Expression of Rap1GAP in human myeloid disease following microarray selection.
To find the underlying causes of primary myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), the gene expression profiling of both CD34+ cells and bone marrow mononuclear cells from MDS patients was performed using oligonucleotide microarray and cDNA microarrays, respectively. Several candidate genes which were differentially expressed in MDS patients versus normal controls were selected and confirmed in expanding samples by quantitative real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction after clustering and bioinformatics analysis. one of these genes, RAP1GAP, was found to be expressed at a significantly higher level in patients with MDS in comparison with those suffering from other hematopoietic diseases including leukemia (P < 0.01). We propose that over-expression of RAP1GAP gene may play a role in the pathogenesis of MDS.
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Leukemia Research Division, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, Key Laboratory of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Ministry of Health, First Affiliated Hospital, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D018952:Antigens, CD34 / Q000097:blood; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D005260:Female; D020690:GTPase-Activating Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006801:Humans; D007963:Leukocytes, Mononuclear / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009000:Monocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
D018952:Antigens, CD34; D020690:GTPase-Activating Proteins; C484658:RAP1GAP protein, human