Abstract
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is caused by trinucleotide repeat expansion mutations in Poly(A) binding protein 1 (PABPN1). PABPN1 is a regulator of mRNA stability and is ubiquitously expressed. Here we investigated how symptoms in OPMD initiate only at midlife and why a subset of skeletal muscles is predominantly affected. Genome-wide RNA expression profiles from Vastus lateralis muscles human carriers of expanded-PABPN1 at pre-symptomatic and symptomatic stages were compared with healthy controls. Major expression changes were found to be associated with age rather than with expression of expanded-PABPN1, instead transcriptomes of OPMD and elderly muscles were significantly similar (P
Original language | English |
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Journal | Aging |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 6 |
Pages (from-to) | 412-26 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISSN | 1945-4589 |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2013 |
Keywords
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged, 80 and over
- Aging
- Animals
- Case-Control Studies
- Cell Aging
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Humans
- Mice
- Middle Aged
- Muscle Weakness
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
- Poly(A)-Binding Protein I
- RNA, Messenger
- Transcriptome
- Young Adult