Project description:Comparison of transcript abundance estimates derived from DBS vs saliva vs gold standard peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples. Gene expression profiling was conducted using parallel collection and assay of venipuncture blood samples (PBMC), DBS samples, and saliva. Data come from 58 community dwelling adults recruited from the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Analyzed data include basic demographic characteristics (age, sex, race/ethnicity) and body mass index (BMI) as well as RNA indicators of major leukocyte subset prevalence (i.e., estimated abundance of mRNA for CD3, CD4, CD8, CD19, FCGR3A/CD16, NCAM1/CD56, and CD14; all provided here as log2-transformed values of normalized gene expression data). Categorial variables were coded 0=no/absent and 1=yes/present.
Project description:Comparison of transcript abundance estimates and bioinformatic inferences derived from DBS vs PAXgene vs peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples.
Project description:Comparison of transcript abundance estimates and bioinformatic inferences derived from DBS vs PAXgene vs peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples. Gene expression profiling was conducted using parallel collection and assay of venipuncture samples (PAXgene and PBMC) and DBS samples. Data come from 83 community dwelling adults recruited from the Chicago metropolitan area. In addition to basic demographic characteristics (age, sex, race/ethnicity), participants were also assessed on health-related characteristics (body mass index/BMI; history of smoking or heavy alchol consumption), and educational attainment (z-score transformed). Categorial variables were coded 0=no/absent and 1=yes/present.
Project description:Dried Blood Spots samples are a rich source of proteins and have therefore great potential for proteomics biomarker discovery studies. Only a few articles have used DBS samples for non-targeted bottom-up protein analysis, probably due to the complexity of the DBS samples. Gas-phase separation by ion mobility spectrometry such as Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility (FAIMS) could be useful in analysis of DBS samples as FAIMS has previously shown to be advantageous for bottom-up protein analysis of complex samples. The aim of this project was therefore to evaluate FAIMS in non-targeted analysis of Dried Blood Spots.
Project description:We performed a single-shot DIA-MS proteome analysis of dried saliva spots (DSS) to investigate whether it provides a platform to complement the dried blood spot (DBS) data.
Project description:The main purpose of the study is to compare the acceptance and viability of three strategies aimed to screen hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in a birth cohort by: a) invitation letter offering HCV screening with dried blood spot (DBS) testing at the primary care center, b) invitation letter offering both HCV and colorectal cancer (CCR) screening with faecal occult test (FOT) at the primary care center, and c) invitation letter offering self-collected screening at home for HCV and CCR.
Project description:We performed a single-shot DIA-MS proteome analysis of dried saliva spots (DSS) to investigate whether it provides a platform to complement the dried blood spot (DBS) data.
Project description:We compared the transcriptomic content of salivary exosomes vs. whole saliva via microarray (Affymetrix HU133 plus 2.0). Unstimulated saliva samples and derived exosome-like microvesicles were obtained from 3 healthy volunteers and processed for RNA isolation and microarray analysis.
Project description:Table of gene-level RNA counts from 21 newborn screening dried blood spot (DBS) samples. These DBS samples were obtained from extremely low gestional age newborns, where 10 of them were affected by a fetal inflammatory response (FIR) before birth, and 11 were unaffected. Total RNA was sequenced using an Illumina NextSeq-500 instrument. The sample preparation protocol included the depletion of rRNA and globin mRNA using the Globin Zero Gold rRNA Removal Kit from Illumina. Libraries were prepared using the NebNext Ultra TM II Directionl RNA LIbrary Prep Kit (New England Biolabs). Rows correspond to genes and columns to samples, where there is an additional column (BS13sub), corresponding to sample BS13, which was downsampled to 1/4 of its original depth.