STANDARD_NAME KYNG_WERNER_SYNDROM_AND_NORMAL_AGING_UP SYSTEMATIC_NAME M1992 COLLECTION C2:CGP MSIGDB_URL https://www.gsea-msigdb.org/gsea/msigdb/human/geneset/KYNG_WERNER_SYNDROM_AND_NORMAL_AGING_UP NAMESPACE HUMAN_SEQ_ACCESSION DESCRIPTION_BRIEF Genes up-regulated similarly in primary fibroblast cultures from Werner syndrom patients and normal old donors compared to those from normal young donors. DESCRIPTION_FULL Werner syndrome (WS) is a premature aging disorder, displaying defects in DNA replication, recombination, repair, and transcription. It has been hypothesized that several WS phenotypes are secondary consequences of aberrant gene expression and that a transcription defect may be crucial to the development of the syndrome. We used cDNA microarrays to characterize the expression of 6,912 genes and ESTs across a panel of 15 primary human fibroblast cell lines derived from young donors, old donors, and WS patients. Of the analyzed genes, 6.3% displayed significant differences in expression when either WS or old donor cells were compared with young donor cells. This result demonstrates that the WS transcription defect is specific to certain genes. Transcription alterations in WS were strikingly similar to those in normal aging: 91% of annotated genes displayed similar expression changes in WS and in normal aging, 3% were unique to WS, and 6% were unique to normal aging. We propose that a defect in the transcription of the genes as identified in this study could produce many of the complex clinical features of WS. The remarkable similarity between WS and normal aging suggests that WS causes the acceleration of a normal aging mechanism. This finding supports the use of WS as an aging model and implies that the transcription alterations common to WS and normal aging represent general events in the aging process. PMID 14527998 GEOID AUTHORS Kyng KJ,May A,Kølvraa S,Bohr VA CONTRIBUTOR Arthur Liberzon CONTRIBUTOR_ORG MSigDB Team EXACT_SOURCE Table 7S: Normal Old > 0 & WS > 0 & |Normal Old - WS| < 0.5 FILTERED_BY_SIMILARITY EXTERNAL_NAMES_FOR_SIMILAR_TERMS EXTERNAL_DETAILS_URL SOURCE_MEMBERS AA004210,AA025059,AA029451,AA031770,AA043796,AA043944,AA045709,AA083385,AA133167,AA169807,AA258580,AA279755,AA398011,AA418251,AA432271,AA443117,AA443601,AA447730,AA447984,AA450265,AA451741,AA452541,AA453410,AA454618,AA454745,AA456621,AA459922,AA485366,AA486403,AA491206,AA504772,AA598874,AA598974,H04986,H09721,H11660,H17943,H23963,H40681,H41237,H47656,H54020,H54289,H54686,H57494,H57779,H61726,H68171,H68724,H69583,H73237,H94845,H96599,H96990,H97775,N21309,N38818,N46427,N47967,N51828,N53057,N53391,N53485,N54416,N54494,N58065,N58391,N58473,N59426,N63752,N68161,N78582,N91584,N95226,R00035,R00527,R00833,R01566,R01682,R05801,R06119,R11019,R25419,R28294,R32450,R33355,R33439,R33832,R39763,R41779,R66447,R91034,R92577,R94222,R99346,T67088,T83665,T86708,T87139,T91249,T94579,T95823,T97997,T99337,W35411,W72473,W95389 GENE_SYMBOLS PRELID3B,RAB11A,TCF7L2,NUDT21,B4GALT1,MECOM,,BTBD1,SHISAL1,PTCH1,TCHH,,DYNLT3,PLAG1,,,RPS6KA4,PIM1,C14orf119,PCNA,ILVBL,ENTPD4,TNFRSF10B,STAMBP,ELP3,GGH,MBD1,PRKAR1B,NDRG1,LARP4B,AMD1,PRDX6,CDK1,,MARK3,TP53I11,RNF4,,MYD88,NRXN2,,SRSF7,,,HSPB8,APOB,NR1H3,,,BTG2,ARMC8,FAM118A,GTDC1,,KTN1,DCBLD2,,ZNF529,ARHGAP5,,CHEK1,,ADD1,,CPB2,,,,TIAL1,KIF20B,,PRKAB2,RPS6,ADGRF5,RGPD4,,SLC2A2,,OMA1,MPO,,HNRNPH1,,GCSH,NPEPPS,TNFRSF12A,SEMA7A,,GABRA2,SART3,MYCN,DNASE1,,INPP5E,RBM17,FAM210A,PATL1,SLC4A1,LARP4,,CHIT1,CCNL2,,,,PIK3CA,SAC3D1 FOUNDER_NAMES