www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/ Oncotarget, 2017, Vol. 8, (No. 32), pp: 52995-53016 Research Paper Pulmonary endothelial cell DNA methylation signature in pulmonary arterial hypertension Aurélie Hautefort1,2,*, Julie Chesné3,*, Jens Preussner4, Soni S Pullamsetti4, Jorg Tost5, Mario Looso4, Fabrice Antigny1,2, Barbara Girerd1,2,6, Marianne Riou1,2, Saadia Eddahibi7, Jean-François Deleuze5, Werner Seeger4, Elie Fadel8, Gerald Simonneau1,2,6, David Montani1,2,6, Marc Humbert1,2,6 and Frédéric Perros1,2 1INSERM UMR_S 999, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Le Plessis Robinson, France 2Univ Paris-Sud, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France 3UMR_S 1087 CNRS UMR_6291, Institut du Thorax, Université de Nantes, CHU de Nantes, Centre National de Référence Mucoviscidose Nantes-Roscoff, Nantes, France 4Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Bad Nauheim, Germany 5Centre National de Génotypage, CEA-Institut de Génomique, Evry, France 6AP-HP, Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France 7INSERM U1046, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier, France 8Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Service de Chirurgie Thoracique et Vasculaire, Le Plessis Robinson, France *These authors contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Frédéric Perros, email:
[email protected] Keywords: pulmonary arterial hypertension, epigenetic, DNA methylation, endothelial cells, ABC transporters Received: December 02, 2016 Accepted: May 09, 2017 Published: May 19, 2017 Copyright: Hautefort et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.