5/21/2007 Decoding Gene Expression in Cancer Tumors Using Non-Invasive Imaging By correlating images of cancerous liver tissue
with gene expression patterns, a research team led by a radiologist at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine has developed tools that may some day allow physicians to view a... More...
Moreover, when analyzed
with gene expression patterns of normal brain cells, the four GBM subtypes associate with different cell lineages.
Another version, the CTC - iChip, rapidly isolates CTCs in a way that does not rely on preidentified tumor antigens, allowing capture of cells
with gene expression patterns that may be missed by the antibodies used in the HBCTC - Chip.
Not exact matches
Scans showed remodeled DNA methylation
patterns in the low - fat group, which changed
gene expression associated
with fat metabolism and inflammation in the liver; there was less fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver.
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.
Traditional strain - selection techniques are supplemented
with strain screening, which can involve examining
gene -
expression patterns through PCR or understanding global
gene expression in relation to environmental factors using
gene chips.
Although a bad outcome was possible without the
gene expression pattern, patients
with the genetic signature were found to survive for less time than those who didn't have it, they wrote in the 9 December online edition of Nature Genetics.
«We discovered that beta blockers largely reverse the pathological
pattern of
gene expression observed in heart failure,» said Faculty of Science Professor John McDermott, who led the research, along
with York U collaborators Professor Gary Sweeney and Professor Jorg Grigull.
They compared the resulting
gene expression patterns in all the parrot brains
with neural tracing experiments in budgerigars.
Sure enough, salmon
with a certain
pattern of
gene expression in their gill tissue were 13.5 times more likely to die than those that didn't carry the «you've not got long to live» signature, as co-author and University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) fish physiologist Tony Farrell puts it.
SIX3 and a related
gene, SIX2,
with a similar
pattern of
expression in human beta cells, encode proteins known as transcription factors that control the
expression of many other
genes in the cell.
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.
Horvath and Tell's research is the first reported study to compare breast cancer subtypes and
gene expression patterns associated
with STAT3 in the tumors of human patients.
For Helicobacter pylori, a pathogenic bacterium that colonizes over 40 percent of the world population and is associated
with gastric cancer, the team discovered that epigenetic heterogeneity can quickly emerge as a single cell divides, and different subpopulations
with distinct methylation
patterns have distinct
gene expressions patterns.
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.
Results show that one night of partial sleep deprivation activates
gene expression patterns in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) consistent
with increasing accumulation of damage that initiates cell cycle arrest and increases susceptibility to senescence.
Interestingly, a variant of the WNT10A
gene associated
with lower levels of its protein's
expression has been linked to a greater likelihood of male
pattern baldness, according to a recent genome - wide association study.
In collaboration
with Prof. Ido Amit of Weizmann's Immunology Department, they analyzed the genomes of 1,500 individual liver cells, establishing
patterns of
expression for about 20,000
genes in each cell.
Understanding the best ways to work
with RNA and the various RNA detection methods can help scientists advance our understanding of
gene expression patterns and elucidate the roles of different genomic elements in cellular function and dysfunction.
In a 2015 study of 46 people, Bearden found that people
with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome who have autism show different
patterns of
gene expression than do those
with the syndrome who have schizophrenia3.
Then, they compared the
patterns of
gene expression in the resulting neurons
with cells taken from autopsied brains.
Surprisingly, they found that although the
patterns of
gene expression — as shown by the RNA sequencing — differed between the hepatocellular carcinomas and the liver cancers
with biliary phenotype and depended on the histological type, the overall
pattern of mutations in the cells was actually similar between the tumors — of either type — that had emerged in patients who had had infections
with either hepatitis C or B, and were different in patients without such infections.
Rather than listing specific
genes that manifest themselves differently, or are differentially expressed, between queens and workers, the team looked for
genes with similar
expression patterns across samples that may be involved in maintaining the structural, behavioural and functional differences observed between queens and workers.
By comparing
gene expression in the lungs of ducks infected
with either highly or weakly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 viruses, the team identified
genes whose
expression patterns were altered in response to avian influenza viruses.
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.
To determine whether shifts in the balance of anterior and posterior field occurred during fin - to - limb evolution, Onimaru, postdoctoral researcher currently at Sharpe's lab (CRG), and his colleagues carefully compared the
expression, function and regulation of
genes involved in anterior - posterior
patterning in pectoral fins of catsharks,
with those of mice.
They are driven by stem cells
with the proneural
pattern of
gene expression and depend on rapid cell division and angiogenesis — creation of new blood vessels.
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.
«Their duplicated hybrid genome architectures provide these nematodes
with multi-copy
genes showing diverged sequence and
expression patterns where their sexual relatives have very closely related alleles,» says Danchin.
Differentially connected
genes are
genes with the highest amount of differential connectivity between human and mouse, these are
genes with non-conserved
expression patterns.
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.
We are also equipped
with advanced imaging system technology offering non-invasive longitudinal monitoring of disease progression, cell trafficking and
gene expression patterns in relevant models using non-virulent mycobacteria tagged
with bioluminescense
genes.
Analyses were performed
with 5 animals per group (control, 3 h of hypoxia, and 24 h or recovery after 3 h hypoxia) to decrease bias that may be introduced by donor - specific
gene expression patterns.
A detailed comparison of
gene expression signatures between ETP ALL tumors and and normal human hematopoietic progenitor cells revealed a somewhat surprising finding: ETP - ALL
expression patterns were less consistent
with early T - cell precursors, as might have been expected, but more similar to the
expression profile of normal hematopoietic stem cells and granulocyte macrophage precursors.
Bottom 10 % CCGs are the
genes with the least amount of co-expressed orthologs shared between human and mouse, these
genes are likely to have divergent
expression patterns between both species.
ARNIE is an online database that integrates the extracellular protein interaction network generated in our lab using AVEXIS technology
with spatiotemporal
expression patterns for all
genes in the network.
A dizzying number of genetic transcripts, proteins and other molecular players alternatively glom together or fall apart, turning on or tuning down countless
patterns of
gene expression that keep our cells, organs and bodies humming along
with the Earth's daily rotations.
Deeper analyses, revealed that the RNA
expression pattern of a rare variant of the NCAN
gene was highly correlated
with that of the previously suggested susceptibility
genes for developmental dyslexia.
Integrating these
with methylation data revealed that half fell into an expected
pattern: hypermethylated promoters which repressed
gene expression.
Applying our method to the GTEx data set, we discovered 42
genes with a solid
pattern of imprinted
gene expression.
IMPRINTOME STOP SIGNS:
Gene expression patterns for 42 imprinted
genes (y axis) vary across diverse tissues (x axis),
with redder boxes denoting stronger skewing towards just one allele.
They did their best to filter out
genes known to have random monoallelic
expression, single - allele
expression due to sequence variants, or RNA
patterns that might look like monoallelic
expression due to technical issues
with the sequencing.
The authors looked at
gene expression in a panel of 50 ERBB2 (Her2) positive breast tumors and found that this
pattern held up: DNA hypomethylation is associated
with decreased
gene expression in breast cancer.
Detecting this signal is not an easy task due to various technical and biological confounding factors, but together
with Yael Baran and Noah Zaitlen we developed a sophisticated statistical method that finds
genes where the
pattern of monoallelic
expression is consistent
with imprinting and not
with other processes.
The application of transgenesis and other genetic methods - in conjunction
with total genome sequence and database information on
gene expression patterns, morphological changes during development, and mutant phenotypes - should significantly enhance our ability to unravel the multilayered networks that control
gene expression and differentiation.
Comparison of the transcripts revealed that breast cancer cells
with knockdown of ABL2 alone shared a similar
gene expression pattern with that of the ABL1 / ABL2 double - knockdown cells (Fig. 6A and fig.
This methodology provides insight into the issue of mechano - sensitive
gene expression by revealing the correlation of in vivo tissue deformation
patterns with Twist protein
expression in stomodeal cells at gastrulation.
The clinicopathological and
gene expression patterns associated
with ulceration of primary melanoma.
Secondly, olfactory organs tend to be enriched in specialized
genes with highly restricted
expression patterns.
FP timers should therefore find use in studies of animal development where events like the
patterning of nascent tissues and the formation of limbs are correlated
with changes in
gene expression.