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Expression data from Gambian children with and without the clinical signs of active trachoma: HG-focus array

ABSTRACT: Results from 29 samples tested on the Affymetrix HG-focused target array identified transcriptional changes characteristic of ocular disease and ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection phenotypes. Large numbers of differentially regulated genes were demonstrated. These were characteristic of the host defence response and typical of innate responses at epithelial surfaces and infiltrating leukocytes. These results provide an insight into the complexity of the acute response in trachoma. Samples from 29 participants were tested on the HG-Focus target arrays (17 participants with clinical signs of active trachoma and 12 study participants with normal conjunctivas from the same trachoma endemic population as controls). Conjunctival samples from an additional 60 participants were tested on U133 plus 2.0 arrays and are reported elsewhere. This second set of independent samples was used to assess different gene classifier selection methods and validation tests using >8500 common probe-sets shared between HG-focus target and U133 plus 2.0 arrays. Potential biomarkers of disease and infection are identified.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Martin Holland

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-20430 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:Ocular infection with Chlamydia trachomatis (trachoma) is the leading cause of blindness that results from infection. Chronic inflammation is believed to drive the scarring process and the progressive blinding disease, however the mechanisms by which this occurs are not completely understood. We hypothesized that Micro RNA (miRNA), as key regulators of genes in inflammatory pathways, are involved in the immunopathogenesis and tissue remodeling observed in trachoma. Conjunctival swabs were collected from a total of 63 individuals resident in trachoma endemic communities in The Gambia, West Africa. MiRNA was extracted from the conjunctival swabs of 23 healthy controls (N), 18 cases with trachomatous scarring (TS) and 22 cases with trachomatous scarring in the presence of clinically significant inflammation (TSI) using Qiagen Allprep DNA/RNA/protein kits. Following reverse transcription and pre-amplification, quantitative RT-PCR was performed using TaqMan Array Human MicroRNA genecards (Av2.0 and Bv3.0) on a 7900HT thermal cycler (Life Technologies, Inc). A total of 754 of the most well characterised unique human miRNA from miRBase (www.mirbase.org/) were screened. Data from each array were uploaded and analysed using the high throughput qPCR package in bioconductor R. Samples with a global miRNA median cycle threshold of 40 were filtered out. A and B cards were analysed separately due to differences in performance of samples on each card. In the A card group 40 samples were normalized and tested: 8 TSI, 16 TS and 16 N. In the B card group 29 samples were normalized and tested: 6 TSI, 13 TS and 10 N. Results were normalized by rank invariant normalization as it reduced the coefficient of variation and increased sample distribution homology more than any other normalization procedure tested. Data in each group were tested for differential expression by Limma. 63 total Samples. In the A card group 40 samples were normalized and tested: 8 TSI, 16 TS and 16 N. In the B card group 29 samples were normalized and tested: 6 TSI, 13 TS and 10 N. Results were normalized by rank invariant normalization as it reduced the coefficient of variation and increased sample distribution homology more than any other normalization procedure tested.

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Expression data from Gambian children with and without the clinical signs of active trachoma: HG-focus array

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