Genome-wide analysis of low dose bisphenol-A (BPA) exposure in human prostate cells
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ABSTRACT: Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) have the potential to cause adverse effects on wildlife and human health. Two important EDCs are the synthetic estrogen 17a-ethynylestradiol (EE2) and bisphenol A (BPA) both of which are xenoestrogens (XEs) as they bind the estrogen receptor and disrupt estrogen physiology in mammals and other vertebrates. In recent years the influence of XEs on oncogenes, specifically in relation to breast and prostate cancer has been the subject of considerable study. In this study healthy primary human prostate epithelial cells (PrECs) were exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of BPA (5nM and 25nM BPA) and interrogated using a whole genome microarray. Microarray data were analyzed using the Pipeline for Integrated Microarray Expression and Normalization Toolkit (PIMENTo) that provides (1) data pre-processing, (2) and normalization to remove the technical variability across arrays data, (3) data visualization, (4) background subtraction, (5) quality control, and (6) differential expression (DE) analysis using the Bioconductor package 'limma'. Exposure to 5 and 25nM BPA generated 8,876 and 9,525 differentially expressed (DE) genes respectively in treated PrECs. Exposure to EE2 had the greatest effect on the PrEC transcriptome (2,389 DE genes) and all three exposures shared 7,011 common DE genes. Together, the low and high dose of BPA affected 1,839 genes not shared with the EE2 exposure.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Gary Hardiman
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-7576 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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