A sputum gene expression signature of six biomarkers identifies asthma inflammatory phenotype and steroid responsiveness
Gene expression profiles were generated from induced sputum samples from 47 asthma patients and were grouped by the inflammatory phenotype assigned using sputum cell counts into neutrophilic asthma (n=12), eosinophilic asthma (n=17) and paucigranulocytic asthma (n=18). RNA was extracted, amplified and hybridised to Illumina Sentrix HumanRef-8 Version 2 Expression BeadChips, and genes that were differentially expressed between asthma inflammatory phenotypes were compared.
- Primary Purpose
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- Description of Cohorts
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- Informed Consent Given?
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- Multi-center Study?
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- Organisms
- Homo sapiens
- Number of subjects
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- Diseases
- asthma
- Sample Sources
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- Type of Samples Collected
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