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Public on Feb 03, 2025 |
Title |
Multidimensional analysis of twin sets during an intensive week-long meditation retreat |
Organism |
Homo sapiens |
Experiment type |
Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
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Summary |
Meditation and other alternative practices have long been known to promote various health benefits, presumably by fostering a blood and tissue environment that enhances resilience to stress. Here, we used an integrated, multidisciplinary approach that couples quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG), biometrics, molecular, and biochemical data at multiple time points to investigate the impact of mind-based interventions on the body in a cohort of twins during an intensive week-long meditation retreat. We aim to show the feasibility of a novel design aimed to address individual changes controlling for intersubject trait variation (via twin control) and explore the role of genetic background on multi-omic factors during meditation. Interestingly, twin pairs showed significant spectral power correlations while in separate rooms and only one twin was meditating. These similarities were not observed in mismatched twin pairs. Heart rate dynamics assessments showed alignment among twin pairs that were absent between unmatched pairs. In addition, changes in gene expression, metabolites, and cytokines in blood plasma associated with specific meditative states showed patterns of change related to time points. Twin sets were similar in multiple domains before the start of the retreat, showed considerable divergence at the mid-point, and looked more similar by the end of the retreat. To our knowledge, this study is novel within the twin research paradigm and is a first step toward exploring the effects of meditation in twins.
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Overall design |
Whole blood samples were collected on days 0 (pre-meditation), 3, 5, and 7 of a 7 day from twin participants of intensive meditaiton retreat. Total RNAs was isolated from blood samples at each time point and analyzed by RNA-seq.
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Contributor(s) |
Patel H, Chernov AV |
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BioProject |
PRJNA1061091 |
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Submission date |
Jan 05, 2024 |
Last update date |
Feb 03, 2025 |
Contact name |
Andrei Chernov |
E-mail(s) |
achernov@ucsd.edu
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Phone |
858 952 2854
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Organization name |
University of California San Diego
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Department |
Anesthesiology
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Lab |
Chernov Lab
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Street address |
9500 Gilman Dr
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City |
La Jolla |
State/province |
CA |
ZIP/Postal code |
92093 |
Country |
USA |
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Platforms (1) |
GPL24676 |
Illumina NovaSeq 6000 (Homo sapiens) |
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Samples (47)
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GSM8004212 |
Twin_set_1, subject 4000, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004213 |
Twin_set_1, subject 4001, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004214 |
Twin_set_4, subject 4002, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004215 |
Twin_set_4, subject 4003, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004216 |
Twin_set_6, subject 4004, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004217 |
Twin_set_2, subject 4006, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004218 |
Twin_set_5, subject 4007, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004219 |
Twin_set_5, subject 4008, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004220 |
Twin_set_3, subject 4009, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004221 |
Twin_set_3, subject 4010, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004222 |
Twin_set_2, subject 4011, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004223 |
Twin_set_6, subject 4012, baseline group, Day0 |
GSM8004224 |
Twin_set_1, subject 4000, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004225 |
Twin_set_1, subject 4001, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004226 |
Twin_set_4, subject 4002, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004227 |
Twin_set_4, subject 4003, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004228 |
Twin_set_6, subject 4004, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004229 |
Twin_set_2, subject 4006, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004230 |
Twin_set_5, subject 4007, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004231 |
Twin_set_5, subject 4008, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004232 |
Twin_set_3, subject 4009, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004233 |
Twin_set_3, subject 4010, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004234 |
Twin_set_2, subject 4011, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004235 |
Twin_set_6, subject 4012, T1 group, Day3 |
GSM8004236 |
Twin_set_1, subject 4000, T2 group, Day5 |
GSM8004237 |
Twin_set_1, subject 4001, T2 group, Day5 |
GSM8004238 |
Twin_set_4, subject 4002, T2 group, Day5 |
GSM8004239 |
Twin_set_4, subject 4003, T2 group, Day5 |
GSM8004240 |
Twin_set_6, subject 4004, T2 group, Day5 |
GSM8004241 |
Twin_set_2, subject 4006, T2 group, Day5 |
GSM8004242 |
Twin_set_5, subject 4007, T2 group, Day5 |
GSM8004243 |
Twin_set_3, subject 4009, T2 group, Day5 |
GSM8004244 |
Twin_set_3, subject 4010, T2 group, Day5 |
GSM8004245 |
Twin_set_2, subject 4011, T2 group, Day5 |
GSM8004246 |
Twin_set_6, subject 4012, T2 group, Day5 |
GSM8004247 |
Twin_set_1, subject 4000, T3 group, Day7 |
GSM8004248 |
Twin_set_1, subject 4001, T3 group, Day7 |
GSM8004249 |
Twin_set_4, subject 4002, T3 group, Day7 |
GSM8004250 |
Twin_set_4, subject 4003, T3 group, Day7 |
GSM8004251 |
Twin_set_6, subject 4004, T3 group, Day7 |
GSM8004252 |
Twin_set_2, subject 4005, T3 group, Day7 |
GSM8004253 |
Twin_set_5, subject 4007, T3 group, Day7 |
GSM8004254 |
Twin_set_5, subject 4008, T3 group, Day7 |
GSM8004255 |
Twin_set_3, subject 4009, T3 group, Day7 |
GSM8004256 |
Twin_set_3, subject 4010, T3 group, Day7 |
GSM8004257 |
Twin_set_2, subject 4011, T3 group, Day7 |
GSM8004258 |
Twin_set_6, subject 4012, T3 group, Day7 |
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Supplementary file |
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GSE252632_RAW.tar |
17.9 Mb |
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TAR (of TAB) |
SRA Run Selector |
Raw data are available in SRA |
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