Longitudinal Profiling in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery Reveals Postoperative Changes in DNA Methylation

ABSTRACT: Cardiac surgery and cardiopulmonary bypass induce a substantial immune and inflammatory response, the overactivation of which is associated with significant complications. Longitudinal DNA methylation profiling allows the potential to identify changes in gene regulatory mechanisms that are secondary to surgery and to identify molecular processes that predict and/or cause postoperative complications. In this study, we measure DNA methylation in preoperative and postoperative whole blood samples from 96 patients undergoing cardiac surgery on cardiopulmonary bypass. We identify several loci with statistically significant postoperative changes in methylation. Additionally, two of these loci are associated with new-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation, a significant complication after cardiac surgery. This research establishes that there are statistically significant changes in DNA methylation that occur immediately after cardiac surgery and that these acute alterations in DNA methylation have the granularity to identify processes associated with major postoperative complications.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE215937 | GEO | 2023/01/09

REPOSITORIES: GEO