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Epigenomic and transcriptomic approaches in the post-genomic era : path to novel targets for diagnosis and therapy of the ischaemic heart? Position paper of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Cellular Biology of the Heart

  • Despite advances in myocardial reperfusion therapies, acute myocardial ischaemia/reperfusion injury and consequent ischaemic heart failure represent the number one cause of morbidity and mortality in industrialized societies. Although different therapeutic interventions have been shown beneficial in preclinical settings, an effective cardioprotective or regenerative therapy has yet to be successfully introduced in the clinical arena. Given the complex pathophysiology of the ischaemic heart, large scale, unbiased, global approaches capable of identifying multiple branches of the signalling networks activated in the ischaemic/reperfused heart might be more successful in the search for novel diagnostic or therapeutic targets. High-throughput techniques allow high-resolution, genome-wide investigation of genetic variants, epigenetic modifications, and associated gene expression profiles. Platforms such as proteomics and metabolomics (not described here in detail) also offer simultaneous readouts of hundreds of proteins and metabolites. Isolated omics analyses usually provide Big Data requiring large data storage, advanced computational resources and complex bioinformatics tools. The possibility of integrating different omics approaches gives new hope to better understand the molecular circuitry activated by myocardial ischaemia, putting it in the context of the human ‘diseasome’. Since modifications of cardiac gene expression have been consistently linked to pathophysiology of the ischaemic heart, the integration of epigenomic and transcriptomic data seems a promising approach to identify crucial disease networks. Thus, the scope of this Position Paper will be to highlight potentials and limitations of these approaches, and to provide recommendations to optimize the search for novel diagnostic or therapeutic targets for acute ischaemia/reperfusion injury and ischaemic heart failure in the post-genomic era.

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Author:Cinzia Perrino, Albert-László Barabási, Gianluigi CondorelliORCiD, Sean Michael Davidson, Leon De Windt, Stefanie DimmelerORCiDGND, Felix B. EngelORCiDGND, Derek John Hausenloy, Joseph Addison Hill, Linda Wilhelmina van Laake, Sandrine Lecour, Jonathan Leor, Rosalinda Madonna, Manuel Mayr, Fabrice Prunier, Joost Petrus Geradus Sluijter, Rainer Schulz, Thomas ThumORCiDGND, Kirsti Ytrehus, Peter Ferdinandy
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-458228
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvx070
ISSN:1755-3245
ISSN:0008-6363
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10.1093/cvr/cvx070
Parent Title (English):Cardiovascular research
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Place of publication:Oxford
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2017
Date of first Publication:2017/04/29
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2018/03/08
Tag:Big Data; Bioinformatics; Multiomics; Network analysis; Omics; Tailored medicine
Volume:113
Issue:7
Page Number:12
First Page:725
Last Page:736
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© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
HeBIS-PPN:431861994
Institutes:Medizin / Medizin
Exzellenzcluster / Exzellenzcluster Makromolekulare Komplexe
Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / DFG-Forschergruppen
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (English):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 4.0