Project description:Background and aims: Celiac disease is provoked by gluten exposure, but the resultant pathogenic process in the duodenum is not well understood. We aimed to define the core celiac transcriptomic signature and pathologic pathways in pre-treatment diagnostic duodenum biopsies. Methods: We use mRNAseq to define pre-treatment diagnostic duodenum gene expression in 54 pediatric celiac patients and non-celiac controls, and we validate our key findings in an independent cohort of 40 participants. We further define similar and divergent genes and pathways in 177 Crohn disease patients and controls. Results: We observe a marked suppression of mature epithelial metabolic functions in celiac patients, overlapping substantially with the Crohn signature. A marked adaptive immune response was noted for the up-regulated signature including interferon response, alpha-beta, and gamma-delta T-cells that overlapped to some extant with the Crohn signature. However, we identified a celiac specific signature linked to increased cell proliferation, nuclear division, and cell cycle activity that was localized primarily to the epithelia as noted by CCNB1 and Ki67 staining. Lastly, we demonstrate the utility of the transcriptomic date to correctly classify disease or healthy states in the discovery and validation cohorts. Conclusion: Our data provide insights into celiac pathogenesis and can stimulate new approaches to address this highly prevalent condition.
Project description:Celiac disease is a chronic immune-mediated disorder with an important genetic component. To date, there are 57 independent association signals from 39 non-HLA loci, and a total of 66 candidate genes have been proposed. We aimed to scrutinize the functional implication of 45 of those genes by analyzing their expression in the disease tissue of celiac patients (at diagnosis/treatment) compared to non-celiac controls. The sample set consisted of 15 CD children at diagnosis (on a gluten-containing diet, with CD associated antibodies, atrophy of intestinal villi and crypt hyperplasia), and the same patients in remission after being treated with GFD for >2 years (asymptomatic, antibody negative, and normalized intestinal epithelium at that time), plus 15 tissue samples from non-celiac individuals not suffering from inflammation at the time of endoscopy used as controls
Project description:Celiac disease is a chronic immune-mediated disorder with an important genetic component. To date, there are 57 independent association signals from 39 non-HLA loci, and a total of 66 candidate genes have been proposed. We aimed to scrutinize the functional implication of 45 of those genes by analyzing their expression in the disease tissue of celiac patients (at diagnosis/treatment) compared to non-celiac controls.
Project description:We collected 19 duodenal biopsies of children and adults with celiac disease and compared the expression of 38 selected genes between each other and with the observed in 13 non-celiac disease controls matched by age. qPCR gene expression profiling. Intestinal samples from children and adults with active celiac disease patients and controls were analysed.
Project description:Celiac disease (CD) is a chronic immune-mediated disorder with an important genetic component. We analyzed the expression of candidate genes in biopsies from duodenum.
Project description:Aim: To compare the overall transcriptional profile in healthy controls and celiac disease patients. This dataset, was used to evaluate if our in vitro model (intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes, desccribed in doi:10.1016/j.jaut.2020.10242 ) is representative of the transcriptional profile in the intestine under healthy or inflammatory conditions. Samples: Upper colonoscopy biopsies from 5 control and 11 celiac disease patients were taken, total RNA was extracted and RNA-sequencing was performed (without replicates)
Project description:microRNAs were profiled in healthy controls, classic celiac patients (CD), CD patients with anemia and GFD treated CD with normalization of duodenal mucosa
Project description:microRNAs were profiled in healthy controls, classic celiac patients (CD), CD patients with anemia and GFD treated CD with normalization of duodenal mucosa all CD conditions were related to controls. For each group, five patients were pooled. One replicate per experiment