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Peripheral blood transcriptome sequencing reveals rejection-relevant genes in long-term heart transplantation.

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BACKGROUND:Peripheral blood-based gene expression patterns have been investigated as biomarkers to monitor the immune system and rule out rejection after heart transplantation. Recent advances in the high-throughput deep sequencing (HTS) technologies provide new leads in transcriptome analysis. METHODS:By performing Solexa/Illumina's digital gene expression (DGE) profiling, we analyzed gene expression profiles of PBMCs from 6 quiescent (grade 0) and 6 rejection (grade 2R&3R) heart transplant recipients at more than 6 months after transplantation. Subsequently, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) was carried out in an independent validation cohort of 47 individuals from three rejection groups (ISHLT, grade 0,1R, 2R&3R). RESULTS:Through DGE sequencing and qPCR validation, 10 genes were identified as informative genes for detection of cardiac transplant rejection. A further clustering analysis showed that the 10 genes were not only effective for distinguishing patients with acute cardiac allograft rejection, but also informative for discriminating patients with renal allograft rejection based on both blood and biopsy samples. Moreover, PPI network analysis revealed that the 10 genes were connected to each other within a short interaction distance. CONCLUSIONS:We proposed a 10-gene signature for heart transplant patients at high-risk of developing severe rejection, which was found to be effective as well in other organ transplant. Moreover, we supposed that these genes function systematically as biomarkers in long-time allograft rejection. Further validation in broad transplant population would be required before the non-invasive biomarkers can be generally utilized to predict the risk of transplant rejection.

journal_name

Int J Cardiol

journal_title

International journal of cardiology

authors

Chen Y,Zhang H,Xiao X,Jia Y,Wu W,Liu L,Jiang J,Zhu B,Meng X,Chen W

doi

10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.03.095

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-10-03 00:00:00

pages

2726-33

issue

eissn

0167-5273

issn

1874-1754

pii

S0167-5273(13)00526-3

journal_volume

168

pub_type

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Peripheral blood transcriptome sequencing reveals rejection-relevant genes in long-term heart transplantation.