To study changes in gene expression and alternative splicing in obesity
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View SamplesPreimplantation Genetic Diagnosis is commonly offered to couples undergoing assisted reproduction to select healthy embryos to be transferred in utero. The procedure involves the removal of one blastomere from cleaving embryos (known as Blastomere Biopsy – BB) and in vitro culture of biopsied embryos followed by their transfer in utero once the result of PGD confirm their health status. We and others previously reported that male offspring in mice, developed from embryos subjected to BB, is characterized by increased body weight and size. Here we hypothesized that the observed phenotype is due to dysfunction of a key organ in the control/maintenance of metabolic homeostasis: the liver. To this aim, transcriptome analysis was performed on liver tissues collected from 4-months-old mice developed after BB and from not-biopsied control embryos (CTR).
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View SamplesGibberellin mobilizes distinct DELLA-dependent transcriptomes to regulate seed germination and floral development in Arabidopsis
Gibberellin mobilizes distinct DELLA-dependent transcriptomes to regulate seed germination and floral development in Arabidopsis.
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View SamplesTranscriptome analysis of 12 zebrafish tissues
Gene evolution and gene expression after whole genome duplication in fish: the PhyloFish database.
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View SamplesDespite many years of study of inversions, very little is known about their functional consequences, especially in humans. A common hypothesis is that the selective value of inversions stems in part from their effects on nearby genes, although evidences of this in natural populations are almost nonexistent. Here we present a global analysis of a new 415-kb polymorphic inversion that is among the longest ones found in humans and is the first with clear position effects. This inversion is located in chromosome 19 and has been generated by non-homologous end joining between blocks of transposable elements with low identity. PCR genotyping in 541 individuals from eight different human populations allowed the detection of tag SNPs and inversion genotyping in multiple worldwide populations, showing that the inverted allele is mainly found in East-Asia with an average frequency of 4.7%. Interestingly, one of the breakpoints disrupts the transcription factor gene ZNF257, causing a significant reduction in the total expression level of this gene in lymphoblastoid cell lines. RNA-Seq analysis of the effects of this expression change in standard homozygotes and inversion heterozygotes revealed distinct expression patterns that were validated by quantitative RT-PCR. Moreover, we have found a new fusion transcript that is generated exclusively from inverted chromosomes around one of the breakpoints. Finally, by the analysis of the associated nucleotide variation, we have estimated that the inversion was generated approximately 43,450 years ago and, while a neutral evolution cannot be ruled out, its current frequencies are more consistent with those expected for a deleterious variant, although no significant association with phenotypic traits has been found so far.
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View SamplesWe evaluated how different microbial species commonly associated with laboratory-reared Drosophila melanogaster impact host biology at the level of gene expression in the dissected adult gut or the entire adult organism. We observed that guts from gnotobiotic animals associated from the embryonic stage with either zero, one or three bacterial species demonstrated indistinguishable transcriptional profiles. Additionally, we found that the gut transcriptional profiles of animals reared in the presence of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae alone or in combination with bacteria could recapitulate those of conventionally-reared animals. In contrast, we found whole body transcriptional profiles of conventionally-reared animals were distinct from all of the gnotobiotic treatments tested. Our data suggest that adult flies are insensitive to the ingestion of different bacterial species but that prior to adulthood, different microbes impact the host in ways that lead to global transcriptional differences observable across the whole adult body.
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View SamplesWe examined skin biopsies from a diverse cohort of 23 SSc patients (including lesional forearm and non-lesional back samples) by RNA-seq. Metagenomic filtering and annotation was performed using the Integrated Metagenomic Sequencing Analysis (IMSA). Associations between microbiome composition and gene expression were analyzed using single-sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA).
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View SamplesThe activity of different E2F constructs with respect to gene expression was measured. E2F constructs differed in degradability, and were doxycycline inducible. Different samples with the different E2F constructs, and with or without dox inductions were assayed for gene expression.
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View SamplesGlobal gene expression analysis of grapevine cv. Pinot Noir berries during development and ripening. Time-course comparison of samples collected at three developmental stages (stages 33, 34 and 36 according to the modified E-L system, ref: Coombe BG, Aust J Grape Wine Res 1995, 1: 104-110) during three seasons (2003, 2005 and 2006).
Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of grapevine berry ripening reveals a set of genes similarly modulated during three seasons and the occurrence of an oxidative burst at vèraison.
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View SamplesEstrogens have been shown to elicit anti-cancer effects against estrogen receptor alpha (ER)-positive breast cancer. We sought to determine the underlying mechanism of therapeutic response. Response to estrogen treatment was assessed in ER+ breast cancer models of anti-estrogen resistant disease: WHIM16 patient-derived xenografts, C7-2-HI and C4-HI murine mammary adenocarcinomas, and long-term estrogen-deprived MCF-7 cells.
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