14th European Cytogenomics Conference, Montpellier, Fransa, 1 - 04 Temmuz 2023, cilt.52, ss.81-82
Background: Small non-coding micro ribonucleic acids, namely miRNAs or MIRs are associated with defective placentation due to their role on the proliferation of the trophoblasts. Relationship between the abortion development and placental defects lead us to search the placental activator (MIR378a-5p, MIR376c, and MIR195) and inhibitor (MIR34a and MIR210) miRNAs expression levels on the accurate pregnancy loss tissues. To this end, XX abortion materials are omitted from the study to exclude the maternal component.
Methods: Total RNA isolation was performed with TRIzol™ reagent directly from
frozen trophoblastic tissues belonging to 42 disomic XY, 43 aneuploidic, and 15
triploidic pregnancy loss tissues. All materials were searched for the miRNA
expression levels after the mature miRNA levels obtained by reverse
transcription via Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction. This study
was supported by the Scientific Research Fund of Gazi University (Grant
TTU-2021-6959) and the preliminary results were presented at the 15th National
Congress of Medical Genetics, held on November 2022, at Mugla-Turkey.
Results: The expression of placental inhibitor MIR34a on trisomic trophoblastic
tissues was in a high level when compared to the disomic ones (p=0.0324). An
increase in MIR195 (p=0.0484) and MIR34a (p=0.0346) expression levels was
observed in numerically abnormal trophoblastic tissues with advanced maternal
age group when compared with the disomic ones (with all ages).
Conclusions: It seems likely that the oocyte aging process, which increases
with advanced maternal age, contributes to the development of spontaneous
abortion with the occurence of high expression levels of MIR195 and MIR34a. In
sum, this study has value to demonstrate the importance of miRNA expression
levels in defective placentation and abort pathophysiology as an epigenetic
approach, with the necessity of more research on this topic