TY - JOUR UR - https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/260156/ ID - enlighten260156 A1 - Kariotis, Sokratis A1 - Jammeh, Emmanuel A1 - Swietlik, Emilia M. A1 - Pickworth, Josephine A. A1 - Rhodes, Christopher J. A1 - Otero, Pablo A1 - Wharton, John A1 - Iremonger, James A1 - Dunning, Mark J. A1 - Pandya, Divya A1 - Mascarenhas, Thomas S. A1 - Errington, Niamh A1 - Thompson, A. A. Roger A1 - Romanoski, Casey E. A1 - Rischard, Franz A1 - Garcia, Joe G. N. A1 - Yuan, Jason X.-J. A1 - An, Tae-Hwi Schwantes A1 - Desai, Ankit A. A1 - Coghlan, Gerry A1 - Lordan, Jim A1 - Corris, Paul A. A1 - Howard, Luke S. A1 - Condliffe, Robin A1 - Kiely, David G. A1 - Church, Colin A1 - Pepke-Zaba, Joanna A1 - Toshner, Mark A1 - Wort, Stephen A1 - Gräf, Stefan A1 - Morrell, Nicholas W. A1 - Wilkins, Martin R. A1 - Lawrie, Allan A1 - Wang, Dennis A1 - Bleda, Marta A1 - Hadinnapola, Charaka A1 - Haimel, Matthias A1 - Auckland, Kate A1 - Tilly, Tobias A1 - Martin, Jennifer M. A1 - Yates, Katherine A1 - Treacy, Carmen M. A1 - Day, Margaret A1 - Greenhalgh, Alan A1 - Shipley, Debbie A1 - Peacock, Andrew J. A1 - Irvine, Val A1 - Kennedy, Fiona A1 - Moledina, Shahin A1 - MacDonald, Lynsay A1 - Tamvaki, Eleni A1 - Barnes, Anabelle A1 - Cookson, Victoria A1 - Chentouf, Latifa A1 - Ali, Souad A1 - Othman, Shokri A1 - Ranganathan, Lavanya A1 - Gibbs, J. Simon R. A1 - DaCosta, Rosa A1 - Pinguel, Joy A1 - Dormand, Natalie A1 - Parker, Alice A1 - Stokes, Della A1 - Ghedia, Dipa A1 - Tan, Yvonne A1 - Ngcozana, Tanaka A1 - Wanjiku, Ivy A1 - Polwarth, Gary A1 - Mackenzie Ross, Rob V. A1 - Suntharalingam, Jay A1 - Grover, Mark A1 - Kirby, Ali A1 - Grove, Ali A1 - White, Katie A1 - Seatter, Annette A1 - Creaser-Myers, Amanda A1 - Walker, Sara A1 - Roney, Stephen A1 - Elliot, Charles A. A1 - Charalampopoulos, Athanasios A1 - Sabroe, Ian A1 - Hameed, Abdul A1 - Armstrong, Iain A1 - Hamilton, Neil A1 - Rothman, Alex M. K. A1 - Swift, Andrew J. A1 - Wild, James M. A1 - Soubrier, Florent A1 - Eyries, Mélanie A1 - Humbert, Marc A1 - Montani, David A1 - Girerd, Barbara A1 - Scelsi, Laura A1 - Ghio, Stefano A1 - Gall, Henning A1 - Ghofrani, Ardi A1 - Bogaard, Harm J. A1 - Noordegraaf, Anton Vonk A1 - Houweling, Arjan C. A1 - Veld, Anna Huis in?t A1 - Schotte, Gwen JF - Nature Communications TI - Biological heterogeneity in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension identified through unsupervised transcriptomic profiling of whole blood PB - Nature Research VL - 12 SN - 2041-1723 Y1 - 2021/12/07/ AV - public N2 - Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) is a rare but fatal disease diagnosed by right heart catheterisation and the exclusion of other forms of pulmonary arterial hypertension, producing a heterogeneous population with varied treatment response. Here we show unsupervised machine learning identification of three major patient subgroups that account for 92% of the cohort, each with unique whole blood transcriptomic and clinical feature signatures. These subgroups are associated with poor, moderate, and good prognosis. The poor prognosis subgroup is associated with upregulation of the ALAS2 and downregulation of several immunoglobulin genes, while the good prognosis subgroup is defined by upregulation of the bone morphogenetic protein signalling regulator NOG, and the C/C variant of HLA-DPA1/DPB1 (independently associated with survival). These findings independently validated provide evidence for the existence of 3 major subgroups (endophenotypes) within the IPAH classification, could improve risk stratification and provide molecular insights into the pathogenesis of IPAH. ER -