ABSTRACT: large descriptive study of the microbiota of persons living in Amsterdam correlated microbiome composition with ethnicity as well as health markers and some diet groupings
Project description:The gut microbiota composition is unique to every individual but is shaped by common factors including diet, lifestyle, medication use, early-life determinants, living environment or genetics. Most of these factors may be influenced by ethnicity. This study explored variations in fecal microbiota composition in 6048 individuals with different ethnic backgrounds living in the same geographical area (Amsterdam, the Netherlands).
Project description:Whole peripheral blood samples collected into Tempus tubes from 189 adult participants in the Center for Health Discovery and Well Being study of Emory University and Georgia Tech, in Midtown Atlanta. The sample is of mixed ethnicity, and is part of a survey of the impact of genetics and lifestyle on gene expression and clinical attributes. Sample annotations include gender, self-reported ethnicity, zipcode of current address, and percent body fat, as well as technical features of the study (Sentrix plate ID, date of hybridization, and RNA quality RIN score.
Project description:The influence of genetics on DNA methylation (DNAme) variation is well documented, yet confounding from population stratification is often unaccounted for in DNAme association studies. Existing approaches have been developed to address confounding by population stratification by directly using DNAme data, but have not been validated in additional human populations or tissues, such as the placenta. Results: To aid future placental DNAme studies in assessing population stratification, we developed an ethnicity classifier, PLANET (placental elastic net DNAme ethnicity classifier), on combined Infinium Human Methylation 450k BeadChip array (HM450k) data from placental samples. We used data from five North American cohorts from private and public repositories (n = 509) and show that PLANET can not only accurately predict (accuracy = 0.9379, kappa = 0.8227) major classes of self-reported ethnicity/race (African: n = 58, Asian: n = 53, Caucasian: n = 389), but can also produce probabilities that are highly correlated with genetic ancestry inferred from genome-wide SNP (>2.5 million SNP) and ancestry informative markers (n=50) data. We found that PLANET’s ethnicity classification relies on 1860 DNAme microarray sites, and over half of these were also linked to nearby genetic polymorphisms (n=955). Lastly, we found our placental-optimized method outperforms existing approaches in assessing population stratification in our placental samples from individuals of Asian, African, and Caucasian ethnicities. Conclusion: PLANET outperforms existing methods and heavily relies on the genetic signal present in DNAme microarray data. PLANET can be used to address population stratification in future placental DNAme association studies, and will be especially useful when ethnicity information is missing and genotyping markers are unavailable.
Project description:Whole peripheral blood samples collected into Tempus tubes from 189 adult participants in the Center for Health Discovery and Well Being study of Emory University and Georgia Tech, in Midtown Atlanta. The sample is of mixed ethnicity, and is part of a survey of the impact of genetics and lifestyle on gene expression and clinical attributes. Sample annotations include gender, self-reported ethnicity, zipcode of current address, and percent body fat, as well as technical features of the study (Sentrix plate ID, date of hybridization, and RNA quality RIN score. 189 individuals in the Center for Health Discovery and Well Being study of Emory University and Georgia Tech, in Midtown Atlanta., 65 men and 124 women. The age of individulas were between 26 and 79 (mean 51). 140 Caucasian (CAU), 37 African American (AFR), 11 Asian (ASN), 1 American Indian (AMI).
Project description:DNA methylation of 10 samples each of Indo-European Dravidian ethnicity living in India has been assayed using Infinium HumanMethylation450 BeadChip. The data was used for assessing the epigentic affinity of Indian population with other global population.
Project description:Profiling project of CRC patient material collected in the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We focused on a set of 90 AJCC stage II patients that underwent intentionally curative surgery in the years 1997-2006 (AMC-AJCCII-90). Extensive medical records are kept from these patients and long-term clinical follow-up is available for the large majority. Both paraffin-embedded as well as fresh frozen tissue is available from all these patients for analysis.
Project description:A source of functioning hepatocytes for liver cell transplantation and liver support is in need. hESCs , when transplanted, generally form teratomas. We studied capacity of hESCs to differentiate to hepatocyte like cells under the effect of in vivo liver regeneration. In SCID-Beige mice hepatocyte replication peaked 48 hours after CCl4 injection; 24 hours earlier 106 hESCs or EBs at different stages of differentiation were transplanted into the spleen. Comparisons were made to teratomas formed in the hind limb of untreated animals. RT-PCR and gene microarray were used for liver and human specific markers. Immunohistochemistry to AFP,AAT, ALB, HEP-PAR I AND CK-18,19 were performed. EBs formed a single large teratoma in the spleen and small teratomas in the liver. Expression of PCR- identified liver specific markers was greater in the spleen than in the liver. Adult hepatocyte specific markers were expressed in the hind limb teratoma excised after 7 weeks. When late EBs were transplanted before CCl4 exposure, no teratomas formed. Rather, an abundance of probably undifferentiated ectodermal origin cells presented. In this descriptive study, transplanted early human EBs formed teratomas that differed in size and molecular markers. Within teratomas, the degree of maturation into hepatocytes correlated better with the time duration in vivo than with growth stimulation. Late EBs formed non differentiated ectodermal cells only in a regenerative microenvironment. 4 samples were analyzed. Clean mouse liver used as neg. control. Mouse liver injected with CCl4 and transplanted with late Ebs, tumor was not observed. Two mouse livers injected with CCl4 and transplanted with late Ebs, tumor was observed.
Project description:To determine if there is differential gene expression response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in neutrophils from persons living with HIV who remain tuberculin skin test (TST) and inteferon gamma release assay (IGRA) negative and have no tuberculosis history (HITTIN) compared to persons living with HIV and no previous TB but TST and IGRA positive (HIT).
Project description:Profiling project of CRC patient material collected in the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We focused on a set of 90 AJCC stage II patients that underwent intentionally curative surgery in the years 1997-2006 (AMC-AJCCII-90). Extensive medical records are kept from these patients and long-term clinical follow-up is available for the large majority. Both paraffin-embedded as well as fresh frozen tissue is available from all these patients for analysis. 90 AJCC stage II CRC patients were included in the story
Project description:A source of functioning hepatocytes for liver cell transplantation and liver support is in need. hESCs , when transplanted, generally form teratomas. We studied capacity of hESCs to differentiate to hepatocyte like cells under the effect of in vivo liver regeneration. In SCID-Beige mice hepatocyte replication peaked 48 hours after CCl4 injection; 24 hours earlier 106 hESCs or EBs at different stages of differentiation were transplanted into the spleen. Comparisons were made to teratomas formed in the hind limb of untreated animals. RT-PCR and gene microarray were used for liver and human specific markers. Immunohistochemistry to AFP,AAT, ALB, HEP-PAR I AND CK-18,19 were performed. EBs formed a single large teratoma in the spleen and small teratomas in the liver. Expression of PCR- identified liver specific markers was greater in the spleen than in the liver. Adult hepatocyte specific markers were expressed in the hind limb teratoma excised after 7 weeks. When late EBs were transplanted before CCl4 exposure, no teratomas formed. Rather, an abundance of probably undifferentiated ectodermal origin cells presented. In this descriptive study, transplanted early human EBs formed teratomas that differed in size and molecular markers. Within teratomas, the degree of maturation into hepatocytes correlated better with the time duration in vivo than with growth stimulation. Late EBs formed non differentiated ectodermal cells only in a regenerative microenvironment.