Heart failure & cardiomyopathies

Comprehensive Transcriptomics Profiling of MicroRNA Reveals Plasma Circulating Biomarkers of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Dysregulated Signaling Pathways

Circ Heart FailPublished Case-control study

Authors' conclusion

This study utilized comprehensive transcriptomics profiling with RNA sequencing in HCM, revealing circulating miRNA biomarkers and dysregulated pathways.

Study context

Population
Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and controls with hypertensive LV hypertrophy
Participants
555 patients
Comparison
HCM vs hypertensive LV hypertrophy
  • Casesn = 392
  • Controlsn = 163reference
Outcome
Discriminative ability (AUC) of a plasma miRNA transcriptomics-based model for HCM
Methodological detailsmulticentre, training set, prospective test set and external test set
  • Multicentre
  • Training set, prospective test set and external test set

Main finding

As reported in the abstract

AUC of transcriptomics-based model (derived from training set)

AUC in prospective test set

0.86

95% CI 0.79–0.93

AUC in external test set

0.94

95% CI 0.90–0.97

Observational data: associations, not effects.

Further findings

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) passing quality control

miRNAs passed quality control filters
1141

Pathway analysis of dysregulated miRNAs

Dysregulation of the Ras-MAPK pathway and inflammation-related pathways in HCM

Original publication

Comprehensive Transcriptomics Profiling of MicroRNA Reveals Plasma Circulating Biomarkers of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Dysregulated Signaling Pathways. Circ Heart Fail. Published 12 June 2023. doi:10.1161/circheartfailure.122.010010

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