Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-23-2017
Publication Title
Genome Medicine
Department
Geisel School of Medicine
Abstract
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multi-organ autoimmune disease characterized by skin fibrosis. Internal organ involvement is heterogeneous. It is unknown whether disease mechanisms are common across all involved affected tissues or if each manifestation has a distinct underlying pathology.We used consensus clustering to compare gene expression profiles of biopsies from four SSc-affected tissues (skin, lung, esophagus, and peripheral blood) from patients with SSc, and the related conditions pulmonary fibrosis (PF) and pulmonary arterial hypertension, and derived a consensus disease-associate signature across all tissues. We used this signature to query tissue-specific functional genomic networks. We performed novel network analyses to contrast the skin and lung microenvironments and to assess the functional role of the inflammatory and fibrotic genes in each organ. Lastly, we tested the expression of macrophage activation state-associated gene sets for enrichment in skin and lung using a Wilcoxon rank sum test.
DOI
10.1186/s13073-017-0417-1
Original Citation
Taroni JN, Greene CS, Martyanov V, Wood TA, Christmann RB, Farber HW, Lafyatis RA, Denton CP, Hinchcliff ME, Pioli PA, Mahoney JM, Whitfield ML. A novel multi-network approach reveals tissue-specific cellular modulators of fibrosis in systemic sclerosis. Genome Med. 2017 Mar 23;9(1):27. doi: 10.1186/s13073-017-0417-1. PMID: 28330499; PMCID: PMC5363043.
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Taroni, Jaclyn N.; Greene, Casey S.; Martyanov, Viktor; and Wood, Tammara A., "A Novel Multi-Network Approach Reveals Tissue-Specific Cellular Modulators of Fibrosis in Systemic Sclerosis" (2017). Dartmouth Scholarship. 893.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/893
