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- Title
Distinct Monocyte Gene-Expression Profiles in Autoimmune Diabetes.
- Authors
Padmos, Roos C.; Schloot, Nanette C.; Beyan, Huriya; Ruwhof, Cindy; Staal, Frank J. T.; de Ridder, Dick; Aanstoot, Henk-Jan; Lam-Tse, Wai Kwan; de Wit, Harm; de Herder, Christian; Drexhage, Roos C.; Menart, Barbara; Leslie, R. David; Drexhage, Hemmo A.
- Abstract
OBJECTIVE--There is evidence that monocytes of patients with type 1 diabetes show proinflammatory activation and disturbed migration/adhesion, but the evidence is inconsistent. Our hypothesis is that monocytes are distinctly activated/disturbed in different subforms of autoimmune diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS--We studied patterns of inflammatory gene expression in monocytes of patients with type 1 diabetes (juvenile onset, n = 30; adult onset, n = 30) and latent autoimmune diabetes of the adult (LADA) (n = 30) (controls subjects, n = 49; type 2 diabetic patients, n = 30) using quantitative PCR. We tested 25 selected genes: 12 genes detected in a prestudy via whole-genome analyses plus an additional 13 genes identified as part of a monocyte inflammatory signature previously reported. RESULTS--We identified two distinct monocyte gene expression clusters in autoimmune diabetes. One cluster (comprising 12 proinflammatory cytokine/compound genes with a putative key gene PDE4B) was detected in 60% of LADA and 28% of adult-onset type 1 diabetic patients but in only 10% of juvenile-onset type 1 diabetic patients. A second cluster (comprising 10 chemotaxis, adhesion, motility, and metabolism genes) was detected in 43% of juvenile-onset type 1 diabetic and 33% of LADA patients but in only 9% of adult-onset type 1 diabetic patients. CONCLUSIONS--Subgroups of type 1 diabetic patients show an abnormal monocyte gene expression with two profiles, supporting a concept of heterogeneity in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diabetes only partly overlapping with the presently known diagnostic categories. Diabetes 57:2768-2773, 2008
- Subjects
MONOCYTES; GENE expression; DIABETES; AUTOIMMUNE diseases; PEOPLE with diabetes; POLYMERASE chain reaction
- Publication
Diabetes, 2008, Vol 57, Issue 10, p2768
- ISSN
0012-1797
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2337/db08-0496