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Replicable and coupled changes in innate and adaptive immune gene expression in two case-control studies of blood microarrays in major depressive disorder

Leday, Gwenaël G.R, Vertes, Petra E., Richardson, Sylvia, Greene, Jonathan R., Regan, Tim, Khan, Shahid, Henderson, Robbie, Freeman, Tom C., Pariante, Carmine M., Harrison, Neil A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9584-3769, Perry, V. Hugh, Drevets, Wayne C., Wittenberg, Gayle M. and Bullmore, Edward T. 2018. Replicable and coupled changes in innate and adaptive immune gene expression in two case-control studies of blood microarrays in major depressive disorder. Biological Psychiatry 83 (1) , pp. 70-80. 10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.01.021

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Abstract

BackgroundPeripheral inflammation is often associated with major depressive disorder (MDD), and immunological biomarkers of depression remain a focus of investigation.MethodsWe used microarray data on whole blood from two independent case-control studies of MDD: the GlaxoSmithKline–High-Throughput Disease-specific target Identification Program [GSK-HiTDiP] study (113 patients and 57 healthy control subjects) and the Janssen–Brain Resource Company study (94 patients and 100 control subjects). Genome-wide differential gene expression analysis (18,863 probes) resulted in a p value for each gene in each study. A Bayesian method identified the largest p-value threshold (q = .025) associated with twice the number of genes differentially expressed in both studies compared with the number of coincidental case-control differences expected by chance.ResultsA total of 165 genes were differentially expressed in both studies with concordant direction of fold change. The 90 genes overexpressed (or UP genes) in MDD were significantly enriched for immune response to infection, were concentrated in a module of the gene coexpression network associated with innate immunity, and included clusters of genes with correlated expression in monocytes, monocyte-derived dendritic cells, and neutrophils. In contrast, the 75 genes underexpressed (or DOWN genes) in MDD were associated with the adaptive immune response and included clusters of genes with correlated expression in T cells, natural killer cells, and erythroblasts. Consistently, the MDD patients with overexpression of UP genes also had underexpression of DOWN genes (correlation > .70 in both studies).ConclusionsMDD was replicably associated with proinflammatory activation of the peripheral innate immune system, coupled with relative inactivation of the adaptive immune system, indicating the potential of transcriptional biomarkers for immunological stratification of patients with depression.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Additional Information: MRC Immunopsychiatry Consortium This is an open access article under the CC BY license
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0006-3223
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 17 May 2019
Date of Acceptance: 17 January 2017
Last Modified: 10 May 2023 15:40
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/121472

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