Project description:The purpose of this experiment was to compare differences in the transcript levels between RNA samples from induced pluripotent stem cells differentiated into neurons carrying a mutation in the SOD1 gene, an expanded GGGGCC repeat mutation in the chromosome 9 open reading frame 72 gene and those without any (control).
Project description:Purpose: The purpose of this data is to compare the transcriptome of embryonic stem cell (ESCs), Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSCs) and fibroblasts using RNA-seq. Methods: Total RNA was harvested by Trizol (Invitrogen) and RNA profiles of samples were generated by sequencing. Illumina Casava 1.8 software used for basecalling. Sequenced reads were trimmed for adaptor sequence, and masked for low-complexity or low-quality sequence (using fastx_trimmer) then mapped to hg19 (genome build) whole genome using Tophat. This study provides a framework for the application of pluripotent stem cells RNA expression dynamics compare to fibroblasts profiling toward characterization.
Project description:Genetic mutations on leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) have been associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease. The Gly2019Ser (G2019S) mutation on LRRK2 gene is a relatively common cause of familial Parkinson's disease in Caucasian population. In this study, we generated human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines from LRRK2 (G2019S) bearing patient fibroblasts by cell reprogramming. We performed global gene expression profiling of LRRK2 (G2019S) heterozygous and homozygous patient iPSC lines, and the corresponding fibroblast lines they originated from. An age-matched wildtype human fibroblast line and H1 human embryonic stem cell (ESC) line were used as controls. Microarray gene expression profiling was done to: (1) Compare global gene expression differences between wildtype fibroblasts and fibroblasts from patients bearing homozygous and heterozygous LRRK2 (G2019S) mutation; (2) Compare global gene expression differences between wildtype iPSC and iPSC generated from LRRK2 (G2019S) homozygous and heterozygous patients; (3) Check that all iPSC generated from wildtype and patients fibroblasts are in fact similar to human pluripotent ESC.
Project description:The Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Initiative (HipSci) project brings together diverse constituents in genomics, proteomics, cell biology and clinical genetics to create a UK national induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS cell) resource and use it to carry out cellular genetic studies. In this sub-study we performed Expression analysis using the Illumina HumanHT -12 Expression BeadChip on fibroblasts and iPS cells generated from skin biopsies from healthy volunteers.
Project description:The premature aging disorder Werner Syndrome (WS) is characterized by early onset of aging phenotypes resembling natural aging. In most WS patients there are mutations in the DNA helicase WRN, an enzyme important in maintaining genome stability and telomere replication. Interestingly, its clinical manifestations reflect a severe degree of deterioration for connective tissue, whereas the central nervous system is less affected. We suggest that the varied vulnerability to aging is regulated by an unknown mechanism that protects specific lineages of stem cells from premature senescence. To address this problem, we reprogrammed patient skin fibroblasts to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). The expression profile for the differentiated normal and WS fibroblasts and undifferentiated iPSC were compared. A distinct expression profile was found between normal and WS fibroblasts, however, few changes of gene expression were found in iPSC. Our findings suggest an erasure of aging phenotype associated with WS in reprogrammed iPSC. Human normal and WS skin fibroblasts were reprogrammed to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). These samples, before and after reprogramming, were analyzed for the change of gene expression profile.
Project description:Orangutans are an endangered species whose natural habitats are restricted to the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo and Sumatra. For potential species conservation and functional genomics studies, we derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from cryopreserved skin fibroblasts obtained from captive orangutans. We report the gene expression profiles of iPSCs and skin fibroblasts derived from orangtuans.
Project description:In this study, we explored x-inactivation in monkey embryos (ICM and TE separately) and pluripotent stem cells (IVF derived ES, SCNT-derived ES and monkey iPS) To elucidate x-inactivation in experimentally reprogrammed pluripotent cells, we derived pluripotent stem cells by both SCNT and iPS approaches from same parental skin fibroblasts. We also compared gene patterns of those cells to IVF-derived counterpart. The transcriptomes of rhesus monkey embryonic stem cell lines derived by both SCNT (CRES) and iPS (RiPS) from same monkey skin fibroblasts were compared each other. Both experimentally reprogrammed cells were also compared with IVF-derived counterpart (ORMES23). Finally, the adult somatic skin fibroblasts were analyzed. Three biological replicates of each cell line (A, B, C) were analyzed.
Project description:Mutations in presenilin 1 (PSEN1) cause a familiar form of Alzheimer's disease (AD). We have obtained skin biopsies from two individuals carrying PSEN1 exon9 deletion and reprogrammed skin fibroblasts into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). To get controls, we have corrected PSEN1 exon9 deletion by CRISPR/Cas9 technique. Since astrocytes play role in AD pathogenesis, we further differentiated iPSCs into astrocytes. We ran RNA sequencing analysis to compare our iPSC-derived astrocytes with previously published data on human astrocytes and to identify genes and pathways affected by PSEN1 exon 9 deletion.