Project description:Every year about 70,000 new cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed in France and 8,700 men died from this disease. But the incidence and the rate of mortality per 100,000 men in the French West Indies are respectively 1.5x and 2x upper than the rates observed in the metropolitan France. The aim of this project is to identify, on 15 French Caucasian and 10 African-Caribbean men, through an integrative approach of DNA sequencing and transciptomic analyses, relevant genomic events that characterize or allow targeting the various phenotypes of aggressiveness of early stages of prostate cancer.
Project description:Expression profiling of Ewing sarcoma samples in the frame of the CIT program from the french Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (http://cit.ligue-cancer.net). Ewing sarcoma a rare pediatric tumor characterized by EWSR1-ETS fusions, is predominantly observed in populations of European ancestry. A genome-wide association study of at least 401 French ES patients compared to either 684 French or 3668 US self-described Caucasian controls consistently revealed candidate loci at chromosomes 1 and 10 (p<10-6). These loci were further replicated in two independent sets of cases and controls. Joint analysis identified rs9430161 (p=1.4x10-20; OR=2.2, CI99=1.8-2.7) 25kb upstream to TARDBP (1p36.22) and rs224278 (p=4.0x10-17 OR=1.7, CI99=1.4-1.9) 5kb upstream to EGR2 (10q21). The frequency of the major risk haplotypes in the European population were observed to be less prevalent in the African population, suggesting that variants at these loci could contribute to the differences in ES incidence observed between continents. TARDBP shares structural similarities with EWSR1 and FUS (TLS) EGR2 is an EWSR1-ETS target gene. Variants at both loci were associated with expression levels of TARDBP, ADO and EGR2.
Project description:To determine whether optic nerve head astrocytes, a key cellular component of glaucomatous neuropathy, exhibit differential gene expression in primary culture of astrocytes from African American donors with or without glaucoma, compared to astrocytes from Caucasian American donors with or without glaucoma. Experiment Overall Design: We divided samples into four group: Caucasian American normal, Caucasian American with glaucoma, African American normal and African American with glaucoma. We analyzed data from Affymetrix Human Genome U133A 2.0 and U95 chips.
Project description:This study aimed to understand the in vitro behaviour of epidermal cells of African and Caucasian skin types in the context of 3D reconstructed skin. Reconstructed skins epidermis made with cells isolated from skin of African or Caucasian skin type exhibited high differences in stratification and differentiation. The objective of this study is a first global approach to identify at the protein level the differences between reconstructed skins.
Project description:Transcriptomic profiling of 54 foreskin-derived human primary keratinocytes from individuals of Black African versus Caucasian ancestries.
Project description:Analysis of the levels of circulating miRNAs from women with early stage breast cancer and matched healthy controls. miRNAs in plasma samples from 20 women with early stage breast cancer (10 Caucasian American and 10 African American) compared with 20 matched healthy controls (10 Caucasian American and 10 African American).
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series:; GSE9939: Gene expression data on human optic nerve head astrocytes in normal Caucasian and African americans; GSE9944: Gene expression data on human optic nerve head astrocytes in Caucasian and African americans with or without glaucoma Experiment Overall Design: Refer to individual Series
Project description:DNA methylation analysis using the Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip platform (Illumina) of 96 Caucasian American, 96 Han Chinese American and 96 African American LCL samples determined differences in terms of differentially methylated sites. Importantly, the observed differences were confirmed in primary blood samples of 10 healthy Caucasian, 10 African American (GSE36064) and 10 Asian individuals. Genes associated to differentially methylated site suggest an influence of DNA methylation on phenotype differences. Interestingly, methylation differences could be partially traced back to genetic polymorphisms.