A framework for developing sex-specific engineered heart models

R Lock, H Al Asafen, S Fleischer, M Tamargo… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The convergence of tissue engineering and patient-specific stem cell biology has enabled
the engineering of in vitro tissue models that allow the study of patient-tailored treatment …

Sex in cardiovascular disease: Why this biological variable should be considered in in vitro models

AK McClain, PP Monteleone, J Zoldan - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Cardiovascular disease (CVD), the world's leading cause of death, exhibits notable
epidemiological, clinical, and pathophysiological differences between sexes. Many such …

Population-scale single-cell RNA-seq profiling across dopaminergic neuron differentiation

J Jerber, DD Seaton, ASE Cuomo, N Kumasaka… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Studying the function of common genetic variants in primary human tissues and during
development is challenging. To address this, we use an efficient multiplexing strategy to …

Single-nucleotide variants within heart enhancers increase binding affinity and disrupt heart development

GA Jindal, AT Bantle, JJ Solvason, JL Grudzien… - Developmental Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Transcriptional enhancers direct precise gene expression patterns during development and
harbor the majority of variants associated with phenotypic diversity, evolutionary …

The Foundational Data Initiative for Parkinson Disease: Enabling efficient translation from genetic maps to mechanism

E Bressan, X Reed, V Bansal, E Hutchins, MM Cobb… - Cell genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The Foundational Data Initiative for Parkinson Disease (FOUNDIN-PD) is an
international collaboration producing fundamental resources for Parkinson disease (PD) …

Complex regulatory networks influence pluripotent cell state transitions in human iPSCs

TD Arthur, JP Nguyen, A D'Antonio-Chronowska… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Stem cells exist in vitro in a spectrum of interconvertible pluripotent states. Analyzing
hundreds of hiPSCs derived from different individuals, we show the proportions of these …

Single-cell sequencing reveals lineage-specific dynamic genetic regulation of gene expression during human cardiomyocyte differentiation

R Elorbany, JM Popp, K Rhodes, BJ Strober… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Dynamic and temporally specific gene regulatory changes may underlie unexplained
genetic associations with complex disease. During a dynamic process such as cellular …

In heart failure reactivation of RNA-binding proteins is associated with the expression of 1,523 fetal-specific isoforms

M D'Antonio, JP Nguyen, TD Arthur… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Reactivation of fetal-specific genes and isoforms occurs during heart failure. However, the
underlying molecular mechanisms and the extent to which the fetal program switch occurs …

Ultra‐sharp nanowire arrays natively permeate, record, and stimulate intracellular activity in neuronal and cardiac networks

R Liu, J Lee, Y Tchoe, D Pre… - Advanced functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intracellular access with high spatiotemporal resolution can enhance the understanding of
how neurons or cardiomyocytes regulate and orchestrate network activity and how this …

Variation in RARG increases susceptibility to doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity in patient specific induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

E Christidi, H Huang, S Shafaattalab, A Maillet, E Lin… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Doxorubicin is a potent anticancer drug used to treat a variety of cancer types. However, its
use is limited by doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity (DIC). A missense variant in the RARG …