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ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM
卷 56, 期 11, 页码 3784-3792出版社
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/art.22928
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- NIAMS NIH HHS [R01 AR044345-11, R01 AR044345-10, R01 AR044345, AR-044345] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS-40828, P50 NS040828-070003, P50 NS040828, P01 NS040828] Funding Source: Medline
Objective. To apply gene expression profiling to the study of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with inflammatory myopathies, in order to provide insight into disease pathogenesis and identify potential biomarkers associated with disease activity. Methods. We used Affymetrix whole-genome microarrays to measure the expression of similar to 38,500 genes in 65 blood and 15 muscle samples from 44 patients with dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), inclusion body myositis (IBM), myasthenia gravis, or genetically determined myopathies and from 12 healthy volunteers. In 9 patients, 2 samples were obtained at different time points, when disease was either active or improving, and these paired blood samples were also compared. Bioinformatics techniques were used to identify genes with significant differential expression among diagnostic categories and in relation to disease activity. We corroborated the microarray data with quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. Results. Most patients with active DM or PM, but not patients with IBM, had significant and high up-regulation of the type I interferon-alpha/beta (IFN alpha/beta)inducible genes in blood. Furthermore, the up-regulation of these genes correlated with disease activity in DM and PM, with down-regulation occurring when disease was controlled with treatment. Conclusion. DM and PM are diseases characterized by the systemic overexpression of IFN alpha/beta-inducible genes. The magnitude of the overexpression of these genes is higher in DM and correlates with disease activity in both disorders. Although PM and IBM have been modeled as having similar immunologic processes occurring within muscle, there are substantial differences in the expression of IFN alpha/beta-inducible genes in blood in these diseases.
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