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ArticleEpilepsia2016

Differential gene expression in dentate granule cells in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with and without hippocampal sclerosis.

Nicole G Griffin, Yu Wang, Christine M Hulette, Matt Halvorsen, Kenneth D Cronin, Nicole M Walley, Michael M Haglund, Rodney A Radtke, J H Pate Skene, Saurabh R Sinha and 1 more

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Article in Epilepsia, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nicole G GriffinInstitute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Yu WangDepartment of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Christine M HuletteDepartment of Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Matt HalvorsenInstitute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Kenneth D CroninDuke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Nicole M WalleyDivision of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Michael M HaglundDepartment of Neurosurgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Rodney A RadtkeDepartment of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
J H Pate SkeneDepartment of Neurobiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Saurabh R SinhaDepartment of Neurology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Erin L HeinzenInstitute for Genomic Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Duke University · USColumbia University · US

Funding

Exploratory genomic investigations of mesial temporal lobe epilepsyR21NS078657 · NINDS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI HEINZEN, ERIN L · 2012 to 2013
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NINDS NIH HHS 5R21NS078657NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS078657
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveHippocampal sclerosis is the most common neuropathologic finding in cases of medically intractable mesial temporal lobe epilepsy. In this study, we analyzed the gene expression profiles of dentate granule cells of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with and without hippocampal sclerosis to show that next-generation sequencing methods can produce interpretable genomic data from RNA collected from small homogenous cell populations, and to shed light on the transcriptional changes associated with hippocampal sclerosis.

methodsRNA was extracted, and complementary DNA (cDNA) was prepared and amplified from dentate granule cells that had been harvested by laser capture microdissection from surgically resected hippocampi from patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with and without hippocampal sclerosis. Sequencing libraries were sequenced, and the resulting sequencing reads were aligned to the reference genome. Differential expression analysis was used to ascertain expression differences between patients with and without hippocampal sclerosis.

resultsGreater than 90% of the RNA-Seq reads aligned to the reference. There was high concordance between transcriptional profiles obtained for duplicate samples. Principal component analysis revealed that the presence or absence of hippocampal sclerosis was the main determinant of the variance within the data. Among the genes up-regulated in the hippocampal sclerosis samples, there was significant enrichment for genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation. SIGNIFICANCE: By analyzing the gene expression profiles of dentate granule cells from surgically resected hippocampal specimens from patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with and without hippocampal sclerosis, we have demonstrated the utility of next-generation sequencing methods for producing biologically relevant results from small populations of homogeneous cells, and have provided insight on the transcriptional changes associated with this pathology.

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AdultDentate GyrusElectroencephalographyEpilepsy, Temporal LobeFemaleGene Expression RegulationHippocampusHumansMaleMiddle AgedPrincipal Component AnalysisSclerosisYoung AdultHippocampusMesial temporal sclerosisRNA-SeqTemporal lobe epilepsy

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