miRNA expression analysis of the hippocampus in a vervet monkey model of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Alcohol preferring vervet dams were permitted to ingest alcohol 4 days/week during the second half of gestation (e90-e165) and paired with sucrose matched controls. Cases and controls were sacrificed with subsequent hippocampal extraction at 5 months and 2 years. RNA was extracted according to the manufacturer's protocol and hybridized to the Affymetrix Rhesus Genechip microarray. We sought to identify whether global downregulation in mRNA dataset was related to miRNA expression in a non-human primate model of FASD in order to develop an understanding of how this disorder may develop in humans. 2x2 ANOVA, main effect=alcohol, main effect=age, main effect=interaction. Six replicates/group