期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
卷 20, 期 4, 页码 404-410出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2011.213
关键词
facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy; myogenesis; stress response; gene expression; family influence
资金
- National Institutes of Health [HL064641, 5U54HD060848]
- FSH Society
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- Thoracic Foundation
- John Alden Trust
- Wellstone Center
To explore possible mechanisms of pathology in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), we generated a novel library of myogenic cells composed of paired cultures derived from FSHD subjects and unaffected first-degree relatives. We prepared cells from biopsies of both biceps and deltoid muscles obtained from each of 10 FSHD and 9 unaffected donors. We used this new collection to determine how family background and disease affected patterns of growth and differentiation, expression of a panel of candidate, and muscle-specific genes, and responses to exogenous stressors. We found that FSHD and unaffected cells had, on average, indistinguishable patterns of differentiation, gene expression, and dose-response curves to staurosporine, paraquat, hydrogen peroxide, and glutathione depletion. Differentiated FSHD and unaffected cultures were both more sensitive to glutathione depletion than proliferating cultures, but showed similar responses to paraquat, staurosporine, and peroxide. For stress responses, the sample size was sufficient to detect a 10% change in effect at the observed variability with a power of 499%. In contrast, for each of these properties, we found significant differences among cells from different cohorts, and these differences were independent of disease status, gender, or muscle biopsied. Thus, though none of the properties we examined could be used to reliably distinguish between FSHD and unaffected cells, family of origin was an important contributor to gene-expression patterns and stressor responses in cultures of both FSHD and unaffected myogenic cells. European Journal of Human Genetics (2012) 20, 404-410; doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2011.213; published online 23 November 2011
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