Project description:Preeclampsia is a heterogeneous and complex disease caused by multiple factors, including heredity and environment. However, the underlying mechanism remains elusive due to diverse races, geography, and other factors. Previous findings have revealed that there is a tendency for preeclampsia to run in families. To define genetic factors associated with preeclampsia, we performed a genome-wide analysis of preeclampsia samples from 10 preeclampsia cases and 10 healthy age- and gravidity-matched normotensive pregnant women. We identified 27 aberrant copy number variations related to preeclampsia, including 22 deletions and 5 duplications. These differential copy number variant regions involved 27 differential genes, including SPATA6L, PPP2R3B, PREX2, IL1RAPL1, OR52N1, OR52N5, CHSY1, DPP6, KRTAP9-7, LPA, NTRK1, BTNL3, TBC1D3F, TBC1D3, LOC440434 , EYA2, APOBEC3A_B, APOBEC3A, APOBEC3B, FHIT, EXT1, PRR14, FBRS, LMF1, MALT1, BCAS1, and MIR4756. These findings suggest that these differential genes may be associated with the pathogenesis of preeclampsia and require further investigation.
Project description:In cancer, proto-oncogenes are often altered by genomic amplification. Recent studies have highlighted a role for PDGFRA as an oncogene in non-small cell lung cancer. To characterize 4q12 copy number status in NSCLC, both previously published (Weir et al. PMID 17982442) and unpublished Affymetrix 250K SNP array data for 733 NSCLC samples (628 primary samples, 105 cell lines) were evaluated for copy number aberrations. 4q12 amplifications overlapping the PDGFRA/KIT locus were observed in 31 (4.2%) NSCLC samples. SNP array and FISH analysis indicate that 4q12 is amplified in 3-7% of lung adenocarcinomas and 8-10% of lung squamous cell carcinomas. In addition, the NSCLC cell line NCI-H1703 exhibits focal amplification of PDGFRA and is dependent on PDGFRα activity for cell growth. Treatment of NCI-H1703 cells with PDGFRA-specific shRNAs or with the PDGFRα/KIT small molecule inhibitors imatinib or sunitinib leads to cell growth inhibition. However, these observations do not extend to NSCLC cell lines with lower-amplitude and broader gains of chromosome 4q. Together these observations implicate PDGFRA and KIT as potential oncogenes in NSCLC, but further study is needed to define the specific characteristics of those tumors that could respond to PDGFRα/KIT inhibitors.
Project description:Data includes all available Affymetrix SNP data from a cohort of Pediatric malignant glioma samples, isolated from Formalin-fixed Paraffin embedded tissue. No clinical data is available.
Project description:Although in 80% of CLL cases that require therapy is possible to achieve a complete remission using a combination of fludarabine, anti-CD20 in conjunction with cyclophosphamide and/or mitoxantrone, 20% of patients do not achieve disease control with this conventional approach. The main reason of complete remission failure is chemorefractoriness to fludarabine that occurs in up to 10% of patients requiring treatment. In order to identify new molecular predictors of refractoriness as well as druggable therapeutic targets, we combined next-generation sequencing and copy number analyses. Affymetrix SNP array analysis was performed according to the manufacturer's directions on DNA extracted from cryopreserved diagnostic samples.