Comparative Gene Expression Analysis of Mouse and Human Cardiac Maturation
- Author:
Uosaki HIDEKI
1
;
Taguchi Y-H
Author Information
1. Division of Cardiology
- Keywords:
Cardiac maturation;
Comparative gene expression analysis;
Microarray meta analysis;
Principal component analy-sis;
Feature selection
- From:
Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
2016;14(4):207-215
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Understanding how human cardiomyocytes mature is crucial to realizing stem cell-based heart regeneration, modeling adult heart diseases, and facilitating drug discovery. However, it is not feasible to analyze human samples for maturation due to inaccessibility to samples while cardiomy-ocytes mature during fetal development and childhood, as well as difficulty in avoiding variations among individuals. Using model animals such as mice can be a useful strategy;nonetheless, it is not well-understood whether and to what degree gene expression profiles during maturation are shared between humans and mice. Therefore, we performed a comparative gene expression analysis of mice and human samples. First, we examined two distinct mice microarray platforms for shared gene expression profiles, aiming to increase reliability of the analysis. We identified a set of genes display-ing progressive changes during maturation based on principal component analysis. Second, we demonstrated that the genes identified had a differential expression pattern between adult and ear-lier stages (e.g., fetus) common in mice and humans. Our findings provide a foundation for further genetic studies of cardiomyocyte maturation.
