Identifying radiation exposure biomarkers from mouse blood transcriptome

Int J Bioinform Res Appl. 2013;9(4):365-85. doi: 10.1504/IJBRA.2013.054701.

Abstract

Ionising radiation is a pleiotropic stress agent that may induce a variety of adverse effects. Molecular biomarker approaches possess promise to assess radiation exposure, however, the pleiotropic nature of ionising radiation induced transcriptional responses and the historically poor inter-laboratory performance of omics-derived biomarkers serve as barriers to identification of unequivocal biomarker sets. Here, we present a whole-genome survey of the murine transcriptomic response to physiologically relevant radiation doses, 2 Gy and 8 Gy. We used this dataset with the Random Forest algorithm to correctly classify independently generated data and to identify putative metabolite biomarkers for radiation exposure.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biomarkers / blood*
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
  • Gamma Rays
  • Genome
  • Mice
  • Radiation Dosage
  • Radiation, Ionizing
  • Transcriptome / radiation effects*

Substances

  • Biomarkers