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Project description:Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA), a clinical variant of follicular lichen planus, is a predominantly postmenopausal, immune-mediated, inflammatory, primary lymphocytic cicatricial alopecia. FFA mainly involves the scalp, facial hair and eyebrows but also affects other body regions. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as potential candidates of pathobiologic, diagnostic and therapeutic interest in chronic inflammatory, fibrotic and autoimmune diseases. To explore miRNAs in FFA for their disease relevance we isolated plasma from venous blood from 10 biopsy-proven treatment-naïve FFA cases and 10 matched controls and undertook miRNA expression analysis using the Human Fibrosis miRNA PCR Array (Qiagen). A separate cohort of 7 active FFA cases and 7 matched healthy controls were ascertained for tissue microRNA analysis and all 14 scalp-biopsy-extracted microRNA samples were subjected to microarray analysis on Affymetrix GeneChip miRNA 4.0 arrays. We generated a list of communities for the two skin tissue networks (cases and controls) and identified cluster centres (exemplars) as representative miRNAs of each community. Twenty exemplars in the control network were significantly enriched in the plasma (control) dataset compared to 27 for FFA. Amongst these, there were 17 miRNAs common in both networks, 9 of which were representative in the FFA disease phenotype. Random Forest analysis suggested that 4 circulating miRNAs (hsa-let-7d-5p, hsa-miR-18a-5p, has-miR-20a-5p and hsa-miR-19a-3p) can discriminate between FFA and controls. Our study of skin and plasma miRNA co-expression highlights circulating miRNAs of potential predictive value as biomarkers that should now be validated in larger cohorts.
2017-09-04 | GSE101619 | GEO
Project description:Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA), a clinical variant of follicular lichen planus, is a predominantly postmenopausal, immune-mediated, inflammatory, primary lymphocytic cicatricial alopecia. FFA mainly involves the scalp, facial hair and eyebrows but also affects other body regions. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as potential candidates of pathobiologic, diagnostic and therapeutic interest in chronic inflammatory, fibrotic and autoimmune diseases. To explore miRNAs in FFA for their disease relevance we isolated plasma from venous blood from 10 biopsy-proven treatment-naïve FFA cases and 10 matched controls and undertook miRNA expression analysis using the Human Fibrosis miRNA PCR Array (Qiagen). A separate cohort of 7 active FFA cases and 7 matched healthy controls were ascertained for tissue microRNA analysis and all 14 scalp-biopsy-extracted microRNA samples were subjected to microarray analysis on Affymetrix GeneChip miRNA 4.0 arrays. We generated a list of communities for the two skin tissue networks (cases and controls) and identified cluster centres (exemplars) as representative miRNAs of each community. Twenty exemplars in the control network were significantly enriched in the plasma (control) dataset compared to 27 for FFA. Amongst these, there were 17 miRNAs common in both networks, 9 of which were representative in the FFA disease phenotype. Random Forest analysis suggested that 4 circulating miRNAs (hsa-let-7d-5p, hsa-miR-18a-5p, has-miR-20a-5p and hsa-miR-19a-3p) can discriminate between FFA and controls. Our study of skin and plasma miRNA co-expression highlights circulating miRNAs of potential predictive value as biomarkers that should now be validated in larger cohorts.
2017-09-04 | GSE101618 | GEO
Project description:Scarring alopecia consists of a collection of disorders characterized by destruction of hair follicles, replacement with fibrous scar tissue, and irreversible hair loss. Alopecia affects men and women worldwide and can be a significant source of psychological stress and depression for affected individuals. The purpose of this study was to explore metabolic profiles in scalp tissue samples from normal control subjects (n=6) and in matched samples obtained from affected (n=12) and unaffected (n=12) areas of the scalp in patients with lymphocytic Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia (FFA). Frontal fibrosing alopecia results from destruction of hair follicles by an inflammatory lymphocytic infiltrate that is localized around the upper portion of the hair follicle.
2014-07-24 | ST000093 | MetabolomicsWorkbench
Project description:Summary statistics of a GWAS meta-analysis for frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA). A total of 7,039,930 genotyped and imputed variants were used for 1,044 European severe FFA cases and 4,145 matched population controls.
| EGAS00001003460 | EGA
Project description:Protein profiling offers an effective approach to characterizing the departure from normal of epidermis in disease states. The present investigation tested the hypothesis that the differentiation of epidermal corneocytes is perturbed in the forehead of subjects exhibiting frontal fibrosing alopecia. To this end, samples were collected by tape stripping from subjects diagnosed with this condition and compared to those from asymptomatic control subjects and from those exhibiting androgenetic alopecia. Unlike the latter, which exhibited only 3 proteins significantly different from controls, forehead samples from frontal fibrosing alopecia subjects displayed 72 proteins significantly different from controls, nearly two-thirds having lower expression. Comparison to corresponding profiles in scalp samples from frontal fibrosing alopecia and androgenetic alopecia suggested the perturbation of epidermal differentiation in the former was even greater in the scalp.
2022-08-16 | MSV000090141 | MassIVE
Project description:Transcriptomic analysis of frontal fibrosing alopecia
| PRJNA517414 | ENA
Project description:Our goal was to develop a transcriptomic description of affected alopecic scalp skin from patients with alopecia areata. 5 biological replicates of skin samples from 5 separate AA patients compared with 5 similar scalp samples from healthy control patients
2014-08-17 | E-GEOD-45512 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is a recently described inflammatory and scarring type of hair loss affecting almost exclusively women. Despite a dramatic recent increase in incidence the aetiopathogenesis of FFA remains unknown. We undertake genome-wide association studies in females from a UK cohort, comprising 844 cases and 3,760 controls, a Spanish cohort of 172 cases and 385 controls, and perform statistical meta-analysis. We observe genome-wide significant association with FFA at four genomic loci: 2p22.2, 6p21.1, 8q24.22 and 15q2.1. Within the 6p21.1 locus, fine-mapping indicates that the association is driven by the HLA-B*07:02 allele. At 2p22.1, we implicate a putative causal missense variant in CYP1B1, encoding the homonymous xenobiotic- and hormone-processing enzyme. Transcriptomic analysis of affected scalp tissue highlights overrepresentation of transcripts encoding components of innate and adaptive immune response pathways. These findings provide insight into disease pathogenesis and characterise FFA as a genetically predisposed immuno-inflammatory disorder driven by HLA-B*07:02.
| S-EPMC6408457 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Despite their distinct clinical manifestation, frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) and lichen planopilaris (LPP) display similar histopathologic features. Aberrant innate immune responses to endogenous or exogenous triggers have been discussed as factors that could drive inflammatory cascades and the collapse of the stem cell niche. In this exploratory study, we investigate the bacterial composition of scalp skin and plucked hair follicles (HF) of patients with FFA, LPP and alopecia areata circumscripta (AAc), as well as healthy individuals, in relation to cellular infiltrates and the expression of defense mediators. The most abundant genus in lesional and non-lesional HFs of LPP and FFA patients was Staphylococcus, while Lawsonella dominated in healthy individuals and in AAc patients. We observed statistically significant differences in the ratio of Firmicutes to Actinobacteria between healthy scalp, lesional, and non-lesional sites of FFA and LPP patients. This marked dysbiosis in FFA and LPP in compartments close to the bulge was associated with increased HβD1 and HβD2 expression along the HFs from lesional sites, while IL-17A was increased in lesional HF from AAc patients. The data encourage further studies on how exogenous factors and molecular interactions across the HF epithelium could contribute to disease onset and propagation.
| S-EPMC7999846 | biostudies-literature
Project description:To reveal genetic determinants of susceptibility to COVID-19 severity in the population and further explore potential immune-related factors, we performed a genome-wide association study on 284 confirmed COVID-19 patients (cases) and 95 healthy individuals (controls). We compared cases and controls of European (EUR) ancestry and African American (AFR) ancestry separately. To further exploring the linkage between HLA and COVID-19 severity, we applied fine-mapping analysis to dissect the HLA association with mild and severe cases.
2023-01-17 | GSE211972 | GEO