Seminal Plasma Lipidomics Profiling to Identify Signatures of Kallmann Syndrome.
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ABSTRACT: Background
Kallmann syndrome (KS) is a rare developmental disorder. Our previous metabolomics work showed substantial changes in linoleic acid and glycerophospholipid metabolism in KS. Here, we performed targeted lipidomics to further identify the differential lipid species in KS.Methods
Twenty-one patients with KS (treatment group) and twenty-two age-matched healthy controls (HC, control group) were enrolled. Seminal plasma samples and medical records were collected. Targeted lipidomics analysis of these samples was performed using ultraperformance liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UPLC-QTOF-MS).Results
Lipidomics profiling of patients with KS and the HCs showed clear separation in the orthogonal projections to latent structures-discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA). There were many differential lipids identified, with the main differential lipid species being triacylglycerols (TAGs), phosphatidylcholines (PCs) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE).Conclusions
The lipidomics profile of patients with KS changed. It was also determined that TAGs, PCs and PE are promising biomarkers for KS diagnosis. To our knowledge, this is the first report to analyze lipidomics in men with Kallmann syndrome.
SUBMITTER: Li X
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