Epigenome analysis of normal and preeclamptic placenta samples
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PROVIDER: GSE57767 | GEO | 2014/05/20
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA248043
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Preeclampsia (PE), a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, is hypothesized to be associated with, if not mechanistically related to abnormal placental function. However, the exact mechanisms regulating the pathogenesis of PE remain unclear. While many studies have investigated changes in gene expression in the PE placenta, the role of epigenetics in PE associated placental dysfunction remains unclear. Using the genome-wide Illumina Infinium Methylation 450 BeadChip array, we analyzed gene-specific alterations in DNA methylation in placental biopsies collected from normal pregnant women delivering at term (n=14), with term PE (≥37 weeks; n=19) or with preterm PE (<37 weeks, n=12). Of the 485,582 gene loci on the array, compared to controls, 229 loci were differentially methylated in PE placentas and 3411 loci were differentially methylated in preterm PE (step up p-value <0.05 and >5% methylation difference). Functional annotation of the differentially methylated genes in preterm PE placentas revealed a 32 gene cluster in the cadherin and cell adhesion functional groups (Benjamini p<0.00001). Hypermethylation of CDH11 (p=0.0143), COL5A1 (p=0.0127) and TNF (p=0.0098) and hypomethylation of NCAM1 (p=0.0158) was associated with altered mRNA expression in preterm PE placentas. These studies demonstrate aberrant methylation, correlating with disease severity, in PE placentas. Bisulphite converted DNA from the 45 samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 450k Human Methylation Beadchip v1.2
2014-05-20 | E-GEOD-57767 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Preterm birth is a significant clinical problem and an enormous burden on society, affecting one in eight pregnant women and their newborns. Despite decades of research, its pathogenesis remains unclear. Many studies have shown that preterm birth is associated with health risks across the later life course. The “fetal origins” hypothesis postulates that adverse intrauterine exposures are associated with later disease susceptibility. Our recent studies have focused on the placental epigenome at term. We extended these studies to genome-wide placental DNA methylation across a wide range of gestational ages. We applied methylation dependent immunoprecipitation/DNA sequencing (MeDIP-seq) to 9 placentas with gestational age from 25 weeks to term to identify differentially methylated regions (DMRs). Enrichment analysis revealed 427 DMRs with nominally significant differences in methylation between preterm and term placentas (p<0.01) and 21 statistically significant DMRs after multiple comparison correction (FDR p<0.05), of which 62% were hypo-methylated in preterm placentas vs term placentas. The majority of DMRs were in distal intergenic regions and introns. Significantly enriched pathways identified by Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) included Citrulline-Nitric Oxide Cycle and Fcy Receptor Mediated Phagocytosis in macrophages. The DMR gene set overlapped placental gene expression data, genes and pathways associated evolutionarily with preterm birth. These studies form the basis for future studies on the epigenetics of preterm birth, "fetal programming” and the impact of environment exposures on this important clinical challenge.
2018-09-26 | GSE120458 | GEO
Project description:To investigate the differentially expressed mRNAs and microRNAs in human placenta between early-onset preeclampsia (EO-PE) and preterm birth controls (PTB), next generation sequencing was performed in 5 paired EO-PE and PTB placentas.
2021-06-12 | GSE177049 | GEO
Project description:Introduction. Preeclampsia (PE) carries increased risks of cardiovascular- and metabolic diseases in mothers and offspring during the life course. While the severe early-onset PE (EOPE) phenotype originates from impaired placentation in early pregnancy, late-onset PE (LOPE) is in particular associated with pre-existing maternal cardiovascular- and metabolic risk factors. We hypothesize that PE is associated with altered epigenetic programming of placental and fetal tissues and that these epigenetic changes might elucidate the increased cardiovascular- and metabolic disease susceptibility in PE offspring. Methods. A nested case-control study was conducted in The Rotterdam Periconceptional Cohort comprising 13 EOPE, 16 LOPE, and three control groups of 36 uncomplicated pregnancies, 27 normotensive fetal growth restricted (FGR) and 20 normotensive preterm birth (PTB) complicated pregnancies. Placental tissue, newborn umbilical cord blood leucocytes (UC-WBC) and umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) were collected and DNA methylation of cytosine-guanine dinucleotides was measured by the Illumina HumanMethylation450K BeadChip. An epigenome-wide analysis was performed by using multiple linear regression models. Results. Epigenome-wide tissue-specific analysis between EOPE and PTB controls revealed 5001 mostly hypermethylated differentially methylated positions (DMPs) in UC-WBC and 869 mostly hypomethylated DMPs in placental tissue, situated in or close to genes associated with cardiovascular-metabolic developmental pathways. Discussion. This study shows differential methylation in UC-WBC and placental tissue in EOPE as compared to PTB, identifying DMPs that are associated with cardiovascular system pathways. Future studies should examine these loci and pathways in more detail to elucidate the associations between prenatal PE exposure and the cardiovascular disease risk in offspring.
2017-09-06 | GSE103253 | GEO
Project description:During human pregnancy, placental cytotrophoblasts invade the uterus and its blood vessels, anchoring the progeny and rerouting maternal blood to the embryo/fetus. In preeclampsia, cytotrophoblast invasion is restricted and blood flow to the placenta is reduced. The causes of restricted cytotrophoblast invasion are unknown. Here, preeclampsia and control cytotrophoblasts were cultured for 48 h to allow differentiation/invasion. In various severe forms of preeclampsia ± intrauterine growth restriction, global transcriptional profiling revealed common aberrations in cytotrophoblast gene expression that resolved with culture. Villous cytotrophoblasts were isolated from preeclampsia placentas (PRE, n=5) and placentas of preterm labor patients without signs of infection (PTL, n=5), which served as gestation-matched controls. To better understand the CTB phenotype in the context of PE variants, we included patients with the most clinically significant forms of this condition that necessitated preterm delivery: women with severe PE ± intrauterine growth restrictions, PE with superimposed hypertension and HELLP syndrome (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes; low platelet count). RNA was purified immediately after the cells were isolated (0 h) and after 12, 24 and 48 h in culture. The relative gene expression across the whole genome was profiled using the Affymetrix HG-U133Plus 2.0 GeneChip platform. Array quality was assesed using RMAExpress. One sample of preterm labor collected at 48h was omitted (39 arrays total). We used both LIMMA and maSigPro (R/Bioconductor) to determine differentially expressed genes.
2012-08-17 | E-GEOD-40182 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Preeclampsia (PE), which affects 4-8% of human pregnancies, causes significant maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Within the basal plate, placental cytotrophoblasts (CTBs) of fetal origin invade the uterus and extensively remodel the maternal vasculature. In PE, CTB invasion is often shallow, and vascular remodeling is rudimentary. To better understand possible causes, we conducted a global analysis of gene expression at the maternal-fetal interface in placental samples from women with PE (n = 12; 24-36 wk) vs. samples from women who delivered due to preterm labor with no evidence of infection (n = 11; 24-36 wk), a condition that our previous work showed is associated with normal CTB invasion. Using the HG-U133A&B Affymetrix GeneChip platform, and statistical significance set at log odds-ratio of B >0, 55 genes were differentially expressed in PE. They encoded proteins previously associated with PE [e.g. Flt-1 (vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-1), leptin, CRH, and inhibin] and novel molecules [e.g. sialic acid binding Ig-like lectin 6 (Siglec-6), a potential leptin receptor, and pappalysin-2 (PAPP-A2), a protease that cleaves IGF-binding proteins]. We used quantitative PCR to validate the expression patterns of a subset of the genes. At the protein level, we confirmed PE-related changes in the expression of Siglec-6 and PAPP-A2, which localized to invasive CTBs and syncytiotrophoblasts. Notably, Siglec-6 placental expression is uniquely human, as is spontaneous PE. The functional significance of these novel observations may provide new insights into the pathogenesis of PE, and assaying the circulating levels of these proteins could have clinical utility for predicting and/or diagnosing PE. Keywords: disease state analysis Basal plate biopsies of preterm labor (24-36 weeks; n=11) and preterm severe preeclampsia (24-36 weeeks; n=12) were isolated and the global gene expression profiles determined using Affymetrix Human GeneChips. Comparisons between the preeclampsia samples and the preterm labor controls revealed genes differentially expressed in preeclampsia.
2009-02-06 | E-GEOD-14722 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:OBJECTIVES: The Multi-Omics for Mothers and Infants (MOMI) consortium aims to improve birth outcomes. We analyzed full thickness placental samples (e.g., basal plate, placenta/chorionic villi and the chorionic plate) collected by the 5 MOMI sites: The Alliance for Maternal and Newborn Health Improvement (AMANHI) Bangladesh, AMANHI Pakistan, AMANHI Tanzania, The Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS) Bangladesh and GAPPS Zambia. STUDY DESIGN. The teams collected biopsies from 294 preterm (gestation <37 weeks) and 291 term (gestation ≥37 weeks) births. They were formalin-fixed and paraffin embedded. Tissue sections from these samples were stained with hematoxylin and eosin and subjected to morphological analyses. Other placental biopsies (n = 35 preterm, 21 term) were collected in RNAlater, which enabled bulk transcriptomics. RESULTS. The morphological analyses revealed a surprisingly high rate of inflammation involving the basal plate, placenta/chorionic villi and the chorionic plate. The rate in chorionic villus samples ranged from 25% (Pakistan site) to 60% (Zambia site) of cases. Leukocyte infiltration in this location vs. the basal plate or chorion plate correlated with preterm birth. The transcriptomic analyses identified 267 genes as differentially expressed (DE) between placentas from preterm vs. term births (123 upregulated, 144 downregulated). Mapping the DE genes onto single cell RNA-seq data from human placentas suggested that all the component cell types, either singly or in subsets, contributed to the observed dysregulation. Consistent with the histopathological findings, (Gene Ontology) GO analyses highlighted leukocyte infiltration/activation and inflammatory responses in both the fetal and maternal compartments. CONCLUSION. Together these data suggested geographic- and/or population-based differences in placental inflammation and the triggers of preterm birth.
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Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes between placentas from pregnancies with PE and placentas from normal pregnancies to search for the candiadate genes for further DNA methylation analysis The differentially expressed genes LEP and SH3PXD2A were further analyzed by DNA methylation. 5 placentas from pregnancies with PE and 7 from normal subjects were included in the gene expression microarray analysis.
2013-02-01 | E-GEOD-43942 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Preeclampsia (PE) is a major contributor of maternal mortality with uncertain etiology. Recent studies suggested that epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation, play a vital role in the development of PE. In this study, we have mapped genome-wide distribution of 5-methylcytosin (5-mC) and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5-hmC) using MeDIP and (h)MeDIP in the placentas from severely preeclamptic patients and normal controls. A total 194485 pooled 5-mC peaks and 138133 pooled 5-hmC peaks were identified, of which 714 5-mC peaks and 119 5-hmC peaks showed significant difference between patients and controls (>2-fold, p<0.05).To our knowledge, this is the first report of DHMRs (Differentially Hydroxy-Methylated Regions) in preeclamptic placenta. We not only confirmed the aberrant DNA methylated regions in the process of preeclampsia reported previously, but also identified unreported regions. A total of 4 selected DMRs (Differentially Methylated Regions) were also confirmed by MassARRAY EppiTYPER. Of these, PTPRN2, which had low level of 5-mC and high level of 5-hmC at gene body, was further verified to have lower methylation level at promoter regions in case group compared with controls. In conclusion, our study provided genome-wide distribution of 5-mC and 5-hmC in severe PE and normal controls, which have further clinical value for the identification of diagnostic and therapeutic markers for severe PE. Examination of 5-mC and 5-hmC pattern in 4 control cases' tissue and 4 severely Preeclamptic Placentas cases' tissue.
2014-12-13 | E-GEOD-63743 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Though the pathophysiology of preeclampsia (PE) is unclear worldwide, placental hypoxia has been implicated in the pathologic processes of PE.In this study, we profiled the transcriptome in BeWo and JEG-3 cells cultured in hypoxic condition or normal ones based on the RNA sequencing dataset. After filtered the low-quality ones, the RNA readers was aligned to human genome hg19 by TopHat and then assembled by Cufflinks. The expression value of each transcript was calculated and consequently differentially expressed genes were screened out. CD39 and ZDHHC14 were found to have both different mRNA in hypoxic cells and abnormal methylation level in severely preeclamptic placentas. The mRNA expression of CD39 and ZDHHC14 in placental tissues were analyzed using qRT-PCR. The differential methylated regions (DMRs) of CD39 and ZDHHC14 were confirmed by MassARRY EppiTYPER. The effect of hypoxia on trophoblast cells was detected with western blotting and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. The results showed CD39 and ZDHHC14were significantly lower in severe PE placenta, hypoxia significantly reduced the expression of CD39 and ZDHHC14 and the secretion of CD39 in trophoblast cells. Therefore, we believed hypoxia plays an important role in the processes of severe PE via decreasing the expression of CD39 and ZDHHC14 by changing their methylation level in placenta.
2017-08-27 | GSE72437 | GEO