Project description:Epigenomewide methylation profiling of tumor DNA from pediatric germ cell tumors by sex, tumor histology, tumor location and age at diagnosis. DNA methylation was measured using the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 array
Project description:Adult female and aged male ferrets were inefcted with SARS-CoV-2. Nasal turbinates, the right cranial lung, and right caudal lung were collected on Day 2, 7, 14, and 21 after infection. Tissues were collected from uninfected animals as control. RNA was isolated and used for analysis of the transcriptome to determine any effects on gene regulation during SARS-CoV-2 infection from age or sex.
Project description:Epidemiological studies have shown sex differences in prevalence of non-allergic asthma. Recent reports demonstrated negative effects of androgen signaling on group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s), explaining a potential mechanism behind sex bias in asthma prevalence. To further understand the difference in ILC2s based on sex, we have investigated the effects of sex and age on the number and function of lung ILC2s, and epithelium derived cytokines. Naive male and female mice of any ages tested did not differ in the number of ILC2s in the lung. Upon IL-33 injection, lung ILC2s in post puberty female mice responded more vigorously than male counterpart. Purified female lung ILC2s more rapidly produced cytokines than male mouse ILC2s. Gene expression profiles of naïve male and female ILC2s differed in 4% of the genes, and gene set enrichment analysis showed that female ILC2s are enriched for gene signatures of memory T cells. Epithelium-derived cytokines including IL-33 were more highly expressed in post puberty naïve female mouse lungs than male mouse lungs. However, the differences in responsiveness of male and female ILC2s were not affected in IL-33-deficient mice. Therefore, female ILC2s are more readily activated than male ILC2s, likely due to their similarity to memory T cells as suggested by the gene expression profiles.
Project description:We measured chromatin accessibility in neuronal nuclei from cortex derived from PD (18 male, 10 female) and healthy control (2 male, 2 female) brains. Each brain sample consisted of cortex from both right and left hemispheres. Th side of PD onset, age, duration of disease, as well as technical variables were used to define linear models related to DiffBind scores. Significant differences due to age, disease, sex, hemisphere, side of PD onset, or combinations were determined