The aim of his research was to use
microarray gene expression data in order to characterize ageing in different human tissues and identify the age at which major changes in genetic expression profiles occur.
Here we suggest a novel yet conceptually simple approach for deriving «Functional Association (s) by Response Overlap» (FARO) between
microarray gene expression studies.
Miller, C.J., Kassem H.S., Pepper S.D., Hey Y., Ward T.H., Margison G.P. «Mycoplasma infection significantly alters
microarray gene expression profiles.»
Microarray gene expression.
In contrast, when the OncoFinder algorithm is applied to the data, a clear correlation between next generation sequencing and
microarray gene expression datasets was seen.
Not exact matches
In the
microarray experiment, the range in relative abundances of the 500 most highly expressed
genes is very narrow (Figure 1 inset), especially in contrast to RNA - Seq technology (Figure 1).
Other labs have used DNA
microarray analysis to characterize
gene expression changes in this model.
Whether you are studying the expression of thousands of
genes simultaneously using DNA
microarrays, or the interaction of multiple molecules to understand intercellular signalling, the skills that will help you understand your findings are statistics, computational techniques, and modelling — so all you really need is a mathematician.
The scientists then scanned the samples using
microarray technology, which cuts genetic material into segments to provide a snapshot of which
genes are active and which are asleep inside the cells.
This study, published in the journal
Microarrays, shows that lack of SOST in the bone microenvironment promotes the expression of many
genes associated with cell migration and / or invasion, including long non-coding RNA MALAT1 in prostate cancer, suggesting that SOST has an inhibitory effect on prostate cancer invasion.
Hughes's winning research proposed using
microarray techniques to compare the genomes of a variety of vertebrate animals to test for common regulatory elements that determine
gene expression.
Gene microarrays, which measure expression of dozens of
genes at once, can be fickle and supply inconsistent results.
They work on
microarray - based
gene sensors for analyzing nucleic acids quickly and cheaply.
One of these, his most influential, outlines his original use of
microarray expression profiles as a phenotypic footprint for
gene function.
DNA
microarrays consist of thousands of spots contained on a single 1 x 3 inch glass slide, each spot representing a different
gene.
Large - scale methods of probing samples, such as DNA sequencing,
microarrays, and automated
gene - function studies, are filling new databases to the brim.
We currently produce DNA
microarrays representing the yeast, mouse, and human genomes (the yeast
microarray has over 6000 yeast
genes, the mouse
microarray has over 15,000 mouse
genes, and the two human
microarrays have 1700
genes and over 19,000
genes).
Traditionally,
gene function was determined one
gene at a time, but today's
microarray technology enables scientists to monitor the expression of tens of thousands of
genes on a single glass slide.
By measuring
gene expression in the transgenic mice using DNA
microarrays, researchers discovered 50 biomarkers of
gene expression that each indicated declining kidney function.
To help identify
genes and signaling pathways that may be influenced by zinc, Knoell and his team performed a genome - wide
microarray analysis of lung tissue taken from zinc - deficient mice with sepsis.
The study results challenge the current paradigm of
microarray data analysis and suggest that the new method may improve identification of cancer - associated
genes.
Typical
microarray - based
gene expression analyses compare
gene expression in adjacent normal and cancerous tissues.
To understand why only some motor neurons are vulnerable to ALS, the researchers used DNA
microarray profiling to compare the activity of tens of thousands of
genes in neurons that resist ALS (oculomotor neurons / eye movement and Onuf's nuclei / continence) with neurons affected by ALS (lumbar 5 spinal neurons / leg movement).
Then they studied the mice's lungs microscopically and, using
microarrays, measured the expression of many dozens of
genes in their lung tissue at 1, 3, and 5 days after infection.
Xu applied the DNA
microarray technique to screen more than 100,000
genes in the human genome to find the exact
gene regulation pathway.
Microarrays allow researchers to acquire data about expression levels of thousands of
genes at one fell swoop.
For instance, the National Center for Biotechnology Information's public repository of
gene - expression data, GEO, now contains 392,000
microarray experiments.
Some research teams over the past five years have used
microarray or
gene - chip technology to compare genomes and quickly scan them for variations of copy numbers on each chromosome.
DNA
microarrays, also called DNA chips, have stoked excitement in the research community because they can test the activity of many
genes at once.
Melton and colleagues are now doing large scale screening with
microarrays to track
gene activity as cells develop and discover
gene products that move cells along the proper paths.
To see what
genes might be involved in this increased aggression, the team used
microarrays to look for differences in
gene expression in fly brains.
Using
microarrays that enabled them to examine 100,000 sites on the genome, they looked at the cells» nuclear DNA, mitochondrial DNA, and methylation patterns (which give clues to whether a
gene has been turned on or off).
The accumulation of adipose tissue macrophages in direct proportion to adipocyte size and body mass may explain the coordinated increase in expression of
genes encoding macrophage markers observed in our
microarray expression data.
The expression rates of three macrophage - specific
genes (Emr1, Cd68, and Csf1) that correlated with body mass in our
microarray studies, an adipocyte - specific
gene (Acrp30), and proinflammatory
genes (Tnfa, Nos2, Il6) were determined by quantitative RT - PCR.
To identify transcriptional patterns that correlate with body mass, we used oligonucleotide
microarrays to catalogue
gene expression levels in the parametrial or epididymal adipose tissue from two dozen mice whose body mass and adiposity varied due to diet, sex, and mutations in
genes affecting energy homeostasis.
Using quantitative RT - PCR we confirmed the expression profile of five
genes (colony - stimulating factor 1 receptor [Csf1r], Cd68, Pex11a, Emr1, and Mcp1) in each of the 24 samples and found excellent agreement between the
microarray and RT - PCR expression data (mean Pearson correlation coefficient = 0.91,
microarray versus RT - PCR expression; Supplemental Table 3, http://www.jci.org/cgi/content/full/112/12/1796/DC1).
These are among the
genes whose expression in our
microarray expression data set correlated positively with body mass and adipocyte size.
Gene expression patterns in the hippocampus samples were examined using DNA
microarrays that measured the expression levels of over 30,000
genes (transcripts) per sample.
Here, we identified
genes controlling greening directly downstream of the GATAs by integrating data from RNA - sequencing and
microarray data sets.
First author Dr Reza Haqshenas said the researchers then used
gene silencing technology to determine whether the
genes» cell factors identified using the antibody
microarray were indeed important for HCV replication and therefore potential targets for anti-HCV compounds.
For expression analysis in mice, we used
microarray data as described above to select two internal control
genes, cyclophilin B (Cphn2) and ribosomal protein S3 (Rps3).
Of the total of 1,178
genes examined by
microarray, 119 were significantly upregulated following hypoxia.
The advent of
microarray technology, with its capacity to monitor the expression of thousands of
genes simultaneously, has provided a novel opportunity to identify individual
genes, groups of
genes, and related «
gene families» associated with a given biologic process.
To detect novel changes in
gene expression, we used a focused
microarray platform to evaluate the expression profile of retinas from hypoxic animals compared to that in retinas isolated from control animals exposed to room air.
GOMiner — To provide additional statistical stringency to the identification of potential targets, we then analyzed the data sets generated by the SAM - RS analysis of the
microarray data for hypoxia - associated coregulation of multiple, functionally related
genes.
We offer a wide range of services, including capillary sequencing and genotyping, Illumina
microarray - based
gene expression profiling and genotyping, and next - generation sequencing (NGS).
A focused oligonucleotide
microarray of 1,178
genes, qRT — PCR of selected transcripts, and western analysis of hypoxia inducible factor - 1α (HIF - 1α) were used to compare retinas from the hypoxic and recovery groups to control animals that were not made hypoxic.
Oligonucleotide probe selection and synthesis — The 1,178
genes comprising the Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics (FCMT) Rat CNS
microarray were compiled from currently available NCBI / EMBL / TIGR rat sequence databases and commercially available central nervous system (CNS)
microarrays (Affymetrix, Santa Clara, CA) and provided representation from greater than 90 % of the major
gene ontological categories [47].
This is an advantage of RNA - seq and
microarray - based expression profiling, which can't always distinguish between multiple promoters of the same
gene.
Using the GOMiner algorithm, two independent category structures (biologic process and molecular function) based on the 1178 rat
genes represented on the
microarray (of which 923 currently carry GO annotations) were initially constructed and used as Query
gene files.