Project description:Genome wide genomic DNA profiling with the HumanMethylation450 BeadChip (450k) of skin samples. The skin tissue DNA was derived from a peri-umbilical punch biopsy (adipose tissue was removed from the biopsy before freezing) from 322 healthy female twins of the TwinsUK cohort. Family structure is present in this data. If the samples are related they will share a similar Relatedness identification ID either monozygotic_twinpair_* or dizygotic_twinpair_*
Project description:A total of 3 patients with basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and 3 healthy individuals (control; non-lesional skin) were enrolled in the study. Punch biopsies (4 mm) were obtained under local anaesthesia and immediately put in RNAlater (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) and stored at - 80 °C until RNA extraction.
Project description:To study early-onset gene expression changes in cutaneous wound healing, 3 mm wounds were induced into the back skin of female wildtype C57BL/6 mice using a biopsy punch. Mice were sacrificed 2h, 6h or 24h post wound induction (PWI) and 1 - 1.5 mm of skin lining the wound edge was isolated and sequenced. The skin from the initial punch biopsy (0h PWI) was preserved and taken as a control sample to identify differentially expressed genes.
Project description:Gene expression has been proposed as an intermediate phenotype that can increase power in complex trait gene-mapping studies. Psoriasis, an immune-mediated, inflammatory and hyperproliferative disease of the skin and joints, provides an ideal model system to evaluate this paradigm, as conclusive evidence demonstrates that psoriasis has a genetic basis and the disease tissue is readily accessible. To better understand the complex nature of processes in psoriasis, we characterize gene expression profiles in uninvolved and involved skin from affected individuals as well as normal skin from control individuals. Experiment Overall Design: We extracted total RNA from punch biopsies taken from 58 psoriatic patients and 64 normal healthy controls. Two biopsies were taken from each patient; one 6mm punch biopsy was obtained from lesional skin of each patient (involved sample) and the other from non-lesional skin (uninvolved sample), taken at least 10 cm away from any active plaque. One biopsy was obtained from each healty control. Totally 180 samples were run on Affymetrix HU133 Plus 2.0 microarrays containing >54,000 gene probes. Experiment Overall Design: The raw data from 180 microarrays were processed using the Robust Multichip Average (RMA) method. The expression values in the table were after adjustment of RMA expression values (on the log scale) to account for batch and sex effects. Experiment Overall Design: Definition of abbreviations used in Sample records: NN = normal skin from controls; PN = uninvolved skin from cases; PP = involved skin from cases.
Project description:Glycoproteomics was performed on plasma collected from mice 3 days after biopsy punch wound healing and 3 days after myocardial infarction (MI) wound healing.
Project description:We profiled four healthy individuals with age between 25 to 38 years old over 10-week period longitudinally using high throughput analysis. We measured blood count, flow-based cell populations, plasma proteome, transcriptome at single cell level, and genomic region accessibility using single cell ATAC to infer immune variations in healthy individuals.
Project description:From 3 months of age the retina is known to undergo morphoplogical remodelling. This analysis examines expression in the retina after all the rod photoreceptors are lost (by 1 month) and compares the changes in expression that occur before (2 months) and after (8 months) remodelling. Total RNA was extracted from central retina regions by punch biopsy at 2 months and 8 months of age from C57Bl6/rd1 mice.
Project description:A total of 3 patients with basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and 3 healthy individuals (control; non-lesional skin) were enrolled in the study. Punch biopsies (4 mm) were obtained under local anaesthesia and immediately put in RNAlater (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) and stored at - 80 °C until RNA extraction. The lncRNA and mRNA expression in BCC was compared to lncRNA and mRNA expression in non-lesional skin (control).
Project description:This study aimed to decipher the etiopathogenesis of HBV-associated MN by performing single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) of kidney biopsy specimens from a patient with HBV-associated MN and two healthy individuals.
Project description:Simple Markov model.
There are 3 disease states: Healthy, Sick, and Dead, where the Dead state is terminal.
The yearly transition probabilities are:
Healthy to Dead: 0.01; Healthy to Sick: 0.2 for Male and 0.1 for Female; Sick to Healthy: 0.1; Sick to Dead: 0.3.
The transition probability now depends on the cohort (Male or Female) and can be expressed as a function of a Boolean covariate Male.
Initial conditions: Healthy = (50 Male, 50 Female), Sick = (0,0) and Dead = (0,0).
Output: Number of men and women in each disease state for years 1-10.