Project description:Genome-wide DNA methylation profiling of femoral bones obtained from young and old individuals. The Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation EPIC BeadChip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 850K CpGs from human femoral bones.
Project description:Certain bone graft materials are employed for alveolar bone regeneration, and autografts are commonly used. Alveolar and jaw bones are developmentally derived from neural crest cells, while most trunk and limb bones are derived from mesodermal mesenchymal cells. Consequently, the chosen bone graft material is likely to have a different developmental origin than the recipient bone. We hypothesized that there are differences in the gene expression profiles and bone healing capacities between bones with different developmental origins. Therefore, we investigated these properties in the maxilla, mandible, ilium and femur. DNA microarray data revealed close homology between the gene expression profiles of the ilium and femur. The gene expressions of Wnt-1, P75, SOX10, Nestin and Musashi-1 were significantly higher in the maxilla and mandible than in the ilium and femur. The frontal bone healed faster than the parietal bone. Parietal bone defects transplanted with maxillary and mandibular bone grafts exhibited closure. Thus, it is suggested that the maxilla and mandible have different gene expression profiles from the other bones examined, and exhibit neural crest cell properties with a marked healing ability in adults. The data further suggest that jaw bones are effective as both bone graft materials and graft beds.
Project description:Enhanced understanding of differential gene expression and biological pathways associated with distinct phases of intramembranous bone regeneration following femoral marrow ablation surgery will improve future advancements regarding osseointegration of joint replacement implants, biomaterials design, and bone tissue engineering. A rat femoral marrow ablation model was performed and genome-wide microarray data were obtained from samples at 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, 28, and 56 days post-ablation, with intact bones serving as controls at Day 0. Bayesian model-based clustering produced eight distinct groups amongst 9,062 significant gene probe sets based on similar temporal expression profiles, which were further categorized into three major temporal classes of increased, variable, and decreased expression. Differential biological processes and pathways associated with each major temporal group were identified, and significantly expressed genes involved were visually represented by heat maps. It was determined that the increased expression group exclusively contains genes involved in pathways for matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), Wnt signaling, TGF-β signaling, and inflammatory pathway. Only the variable expression group contains genes associated with glycolysis and gluconeogenesis, Notch Signaling Pathway, natural killer cell mediated cytotoxicity, and B cell receptor signaling pathway, among others. The decreased group exclusively consists of genes involved in heme biosynthesis, p53 signaling pathway, and hematopoietic cell lineage. Significant biological pathways and transcription factors expressed at each time point post-ablation were also identified. These data present the first temporal gene expression profiling analysis of the rat genome during intramembranous bone regeneration induced by femoral marrow ablation.
Project description:In order to investigate age-correlated DNA methylation changes in saliva, genome-wide DNA methylation profiling was performed for saliva from 54 males aged 18 to 73 years. The Illumina Infinium 450k Human DNA methylation Beadchip was used to acquire DNA methylation profiles across about 450,000 CpGs in bisulfite converted DNA.
Project description:Genome wide DNA methylation profiling in saliva samples from individuals with and without coeliac disease. The Illumina Infinium 450k Human DNA methylation BeadChip was used to obtain DNA methylation profiles across approximately 485,500 CpGs. The study investigated DNA methylation profiles associated with CD.
Project description:In this study, we generated whole genome bisulfite sequencing data of 2 samples for Bones in Holstein cattle. We analyzed the variations of DNA methylation among tissues compared to other tissues we generated before.