Trial reportScientific reports2021
The amniotic fluid cell-free transcriptome in spontaneous preterm labor.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Molecular Mechanism and Pathways of Spontaneous Preterm Birth in Different Gestational Tissues: A Systematic Review of Transcriptome Studies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Pooled it
- Evaluating the Utility of RNAseq in Prenatal Diagnostics: Expression Profiles of Cultured Chorionic Villus and Amniotic Fluid Samples.Prenatal diagnosis · 2026Article
- The Pathophysiology of Spontaneous Preterm Birth: Emerging Mechanisms Reviewed by the Preterm Birth International Collaborative.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2026Review
- Comparative Analysis of Feature Extraction Methods and Machine Learning Models for Predicting Osteoporosis Prevalence.Journal of medical systems · 2025Article
- Stratification of Amniotic Fluid Cells and Amniotic Fluid by Sex Opens Up New Perspectives on Fetal Health.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- The amniotic fluid proteome changes with term labor and informs biomarker discovery in maternal plasma.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The eNAMPT/TLR4 inflammatory cascade drives the severity of intra-amniotic inflammation in pregnancy and predicts infant outcomes.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Human Plasma Proteome During Normal Pregnancy.Journal of proteome research · 2022Article
- RNA-Seq of amniotic fluid cell-free RNA: a discovery phase study of the pathophysiology of congenital cytomegalovirus infection.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2022Article
- The amniotic fluid proteome predicts imminent preterm delivery in asymptomatic women with a short cervix.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Single cell transcriptomic analysis of human amnion identifies cell-specific signatures associated with membrane rupture and parturition.Cell & bioscience · 2022Article
- Emerging technologies for prenatal diagnosis: The application of whole genome and RNA sequencing.Prenatal diagnosis · 2022Review
- Molecular Approaches in Fetal Malformations, Dynamic Anomalies and Soft Markers: Diagnostic Rates and Challenges-Systematic Review of the Literature and Meta-Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Fetal DNA Causes Sex-Specific Inflammation From Human Fetal Membranes.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- World Prematurity Day: it takes an NIH village to prevent preterm birth and improve treatments for preterm infants.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
The amniotic fluid (AF) cell-free RNA was shown to reflect physiological and pathological processes in pregnancy, but its value in the prediction of spontaneous preterm delivery is unknown. Herein we profiled cell-free RNA in AF samples collected from women who underwent transabdominal amniocentesis after an episode of spontaneous preterm labor and subsequently delivered within 24 h (n = 10) or later (n = 28) in gestation. Expression of known placental single-cell RNA-Seq signatures was quantified in AF cell-free RNA and compared between the groups. Random forest models were applied to predict time-to-delivery after amniocentesis. There were 2385 genes differentially expressed in AF samples of women who delivered within 24 h of amniocentesis compared to gestational age-matched samples from women who delivered after 24 h of amniocentesis. Genes with cell-free RNA changes were associated with immune and inflammatory processes related to the onset of labor, and the expression of placental single-cell RNA-Seq signatures of immune cells was increased with imminent delivery. AF transcriptomic prediction models captured these effects and predicted delivery within 24 h of amniocentesis (AUROC = 0.81). These results may inform the development of biomarkers for spontaneous preterm birth.
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