TY - JOUR
T1 - Pregnancy-Induced Changes in Systemic Gene Expression among Healthy Women and Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis
AU - Mittal, Anuradha
AU - Pachter, Lior
AU - Nelson, J. Lee
AU - Kjærgaard, Hanne
AU - Smed, Mette Kiel
AU - Gildengorin, Virginia L.
AU - Zoffmann, Vibeke
AU - Hetland, Merete Lund
AU - Jewell, Nicholas P.
AU - Olsen, Jorn
AU - Jawaheer, Damini
PY - 2015/12/18
Y1 - 2015/12/18
N2 - Background Pregnancy induces drastic biological changes systemically, and has a beneficial effect on some autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, specific systemic changes that occur as a result of pregnancy have not been thoroughly examined in healthy women or women with RA. The goal of this study was to identify genes with expression patterns associated with pregnancy, compared to pre-pregnancy as baseline and determine whether those associations are modified by presence of RA. Results In our RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) dataset from 5 healthy women and 20 women with RA, normalized expression levels of 4,710 genes were significantly associated with pregnancy status (pre-pregnancy, first, second and third trimesters) over time, irrespective of presence of RA (False Discovery Rate (FDR)-Adjusted p value
AB - Background Pregnancy induces drastic biological changes systemically, and has a beneficial effect on some autoimmune conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, specific systemic changes that occur as a result of pregnancy have not been thoroughly examined in healthy women or women with RA. The goal of this study was to identify genes with expression patterns associated with pregnancy, compared to pre-pregnancy as baseline and determine whether those associations are modified by presence of RA. Results In our RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) dataset from 5 healthy women and 20 women with RA, normalized expression levels of 4,710 genes were significantly associated with pregnancy status (pre-pregnancy, first, second and third trimesters) over time, irrespective of presence of RA (False Discovery Rate (FDR)-Adjusted p value
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0145204
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0145204
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 26683605
AN - SCOPUS:84956914298
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - PLoS Computational Biology
JF - PLoS Computational Biology
IS - 12
M1 - e0145204
ER -