Project name: Homo sapiens

Description: Circulating miRNAs are an emerging class of biomarkers correlating their specific expression patterns to disease states. A considerable proportion of hematopoietically-derived miRNAs are present in plasma with the ability to confound the signature of true circulating miRNA species. We use microarray analysis to catalogue a list of 313 haemotopoetic miRNAs and analyze expression profiles of cell-free miRNAs in individual plasma fractions after calibrating for cellular miRNA signals. Comprehensive global maps of bona fide circulating miRNA species are presented, and inter-individual variability and gender-specific expression is explored in populations of healthy individuals.Overall design: Healthy Caucasian individuals were used to segregate blood into 8 subfractions: white blood cells (WBC)/buffy coat, leukocytes, red blood cells (red blood cells (RBC)), cloudy supernatant (CS), supernatant 1 (S1), supernatant 2 (S2), pellet 1 (P1) and pellet 2 (P2) through differential centrifugation to understand the proportion of cellular miRNAs in each category.

Data type: Transcriptome or Gene expression

Sample scope: Multiisolate

Relevance: Medical

Release date: 2011-06-17

Last updated: 2011-02-10