{Reference Type}: Journal Article
{Title}: Banff Human Organ Transplant Consensus Gene Panel for the Detection of Antibody Mediated Rejection in Heart Allograft Biopsies.
{Author}: Giarraputo A;Coutance G;Aubert O;Fedrigo M;Mezine F;Zielinski D;Mengel M;Bruneval P;Duong van Huyen JP;Angelini A;Loupy A;
{Journal}: Transpl Int
{Volume}: 36
{Issue}: 0
{Year}: 2023
{Factor}: 3.842
{DOI}: 10.3389/ti.2023.11710
{Abstract}: The molecular refinement of the diagnosis of heart allograft rejection based on whole-transcriptome analyses faces several hurdles that greatly limit its widespread clinical application. The targeted Banff Human Organ Transplant gene panel (B-HOT, including 770 genes of interest) has been developed to facilitate reproducible and cost-effective gene expression analysis of solid organ allografts. We aimed to determine in silico the ability of this targeted panel to capture the antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) molecular profile using whole-transcriptome data from 137 heart allograft biopsies (71 biopsies reflecting the entire landscape of histologic AMR, 66 non-AMR control biopsies including cellular rejection and non-rejection cases). Differential gene expression, pathway and network analyses demonstrated that the B-HOT panel captured biologically and clinically relevant genes (IFNG-inducible, NK-cells, injury, monocytes-macrophage, B-cell-related genes), pathways (interleukin and interferon signaling, neutrophil degranulation, immunoregulatory interactions, endothelial activation) and networks reflecting the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the AMR process previously identified in whole-transcriptome analysis. Our findings support the potential clinical use of the B-HOT-gene panel as a reliable proxy to whole-transcriptome analysis for the gene expression profiling of cardiac allograft rejection.