Project description:We developed a 5'RNA-seq methodology to concurrently assess gene expression and start-site usage changes. We applied this methodology to study hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in mice harboring a human deleterious mutation. 5'RNA-seq analysis of transcriptomes from mouse hearts with or without hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Biological replicates were pooled into a single sequencing run. 5'RNA-seq methodology consists of enhanced sequencing of 5' ends and computational assessment of changes at start-sites of genes.
Project description:This study utilized TMT to characterize the cardiac proteomic differences between patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and controls.
Project description:To establish changes in cardiac transcription profiles brought about by heart failure we collected myocardial samples from patients undergoing cardiac transplantation whose failure arises from different etiologies (e.g. idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, ischemic cardiomyopathy, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, valvular cardiomyopathy, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) and from "normal" organ donors whose hearts cannot be used for transplants. The transcriptional profile of the mRNA in these samples will be measured with gene array technology. Changes in transcriptional profiles can be correlated with the physiologic profile of heart-failure hearts acquired at the time of transplantation. Keywords: other
Project description:Using a high-throughput gene expression profiling technology, we have illuminated novel potential microRNA (miRNA) components of the molecular disease process underlying human hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). It is hoped that this will fuel future research endeavors that will eventually uncover the role miRNAs may play in the phenotypic heterogeneity of the disease, and thus, provide potential tools for identifying patients with benign versus malignant forms of the disease. Case (n = 107)-Control (n=20) study comparing the microRNA transcriptome of cardiac tissues from patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy to the microRNA transcriptome of control donor cardiac tissues.
