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Katelynn Madill-Thomsen, Marwan Abouljoud, Chandra Bhatti, Michał Ciszek, Magdalena Durlik, Sandy Feng, Bartosz Foroncewicz, Iman Francis, Michał Grąt, Krzysztof Jurczyk, Goran Klintmalm, Maciej Krasnodębski, Geoff McCaughan, Rosa Miquel, Aldo Montano-Loza, Dilip Moonka, Krzysztof Mucha, Marek Myślak, Leszek Pączek, Agnieszka Perkowska-Ptasińska & 8 more
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2156-2172 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | American Journal of Transplantation |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Accepted/In press | 1 Jan 2020 |
Published | 1 Aug 2020 |
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Molecular diagnosis of rejection is emerging in kidney, heart, and lung transplant biopsies and could offer insights for liver transplant biopsies. We measured gene expression by microarrays in 235 liver transplant biopsies from 10 centers. Unsupervised archetypal analysis based on expression of previously annotated rejection-related transcripts identified 4 groups: normal “R1normal” (N = 129), T cell–mediated rejection (TCMR) “R2TCMR” (N = 37), early injury “R3injury” (N = 61), and fibrosis “R4late” (N = 8). Groups differed in median time posttransplant, for example, R3injury 99 days vs R4late 3117 days. R2TCMR biopsies expressed typical TCMR-related transcripts, for example, intense IFNG-induced effects. R3injury displayed increased expression of parenchymal injury transcripts (eg, hypoxia-inducible factor EGLN1). R4late biopsies showed immunoglobulin transcripts and injury-related transcripts. R2TCMR correlated with histologic rejection although with many discrepancies, and R4late with fibrosis. R2TCMR, R3injury, and R4late correlated with liver function abnormalities. Supervised classifiers trained on histologic rejection showed less agreement with histology than unsupervised R2TCMR scores. No confirmed cases of clinical antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) were present in the population, and strategies that previously revealed ABMR in kidney and heart transplants failed to reveal a liver ABMR phenotype. In conclusion, molecular analysis of liver transplant biopsies detects rejection, has the potential to resolve ambiguities, and could assist with immunosuppressive management.
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