Revealing myopathy spectrum: integrating transcriptional and clinical features of human skeletal muscles with varying health conditions.


Journal

Communications biology
ISSN: 2399-3642
Titre abrégé: Commun Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101719179

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 Apr 2024
Historique:
received: 22 08 2023
accepted: 03 04 2024
medline: 11 4 2024
pubmed: 11 4 2024
entrez: 10 4 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Myopathy refers to a large group of heterogeneous, rare muscle diseases. Bulk RNA-sequencing has been utilized for the diagnosis and research of these diseases for many years. However, the existing valuable sequencing data often lack integration and clinical interpretation. In this study, we integrated bulk RNA-sequencing data from 1221 human skeletal muscles (292 with myopathies, 929 controls) from both databases and our local samples. By applying a method similar to single-cell analysis, we revealed a general spectrum of muscle diseases, ranging from healthy to mild disease, moderate muscle wasting, and severe muscle disease. This spectrum was further partly validated in three specific myopathies (97 muscles) through clinical features including trinucleotide repeat expansion, magnetic resonance imaging fat fraction, pathology, and clinical severity scores. This spectrum helped us identify 234 genuinely healthy muscles as unprecedented controls, providing a new perspective for deciphering the hallmark genes and pathways among different myopathies. The newly identified featured genes of general myopathy, inclusion body myositis, and titinopathy were highly expressed in our local muscles, as validated by quantitative polymerase chain reaction.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38600180
doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-06143-3
pii: 10.1038/s42003-024-06143-3
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Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

438

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Huahua Zhong (H)

Department of Neurology, Huashan Rare Disease Center, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. huatwofold@outlook.com.

Veronica Sian (V)

Department of Precision Medicine, "Luigi Vanvitelli" University of Campania, Via L. De Crecchio 7, Naples, Italy.

Mridul Johari (M)

Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Folkhälsan Research Center, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Centre for Medical Research, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, Australia.

Shintaro Katayama (S)

Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Folkhälsan Research Center, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden.

Ali Oghabian (A)

Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Folkhälsan Research Center, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Per Harald Jonson (PH)

Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Folkhälsan Research Center, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Peter Hackman (P)

Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Folkhälsan Research Center, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Marco Savarese (M)

Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Folkhälsan Research Center, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Bjarne Udd (B)

Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Folkhälsan Research Center, Medicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Tampere Neuromuscular Center, University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.

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