1.2; nominal P value <0.01), we identified 191 and 110 genes differentially expressed between affected and control samples of biceps and deltoid muscle tissues, respectively, with 29 genes in common. Controlling for a false-discovery rate of <0.25 reduced the number of differentially expressed genes in biceps to 188 and in deltoid to 7. Expression levels of 15 genes altered in this study were used as a "molecular signature" in a validation study of an additional 26 subjects and predicted them as FSHD or control with 90% accuracy based on biceps and 80% accuracy based on deltoids.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2012

Erschienen:

2012

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:109

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 109(2012), 40 vom: 02. Okt., Seite 16234-9

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rahimov, Fedik [VerfasserIn]
King, Oliver D [VerfasserIn]
Leung, Doris G [VerfasserIn]
Bibat, Genila M [VerfasserIn]
Emerson, Charles P [VerfasserIn]
Kunkel, Louis M [VerfasserIn]
Wagner, Kathryn R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarkers
Journal Article
RNA, Messenger
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 31.12.2012

Date Revised 18.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

GEO: GSE3639

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1073/pnas.1209508109

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM221117326