Pregnancy-Induced Changes in Systemic Gene Expression among Healthy Women and Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Anuradha Mittal, Lior Pachter, J. Lee Nelson, Hanne Kjærgaard, Mette Kiel Smed, Virginia L. Gildengorin, Vibeke Zoffmann, Merete Lund Hetland, Nicholas P. Jewell, Jorn Olsen, Damini Jawaheer

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Abstract

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

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummere0145204
TidsskriftPLOS ONE
Vol/bind10
Udgave nummer12
Sider (fra-til)1-15
Antal sider15
ISSN1932-6203
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 18 dec. 2015

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