B cells produce important cytokines regulate bone metabolism. We comparison gene expression patterns of circulating B cells in blood from 20 postmenopausal female smokers with low or high bone mineral density (BMD): 10 low BMD vs. 10 high BMD. In total 17 differentially expressed genes were identified with smoking-related osteoporosis.
Keywords: disease state analysis
Overall design
B cells were isolated from 70 ml of whole blood from each of 20 postmenopausal female smokers, 10 with high BMD and 10 with low BMD, using B cell positive isolation method (Dynabeads CD19,Pan B) from Invitrogen Life Technologies Dynal Biotech Inc,CA. Total RNA was extracted from B cells using Qiagen RNeasy Mini Kit.A total of 4ug totalRNA was used to produced targets for each subject according to standard Affymetrix procedures. Hybridization was made for each subject. Robust Multiarray Algorithm was used to normalize the expression data and smoking-related genes were analyzed using two-way ANOVA under mutiple-testing adjustment combined with our previous GEO data (GSE7429).
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