Project description:Genomewide methylation analysis in Silver Russell syndrome patients compared to healthy controls Bisulphite converted DNA from the 24 samples were hybridised to the Illumina Infinium 450k Human Methylation Beadchip
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation analysis using blood leukocyte DNA was performed on 15 patients with genomic imprinting disorders (13 Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome [BWS], two Silver–Russell syndrome [SRS]), and four controls. The Illumina HumanMethylation850 BeadChip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles at a more than 850,000 CpGs.
Project description:We studied twenty-eight growth restricted patients (twenty-two with Silver-Russell syndrome, OMIM#180860) and their parents with the Affymetrix 250K Sty SNP microarray. All patients were molecularly undefined, and thus the aim was to look for copy number alterations that might contribute to the growth restriction. Aberrations found in parents were used to reduce the list of interesting variations to de novo variants.
Project description:Gene methylation profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells comparing HPV E6/E7-transfected MSCs cells with human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT)- and HPV E6/E7-transfected MSCs. hTERT may increase gene methylation in MSCs. Goal was to determine the effects of different transfected genes on global gene methylation in MSCs.
Project description:Utilizing reciprocal genome-wide uniparental disomy samples presenting with Beckwith-Wiedemann and Silver-Russell syndrome-like phenotypes, we have analyzed ~0.1% of CpG dinucleotides present in the human genome for imprinted differentially methylated regions (DMRs) using the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation27 BeadChip microarray. This approach identified 15 imprinted DMRs associated with previously characterized imprinted domains, and confirmed the maternal methylation of the RB1 DMR. In addition, we discovered two novel DMRs: a maternally methylated region overlapping the FAM50B promoter CpG island, which results in paternal expression of this retrotransposon, and a paternally methylated region located between maternally expressed ZNF597 and NAT15 genes.
Project description:The Affymetrix CytoScan 750K Array chip contains 200000 SNP markers and 550000 CNV markers, distributed across the entire human genome at an average density of approximately 1 marker/4kb (not covering all loci of the entire chromosome genome). It is used to detect clinically significant chromosomal microdeletions/microduplications, chromosomal subtelomer deletion syndrome, and other abnormal chromosomal copy number variations (CNVs) as well as loss of heterozygosity (LOH). In a case study of Zhangzhou Municipal Hospital of Fujian Province, copy number variation detection was performed on a fetus with Silver-Russell syndrome using CytoScan 750K Array chip, and variations in the corresponding region were identified.
Project description:Gene methylation profiling of immortalized human mesenchymal stem cells comparing HPV E6/E7-transfected MSCs cells with human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT)- and HPV E6/E7-transfected MSCs. hTERT may increase gene methylation in MSCs. Goal was to determine the effects of different transfected genes on global gene methylation in MSCs. Two-condition experiment, KP MSCs vs. 3A6 MSCs.