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Integrative analysis of the melanoma transcriptome.
Disease, Disease stage
View SamplesPaired end sequencing of cDNA isolated from individual melanoma samples via the Illumina sequencing platform to identify genetic aberrations that may play a role in melanoma genesis.
Integrative analysis of the melanoma transcriptome.
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View SamplesWe profiled the gene expression levels from 8 melanoma short-term cultures and 1 melanoma cell line in order to compare to expression level estimates obtained by RNA-seq.
Integrative analysis of the melanoma transcriptome.
Disease, Disease stage
View SamplesThis was a collaborative study to discover somatic mutations in 188 lung adenocarcinomas. DNA sequencing of 623 genes with known or potential relationships to cancer revealed more than 1,000 somatic mutations across the samples. Our analysis identified 26 genes that are mutated at significantly high frequencies and thus are likely to play a role in carcinogenesis. The observed mutational profiles correlate with clinical features, smoking status, and DNA repair defects. These results are complemented by data integration including SNP array data and gene expression array data (deposited here). Our findings shed further light on several key signaling pathways involved in lung adenocarcinoma, and suggest new molecular targets for treatment.
Somatic mutations affect key pathways in lung adenocarcinoma.
Sex, Race
View SamplesAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an early onset neurodevelopmental disorder, which is characterized by disturbances of brain function and behavioral deficits in core areas of impaired reciprocal socialization, impairment in communication skills, and repetitive or restrictive interests and behaviors. ASD is known to have a significant genetic risk, but the underlying genetic variation can be attributed to hundreds of genes. The molecular and pathophysiologic basis of ASD remains elusive because of its genetic heterogeneity and complexity, its high comorbidity with other diseases, and the paucity of brain tissue for study. The invasive nature of collecting primary neuronal tissue from patients might be circumvented through reprogramming peripheral cells to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which are able to generate live neurons carrying the genetic variants of disease. This breakthrough allows us to access the cellular and molecular phenotypes of patients with intrinsic autism, that is patients without known genetic disorders or identifiable syndromes or malformations. To do this, we studied a relatively homogeneous patient population of boys with intrinsic autism by excluding patients with known genetic disease or recognizable phenotypes or syndromes, as well as those with profound mental retardation or primary seizure disorders. We generated iPSCs from patients with intrinsic autism, their unaffected male siblings and age-, and sex-matched unaffected controls. And these stem cells were subsequently differentiated into electrophysiologically active neurons. The expression profile for autistic and their unaffected siblings' iPSC-derived neurons were compared. A distinct expression profile was found between autism and sib control. The significantly differentially expressed genes (> 2-fold, FDR < 0.05) in autistic iPSC-derived neurons were significantly enriched for processes related to synaptic transmission, such as neuroactive ligand-receptor signaling and extracellular matrix interactions (FDR < 0.05), and were significantly enriched for genes previously associated with ASD (p < 0.05). Our findings suggest approaches such as iPSC-derived neurons will be an important method to obtain tissue for study that appropriately recapitulates the complex dynamics of an autistic neural cell.
Idiopathic Autism: Cellular and Molecular Phenotypes in Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neurons.
Specimen part, Cell line, Subject
View SamplesMENX is a rat multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome caused by a homozygous mutation of the Cdkn1b gene, encoding p27Kip1. Affected rats develop adrenomedullary hyperplasia which progresses to pheochromocytoma with time (incidence 100%), and to extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma (paraganglioma) (68%).
Pheochromocytoma in rats with multiple endocrine neoplasia (MENX) shares gene expression patterns with human pheochromocytoma.
Sex, Age
View SamplesWe aimed to identify genes that are regulated at downstream of FGFR1/KLB receptor complex in brown adiposetissues of adult male mice on high fat diet by injecting anti-FGFR1/KLB agonisticantibody or human FGF21.
Sustained Brown Fat Stimulation and Insulin Sensitization by a Humanized Bispecific Antibody Agonist for Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1/βKlotho Complex.
Specimen part
View SamplesHerein we describe a molecular portrait of potentially curable, Gleason 7 and intermediate risk prostate cancer based on genome-wide CNV profiles of 96 patients, and subsequent whole-genome sequencing of 28 tumours from 10 patients, using DNA quantities that are achievable in diagnostic biopsies (50 ng). We show that Gleason 7 cancer is highly heterogeneous at the SNV, CNV, and intra-chromosomal translocation levels, and is characterized by a very low number of recurrent SNVs but significant structural variation. We identified a novel recurrent MYCL1 amplification, which was strongly associated with TP53 deletion and prognostic for biochemical recurrence in this cohort. Moreover, we identified clear evidence of divergent tumour evolution in multi focal cancer and, in 2/5 cases evaluated, multiple tumours of independent clonal origin. Taken together, these data represent the first systematic evaluation of the differential genomics of potentially curable prostate cancer, and strongly suggest that a more robust understanding of the relationship between genetic heterogeneity and clinical outcomes is required to effectively develop biomarkers of prognosis based on tumour genomics.
Spatial genomic heterogeneity within localized, multifocal prostate cancer.
Specimen part, Cell line
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