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Dibble JJ, McGrath SJ, Ponting CP. Genetic risk factors of ME/CFS: a critical review. Hum Mol Genet 2020; 29:R117-R124. [PMID: 32744306 PMCID: PMC7530519 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddaa169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Revised: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/28/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex multisystem illness that lacks effective therapy and a biomedical understanding of its causes. Despite a prevalence of ∼0.2-0.4% and its high public health burden, and evidence that it has a heritable component, ME/CFS has not yet benefited from the advances in technology and analytical tools that have improved our understanding of many other complex diseases. Here we critically review existing evidence that genetic factors alter ME/CFS risk before concluding that most ME/CFS candidate gene associations are not replicated by the larger CFS cohort within the UK Biobank. Multiple genome-wide association studies of this cohort also have not yielded consistently significant associations. Ahead of upcoming larger genome-wide association studies, we discuss how these could generate new lines of enquiry into the DNA variants, genes and cell types that are causally involved in ME/CFS disease.
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- Joshua J Dibble
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Crewe Road South, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK
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Linder RA, Majumder A, Chakraborty M, Long A. Two Synthetic 18-Way Outcrossed Populations of Diploid Budding Yeast with Utility for Complex Trait Dissection. Genetics 2020; 215:323-342. [PMID: 32241804 PMCID: PMC7268983 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.120.303202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Advanced-generation multiparent populations (MPPs) are a valuable tool for dissecting complex traits, having more power than genome-wide association studies to detect rare variants and higher resolution than F2 linkage mapping. To extend the advantages of MPPs in budding yeast, we describe the creation and characterization of two outbred MPPs derived from 18 genetically diverse founding strains. We carried out de novo assemblies of the genomes of the 18 founder strains, such that virtually all variation segregating between these strains is known, and represented those assemblies as Santa Cruz Genome Browser tracks. We discovered complex patterns of structural variation segregating among the founders, including a large deletion within the vacuolar ATPase VMA1, several different deletions within the osmosensor MSB2, a series of deletions and insertions at PRM7 and the adjacent BSC1, as well as copy number variation at the dehydrogenase ALD2 Resequenced haploid recombinant clones from the two MPPs have a median unrecombined block size of 66 kb, demonstrating that the population is highly recombined. We pool-sequenced the two MPPs to 3270× and 2226× coverage and demonstrated that we can accurately estimate local haplotype frequencies using pooled data. We further downsampled the pool-sequenced data to ∼20-40× and showed that local haplotype frequency estimates remained accurate, with median error rates 0.8 and 0.6% at 20× and 40×, respectively. Haplotypes frequencies are estimated much more accurately than SNP frequencies obtained directly from the same data. Deep sequencing of the two populations revealed that 10 or more founders are present at a detectable frequency for > 98% of the genome, validating the utility of this resource for the exploration of the role of standing variation in the architecture of complex traits.
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- Robert A Linder
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2525
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2525
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Teschendorff AE. Avoiding common pitfalls in machine learning omic data science. NATURE MATERIALS 2019; 18:422-427. [PMID: 30478452 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-018-0241-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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- Andrew E Teschendorff
- Statistical Cancer Genomics, UCL Cancer Institute and Department of Woman's Cancer, University College London, London, UK.
- CAS Key Lab of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.
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Suprun M, Suárez-Fariñas M. PlateDesigner: a web-based application for the design of microplate experiments. Bioinformatics 2019; 35:1605-1607. [PMID: 30304481 PMCID: PMC6821189 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2018] [Revised: 09/09/2018] [Accepted: 10/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
SUMMARY In biological assays, systematic variability, known as a batch effect, can often confound the effects of true biological conditions and has been well documented for a variety of high-throughput technologies. In microplate-based multiplex experiments, such as Luminex or OLINK assays, researchers need to consider both position and plate effects. Those effects can be easily accounted for if the experiments are properly designed, which includes randomization of the samples across multiple experimental runs. However, doing the ad hoc randomization becomes challenging when handling multiple samples. PlateDesigner is the first web-based application that provides randomization for microplate experiments, ensuring that the main principles of the experimental design, such as grouping samples from the same biological units and balancing the distribution of experimental conditions, are applied. Creating randomizations with PlateDesigner is simple and the results can be exported in a variety of formats, and easily integrated with microplate readers and statistical analysis software. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION PlateDesigner is written in R/Shiny and is hosted online by the Center of Biostatistics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This application is freely available at platedesigner.net.
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- Maria Suprun
- Department of Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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Taylor DL, Gough A, Schurdak ME, Vernetti L, Chennubhotla CS, Lefever D, Pei F, Faeder JR, Lezon TR, Stern AM, Bahar I. Harnessing Human Microphysiology Systems as Key Experimental Models for Quantitative Systems Pharmacology. Handb Exp Pharmacol 2019; 260:327-367. [PMID: 31201557 PMCID: PMC6911651 DOI: 10.1007/164_2019_239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Two technologies that have emerged in the last decade offer a new paradigm for modern pharmacology, as well as drug discovery and development. Quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) is a complementary approach to traditional, target-centric pharmacology and drug discovery and is based on an iterative application of computational and systems biology methods with multiscale experimental methods, both of which include models of ADME-Tox and disease. QSP has emerged as a new approach due to the low efficiency of success in developing therapeutics based on the existing target-centric paradigm. Likewise, human microphysiology systems (MPS) are experimental models complementary to existing animal models and are based on the use of human primary cells, adult stem cells, and/or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to mimic human tissues and organ functions/structures involved in disease and ADME-Tox. Human MPS experimental models have been developed to address the relatively low concordance of human disease and ADME-Tox with engineered, experimental animal models of disease. The integration of the QSP paradigm with the use of human MPS has the potential to enhance the process of drug discovery and development.
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- D Lansing Taylor
- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Marees AT, de Kluiver H, Stringer S, Vorspan F, Curis E, Marie‐Claire C, Derks EM. A tutorial on conducting genome-wide association studies: Quality control and statistical analysis. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 2018; 27:e1608. [PMID: 29484742 PMCID: PMC6001694 DOI: 10.1002/mpr.1608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 355] [Impact Index Per Article: 59.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2017] [Revised: 12/11/2017] [Accepted: 12/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVES Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become increasingly popular to identify associations between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and phenotypic traits. The GWAS method is commonly applied within the social sciences. However, statistical analyses will need to be carefully conducted and the use of dedicated genetics software will be required. This tutorial aims to provide a guideline for conducting genetic analyses. METHODS We discuss and explain key concepts and illustrate how to conduct GWAS using example scripts provided through GitHub (https://github.com/MareesAT/GWA_tutorial/). In addition to the illustration of standard GWAS, we will also show how to apply polygenic risk score (PRS) analysis. PRS does not aim to identify individual SNPs but aggregates information from SNPs across the genome in order to provide individual-level scores of genetic risk. RESULTS The simulated data and scripts that will be illustrated in the current tutorial provide hands-on practice with genetic analyses. The scripts are based on PLINK, PRSice, and R, which are commonly used, freely available software tools that are accessible for novice users. CONCLUSIONS By providing theoretical background and hands-on experience, we aim to make GWAS more accessible to researchers without formal training in the field.
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- Andries T. Marees
- Department of PsychiatryAmsterdam Medical CenterAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Inserm, UMR‐S 1144ParisFrance
- Université Paris DescartesUMR‐S 1144ParisFrance
- Université Paris DiderotSorbonne Paris Cité, UMR‐S 1144ParisFrance
- QIMR BerghoferTranslational Neurogenomics GroupBrisbaneAustralia
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- GGZ inGeest and Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health research instituteVU University Medical CenterAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of Complex Trait GeneticsVU UniversityAmsterdamThe Netherlands
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- Department of PsychiatryAmsterdam Medical CenterAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- Inserm, UMR‐S 1144ParisFrance
- Université Paris DescartesUMR‐S 1144ParisFrance
- Université Paris DiderotSorbonne Paris Cité, UMR‐S 1144ParisFrance
- Service de Médecine AddictologiqueAPHP, Hôpital Fernand WidalParisFrance
- Faculté de MédecineUniversité Paris DiderotParisFrance
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- Université Paris DescartesUMR‐S 1144ParisFrance
- Laboratoire de biomathématiques, faculté de pharmacie de ParisUniversité Paris DescartesParisFrance
- Service de biostatistiques et informatique médicalesHôpital Saint‐Louis, APHPParisFrance
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- Inserm, UMR‐S 1144ParisFrance
- Université Paris DescartesUMR‐S 1144ParisFrance
- Université Paris DiderotSorbonne Paris Cité, UMR‐S 1144ParisFrance
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- Department of PsychiatryAmsterdam Medical CenterAmsterdamThe Netherlands
- QIMR BerghoferTranslational Neurogenomics GroupBrisbaneAustralia
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Leigh DM, Lischer HEL, Grossen C, Keller LF. Batch effects in a multiyear sequencing study: False biological trends due to changes in read lengths. Mol Ecol Resour 2018; 18:778-788. [DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2017] [Revised: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 03/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- D. M. Leigh
- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Quartier Sorge ‐ Batiment Genopode Lausanne Switzerland
- Department of Biology Queen's University Kingston ON Canada
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Quartier Sorge ‐ Batiment Genopode Lausanne Switzerland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
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- Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
- Zoological Museum University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland
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Ching T, Himmelstein DS, Beaulieu-Jones BK, Kalinin AA, Do BT, Way GP, Ferrero E, Agapow PM, Zietz M, Hoffman MM, Xie W, Rosen GL, Lengerich BJ, Israeli J, Lanchantin J, Woloszynek S, Carpenter AE, Shrikumar A, Xu J, Cofer EM, Lavender CA, Turaga SC, Alexandari AM, Lu Z, Harris DJ, DeCaprio D, Qi Y, Kundaje A, Peng Y, Wiley LK, Segler MHS, Boca SM, Swamidass SJ, Huang A, Gitter A, Greene CS. Opportunities and obstacles for deep learning in biology and medicine. J R Soc Interface 2018; 15:20170387. [PMID: 29618526 PMCID: PMC5938574 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 811] [Impact Index Per Article: 135.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2017] [Accepted: 03/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Deep learning describes a class of machine learning algorithms that are capable of combining raw inputs into layers of intermediate features. These algorithms have recently shown impressive results across a variety of domains. Biology and medicine are data-rich disciplines, but the data are complex and often ill-understood. Hence, deep learning techniques may be particularly well suited to solve problems of these fields. We examine applications of deep learning to a variety of biomedical problems-patient classification, fundamental biological processes and treatment of patients-and discuss whether deep learning will be able to transform these tasks or if the biomedical sphere poses unique challenges. Following from an extensive literature review, we find that deep learning has yet to revolutionize biomedicine or definitively resolve any of the most pressing challenges in the field, but promising advances have been made on the prior state of the art. Even though improvements over previous baselines have been modest in general, the recent progress indicates that deep learning methods will provide valuable means for speeding up or aiding human investigation. Though progress has been made linking a specific neural network's prediction to input features, understanding how users should interpret these models to make testable hypotheses about the system under study remains an open challenge. Furthermore, the limited amount of labelled data for training presents problems in some domains, as do legal and privacy constraints on work with sensitive health records. Nonetheless, we foresee deep learning enabling changes at both bench and bedside with the potential to transform several areas of biology and medicine.
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- Travers Ching
- Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering Graduate Program, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Genomics and Computational Biology Graduate Group, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Computational Biology and Stats, Target Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, UK
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Ecological and Evolutionary Signal-processing and Informatics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Biophysics Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Ecological and Evolutionary Signal-processing and Informatics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Imaging Platform, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, USA
- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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- Integrative Bioinformatics, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information and National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information and National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in Saint Louis, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
- Morgridge Institute for Research, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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de Velasco G, Gray KP, Hamieh L, Urun Y, Carol HA, Fay AP, Signoretti S, Kwiatkowski DJ, McDermott DF, Freedman M, Pomerantz MM, Choueiri TK. Pharmacogenomic Markers of Targeted Therapy Toxicity in Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. Eur Urol Focus 2016; 2:633-639. [PMID: 28723497 PMCID: PMC5520643 DOI: 10.1016/j.euf.2016.03.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2016] [Revised: 03/04/2016] [Accepted: 03/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Targeted therapy (TT) in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) may be associated with a high rate of toxicity that undermines treatment efficacy and patient quality of life. Polymorphisms in genes involved in the pharmacokinetic pathways of TTs may predict toxicity. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether selected single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in three core genes involved in the metabolism and transport of sunitinib and the mTOR inhibitors everolimus and temsirolimus are associated with adverse events (AEs). DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Germline DNA was extracted from blood or normal kidney tissue from mRCC patients of Caucasian ethnicity in two cohorts treated with either sunitinib (n=159) or mTOR inhibitors (n=62). Six SNPs in three candidate genes (CYP3A4: rs2242480, rs4646437, and rs2246709; CYP3A5: rs15524; and ABCB1: rs2032582 and rs1045642) were analyzed. OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS Primary endpoints were grade ≥3 AEs for all patients; grade ≥3 hypertension in the sunitinib cohort, and any grade pneumonitis in the mTOR inhibitors cohort. A logistic regression model was used to assess the association between SNPs and AEs, with adjustment for relevant clinical factors. RESULTS AND LIMITATIONS In total, 221 samples were successfully genotyped for the selected SNPs. In the sunitinib cohort, the CYP3A4 rs464637 AG variant was associated with a lower risk of high-grade AEs (odds ratio 0.27, 95% confidence interval 0.08-0.88; p=0.03), but no SNPs were associated with hypertension. In the mTOR inhibitor cohort, none of the selected SNPs was associated with analyzed toxicities. CONCLUSIONS We observed an association between CYP3A4 polymorphisms and toxicity outcomes in mRCC patients treated with sunitinib, but not with everolimus or temsirolimus. Our findings are exploratory in nature, and further validation in independent and larger cohorts is needed. PATIENT SUMMARY We found that variants of CYP3A4, a gene involved in drug metabolism, are associated with sunitinib toxicity. This information may help in better selection of patients for targeted therapies in metastatic renal cell carcinoma.
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Ankara University School of Medicine, Turkey
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; PUCRS School of Medicine, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
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Smita S, Lange F, Wolkenhauer O, Köhling R. Deciphering hallmark processes of aging from interaction networks. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2016; 1860:2706-15. [PMID: 27456767 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2016.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2016] [Revised: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 07/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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BACKGROUND Aging is broadly considered to be a dynamic process that accumulates unfavourable structural and functional changes in a time dependent fashion, leading to a progressive loss of physiological integrity of an organism, which eventually leads to age-related diseases and finally to death. SCOPE OF REVIEW The majority of aging-related studies are based on reductionist approaches, focusing on single genes/proteins or on individual pathways without considering possible interactions between them. Over the last few decades, several such genes/proteins were independently analysed and linked to a role that is affecting the longevity of an organism. However, an isolated analysis on genes and proteins largely fails to explain the mechanistic insight of a complex phenotype due to the involvement and integration of multiple factors. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS Technological advance makes it possible to generate high-throughput temporal and spatial data that provide an opportunity to use computer-based methods. These techniques allow us to go beyond reductionist approaches to analyse large-scale networks that provide deeper understanding of the processes that drive aging. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE In this review, we focus on systems biology approaches, based on network inference methods to understand the dynamics of hallmark processes leading to aging phenotypes. We also describe computational methods for the interpretation and identification of important molecular hubs involved in the mechanistic linkage between aging related processes. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled "System Genetics" Guest Editor: Dr. Yudong Cai and Dr. Tao Huang.
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- Suchi Smita
- Department of Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany; Oscar-Langendorff-Institute of Physiology, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany.
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- Oscar-Langendorff-Institute of Physiology, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany.
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- Department of Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany; Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Wallenberg Research Centre at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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- Oscar-Langendorff-Institute of Physiology, Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany.
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This chapter discusses some of the pitfalls encountered when performing biomedical research involving high-throughput "omics" data and presents some strategies and guidelines that researchers should follow when undertaking such studies. We discuss common errors in experimental design and data analysis that lead to irreproducible and non-replicable research and provide some guidelines to avoid these common mistakes so that researchers may have confidence in study outcomes, even if the results are negative. We discuss the importance of ranking and prespecifying hypotheses, performing power analysis, careful experimental design, and preplanning of statistical analyses in order to avoid the "fishing expedition" data analysis strategy, which is doomed to fail. The impact of multiple testing on false-positive rates is discussed, particularly in the context of the analysis of high-throughput data, and methods to correct for it are presented, as well as approaches to detect and correct for experimental biases and batch effects, which often plague high-throughput assays. We highlight the importance of sharing data and analysis code to facilitate reproducibility and present tools and software that are appropriate for this purpose.
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Hansen DM. Non-native megaherbivores: the case for novel function to manage plant invasions on islands. AOB PLANTS 2015; 7:plv085. [PMID: 26194166 PMCID: PMC4565891 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plv085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2015] [Accepted: 07/06/2015] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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There is a heated debate about whether all non-native species are 'guilty until proven innocent', or whether some should be accepted or even welcomed. Further fanning the flames, I here present a case where introductions of carefully vetted, non-native species could provide a net conservation benefit. On many islands, native megaherbivores (flightless birds, tortoises) recently went extinct. Here, rewilding with carefully selected non-native species as ecological replacements is increasingly considered a solution, reinstating a herbivory regime that largely benefits the native flora. Based on these efforts, I suggest that restoration practitioners working on islands without a history of native megaherbivores that are threatened by invasive plants should consider introducing a non-native island megaherbivore, and that large and giant tortoises are ideal candidates. Such tortoises would be equally useful on islands where eradication of invasive mammals has led to increased problems with invasive plants, or on islands that never had introduced mammalian herbivores, but where invasive plants are a problem. My proposal may seem radical, but the reversibility of using giant tortoises means that nothing is lost from trying, and that indeed much is to be gained. As an easily regulated adaptive management tool, it represents an innovative, hypothesis-driven 'innocent until proven guilty' approach.
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- Dennis M Hansen
- Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
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Hartley SW, Mullikin JC. QoRTs: a comprehensive toolset for quality control and data processing of RNA-Seq experiments. BMC Bioinformatics 2015; 16:224. [PMID: 26187896 PMCID: PMC4506620 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0670-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2015] [Accepted: 07/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND High-throughput next-generation RNA sequencing has matured into a viable and powerful method for detecting variations in transcript expression and regulation. Proactive quality control is of critical importance as unanticipated biases, artifacts, or errors can potentially drive false associations and lead to flawed results. RESULTS We have developed the Quality of RNA-Seq Toolset, or QoRTs, a comprehensive, multifunction toolset that assists in quality control and data processing of high-throughput RNA sequencing data. CONCLUSIONS QoRTs generates an unmatched variety of quality control metrics, and can provide cross-comparisons of replicates contrasted by batch, biological sample, or experimental condition, revealing any outliers and/or systematic issues that could drive false associations or otherwise compromise downstream analyses. In addition, QoRTs simultaneously replaces the functionality of numerous other data-processing tools, and can quickly and efficiently generate quality control metrics, coverage counts (for genes, exons, and known/novel splice-junctions), and browser tracks. These functions can all be carried out as part of a single unified data-processing/quality control run, greatly reducing both the complexity and the total runtime of the analysis pipeline. The software, source code, and documentation are available online at http://hartleys.github.io/QoRTs.
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- Stephen W Hartley
- Comparative Genomics Analysis Unit, Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
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- Comparative Genomics Analysis Unit, Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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Traveset A, Chamorro S, Olesen JM, Heleno R. Space, time and aliens: charting the dynamic structure of Galápagos pollination networks. AOB PLANTS 2015; 7:plv068. [PMID: 26104283 PMCID: PMC4522039 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plv068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2015] [Accepted: 06/13/2015] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Oceanic archipelagos are threatened by the introduction of alien species which can severely disrupt the structure, function and stability of native communities. Here we investigated the pollination interactions in the two most disturbed Galápagos Islands, comparing the three main habitats and the two seasons, and assessing the impacts of alien plant invasions on network structure. We found that the pollination network structure was rather consistent between the two islands, but differed across habitats and seasons. Overall, the arid zone had the largest networks and highest species generalization levels whereas either the transition between habitats or the humid habitat showed lower values. Our data suggest that alien plants integrate easily into the communities, but with low impact on overall network structure, except for an increase in network selectiveness. The humid zone showed the highest nestedness and the lowest modularity, which might be explained by the low species diversity and the higher incidence of alien plants in this habitat. Both pollinators and plants were also more generalized in the hot season, when networks showed to be more nested. Alien species (both plants and pollinators) represented a high fraction (∼56 %) of the total number of interactions in the networks. It is thus likely that, in spite of the overall weak effect we found of alien plant invasion on pollination network structure, these introduced species influence the reproductive success of native ones, and by doing so, they affect the functioning of the community. This certainly deserves further investigation.
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- Anna Traveset
- Laboratorio Internacional de Cambio Global (LINC-Global), Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marqués 21, 07190-Esporles, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain
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- Laboratorio Internacional de Cambio Global (LINC-Global), Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marqués 21, 07190-Esporles, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain Present address: Universidad Internacional SEK, Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales, Calle Alberto Einstein y 5ta transversal, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal
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Masca NGD, Hensor EMA, Cornelius VR, Buffa FM, Marriott HM, Eales JM, Messenger MP, Anderson AE, Boot C, Bunce C, Goldin RD, Harris J, Hinchliffe RF, Junaid H, Kingston S, Martin-Ruiz C, Nelson CP, Peacock J, Seed PT, Shinkins B, Staples KJ, Toombs J, Wright AKA, Teare MD. RIPOSTE: a framework for improving the design and analysis of laboratory-based research. eLife 2015; 4:e05519. [PMID: 25951517 PMCID: PMC4461852 DOI: 10.7554/elife.05519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2014] [Accepted: 05/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Lack of reproducibility is an ongoing problem in some areas of the biomedical sciences. Poor experimental design and a failure to engage with experienced statisticians at key stages in the design and analysis of experiments are two factors that contribute to this problem. The RIPOSTE (Reducing IrreProducibility in labOratory STudiEs) framework has been developed to support early and regular discussions between scientists and statisticians in order to improve the design, conduct and analysis of laboratory studies and, therefore, to reduce irreproducibility. This framework is intended for use during the early stages of a research project, when specific questions or hypotheses are proposed. The essential points within the framework are explained and illustrated using three examples (a medical equipment test, a macrophage study and a gene expression study). Sound study design minimises the possibility of bias being introduced into experiments and leads to higher quality research with more reproducible results.
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- Nicholas GD Masca
- Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; Leeds Institute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Applied Computational Genomics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Infection and Immunity, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom; The Florey Institute, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-Operative Leeds, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Musculoskeletal Research Group, Institute of Cellular Medicine, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, United Kingdom
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- Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle, United Kingdom
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, United Kingdom; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Pathology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Trials and Evaluation Unit, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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- Department of Paediatric Haematology, Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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- Royal London Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
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- Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- Division of Health and Social Care Research, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Women's Health, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton and NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Lung Health, Respiratory Biomedical Unit, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- Sheffield School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Sokolowski M, Wasserman J, Wasserman D. Genome-wide association studies of suicidal behaviors: a review. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol 2014; 24:1567-77. [PMID: 25219938 DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2014.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2014] [Revised: 07/24/2014] [Accepted: 08/10/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Suicidal behaviors represent a fatal dimension of mental ill-health, involving both environmental and heritable (genetic) influences. The putative genetic components of suicidal behaviors have until recent years been mainly investigated by hypothesis-driven research (of "candidate genes"). But technological progress in genotyping has opened the possibilities towards (hypothesis-generating) genomic screens and novel opportunities to explore polygenetic perspectives, now spanning a wide array of possible analyses falling under the term Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS). Here we introduce and discuss broadly some apparent limitations but also certain developing opportunities of GWAS. We summarize the results from all the eight GWAS conducted up to date focused on suicidality outcomes; treatment emergent suicidal ideation (3 studies), suicide attempts (4 studies) and completed suicides (1 study). Clearly, there are few (if any) genome-wide significant and reproducible findings yet to be demonstrated. We then discuss and pinpoint certain future considerations in relation to sample sizes, the units of genetic associations used, study designs and outcome definitions, psychiatric diagnoses or biological measures, as well as the use of genomic sequencing. We conclude that GWAS should have a lot more potential to show in the case of suicidal outcomes, than what has yet been realized.
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- Marcus Sokolowski
- National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP), Karolinska Institute (KI), S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP), Karolinska Institute (KI), S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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- National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP), Karolinska Institute (KI), S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
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Parker HS, Corrada Bravo H, Leek JT. Removing batch effects for prediction problems with frozen surrogate variable analysis. PeerJ 2014; 2:e561. [PMID: 25332844 PMCID: PMC4179553 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2014] [Accepted: 08/15/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Batch effects are responsible for the failure of promising genomic prognostic signatures, major ambiguities in published genomic results, and retractions of widely-publicized findings. Batch effect corrections have been developed to remove these artifacts, but they are designed to be used in population studies. But genomic technologies are beginning to be used in clinical applications where samples are analyzed one at a time for diagnostic, prognostic, and predictive applications. There are currently no batch correction methods that have been developed specifically for prediction. In this paper, we propose an new method called frozen surrogate variable analysis (fSVA) that borrows strength from a training set for individual sample batch correction. We show that fSVA improves prediction accuracy in simulations and in public genomic studies. fSVA is available as part of the sva Bioconductor package.
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- Hilary S. Parker
- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Heap GA, Weedon MN, Bewshea CM, Singh A, Chen M, Satchwell JB, Vivian JP, So K, Dubois PC, Andrews JM, Annese V, Bampton P, Barnardo M, Bell S, Cole A, Connor SJ, Creed T, Cummings FR, D'Amato M, Daneshmend TK, Fedorak RN, Florin TH, Gaya DR, Greig E, Halfvarson J, Hart A, Irving PM, Jones G, Karban A, Lawrance IC, Lee JC, Lees C, Lev-Tzion R, Lindsay JO, Mansfield J, Mawdsley J, Mazhar Z, Parkes M, Parnell K, Orchard TR, Radford-Smith G, Russell RK, Reffitt D, Satsangi J, Silverberg MS, Sturniolo GC, Tremelling M, Tsianos EV, van Heel DA, Walsh A, Watermeyer G, Weersma RK, Zeissig S, Rossjohn J, Holden AL, Ahmad T. HLA-DQA1-HLA-DRB1 variants confer susceptibility to pancreatitis induced by thiopurine immunosuppressants. Nat Genet 2014; 46:1131-4. [PMID: 25217962 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2014] [Accepted: 08/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Pancreatitis occurs in approximately 4% of patients treated with the thiopurines azathioprine or mercaptopurine. Its development is unpredictable and almost always leads to drug withdrawal. We identified patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who had developed pancreatitis within 3 months of starting these drugs from 168 sites around the world. After detailed case adjudication, we performed a genome-wide association study on 172 cases and 2,035 controls with IBD. We identified strong evidence of association within the class II HLA region, with the most significant association identified at rs2647087 (odds ratio 2.59, 95% confidence interval 2.07-3.26, P = 2 × 10(-16)). We replicated these findings in an independent set of 78 cases and 472 controls with IBD matched for drug exposure. Fine mapping of the HLA region identified association with the HLA-DQA1*02:01-HLA-DRB1*07:01 haplotype. Patients heterozygous at rs2647087 have a 9% risk of developing pancreatitis after administration of a thiopurine, whereas homozygotes have a 17% risk.
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- Graham A Heap
- 1] IBD Pharmacogenetics, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK. [2] Precision Medicine Exeter, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. [3]
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- 1] Precision Medicine Exeter, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. [2]
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- 1] IBD Pharmacogenetics, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK. [2] Precision Medicine Exeter, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- IBD Pharmacogenetics, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK
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- Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford University Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford University Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- IBD Pharmacogenetics, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, King's College Hospital, London, UK
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- IBD Service, Department of Gastroenterology and University of Adelaide at Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy
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- Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Oxford Transplant Centre, Oxford University Hospital National Health Service (NHS) Trust, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, St. Vincent's Hospital, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Joint Clinical Research Unit, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Gastroenterology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- The University of Queensland School of Medicine, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Gastroenterology Unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Taunton, UK
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Örebro University Hospital and School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
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- Department of Medicine, St. Mark's Hospital and Academic Institute, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
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- Centre for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, University of Western Australia, Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Barts and The London NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Newcastle University Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, Isleworth, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Basildon and Thurrock Hospital NHS Trust, Basildon, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK
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- 1] Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. [2] IBD Group, Queensland Institute of Medical Research and University of Queensland School of Medicine, Herston Campus, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Yorkhill Hospital, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Group, Zane Cohen Centre for Digestive Diseases, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital NHS Trust, Norwich, UK
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- 1st Division of Internal Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
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- Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Gastrointestinal Clinic, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Groningen and the University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- The International Serious Adverse Events Consortium, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- 1] IBD Pharmacogenetics, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK. [2] Precision Medicine Exeter, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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Lee S, Abecasis G, Boehnke M, Lin X. Rare-variant association analysis: study designs and statistical tests. Am J Hum Genet 2014; 95:5-23. [PMID: 24995866 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 658] [Impact Index Per Article: 65.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Despite the extensive discovery of trait- and disease-associated common variants, much of the genetic contribution to complex traits remains unexplained. Rare variants can explain additional disease risk or trait variability. An increasing number of studies are underway to identify trait- and disease-associated rare variants. In this review, we provide an overview of statistical issues in rare-variant association studies with a focus on study designs and statistical tests. We present the design and analysis pipeline of rare-variant studies and review cost-effective sequencing designs and genotyping platforms. We compare various gene- or region-based association tests, including burden tests, variance-component tests, and combined omnibus tests, in terms of their assumptions and performance. Also discussed are the related topics of meta-analysis, population-stratification adjustment, genotype imputation, follow-up studies, and heritability due to rare variants. We provide guidelines for analysis and discuss some of the challenges inherent in these studies and future research directions.
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Sebastiani P, Bae H, Sun FX, Andersen SL, Daw EW, Malovini A, Kojima T, Hirose N, Schupf N, Puca A, Perls TT. Meta‐analysis of genetic variants associated with human exceptional longevity. Aging (Albany NY) 2014; 5:653-61. [PMID: 24244950 PMCID: PMC3808698 DOI: 10.18632/aging.100594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Despite evidence from family studies that there is a strong genetic influence upon exceptional longevity, relatively few genetic variants have been associated with this trait. One reason could be that many genes individually have such weak effects that they cannot meet standard thresholds of genome wide significance, but as a group in specific combinations of genetic variations, they can have a strong influence. Previously we reported that such genetic signatures of 281 genetic markers associated with about 130 genes can do a relatively good job of differentiating centenarians from non-centenarians particularly if the centenarians are 106 years and older. This would support our hypothesis that the genetic influence upon exceptional longevity increases with older and older (and rarer) ages. We investigated this list of markers using similar genetic data from 5 studies of centenarians from the USA, Europe and Japan. The results from the meta-analysis show that many of these variants are associated with survival to these extreme ages in other studies. Since many centenarians compress morbidity and disability towards the end of their lives, these results could point to biological pathways and therefore new therapeutics to increase years of healthy lives in the general population.
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Derkach A, Chiang T, Gong J, Addis L, Dobbins S, Tomlinson I, Houlston R, Pal DK, Strug LJ. Association analysis using next-generation sequence data from publicly available control groups: the robust variance score statistic. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 30:2179-88. [PMID: 24733292 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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MOTIVATION Sufficiently powered case-control studies with next-generation sequence (NGS) data remain prohibitively expensive for many investigators. If feasible, a more efficient strategy would be to include publicly available sequenced controls. However, these studies can be confounded by differences in sequencing platform; alignment, single nucleotide polymorphism and variant calling algorithms; read depth; and selection thresholds. Assuming one can match cases and controls on the basis of ethnicity and other potential confounding factors, and one has access to the aligned reads in both groups, we investigate the effect of systematic differences in read depth and selection threshold when comparing allele frequencies between cases and controls. We propose a novel likelihood-based method, the robust variance score (RVS), that substitutes genotype calls by their expected values given observed sequence data. RESULTS We show theoretically that the RVS eliminates read depth bias in the estimation of minor allele frequency. We also demonstrate that, using simulated and real NGS data, the RVS method controls Type I error and has comparable power to the 'gold standard' analysis with the true underlying genotypes for both common and rare variants. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION An RVS R script and instructions can be found at strug.research.sickkids.ca, and at https://github.com/strug-lab/RVS. CONTACT lisa.strug@utoronto.ca SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Andriy Derkach
- Department of Statistical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, Molecular and Population Genetics and NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Statistical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, Molecular and Population Genetics and NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Statistical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, Molecular and Population Genetics and NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Statistical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, Molecular and Population Genetics and NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Statistical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, Molecular and Population Genetics and NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Statistical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, Molecular and Population Genetics and NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Statistical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, Molecular and Population Genetics and NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Statistical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, Molecular and Population Genetics and NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Statistical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, Molecular and Population Genetics and NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CanadaDepartment of Statistical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Program in Child Health Evaluative Sciences, the Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, Division of Genetics and Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, Molecular and Population Genetics and NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Pulit SL, Leusink M, Menelaou A, de Bakker PIW. Association claims in the sequencing era. Genes (Basel) 2014; 5:196-213. [PMID: 24705293 PMCID: PMC3978519 DOI: 10.3390/genes5010196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2013] [Revised: 02/24/2014] [Accepted: 02/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, the field of human genetics has been in great flux, largely due to technological advances in studying DNA sequence variation. Although community-wide adoption of statistical standards was key to the success of genome-wide association studies, similar standards have not yet been globally applied to the processing and interpretation of sequencing data. It has proven particularly challenging to pinpoint unequivocally disease variants in sequencing studies of polygenic traits. Here, we comment on a number of factors that may contribute to irreproducible claims of association in scientific literature and discuss possible steps that we can take towards cultural change.
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- Sara L Pulit
- Department of Medical Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Institute for Molecular Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Chrystoja CC, Diamandis EP. Whole genome sequencing as a diagnostic test: challenges and opportunities. Clin Chem 2013; 60:724-33. [PMID: 24227285 DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2013.209213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Extraordinary technological advances and decreases in the cost of DNA sequencing have made the possibility of whole genome sequencing (WGS) as a highly accessible clinical test for numerous indications feasible. There have been many recent, successful applications of WGS in establishing the etiology of complex diseases and guiding therapeutic decision-making in neoplastic and nonneoplastic diseases and in various aspects of reproductive health. However, there are major, but not insurmountable, obstacles to the increased clinical implementation of WGS, such as hidden costs, issues surrounding sequencing and analysis, quality assurance and standardization protocols, ethical dilemmas, and difficulties with interpretation of the results. CONTENT The widespread use of WGS in routine clinical practice remains a distant proposition. Prospective trials will be needed to establish if, and for whom, the benefits of WGS will outweigh the likely substantial costs associated with follow-up tests, the risks of overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and the associated emotional distress. SUMMARY WGS should be carefully implemented in the clinic to allow the realization of its potential to improve patient health in specific indications. To minimize harm the use of WGS for all other reasons must be carefully evaluated before clinical implementation.
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- Caitlin C Chrystoja
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Aston KI, Conrad DF. A review of genome-wide approaches to study the genetic basis for spermatogenic defects. Methods Mol Biol 2013; 927:397-410. [PMID: 22992931 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-038-0_34] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Rapidly advancing tools for genetic analysis on a genome-wide scale have been instrumental in identifying the genetic bases for many complex diseases. About half of male infertility cases are of unknown etiology in spite of tremendous efforts to characterize the genetic basis for the disorder. Advancing our understanding of the genetic basis for male infertility will require the application of established and emerging genomic tools. This chapter introduces many of the tools available for genetic studies on a genome-wide scale along with principles of study design and data analysis.
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- Kenneth I Aston
- Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, Andrology & IVF Laboratories, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA,
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Sebastiani P, Perls TT. The genetics of extreme longevity: lessons from the new England centenarian study. Front Genet 2012; 3:277. [PMID: 23226160 PMCID: PMC3510428 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2012] [Accepted: 11/14/2012] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The New England Centenarian Study (NECS) was founded in 1994 as a longitudinal study of centenarians to determine if centenarians could be a model of healthy human aging. Over time, the NECS along with other centenarian studies have demonstrated that the majority of centenarians markedly delay high mortality risk-associated diseases toward the ends of their lives, but many centenarians have a history of enduring more chronic age-related diseases for many years, women more so than men. However, the majority of centenarians seem to deal with these chronic diseases more effectively, not experiencing disability until well into their nineties. Unlike most centenarians who are less than 101 years old, people who live to the most extreme ages, e.g., 107+ years, are generally living proof of the compression of morbidity hypothesis. That is, they compress morbidity and disability to the very ends of their lives. Various studies have also demonstrated a strong familial component to extreme longevity and now evidence particularly from the NECS is revealing an increasingly important genetic component to survival to older and older ages beyond 100 years. It appears to us that this genetic component consists of many genetic modifiers each with modest effects, but as a group they can have a strong influence.
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- Paola Sebastiani
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health Boston, MA, USA
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Association Between Social Factors of Health Ageing and Longevity: Determinants of the Longevity Index (LI) in OECD Countries. AGEING INTERNATIONAL 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s12126-012-9178-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Hsu YH, Kiel DP. Clinical review: Genome-wide association studies of skeletal phenotypes: what we have learned and where we are headed. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2012; 97:E1958-77. [PMID: 22965941 PMCID: PMC3674343 DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-1890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2012] [Accepted: 07/09/2012] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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CONTEXT The primary goals of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are to discover new molecular and biological pathways involved in the regulation of bone metabolism that can be leveraged for drug development. In addition, the identified genetic determinants may be used to enhance current risk factor profiles. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION There have been more than 40 published GWAS on skeletal phenotypes, predominantly focused on dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry-derived bone mineral density (BMD) of the hip and spine. EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS Sixty-six BMD loci have been replicated across all the published GWAS, confirming the highly polygenic nature of BMD variation. Only seven of the 66 previously reported genes (LRP5, SOST, ESR1, TNFRSF11B, TNFRSF11A, TNFSF11, PTH) from candidate gene association studies have been confirmed by GWAS. Among 59 novel BMD GWAS loci that have not been reported by previous candidate gene association studies, some have been shown to be involved in key biological pathways involving the skeleton, particularly Wnt signaling (AXIN1, LRP5, CTNNB1, DKK1, FOXC2, HOXC6, LRP4, MEF2C, PTHLH, RSPO3, SFRP4, TGFBR3, WLS, WNT3, WNT4, WNT5B, WNT16), bone development: ossification (CLCN7, CSF1, MEF2C, MEPE, PKDCC, PTHLH, RUNX2, SOX6, SOX9, SPP1, SP7), mesenchymal-stem-cell differentiation (FAM3C, MEF2C, RUNX2, SOX4, SOX9, SP7), osteoclast differentiation (JAG1, RUNX2), and TGF-signaling (FOXL1, SPTBN1, TGFBR3). There are still 30 BMD GWAS loci without prior molecular or biological evidence of their involvement in skeletal phenotypes. Other skeletal phenotypes that either have been or are being studied include hip geometry, bone ultrasound, quantitative computed tomography, high-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography, biochemical markers, and fractures such as vertebral, nonvertebral, hip, and forearm. CONCLUSIONS Although several challenges lie ahead as GWAS moves into the next generation, there are prospects of new discoveries in skeletal biology. This review integrates findings from previous GWAS and provides a roadmap for future directions building on current GWAS successes.
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- Yi-Hsiang Hsu
- Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research, 1200 Centre Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02131, USA
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- Daniel Macarthur
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
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Donley G, Hull SC, Berkman BE. Prenatal whole genome sequencing: just because we can, should we? Hastings Cent Rep 2012; 42:28-40. [PMID: 22777977 DOI: 10.1002/hast.50] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Davinelli S, Willcox DC, Scapagnini G. Extending healthy ageing: nutrient sensitive pathway and centenarian population. Immun Ageing 2012; 9:9. [PMID: 22524452 PMCID: PMC3379947 DOI: 10.1186/1742-4933-9-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2012] [Accepted: 04/23/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Ageing is a challenge for any living organism and human longevity is a complex phenotype. With increasing life expectancy, maintaining long-term health, functionality and well-being during ageing has become an essential goal. To increase our understanding of how ageing works, it may be advantageous to analyze the phenotype of centenarians, perhaps one of the best examples of successful ageing. Healthy ageing involves the interaction between genes, the environment, and lifestyle factors, particularly diet. Besides evaluating specific gene-environment interactions in relation to exceptional longevity, it is important to focus attention on modifiable lifestyle factors such as diet and nutrition to achieve extension of health span. Furthermore, a better understanding of human longevity may assist in the design of strategies to extend the duration of optimal human health. In this article we briefly discuss relevant topics on ageing and longevity with particular focus on dietary patterns of centenarians and nutrient-sensing pathways that have a pivotal role in the regulation of life span. Finally, we also discuss the potential role of Nrf2 system in the pro-ageing signaling emphasizing its phytohormetic activation.
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- Sergio Davinelli
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
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- Department of Human Welfare, Okinawa International University, Ginowan, Japan
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Lambert CG, Black LJ. Learning from our GWAS mistakes: from experimental design to scientific method. Biostatistics 2012; 13:195-203. [PMID: 22285994 PMCID: PMC3297828 DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxr055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Many public and private genome-wide association studies that we have analyzed include flaws in design, with avoidable confounding appearing as a norm rather than the exception. Rather than recognizing flawed research design and addressing that, a category of quality-control statistical methods has arisen to treat only the symptoms. Reflecting more deeply, we examine elements of current genomic research in light of the traditional scientific method and find that hypotheses are often detached from data collection, experimental design, and causal theories. Association studies independent of causal theories, along with multiple testing errors, too often drive health care and public policy decisions. In an era of large-scale biological research, we ask questions about the role of statistical analyses in advancing coherent theories of diseases and their mechanisms. We advocate for reinterpretation of the scientific method in the context of large-scale data analysis opportunities and for renewed appreciation of falsifiable hypotheses, so that we can learn more from our best mistakes.
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Verification of systems biology research in the age of collaborative competition. Nat Biotechnol 2011; 29:811-5. [DOI: 10.1038/nbt.1968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Gispert S, Kurz A, Waibel S, Bauer P, Liepelt I, Geisen C, Gitler AD, Becker T, Weber M, Berg D, Andersen PM, Krüger R, Riess O, Ludolph AC, Auburger G. The modulation of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis risk by ataxin-2 intermediate polyglutamine expansions is a specific effect. Neurobiol Dis 2011; 45:356-61. [PMID: 21889984 DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2011.08.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2011] [Revised: 08/10/2011] [Accepted: 08/18/2011] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Full expansions of the polyglutamine domain (polyQ≥34) within the polysome-associated protein ataxin-2 (ATXN2) are the cause of a multi-system neurodegenerative disorder, which usually presents as a Spino-Cerebellar Ataxia and is therefore known as SCA2, but may rarely manifest as Levodopa-responsive Parkinson syndrome or as motor neuron disease. Intermediate expansions (27≤polyQ≤33) were reported to modify the risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). We have now tested the reproducibility and the specificity of this observation. In 559 independent ALS patients from Central Europe, the association of ATXN2 expansions (30≤polyQ≤35) with ALS was highly significant. The study of 1490 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) showed an enrichment of ATXN2 alleles 27/28 in a subgroup with familial cases, but the overall risk of sporadic PD was unchanged. No association was found between polyQ expansions in Ataxin-3 (ATXN3) and ALS risk. These data indicate a specific interaction between ATXN2 expansions and the causes of ALS, possibly through altered RNA-processing as a common pathogenic factor.
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- Suzana Gispert
- Experimental Neurology, Goethe University Medical School, Theodor Stern Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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