title: Gene expression analysis of induced pluripotent stem cells from aneuploid chromosomal syndromes.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Human aneuploidy is the leading cause of early pregnancy loss, mental retardation, and multiple congenital anomalies. Due to the high mortality associated with aneuploidy, the pathophysiological mechanisms of aneuploidy syndrome remain largely unknown. Previous studies focused mostly on whether dosage compensation occurs, and the next generation transcriptomics sequencing technology RNA-seq is expected to eventually uncover the mechanisms of gene expression regulation and the related pathological phenotypes in human aneuploidy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using next generation transcriptomics sequencing technology RNA-seq, we profiled the transcriptomes of four human aneuploid induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines generated from monosomy × (Turner syndrome), trisomy 8 (Warkany syndrome 2), trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome), and partial trisomy 11:22 (Emanuel syndrome) as well as two umbilical cord matrix iPSC lines as euploid controls to examine how phenotypic abnormalities develop with aberrant karyotype. A total of 466 M (50-bp) reads were obtained from the six iPSC lines, and over 13,000 mRNAs were identified by gene annotation. Global analysis of gene expression profiles and functional analysis of differentially expressed (DE) genes were implemented. Over 5000 DE genes are determined between aneuploidy and euploid iPSCs respectively while 9 KEGG pathways are overlapped enriched in four aneuploidy samples.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results demonstrate that the extra or missing chromosome has extensive effects on the whole transcriptome. Functional analysis of differentially expressed genes reveals that the genes most affected in aneuploid individuals are related to central nervous system development and tumorigenesis.
authors.forename: Ruosi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Lili
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hao
authors.forename: Lingping
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Meili
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Rujiao
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Jingfa
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Jiayan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000782:Aneuploidy; D063646:Carcinogenesis / Q000235:genetics; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000378:metabolism; D025063:Chromosome Disorders / Q000235:genetics*; D002877:Chromosomes, Human / Q000235:genetics*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D057026:Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA