TY - JOUR
T1 - Advanced microarray analysis highlights modified neuro-immune signaling in nucleated blood cells from Parkinson's disease patients
AU - Soreq, Lilach
AU - Israel, Zvi
AU - Bergman, Hagai
AU - Soreq, Hermona
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge the support by the ROSETREES Foundation and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology (to H.S.).
PY - 2008/9/15
Y1 - 2008/9/15
N2 - Laboratory tests for Parkinson's disease (PD) were recently extended to microarray analyses of nucleated blood cells. Here, we report the use of statistical and gene ontology tools to re-examine these microarray data. Distribution plots and PCA mapping enabled removal of several outliers out of the 105 analyzed PD and control samples, which improved the discriminative power for PD blood cells compared to healthy and neurological disease controls. Combined with gene ontology tests, our findings point at neuro-immune signaling-related transcripts as distinctly expressed early in PD progress and call for exploiting microarray tests also for follow-up of PD treatment efficacy.
AB - Laboratory tests for Parkinson's disease (PD) were recently extended to microarray analyses of nucleated blood cells. Here, we report the use of statistical and gene ontology tools to re-examine these microarray data. Distribution plots and PCA mapping enabled removal of several outliers out of the 105 analyzed PD and control samples, which improved the discriminative power for PD blood cells compared to healthy and neurological disease controls. Combined with gene ontology tests, our findings point at neuro-immune signaling-related transcripts as distinctly expressed early in PD progress and call for exploiting microarray tests also for follow-up of PD treatment efficacy.
KW - ANOVA
KW - Affymetrix 3′ microarrays
KW - Blood
KW - Gene ontology
KW - Parkinson's disease
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=51649090574&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2008.06.019
DO - 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2008.06.019
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C2 - 18692253
AN - SCOPUS:51649090574
SN - 0165-5728
VL - 201-202
SP - 227
EP - 236
JO - Journal of Neuroimmunology
JF - Journal of Neuroimmunology
IS - C
ER -