Transcriptional profiles of placentas from systemic lupus erythematosus and normal full-term pregnancies.

We report transcriptional profiles of placentas from systemic lupus erythematosus pregnancies and normal full-term pregnancies. We recruited 8 pregnant patients with SLE, and 8 age-matched healthy pregnant women as normal controls. RNA-seq strand-specific libraries were constructed using the VAHTS Total RNA-seq (H/M/R)Library Prep Kit. Differentially expressed genes were identified using Cuffdiff. The P-value significance threshold in multiple tests was set by the false discovery rate (FDR). The fold-changes were also estimated according to the FPKM in each sample.The differentially expressed genes were selected using the following filter criteria: FDR <0.05 and fold-change >2. Overall design: Examination of 8 placentas from systemic lupus erythematosus and 8 from normal full-term pregnancies.