Project description:Microarray methylation (Infinium® HumanMethylation450 BeadChip from Illumina) was performed on gingival tissue samples from 11 periodontitis cases and 12 age-matched healthy individuals.
Project description:Microarray methylation (Infinium® HumanMethylation450 BeadChip from Illumina) was performed on gingival tissue samples from 11 periodontitis cases and 12 age-matched healthy individuals. Bisulphite converted DNA from the 23 samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 450k Human Methylation Beadchip
Project description:Purpose: We applied polyA site sequencing (Passeq) to human Huntington's disease and control motor cortex and cerebellum to test if any genes change 3′UTR isoforms abundance. Methods: 3′ sequencing was performed on 6 motor cortices from grade 1 Huntington's patient brains, 4 motor cortices from grade 2 Huntington's patient brains, and 5 motor cortices from control brains. Cerebellum samples included 9 cerebella from grade 2-3 Huntington's patient brains, and 7 cerebella from control brains. To verify HTT isoforms in mice, sequencing was performed on 5 Q140 mouse striata and 3 wild-type mouse striata. Results: We report 11% of genes from Huntington's disease patient motor cortex exhibit a change in at least one of their 3′UTR isoforms, commensurate with the 11% of genes which show different total expression in HD motor cortex versus control. In contrast, gene isoform and expression changes are minimal (<5%) in Huntington's disease cerebellum versus controls. In the motor cortex, we show isoform and gene expression differs between between grade 1 and grade 2 brains. We identify a novel isoform of huntingtin mRNA which is conserved in wild-type and Huntington's model mice. Conclusions: This is the first study characterizing widespread alterations in 3′UTR isoform abundance in Huntington's disease. Alterations in isoform abundance may affect mRNA metabolism in Huntington's disease brains.
Project description:An Infinium microarray platform (HorvathMammalMethylChip40) was used to generate DNA methylation data from n=168 blood samples of a transgenic sheep model of Huntington's disease. 84 transgenic sheep and age matched control sheep.
Project description:Affymetrix U133A expression levels for 12 symptomatic and 5 presymptomatic Huntington's disease patients versus 14 healthy controls. Keywords: other
Project description:Affymetrix U133A expression levels for 12 symptomatic and 5 presymptomatic Huntington's disease patients versus 14 healthy controls. Keywords: other
Project description:Codelink Human Uniset I, II, and 20K expression levels for 12 symptomatic and 5 presymptomatic Huntington's disease patients versus 14 healthy controls. Keywords: other
Project description:Hdac4 has been found to modulate symptoms in Huntington's Disease (HD) mouse models through an uknown mechanism unrelated to any enzymatic activity. We investigated the protein-protein interactions to gain insight into the role of Hdac4 in HD.