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Series GSE20206 Query DataSets for GSE20206
Status Public on May 01, 2010
Title Acquired chromosome abnormalities in the lungs of patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Genome variation profiling by SNP array
SNP genotyping by SNP array
Summary Vascular remodeling in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) involves proliferation and migration of endothelial and smooth muscle cells, leading to obliterative vascular lesions. Previous studies have indicated that the endothelial cell proliferation is quasi-neoplastic, with evidence of monoclonality and instability of short DNA microsatellite sequences. To assess whether there is larger scale genomic instability, we performed genome-wide microarray copy number analysis on pulmonary artery endothelial (PAEC) and smooth muscle cells isolated from the lungs of PAH patients. Mosaic chromosomal abnormalities were detected in five of nine PAEC cultures from PAH lungs and zero of four controls. Fluorescent in situ hybridization analysis confirmed the presence of these abnormalities in vivo in two of three cases. One patient harbored a germline mutation of BMPR2, the primary genetic cause of PAH, and a somatic loss of chromosome-13, which constitutes a second hit in the same pathway by deleting Smad-8. In two female cases with mosaic loss of the X-chromosome, methylation analysis showed that the active X was deleted. Remarkably, one also showed completely skewed X-inactivation in the non-deleted cells, suggesting the PAEC population was clonal prior to the acquisition of the chromosome abnormality. Our data indicate a high frequency of genetically abnormal sub-clones within the lung vessels of patients with PAH and provide the first definitive evidence of a second genetic hit in a patient with a germline BMPR2 mutation. We propose that these chromosome abnormalities may confer a growth advantage and thus contribute to the progression of PAH.
 
Overall design Cross-sectional study of genomic copy number in cells cultured from the lungs of PAH patients.
This study used three Affy SNP chip types: 250kNSP, 250kSTY, and 6.0
 
Contributor(s) Aldred MA, Comhair SA, Varella-Garcia M, Asosingh K, Xu W, Noon GP, Thistlethwaite PA, Tuder RM, Erzurum SC, Geraci MW, Coldren CD
Citation(s) 20581168
Submission date Feb 05, 2010
Last update date Nov 27, 2018
Contact name Christopher D Coldren
E-mail(s) [email protected]
Phone 303 724 6056
Organization name University of Colorado School of Medicine
Department Medicine
Lab Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine
Street address 12700 East 17th Place
City Aurora
State/province CO
ZIP/Postal code 80045
Country USA
 
Platforms (3)
GPL3718 [Mapping250K_Nsp] Affymetrix Mapping 250K Nsp SNP Array
GPL3720 [Mapping250K_Sty] Affymetrix Mapping 250K Sty2 SNP Array
GPL6801 [GenomeWideSNP_6] Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human SNP 6.0 Array
Samples (37)
GSM517306 PAH-1-AEC-NSP
GSM517307 PAH-1-AEC-STY
GSM517308 PAH-1-BSMC-NSP
Relations
BioProject PRJNA125719

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE20206_RAW.tar 1.2 Gb (http)(custom) TAR (of CEL, CHP)
Processed data included within Sample table
Processed data provided as supplementary file

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