Association of circulating transcriptomic profiles with mortality in sickle cell disease

Ankit Desai, Zhengdeng Lei, Neil Bahroos, Mark Maienschein-Cline, Santosh L. Saraf, Xu Zhang, Binal N. Shah, Seyed M. Nouraie, Taimur Abbasi, Amit R. Patel, Roberto M. Lang, Yves Lussier, Joe G.N. Garcia, Victor R. Gordeuk, Roberto F. Machado

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Abstract

Sickle cell disease (SCD) complications are associated with increased morbidity and risk of mortality. We sought to identify a circulating transcriptomic profile predictive of these poor outcomes in SCD. Training and testing cohorts consisting of adult patients withSCD were recruited and prospectively followed. A pathway-based signature derived from grouping peripheral blood mononuclear cell transcriptomes distinguished 2 patient clusters with differences in survival in the training cohort. These findings were validated in a testing cohort in which the association between cluster 1 molecular profiling and mortality remained significant in a fully adjusted model. In a third cohort of West African children with SCD, cluster 1 differentiated SCD severity using a published scoring index. Finally, a risk score composed of assigning weights to cluster 1 profiling, along with established clinical risk factors using tricuspid regurgitation velocity, white blood cell count, history of acute chest syndrome, and hemoglobin levels, demonstrated a higher hazard ratio for mortality in both the training and testing cohorts compared with clinical risk factors or cluster 1 data alone. Circulating transcriptomic profiles are a powerful method to risk-stratify severity of disease and poor outcomes in both children and adults, respectively, with SCD and highlight potential associated molecular pathways.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3009-3016
Number of pages8
JournalBlood
Volume129
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry
  • Immunology
  • Hematology
  • Cell Biology

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