Table 1 Characteristics of the body donors.

From: Identification of distinct transcriptome signatures of human adipose tissue from fifteen depots

Body donor

ID

Gender

Age

[years]

BMI

[kg/m2]

Post-

mortem delay [h]

Cause of death

Diagnoses

Purpose

1

Female

89

15.2

10

Pneumonia

Microarray;

Histology;

Western blots; qPCR

2

Male

64

23.4

10

Esophagus cancer

Cachexia,

T2D

Microarray;

Histology;

Western blots; qPCR

3

Male

82

20.3

12

Heart attack

Heart failure

Microarray;

Histology;

Western blots; qPCR

4

Female

91

24.8

14

Heart failure

Hypertension, CHD, T2D, valvular aortic stenosis, stroke

Microarray

5

Female

98

30.3

24

Rectum cancer

Vascular encephalopathy, breast cancer, hypertension

Microarray

6

Male

78

33.2

12

Renal failure

Pneumonia;

Alzheimers disease

qPCR;

Histology

7

Female

87

22.2

19

COPD

Respiratory failure;

Dementia

qPCR

8

Female

88

39.6

24

Leukemia

Hypertension

qPCR

9

Female

82

27.9

48

Respiratory failure

Hypertension;

T2D;

Heart failure

qPCR

10

Male

82

21.3

24

Stroke

Hypertension;

COPD;

Dementia;

Prostatic cancer

qPCR

11

Female

81

28.4

24

Heart attack

Hypertension;

T2D

qPCR

12

Female

87

23.6

24

Heart attack

Hepatocellular carcinoma

qPCR

  1. BMI body mass index, CHD coronary heart disease, T2D type 2 diabetes mellitus, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, qPCR quantitative polymerase chain reaction.