«This is the first demonstration, to our knowledge, of successful quantitative predictions of the individual behavioral state
from gene expression patterns in the brain of a mammal,» says Miyakawa.
Not exact matches
In the clearest possible case, the ANT - OAR cell would differ
from a zygote on all of the parameters noted above: The ANT - OAR cell would have a
pattern of
gene expression that is clearly distinct
from a zygote; it would generate a homogeneous population of cells rather than multiple cell types; it would undergo simple cleavage divisions and not produce any multicellular structures.
Even more striking, the
gene -
expression pattern in the hippocampi of THC - treated aged mice was radically different
from that of untreated elderly mice.
Once the
pattern of
expression of these
genes had been identified, Prof. Khatri and his colleagues tested it out on the remaining 900 samples
from patients with different tropical diseases and
from healthy people.
By day 34 of development, however, the
pattern of
gene expression was much more similar to control cows derived
from artificial insemination, suggesting that these surviving clones were able to implant in the uterus and begin to form a placenta.
In a related paper published online today in Nature Biotechnology, Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge and his colleagues compared the
gene expression patterns in mouse iPS cells derived
from white blood cells, muscle precursor cells, immune system cells called B cells, and fibroblasts taken
from tail tips.
In collaboration with Yi Xing
from UCLA, the team catalogued and analyzed how
gene expression patterns in skin cells differed among the Esrp knockouts and found hundreds of significant changes.
Using breast cancer patient data taken
from The Cancer Genome Atlas, molecular biologists Curt M. Horvath and Robert W. Tell used powerful computational and bioinformatics techniques to detect
patterns of
gene expression in two cancer subtypes.
In cells grown on flat culture dishes, the
expression of thousands of
genes didn't match up with their normal
patterns, explaining why the cells
from those dishes had been unable to generate new hair follicles.
Prof Tony Green, an author
from the Wellcome Trust - MRC Stem Cell Institute and Cambridge University, said: «The SC3 tool was able to use
patterns of
gene expression to distinguish, within an individual cancer, subclones that carried different mutations.
Then, they compared the
patterns of
gene expression in the resulting neurons with cells taken
from autopsied brains.
But brain cells that had been created using the direct conversion technique had different
patterns of
gene expression depending on whether they were created
from young donors or older adults.
By comparing the
gene expression patterns of normal beta cells and insulin - producing cells derived
from alpha cells, the researchers confirmed nearly complete cellular reprogramming.
Because
genes on the Y chromosome often vary slightly in sequence — and even function —
from the corresponding
genes on the X, males could have slightly different
patterns of
gene expression throughout the body compared with females, due to not only their hormone levels, but also their entire Y chromosome.
Analysis of the most aggressive of these cells revealed a
pattern of
gene expression distinct
from that known to occur in breast - to - bone metastasis, as described in an earlier paper by Massagué.
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.
Kaur et al. [68] examined selected
gene expression patterns in rat retinas
from 3 to 14 days after hypoxia.
Retinas recovering
from hypoxia also showed distinct
patterns of
gene expression that were different
from both normoxic control retinas and hypoxic retinas, indicating that hypoxia initiates a complex
pattern of
gene expression.
Insight into the novel role that NMDA receptors play in retinal responses to hypoxia may be derived
from study of the coordinated
expression patterns of
genes that interact, either directly or indirectly, with the NMDA receptor; namely, the NMDA interactome.
One of my favorite papers
from this year was the landmark publication of the NIH Epigenomics Roadmap Consortium, which profiled 111 primary human tissues and cell types for histone modification
patterns, DNA accessibility, DNA methylation, and
gene expression.
-LSB-...] Back in December, I wrote about two studies that compared global
patterns of
gene expression between germ cells and somatic cells in Volvox carteri, one by Benjamin Klein, Daniel Wibberg and Armin Hallmann
from the University of Bielefeld in Germany and one by Gavriel Matt and Jim Umen
from Washington University in St. Louis and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, respectively.
Specifically, use of post-mortem material is crucial for studying the
patterns of normal
gene expression underlying tissue specificity within individuals, as sampling such tissues
from living individuals would be impossible.
A reliability score is set manually for all
genes and indicates the level of reliability of the analyzed protein
expression pattern based on available protein / RNA /
gene characterization data
from both HPA and the UniProtKB / Swiss - Prot database.
Using novel
gene - array technology to measure the extent of
gene expression in thousands of
genes simultaneously, this study shows that as humans diverged
from their ape ancestors in the last five million years,
genes for transcription factors — which control the
expression of other
genes — were four times as likely to have changed their own
expression patterns as the
genes they regulate.
Adipose tissues
from various anatomical sites are characterized by different
patterns of
gene expression and regulation
In 2005, a team of researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre led a study that analyzed DNA methylation
patterns to see how they affected
gene expression in identical twins ranging in age
from 3 to 74.
Since regeneration recapitulates in broad strokes embryonic development, during which a complex multi-cellular organism develops
from a handful of embryonic stem cells, the researchers began by comparing
gene expression patterns between the two processes.
As a comparison group, they retrieved pediatric nasal airway epithelial cultures
from a study that looked at genomic DNA methylation
patterns and
gene expression in 36 children with persistent atopic asthma compared with 36 heathy children.
«And that most probably resulted
from a change in the
pattern of Hox
gene expression,» says Böhmer.
Already, we see great benefit
from the reciprocal links between
gene expression patterns in BGEM with the Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Centers and with GENSAT.