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Transcriptomic Characteristics Associated With Aging in the Thyroid Gland

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FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2022.859702

Keywords

thyroid gland; aging; immune response; mitochondria; cytoskeletal proteins

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  1. Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan [MOST-109-2314-B-195-018-MY3]
  2. MacKay Memorial Hospital [MMH-E-111-08, MMH-11112]

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This study analyzed RNA sequencing data of normal thyroid tissues and identified gene expression changes associated with aging. The findings shed light on molecular mechanisms underlying thyroid disorders in the geriatric population.
The aging thyroid is associated with a plethora of morphological and functional changes. Limited studies have addressed the gene expression signature in the aging thyroid, except for sporadic reports using data from postmortem samples in the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project. In this investigation, we analyzed the RNA sequencing data of 58 samples of normal-appearing counterpart thyroid tissues from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Aging-correlated genes were identified by determining the Spearman rank-order correlation between patient age and gene expression level. Additionally, we performed gene set enrichment analysis and conducted a weighted correlation network analysis. The results were compared with those analyzed using the GTEx data. The over-represented protein class of aging-correlated genes is mainly metabolite interconversion enzymes. Our analyses identified alterations in immune and inflammatory responses, mitochondrial functions, cytoskeletal proteins, as well as amino acid and cytochrome P450 metabolism. There was no significant association between thyroid differentiation and age. Our findings may shed molecular light on thyroid disorders in the geriatric population.

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