Heart failure is common in older people and its prevalence is increasing.The Heart 'omics' in AGEing(HOMAGE) project aims to provide a biomarker approach that will improve the early diagnosis of heart failure.A la...Heart failure is common in older people and its prevalence is increasing.The Heart 'omics' in AGEing(HOMAGE) project aims to provide a biomarker approach that will improve the early diagnosis of heart failure.A large clinical database,based on(1) prospective population studies or(2) cross-sectional,prospective studies or randomized controlled trials(RCTs) of patients at risk for or with overt cardiovascular disease will be constructed to determine most promising 'omics'-based biomarkers to identify the risk of developing heart failure and/or comorbidities.Population studies,patient cohorts and RCTs are eligible for inclusion in the common database,if they received ethical approval to obtain and share data and have baseline information on cardiovascular risk factors.Currently,the HOMAGE database includes 43,065 subjects,from 20 studies in eight European countries,including healthy subjects from three population studies in France,Belgium and Italy(n = 7,124),patients with heart failure(n = 4,312) from four cohorts in the UK,Spain and Switzerland and patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease(n = 31,629) in 13 cohorts.It is anticipated that more partners will join the consortium and enlarge the pooled data.This large merged database will be a useful resource with which to identify candidate biomarkers that play a role in the mechanism underlying the onset and progression of heart failure.展开更多
Dear Editor,Next-generation sequencing revealed that the majority of the human genome is transcribed but has no coding function.It is estimated that.30000 long noncoding RNAs(lncRNAs)are expressed in humans,but their ...Dear Editor,Next-generation sequencing revealed that the majority of the human genome is transcribed but has no coding function.It is estimated that.30000 long noncoding RNAs(lncRNAs)are expressed in humans,but their functions are largely unknown(Suckau et al.,2009;Rinn and Chang,2012;Poller et al.,2013).Consideration of noncoding genomic elements in pathogenetic studies is warranted and enabled by technological advances allowing comprehensive transcriptome mapping of protein-coding genes as well as small and long ncRNAs.展开更多
文摘Heart failure is common in older people and its prevalence is increasing.The Heart 'omics' in AGEing(HOMAGE) project aims to provide a biomarker approach that will improve the early diagnosis of heart failure.A large clinical database,based on(1) prospective population studies or(2) cross-sectional,prospective studies or randomized controlled trials(RCTs) of patients at risk for or with overt cardiovascular disease will be constructed to determine most promising 'omics'-based biomarkers to identify the risk of developing heart failure and/or comorbidities.Population studies,patient cohorts and RCTs are eligible for inclusion in the common database,if they received ethical approval to obtain and share data and have baseline information on cardiovascular risk factors.Currently,the HOMAGE database includes 43,065 subjects,from 20 studies in eight European countries,including healthy subjects from three population studies in France,Belgium and Italy(n = 7,124),patients with heart failure(n = 4,312) from four cohorts in the UK,Spain and Switzerland and patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease(n = 31,629) in 13 cohorts.It is anticipated that more partners will join the consortium and enlarge the pooled data.This large merged database will be a useful resource with which to identify candidate biomarkers that play a role in the mechanism underlying the onset and progression of heart failure.
基金supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through SFB/TR 19 (grants C5 to W.P.and C.S.,Z1 to U.K.and H.-P.S.,and B3 to A.V.)by DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research)through DZHK Column B Shared Expertise Project SE097+1 种基金supported by Vidi grants (016.146.363 to B.S.and 91796338 to S.H.)from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research,a Dekker grant (2014T105 to B.S.)and research grants (2009B025 to B.S.and 2008B011 to S.H.)from the Netherlands Heart Foundation,Research Foundation Flanders (FWO 1183211N,1167610N,G074009N to S.H.),European Union FP7-HEALTH-2010 (MEDIA to S.H./B.S.)and FP7-HEALTH-2011 (EU-Mascara to S.H.)Research in K.V.P.laboratory is funded by grants from American Cancer Society (RSG-11-174-01-RMC)and NIH/NIGMS (GM088252).
文摘Dear Editor,Next-generation sequencing revealed that the majority of the human genome is transcribed but has no coding function.It is estimated that.30000 long noncoding RNAs(lncRNAs)are expressed in humans,but their functions are largely unknown(Suckau et al.,2009;Rinn and Chang,2012;Poller et al.,2013).Consideration of noncoding genomic elements in pathogenetic studies is warranted and enabled by technological advances allowing comprehensive transcriptome mapping of protein-coding genes as well as small and long ncRNAs.