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Yu X, Chen Y, Chen J, Fan Y, Lu H, Wu D, Xu Y. Shared genetic architecture between autoimmune disorders and B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: insights from large-scale genome-wide cross-trait analysis. BMC Med 2024; 22:161. [PMID: 38616254 PMCID: PMC11017616 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-024-03385-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 04/08/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND To study the shared genetic structure between autoimmune diseases and B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) and identify the shared risk loci and genes and genetic mechanisms involved. METHODS Based on large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary-level data sets, we observed genetic overlaps between autoimmune diseases and B-ALL, and cross-trait pleiotropic analysis was performed to detect shared pleiotropic loci and genes. A series of functional annotation and tissue-specific analysis were performed to determine the influence of pleiotropic genes. The heritability enrichment analysis was used to detect crucial immune cells and tissues. Finally, bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR) methods were utilized to investigate the casual associations. RESULTS Our research highlighted shared genetic mechanisms between seven autoimmune disorders and B-ALL. A total of 73 pleiotropic loci were identified at the genome-wide significance level (P < 5 × 10-8), 16 of which had strong evidence of colocalization. We demonstrated that several loci have been previously reported (e.g., 17q21) and discovered some novel loci (e.g., 10p12, 5p13). Further gene-level identified 194 unique pleiotropic genes, for example IKZF1, GATA3, IKZF3, GSDMB, and ORMDL3. Pathway analysis determined the key role of cellular response to cytokine stimulus, B cell activation, and JAK-STAT signaling pathways. SNP-level and gene-level tissue enrichment suggested that crucial role pleiotropic mechanisms involved in the spleen, whole blood, and EBV-transformed lymphocytes. Also, hyprcoloc and stratified LD score regression analyses revealed that B cells at different developmental stages may be involved in mechanisms shared between two different diseases. Finally, two-sample MR analysis determined causal effects of asthma and rheumatoid arthritis on B-ALL. CONCLUSIONS Our research proved shared genetic architecture between autoimmune disorders and B-ALL and shed light on the potential mechanism that might involve in.
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- Xinghao Yu
- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Outpatient and Emergency, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
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- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
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- National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
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Wang L, Babushkin N, Liu Z, Liu X. Trans-eQTL mapping in gene sets identifies network effects of genetic variants. Cell Genom 2024; 4:100538. [PMID: 38565144 PMCID: PMC11019359 DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2023] [Revised: 12/08/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Nearly all trait-associated variants identified in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) are noncoding. The cis regulatory effects of these variants have been extensively characterized, but how they affect gene regulation in trans has been the subject of fewer studies because of the difficulty in detecting trans-expression quantitative loci (eQTLs). We developed trans-PCO for detecting trans effects of genetic variants on gene networks. Our simulations demonstrate that trans-PCO substantially outperforms existing trans-eQTL mapping methods. We applied trans-PCO to two gene expression datasets from whole blood, DGN (N = 913) and eQTLGen (N = 31,684), and identified 14,985 high-quality trans-eSNP-module pairs associated with 197 co-expression gene modules and biological processes. We performed colocalization analyses between GWAS loci of 46 complex traits and the trans-eQTLs. We demonstrated that the identified trans effects can help us understand how trait-associated variants affect gene regulatory networks and biological pathways.
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- Lili Wang
- The Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- The Committee on Genetics, Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Department of Medicine, Section of Genetic Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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Wright AP, Harris S, Madden S, Ramirez Reyes B, Mulamula E, Gibson A, Rauch I, Constant DA, Nice TJ. Interferon Regulatory Factor 6 Determines Intestinal Epithelial Cell Development and Immunity. Mucosal Immunol 2024:S1933-0219(24)00032-1. [PMID: 38604478 DOI: 10.1016/j.mucimm.2024.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2024] [Revised: 03/21/2024] [Accepted: 03/31/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024]
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Intestinal epithelial cell (IEC) responses to interferon (IFN) favor antiviral defense with minimal cytotoxicity, but IEC-specific factors that regulate these responses remain poorly understood. Interferon regulatory factors (IRFs) are a family of nine related transcription factors, and IRF6 is preferentially expressed by epithelial cells, but its roles in IEC immunity are unknown. In this study, CRISPR screens found that Irf6 deficiency enhanced IFN-stimulated antiviral responses in transformed mouse IECs but not macrophages. Furthermore, KO ofIrf6in IEC organoids resulted in profound changes to homeostasis and immunity gene expression. Irf6 KO organoids grew more slowly, and single-cell RNA sequencing indicated reduced expression of genes in epithelial differentiation and immunity pathways. IFN-stimulated gene expression was also significantly different inIrf6KO organoids, with increased expression of stress and apoptosis-associated genes. Functionally, the transcriptional changes in Irf6 KO organoids were associated with increased cytotoxicity upon IFN treatment or inflammasome activation. These data indicate a previously unappreciated role for IRF6 in IEC biology, including regulation of epithelial development and moderation of innate immune responses to minimize cytotoxicity and maintain barrier function.
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- Austin P Wright
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
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Randolph HE, Aracena KA, Lin YL, Mu Z, Barreiro LB. Shaping immunity: The influence of natural selection on population immune diversity. Immunol Rev 2024. [PMID: 38577999 DOI: 10.1111/imr.13329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/06/2024]
Abstract
Humans exhibit considerable variability in their immune responses to the same immune challenges. Such variation is widespread and affects individual and population-level susceptibility to infectious diseases and immune disorders. Although the factors influencing immune response diversity are partially understood, what mechanisms lead to the wide range of immune traits in healthy individuals remain largely unexplained. Here, we discuss the role that natural selection has played in driving phenotypic differences in immune responses across populations and present-day susceptibility to immune-related disorders. Further, we touch on future directions in the field of immunogenomics, highlighting the value of expanding this work to human populations globally, the utility of modeling the immune response as a dynamic process, and the importance of considering the potential polygenic nature of natural selection. Identifying loci acted upon by evolution may further pinpoint variants critically involved in disease etiology, and designing studies to capture these effects will enrich our understanding of the genetic contributions to immunity and immune dysregulation.
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- Haley E Randolph
- Committee on Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Committee on Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Committee on Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Committee on Immunology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Li JL, Jain N, Tamayo LI, Tong L, Jasmine F, Kibriya MG, Demanelis K, Oliva M, Chen LS, Pierce BL. The association of cigarette smoking with DNA methylation and gene expression in human tissue samples. Am J Hum Genet 2024; 111:636-653. [PMID: 38490207 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Revised: 02/17/2024] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024] Open
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Cigarette smoking adversely affects many aspects of human health, and epigenetic responses to smoking may reflect mechanisms that mediate or defend against these effects. Prior studies of smoking and DNA methylation (DNAm), typically measured in leukocytes, have identified numerous smoking-associated regions (e.g., AHRR). To identify smoking-associated DNAm features in typically inaccessible tissues, we generated array-based DNAm data for 916 tissue samples from the GTEx (Genotype-Tissue Expression) project representing 9 tissue types (lung, colon, ovary, prostate, blood, breast, testis, kidney, and muscle). We identified 6,350 smoking-associated CpGs in lung tissue (n = 212) and 2,735 in colon tissue (n = 210), most not reported previously. For all 7 other tissue types (sample sizes 38-153), no clear associations were observed (false discovery rate 0.05), but some tissues showed enrichment for smoking-associated CpGs reported previously. For 1,646 loci (in lung) and 22 (in colon), smoking was associated with both DNAm and local gene expression. For loci detected in both lung and colon (e.g., AHRR, CYP1B1, CYP1A1), top CpGs often differed between tissues, but similar clusters of hyper- or hypomethylated CpGs were observed, with hypomethylation at regulatory elements corresponding to increased expression. For lung tissue, 17 hallmark gene sets were enriched for smoking-associated CpGs, including xenobiotic- and cancer-related gene sets. At least four smoking-associated regions in lung were impacted by lung methylation quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that co-localize with genome-wide association study (GWAS) signals for lung function (FEV1/FVC), suggesting epigenetic alterations can mediate the effects of smoking on lung health. Our multi-tissue approach has identified smoking-associated regions in disease-relevant tissues, including effects that are shared across tissue types.
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- James L Li
- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Committee on Genetics, Genomics, Systems Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Institute for Population and Precision Health (IPPH), Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Genomics Research Center, AbbVie, North Chicago, IL 60064, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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Wang J, Luo GY, Tian T, Zhao YQ, Meng SY, Wu JH, Han WX, Deng B, Ni J. Shared genetic basis and causality between schizophrenia and inflammatory bowel disease: evidence from a comprehensive genetic analysis. Psychol Med 2024:1-11. [PMID: 38563283 DOI: 10.1017/s0033291724000771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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BACKGROUND The comorbidity between schizophrenia (SCZ) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) observed in epidemiological studies is partially attributed to genetic overlap, but the magnitude of shared genetic components and the causality relationship between them remains unclear. METHODS By leveraging large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics for SCZ, IBD, ulcerative colitis (UC), and Crohn's disease (CD), we conducted a comprehensive genetic pleiotropic analysis to uncover shared loci, genes, or biological processes between SCZ and each of IBD, UC, and CD, independently. Univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses were applied to assess the causality across these two disorders. RESULTS SCZ genetically correlated with IBD (rg = 0.14, p = 3.65 × 10−9), UC (rg = 0.15, p = 4.88 × 10−8), and CD (rg = 0.12, p = 2.27 × 10−6), all surpassed the Bonferroni correction. Cross-trait meta-analysis identified 64, 52, and 66 significantly independent loci associated with SCZ and IBD, UC, and CD, respectively. Follow-up gene-based analysis found 11 novel pleiotropic genes (KAT5, RABEP1, ELP5, CSNK1G1, etc) in all joint phenotypes. Co-expression and pathway enrichment analysis illustrated those novel genes were mainly involved in core immune-related signal transduction and cerebral disorder-related pathways. In univariable MR, genetic predisposition to SCZ was associated with an increased risk of IBD (OR 1.11, 95% CI 1.07–1.15, p = 1.85 × 10−6). Multivariable MR indicated a causal effect of genetic liability to SCZ on IBD risk independent of Actinobacteria (OR 1.11, 95% CI 1.06–1.16, p = 1.34 × 10−6) or BMI (OR 1.11, 95% CI 1.04–1.18, p = 1.84 × 10−3). CONCLUSIONS We confirmed a shared genetic basis, pleiotropic loci/genes, and causal relationship between SCZ and IBD, providing novel insights into the biological mechanism and therapeutic targets underlying these two disorders.
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- Jing Wang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Teaching Center for Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital Affiliated to Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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Sun Q, Gao N, Song J, Jia J, Dong A, Xia W. The association between tea consumption and non-malignant digestive system diseases: A Mendelian randomized study. Clin Nutr ESPEN 2024; 60:327-332. [PMID: 38479931 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2024.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Revised: 01/27/2024] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 03/26/2024]
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BACKGROUND Tea consumption might be closely related to non-malignant digestive diseases. Nevertheless, this correlation remains inadequately comprehended. Therefore, our objective was to elucidate the essence of these connections. METHODS This study employed a Mendelian randomization approach to investigate the impact of tea consumption on specific digestive disorders. Genetic data associated with tea consumption were obtained from the UK Biobank (UKB), encompassing 447,485 participants. We chose a gene-wide association study with no sample overlap and UKB as our data source for all outcomes. The primary analytical method utilized was inverse variance weighting, and multiple analytical models were employed to enhance the analysis's reliability and ensure robust results. RESULT Our investigation revealed that tea consumption was linked to an elevated susceptibility to gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). However, there was a lack of substantial evidence suggesting an association between tea intake and Crohn's disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC), or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). CONCLUSIONS Our study suggests that the excessive consumption of tea may heighten the likelihood of GERD. These results hold potential significance in guiding dietary pattern modifications for individuals with GERD. Furthermore, there may be value in implementing GERD monitoring and preventive measures in populations with elevated tea consumption.
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- Qi Sun
- Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road 79, Hangzhou 310003, China; Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road 79, Hangzhou 310003, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road 79, Hangzhou 310003, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
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- Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road 79, Hangzhou 310003, China; Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road 79, Hangzhou 310003, China.
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Wang Z, Guo Z, Wang X, Chen F, Wang Z, Wang Z. ASSESSING THE CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SEPSIS AND AUTOIMMUNE: A MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION STUDY. Shock 2024; 61:564-569. [PMID: 37856654 DOI: 10.1097/shk.0000000000002246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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ABSTRACT Objective : Numerous epidemiological studies have identified a potential link between sepsis and a variety of autoimmune disorders. The primary objective of this study is to delve deeper into this connection, investigating the potential causal relationship between sepsis and autoimmune disorders through the application of Mendelian randomization (MR). Methods : To assess the potential genetic impact on sepsis risk relating to susceptibility toward immune-related outcomes, we used summary data from the largest European genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on these conditions using a two-sample MR framework. Single nucleotide polymorphisms-which had strong associations with the nine traits-were extracted from the GWAS and examined their effects in an extensive European sepsis GWAS (486,484 cases and 474,841 controls). We used inverse-variance weighted MR, weighted median, and MR Egger for analyses, supplementing these with sensitivity analyses and assessing level pleiotropy using MR methodologies. We also executed a reverse MR analysis to test sepsis' causal effects on the designated autoimmune traits. Results : With primary sclerosing cholangitis being the exception, our MR analysis suggests that susceptibility toward most autoimmune diseases does not affect sepsis risks. The reverse MR analysis did not validate any influence of sepsis susceptibility over other autoimmune diseases. Our primary inverse-variance weighted MR analysis outcomes found general confirmation through our sensitivity MR examinations. Variance in the exposures, as dictated by the single nucleotide polymorphism sets used as MR instruments, ranged between 4.88 × 10 -5 to 0.005. Conclusion : Our MR research, centered on a European population, does not validate a correlation between susceptibility to the majority of autoimmune disorders and sepsis risk. Associations discerned in epidemiological studies may owe partly to shared biological or environmental confounders. The risk susceptibility for primary sclerosing cholangitis does relate to sepsis risk, opening doors for personalized precision treatments in the future.
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- Ziyi Wang
- Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, School of Clinical Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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Nielsen OH, Gubatan JM, Kolho KL, Streett SE, Maxwell C. Updates on the management of inflammatory bowel disease from periconception to pregnancy and lactation. Lancet 2024; 403:1291-1303. [PMID: 38458222 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(24)00052-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Revised: 12/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024]
Abstract
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects reproductive planning due to psychological effects and mechanical problems related to surgery. Children of people with IBD have an increased risk of about 10% if one parent has IBD and up to 33% if both parents have IBD. The fertility of people with IBD is similar to the general population, but fertility might be reduced in individuals with active IBD, ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, or perianal Crohn's disease. Flaring disease during pregnancy increases complications, such as preterm birth. Thus, disease management with appropriate medications can optimise outcomes. As most medications have minimal fetal risks, people with IBD should be informed about the risks of stopping medications and the importance of maintaining remission. A period of disease remission is advisable before pregnancy and could reduce the risks for both the pregnant person and the fetus. Flexible endoscopy, intestinal ultrasound, and gadolinium-free magnetic resonance enterography are safe during pregnancy. We provide state-of-the-art knowledge on the basis of the latest evidence to ensure successful pregnancy outcomes in controlled IBD.
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- Ole Haagen Nielsen
- Department of Gastroenterology, Medical Section, Herlev Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark; Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Women's College Hospital, Sinai Health, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
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Middha P, Thummalapalli R, Betti MJ, Yao L, Quandt Z, Balaratnam K, Bejan CA, Cardenas E, Falcon CJ, Faleck DM, Gubens MA, Huntsman S, Johnson DB, Kachuri L, Khan K, Li M, Lovly CM, Murray MH, Patel D, Werking K, Xu Y, Zhan LJ, Balko JM, Liu G, Aldrich MC, Schoenfeld AJ, Ziv E. Polygenic risk score for ulcerative colitis predicts immune checkpoint inhibitor-mediated colitis. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2568. [PMID: 38531883 PMCID: PMC10966072 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44512-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Accepted: 12/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/28/2024] Open
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Immune checkpoint inhibitor-mediated colitis (IMC) is a common adverse event of treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). We hypothesize that genetic susceptibility to Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) predisposes to IMC. In this study, we first develop a polygenic risk scores for CD (PRSCD) and UC (PRSUC) in cancer-free individuals and then test these PRSs on IMC in a cohort of 1316 patients with ICI-treated non-small cell lung cancer and perform a replication in 873 ICI-treated pan-cancer patients. In a meta-analysis, the PRSUC predicts all-grade IMC (ORmeta=1.35 per standard deviation [SD], 95% CI = 1.12-1.64, P = 2×10-03) and severe IMC (ORmeta=1.49 per SD, 95% CI = 1.18-1.88, P = 9×10-04). PRSCD is not associated with IMC. Furthermore, PRSUC predicts severe IMC among patients treated with combination ICIs (ORmeta=2.20 per SD, 95% CI = 1.07-4.53, P = 0.03). Overall, PRSUC can identify patients receiving ICI at risk of developing IMC and may be useful to monitor patients and improve patient outcomes.
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- Pooja Middha
- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Diabetes Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Temerty School of Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Thoracic Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Center for Genes, Environment and Health, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Dressman D, Tasaki S, Yu L, Schneider J, Bennett DA, Elyaman W, Vardarajan B. Polygenic risk associated with Alzheimer's disease and other traits influences genes involved in T cell signaling and activation. Front Immunol 2024; 15:1337831. [PMID: 38590520 PMCID: PMC10999606 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1337831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024] Open
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Introduction T cells, known for their ability to respond to an enormous variety of pathogens and other insults, are increasingly recognized as important mediators of pathology in neurodegeneration and other diseases. T cell gene expression phenotypes can be regulated by disease-associated genetic variants. Many complex diseases are better represented by polygenic risk than by individual variants. Methods We first compute a polygenic risk score (PRS) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) using genomic sequencing data from a cohort of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and age-matched controls, and validate the AD PRS against clinical metrics in our cohort. We then calculate the PRS for several autoimmune disease, neurological disorder, and immune function traits, and correlate these PRSs with T cell gene expression data from our cohort. We compare PRS-associated genes across traits and four T cell subtypes. Results Several genes and biological pathways associated with the PRS for these traits relate to key T cell functions. The PRS-associated gene signature generally correlates positively for traits within a particular category (autoimmune disease, neurological disease, immune function) with the exception of stroke. The trait-associated gene expression signature for autoimmune disease traits was polarized towards CD4+ T cell subtypes. Discussion Our findings show that polygenic risk for complex disease and immune function traits can have varying effects on T cell gene expression trends. Several PRS-associated genes are potential candidates for therapeutic modulation in T cells, and could be tested in in vitro applications using cells from patients bearing high or low polygenic risk for AD or other conditions.
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- Dallin Dressman
- Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
- The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Rush University Medical Center, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush University Medical Center, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush University Medical Center, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Pathology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Rush University Medical Center, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
- The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
- The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
- College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, The New York Presbyterian Hospital, The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, New York, NY, United States
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Liu D, Cao M, Wang H, Cao W, Zheng C, Li Y, Wang Y. Association between inflammatory bowel disease and cancer risk: evidence triangulation from genetic correlation, Mendelian randomization, and colocalization analyses across East Asian and European populations. BMC Med 2024; 22:137. [PMID: 38528540 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-024-03352-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which includes Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), has been associated with several cancer risks in observational studies, but the observed associations have been inconsistent and may face the bias of confounding and reverse causality. The potential causal relationships between IBD and the risk of cancers remain largely unclear. METHODS We performed genome-wide linkage disequilibrium score regression (LDSC), standard two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR), and colocalization analyses using summary genome-wide association study (GWAS) data across East Asian and European populations to evaluate the causal relationships between IBD and cancers. Sensitivity analyses for the MR approach were additionally performed to explore the stability of the results. RESULTS There were no significant genetic correlations between IBD, CD, or UC and cancers (all P values > 0.05) in East Asian or European populations. According to the main MR analysis, no significant causal relationship was observed between IBD and cancers in the East Asian population. There were significant associations between CD and ovarian cancer (odds ratio [OR] = 0.898, 95% CI = 0.844-0.955) and between UC and nonmelanoma skin cancer (OR = 1.002, 95% CI = 1.000-1.004, P = 0.019) in the European population. The multivariable MR analysis did not find any of the above significant associations. There was no shared causal variant to prove the associations of IBD, CD, or UC with cancers in East Asian or European populations using colocalization analysis. CONCLUSIONS We did not provide robust genetic evidence of causal associations between IBD and cancer risk. Exposure to IBD might not independently contribute to the risk of cancers, and the increased risk of cancers observed in observational studies might be attributed to factors accompanying the diagnosis of IBD.
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- Di Liu
- Centre for Biomedical Information Technology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100069, China
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- Centre for Precision Medicine, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA7027, Australia
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- School of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, 063210, China
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- School of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, 063210, China
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- Centre for Precision Medicine, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA7027, Australia.
- School of Public Health, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, 063210, China.
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Organ Fibrosis, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, 063210, China.
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Wang Y, Gao JZ, Sakaguchi T, Maretzky T, Gurung P, Narayanan NS, Short S, Xiong Y, Kang Z. LRRK2 G2019S Promotes Colon Cancer Potentially via LRRK2-GSDMD Axis-Mediated Gut Inflammation. Cells 2024; 13:565. [PMID: 38607004 PMCID: PMC11011703 DOI: 10.3390/cells13070565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Revised: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 03/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024] Open
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Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is a serine-threonine protein kinase belonging to the ROCO protein family. Within the kinase domain of LRRK2, a point mutation known as LRRK2 G2019S has emerged as the most prevalent variant associated with Parkinson's disease. Recent clinical studies have indicated that G2019S carriers have an elevated risk of cancers, including colon cancer. Despite this observation, the underlying mechanisms linking LRRK2 G2019S to colon cancer remain elusive. In this study, employing a colitis-associated cancer (CAC) model and LRRK2 G2019S knock-in (KI) mouse model, we demonstrate that LRRK2 G2019S promotes the pathogenesis of colon cancer, characterized by increased tumor number and size in KI mice. Furthermore, LRRK2 G2019S enhances intestinal epithelial cell proliferation and inflammation within the tumor microenvironment. Mechanistically, KI mice exhibit heightened susceptibility to DSS-induced colitis, with inhibition of LRRK2 kinase activity ameliorating colitis severity and CAC progression. Our investigation also reveals that LRRK2 G2019S promotes inflammasome activation and exacerbates gut epithelium necrosis in the colitis model. Notably, GSDMD inhibitors attenuate colitis in LRRK2 G2019S KI mice. Taken together, our findings offer experimental evidence indicating that the gain-of-kinase activity in LRRK2 promotes colorectal tumorigenesis, suggesting LRRK2 as a potential therapeutic target in colon cancer patients exhibiting hyper LRRK2 kinase activity.
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- Yuhang Wang
- Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Iowa Neuroscience Institute, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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- Department of Pathology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Enduru N, Fernandes BS, Bahrami S, Dai Y, Andreassen OA, Zhao Z. Genetic overlap between Alzheimer's disease and immune-mediated diseases: an atlas of shared genetic determinants and biological convergence. Mol Psychiatry 2024:10.1038/s41380-024-02510-y. [PMID: 38499654 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02510-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 02/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/20/2024]
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The occurrence of immune disease comorbidities in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has been observed in both epidemiological and molecular studies, suggesting a neuroinflammatory basis in AD. However, their shared genetic components have not been systematically studied. Here, we composed an atlas of the shared genetic associations between 11 immune-mediated diseases and AD by analyzing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) summary statistics. Our results unveiled a significant genetic overlap between AD and 11 individual immune-mediated diseases despite negligible genetic correlations, suggesting a complex shared genetic architecture distributed across the genome. The shared loci between AD and immune-mediated diseases implicated several genes, including GRAMD1B, FUT2, ADAMTS4, HBEGF, WNT3, TSPAN14, DHODH, ABCB9, and TNIP1, all of which are protein-coding genes and thus potential drug targets. Top biological pathways enriched with these identified shared genes were related to the immune system and cell adhesion. In addition, in silico single-cell analyses showed enrichment of immune and brain cells, including neurons and microglia. In summary, our results suggest a genetic relationship between AD and the 11 immune-mediated diseases, pinpointing the existence of a shared however non-causal genetic basis. These identified protein-coding genes have the potential to serve as a novel path to therapeutic interventions for both AD and immune-mediated diseases and their comorbidities.
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- Nitesh Enduru
- Center for Precision Health, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Center for Precision Health, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Precision Health, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Center for Precision Health, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
- Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
- Faillace Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
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Zhou S, Sun Q, Gao N, Hu Z, Jia J, Song J, Xu G, Dong A, Xia W, Wu J. The Role of Inflammatory Biomarkers in Mediating the Effect of Inflammatory Bowel Disease on nonmalignant Digestive System Diseases: A Multivariable Mendelian Randomized Study. Can J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2024; 2024:1266139. [PMID: 38529201 PMCID: PMC10963109 DOI: 10.1155/2024/1266139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Revised: 02/03/2024] [Accepted: 03/10/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024] Open
Abstract
Background While observation studies have shown a positive correlation between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the risk of nonmalignant digestive system diseases, a definitive causal relationship has not yet been clearly established. Methods Mendelian randomization (MR) was employed to investigate the potential causal association between genetic susceptibility to IBD and nonmalignant gastrointestinal diseases. Genetic variants were extracted as instrumental variables (IVs) from a genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analysis, which included 12,194 cases of Crohn's disease (CD) and 28,072 control cases of European ancestry. The GWAS for ulcerative colitis (UC) included 12,366 UC and 33,609 control cases of European ancestry. All IVs reached genome-wide significance (GWAS p value <5 × 10-8). Summary-level data for acute pancreatitis (AP), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroesophageal reflux disease, cholelithiasis, and CeD (celiac disease) were obtained from the GWAS meta-analysis and the FinnGen dataset. Summary-level data on relevant inflammatory factors were provided by the International Genetic Consortium. Univariate MR analysis was conducted using inverse variance weighting as the primary method for estimating causal effects. Multivariate MR analyses were also performed to detect possible mediators. Results Genetic susceptibility to UC was associated with an increased risk of AP (OR = 1.08; 95% CI = 1.03-1.13; p=0.002) and IBS odds ratio (OR] = 1.07; 95% confidence interval (CI] = 1.03-1.11; (p < 0.001). In terms of potential mediators, interleukin 6 (IL-6) had a driving effect on the association between UC and AP. There was no apparent evidence of increased risk with CD. Meanwhile, genetic susceptibility to CD increases the risk of CeD (OR = 1.14; 95% CI = 1.03-1.25; p=0.01). Conclusions The evidence suggests that UC is associated with an elevated risk of AP and IBS, and IL-6 may be responsible in AP. CD is associated with an increased risk of developing CeD. Implementing a proactive monitoring program for assessing the risk of gastrointestinal diseases in UC patients, particularly those with elevated IL-6 levels, may be of interest. In addition, the presence of AP and IBS may indicate the presence of UC. Preventing CeD is an essential consideration in the therapeutic management of patients with CD.
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- Shu Zhou
- Hangzhou Ninth People's Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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- Hangzhou Ninth People's Hospital, Hangzhou, China
- Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road 79, Hangzhou 310003, China
- Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-Organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road 79, Hangzhou 310003, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road 79, Hangzhou 310003, China
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- Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road 79, Hangzhou 310003, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road 79, Hangzhou 310003, China
- Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-Organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Qingchun Road 79, Hangzhou 310003, China
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- Hangzhou Ninth People's Hospital, Hangzhou, China
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Yang X, He Z, Dong Q, Nai S, Duan X, Yu J, Zhao N, Du X, Chen L. Btbd8 deficiency reduces susceptibility to colitis by enhancing intestinal barrier function and suppressing inflammation. Front Immunol 2024; 15:1382661. [PMID: 38558797 PMCID: PMC10978791 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1382661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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Introduction BTBD8 has been identified as a susceptible gene for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). However, the function of BTBD8 in normal development and IBD pathogenesis remains unknown. Methods We administered drinking water with 3% dextran sodium sulfate (DSS) to wild-type (WT) and Btbd8 knockout (KO) mice for seven consecutive days to induce IBD. Subsequently, we further examined whether Btbd8 KO affects intestinal barrier and inflammation. Results We demonstrated that Btbd8 deficiency partially protects mice from DSS-induced IBD, even though no obvious phenotypes were observed in Btbd8 KO mice. Btbd8 deletion leads to strengthened tight junctions between intestinal epithelial cells, elevated intestinal stem cell activity, and enhanced mucus layer. All these three mechanisms work together to improve the intestinal barrier integrity in Btbd8 KO mice. In addition, Btbd8 deficiency mitigates inflammation by reducing the expression of IL-1β and IL-6 by macrophages. Discussion Our studies validate the crucial role of Btbd8 in IBD pathogenesis, and reveal that Btbd8 deficiency may ameliorate DSS-induced IBD through improving the intestinal barrier integrity, as well as suppressing inflammatory response mediated by macrophages. These findings suggest that Btbd8 could be a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of IBD.
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- Institute of Translational Medicine, Tianjin Union Medical Center, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for Cell Responses, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Biology Education and College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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Zeng R, Fang M, Shen A, Chai X, Zhao Y, Liu M, Zhu L, Rui W, Feng B, Hong L, Ding C, Song Z, Lu W, Zhang A. Discovery of a Highly Potent Oxysterol Receptor GPR183 Antagonist Bearing the Benzo[ d]thiazole Structural Motif for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). J Med Chem 2024; 67:3520-3541. [PMID: 38417036 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.3c01905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2024]
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Accumulating evidence has demonstrated a critical pathological role of oxysterol receptor GPR183 in various inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, the currently reported GPR183 antagonists are very limited and not qualified for in vivo studies due to their inferior druglike properties. Herein, we conducted a structural elaboration focusing on improving its PK and safety profile based on a reference antagonist NIBR189. Of note, compound 33, bearing an aminobenzothiazole motif, exhibited reduced hERG inhibition, improved PK properties, and robust antagonistic activity (IC50 = 0.82 nM) with high selectivity against GPR183. Moreover, compound 33 displayed strong in vitro antimigration and anti-inflammatory activity in monocytes. Oral administration of compound 33 effectively improved the pathological symptoms of DSS-induced experimental colitis. All of these findings demonstrate that compound 33 is a novel and promising GPR183 antagonist suitable for further investigation to treat IBD.
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- Ruoqing Zeng
- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Drug Target Identification and Delivery, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- National Key Laboratory of Innovative Immunotherapy, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Drug Target Identification and Delivery, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai 200210, China
- National Key Laboratory of Innovative Immunotherapy, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Chemical Biology Research Center at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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- Department of General Surgery and Department of Pathology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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- Department of General Surgery and Department of Pathology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Drug Target Identification and Delivery, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- National Key Laboratory of Innovative Immunotherapy, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Drug Target Identification and Delivery, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- National Key Laboratory of Innovative Immunotherapy, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Drug Target Identification and Delivery, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- National Key Laboratory of Innovative Immunotherapy, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Regulatory Biology and School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- Shanghai Frontiers Science Center for Drug Target Identification and Delivery, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- Lingang Laboratory, Shanghai 200210, China
- National Key Laboratory of Innovative Immunotherapy, Shanghai 200240, China
- Chemical Biology Research Center at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China
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Khrom M, Long M, Dube S, Robbins L, Botwin GJ, Yang S, Mengesha E, Li D, Naito T, Bonthala NN, Ha C, Melmed G, Rabizadeh S, Syal G, Vasiliauskas E, Ziring D, Brant SR, Cho J, Duerr RH, Rioux J, Schumm P, Silverberg M, Ananthakrishnan AN, Faubion WA, Jabri B, Lira SA, Newberry RD, Sandler RS, Xavier RJ, Kugathasan S, Hercules D, Targan SR, Sartor RB, Haritunians T, McGovern DPB. Comprehensive Association Analyses of Extraintestinal Manifestations in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Gastroenterology 2024:S0016-5085(24)00232-4. [PMID: 38490347 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2024.02.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2022] [Revised: 02/11/2024] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) frequently develop extraintestinal manifestations (EIMs) that contribute substantially to morbidity. We assembled the largest multicohort data set to date to investigate the clinical, serologic, and genetic factors associated with EIM complications in IBD. METHODS Data were available in 12,083 unrelated European ancestry IBD cases with presence or absence of EIMs (eg, ankylosing spondylitis [ankylosing spondylitis and sacroiliitis], primary sclerosing cholangitis [PSC], peripheral arthritis, and skin and ocular manifestations) across 4 cohorts (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases IBD Genetics Consortium, Sinai Helmsley Alliance for Research Excellence Consortium, and Risk Stratification and Identification of Immunogenetic and Microbial Markers of Rapid Disease Progression in Children with Crohn's Disease cohort). Clinical and serologic parameters were analyzed by means of univariable and multivariable regression analyses using a mixed-effects model. Within-case logistic regression was performed to assess genetic associations. RESULTS Most EIMs occurred more commonly in female subjects (overall EIM: P = 9.0E-05, odds ratio [OR], 1.2; 95% CI, 1.1-1.4), with CD (especially colonic disease location; P = 9.8E-09, OR, 1.7; 95% CI, 1.4-2.0), and in subjects who required surgery (both CD and UC; P = 3.6E-19, OR, 1.7; 95% CI, 1.5-1.9). Smoking increased risk of EIMs except for PSC, where there was a "protective" effect. Multiple serologic associations were observed, including with PSC (IgG and IgA, perinuclear anti-nuclear cytoplasmic antibody; anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies; and anti-flagellin) and any EIM (IgG and IgA, perinuclear anti-nuclear cytoplasmic antibody; anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies; and anti-Pseudomonas fluorescens-associated sequence). We identified genome-wide significant associations within major histocompatibility complex (ankylosing spondylitis and sacroiliitis, P = 1.4E-15; OR, 2.5; 95% CI, 2.0-3.1; PSC, P = 2.7E-10; OR, 2.8; 95% CI, 2.0-3.8; ocular, P = 2E-08, OR, 3.6; 95% CI, 2.3-5.6; and overall EIM, P = 8.4E-09; OR, 2.2; 95% CI, 1.7-2.9) and CPEB4 (skin, P = 2.7E-08; OR, 1.5; 95% CI, 1.3-1.8). Genetic associations implicated tumor necrosis factor, JAK-STAT, and IL6 as potential targets for EIMs. Contrary to previous reports, only 2% of our subjects had multiple EIMs and most co-occurrences were negatively correlated. CONCLUSIONS We have identified demographic, clinical, and genetic associations with EIMs that revealed underlying mechanisms and implicated novel and existing drug targets-important steps toward a more personalized approach to IBD management.
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- Michelle Khrom
- F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Palmetto Digestive Health Specialists, Charleston, South Carolina
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- F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Dr Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, New York, New York
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal and Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- University of Toronto, Samuel Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Combined Center for Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Atlanta, Georgia; Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
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- F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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- F. Widjaja Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
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Di W, Luyao Y, Chengwei Y, Valtonen Anu M, Juha-Pekka K, Ying G. Exploring the causal link between circulating cytokines and sarcopenia traits: A Mendelian randomization analysis. Environ Toxicol 2024. [PMID: 38450985 DOI: 10.1002/tox.24206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2024] [Revised: 02/08/2024] [Accepted: 02/25/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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BACKGROUND Previous observational studies have linked circulating cytokines to sarcopenia, but their causal relationship remains unclear. This study employed Mendelian Randomization (MR) to investigate the causal links between circulating cytokines and sarcopenia-related traits using genetic data. METHODS A two-sample bidirectional MR analysis was conducted using data from individuals of European ancestry, utilizing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) statistics. The study selected instrumental single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) significantly associated with circulating cytokines and applied multiple MR methods, including inverse variance weighted (IVW), Weighted Median, MR-Egger, Weighted Mode, Simple Mode, and MR-PRESSO. The traits analyzed were appendicular lean mass (ALM) and grip strength. Heterogeneity, robustness, and consistency of results were assessed using Cochran's Q statistic, MR-Egger regression, and "leave-one-out" sensitivity analyses. RESULTS The IVM-MR analysis showed a casual association between genetically predicted circulating levels of interleukin-16 and both ALM and grip strength (ALM: OR = 0.990, 95% CI: 0.980-1.000, p = .049; grip strength: OR = 0.971, 95% CI: 0.948-0.995, p = .020). Additionally, interferon-gamma-induced protein 10 (IP-10), interleukin-1-beta (IL-1β), and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) were correlated with ALM and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), interleukin-12 (IL-12), and interleukin-5 (IL-5) with grip strength. Comparable results were confirmed via the MR-Egger, Weighted Median, Weighted Mode, and Simple Mode methods. Sensitivity analysis showed no horizontal pleiotropy to bias the causal estimates. CONCLUSION The results suggest a significant causal effect of inflammatory cytokines on sarcopenia, offering new avenues for therapeutic target development. However, the study's focus on a European ancestry cohort limits its generalizability to other populations. Future research should aim to include diverse ethnic groups to validate and broaden these findings, thereby enhancing our understanding of sarcopenia's mechanisms in a global context.
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- Wang Di
- Department of Sports Science, College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Department of Sports Science, College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Faculty of Sports and Exercise Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of physiotherapy, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finland
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- Motion Analysis Laboratory, Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Sports Science, College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Xu C, Shao J. High-throughput omics technologies in inflammatory bowel disease. Clin Chim Acta 2024; 555:117828. [PMID: 38355001 DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2024.117828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2023] [Revised: 02/06/2024] [Accepted: 02/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
Abstract
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, relapsing intestinal disease. Elucidation of the pathogenic mechanisms of IBD requires high-throughput technologies (HTTs) to effectively obtain and analyze large amounts of data. Recently, HTTs have been widely used in IBD, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, microbiomics, metabolomics and single-cell sequencing. When combined with endoscopy, the application of these technologies can provide an in-depth understanding on the alterations of intestinal microbe diversity and abundance, the abnormalities of signaling pathway-mediated immune responses and functionality, and the evaluation of therapeutic effects, improving the accuracy of early diagnosis and treatment of IBD. This review comprehensively summarizes the development and advancement of HTTs, and also highlights the challenges and future directions of these technologies in IBD research. Although HTTs have made striking breakthrough in IBD, more standardized methods and large-scale dataset processing are still needed to achieve the goal of personalized medicine.
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- Chen Xu
- Laboratory of Anti-infection and Immunity, College of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine (College of Life Science), Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Zhijing Building, 350 Longzihu Road, Xinzhan District, Hefei 230012, Anhui, PR China
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- Laboratory of Anti-infection and Immunity, College of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine (College of Life Science), Anhui University of Chinese Medicine, Zhijing Building, 350 Longzihu Road, Xinzhan District, Hefei 230012, Anhui, PR China; Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Anhui Academy of Chinese Medicine, Zhijing Building, 350 Longzihu Road, Xinzhan District, Hefei 230012, Anhui, PR China.
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Wang BR, Wang J, Tian T, Zhang SX, Zhao YQ, Meng SY, Wu ZY, Huang F, Zeng J, Ni J. Genetic correlation, shared loci, but no causality between bipolar disorder and inflammatory bowel disease: A genome-wide pleiotropic analysis. J Affect Disord 2024; 348:167-174. [PMID: 38154582 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.12.042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2023] [Revised: 11/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/30/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS The comorbidity between bipolar disorder (BD) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been widely reported in observational studies. However, unclear whether this comorbidity reflects a shared genetic architecture. METHODS Leveraging large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) summary statistics of BD, IBD and its subtypes, ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), we performed a genome-wide pleiotropic analysis to estimate heritability and genetic correlation, identify pleiotropy loci/genes, and explore the shared biological pathway. Mendelian randomization (MR) studies were subsequently employed to infer whether the potential causal relationship is present. RESULTS We found a positive significant genetic correlation between BD and IBD (rg = 0.10, P = 7.00 × 10-4), UC (rg = 0.09, P = 2.90 × 10-3), CD (rg = 0.08, P = 6.10 × 10-3). In cross-trait meta-analysis, a total of 29, 24, and 23 independent SNPs passed the threshold for significant association between BD and IBD, UC, and CD, respectively. We identified five novel pleiotropy genes including ZDHHC2, SCRN1, INPP4B, C1orf123, and BRD3 in both BD and IBD, as well as in its subtypes UC and CD. Pathway enrichment analyses revealed that those pleiotropy genes were mainly enriched in several immune-related signal transduction pathways and cerebral disease-related pathways. MR analyses provided no evidence for a causal relationship between BD and IBD. CONCLUSION Our findings corroborated that shared genetic basis and common biological pathways may explain the comorbidity of BD and IBD. These findings further our understanding of shared genetic mechanisms underlying BD and IBD, and potentially provide points of intervention that may allow the development of new therapies for these co-occurrent disorders.
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- Bing-Ran Wang
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China; Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China; Department of Clinical Medicine, the Second School of Clinical Medical, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China; Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China; Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China; Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China; Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China; Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China; Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases Laboratory of Anhui Province, Hefei, Anhui 230032, China.
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Ling E, Nemesh J, Goldman M, Kamitaki N, Reed N, Handsaker RE, Genovese G, Vogelgsang JS, Gerges S, Kashin S, Ghosh S, Esposito JM, Morris K, Meyer D, Lutservitz A, Mullally CD, Wysoker A, Spina L, Neumann A, Hogan M, Ichihara K, Berretta S, McCarroll SA. A concerted neuron-astrocyte program declines in ageing and schizophrenia. Nature 2024; 627:604-611. [PMID: 38448582 PMCID: PMC10954558 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07109-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/23/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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Human brains vary across people and over time; such variation is not yet understood in cellular terms. Here we describe a relationship between people's cortical neurons and cortical astrocytes. We used single-nucleus RNA sequencing to analyse the prefrontal cortex of 191 human donors aged 22-97 years, including healthy individuals and people with schizophrenia. Latent-factor analysis of these data revealed that, in people whose cortical neurons more strongly expressed genes encoding synaptic components, cortical astrocytes more strongly expressed distinct genes with synaptic functions and genes for synthesizing cholesterol, an astrocyte-supplied component of synaptic membranes. We call this relationship the synaptic neuron and astrocyte program (SNAP). In schizophrenia and ageing-two conditions that involve declines in cognitive flexibility and plasticity1,2-cells divested from SNAP: astrocytes, glutamatergic (excitatory) neurons and GABAergic (inhibitory) neurons all showed reduced SNAP expression to corresponding degrees. The distinct astrocytic and neuronal components of SNAP both involved genes in which genetic risk factors for schizophrenia were strongly concentrated. SNAP, which varies quantitatively even among healthy people of similar age, may underlie many aspects of normal human interindividual differences and may be an important point of convergence for multiple kinds of pathophysiology.
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- Emi Ling
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
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Zheng T, Roda G, Zabana Y, Escudero-Hernández C, Liu X, Chen Y, Camargo Tavares L, Bonfiglio F, Mellander MR, Janczewska I, Vigren L, Sjöberg K, Ohlsson B, Almer S, Halfvarson J, Miehlke S, Madisch A, Lieb W, Kupčinskas J, Weersma RK, Bujanda L, Julià A, Marsal S, Esteve M, Guagnozzi D, Fernández-Bañares F, Ferrer C, Peter I, Ludvigsson JF, Pardi D, Verhaegh B, Jonkers D, Pierik M, Münch A, Franke A, Bresso F, Khalili H, Colombel JF, D'Amato M. Human Leukocyte Antigen Signatures as Pathophysiological Discriminants of Microscopic Colitis Subtypes. J Crohns Colitis 2024; 18:349-359. [PMID: 37768647 DOI: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjad165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Revised: 07/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND AIMS Microscopic colitis [MC] is currently regarded as an inflammatory bowel disease that manifests as two subtypes: collagenous colitis [CC] and lymphocytic colitis [LC]. Whether these represent a clinical continuum or distinct entities is, however, an open question. Genetic investigations may contribute important insight into their respective pathophysiologies. METHODS We conducted a genome-wide association study [GWAS] meta-analysis in 1498 CC, 373 LC patients, and 13 487 controls from Europe and the USA, combined with publicly available MC GWAS data from UK Biobank and FinnGen [2599 MC cases and 552 343 controls in total]. Human leukocyte antigen [HLA] alleles and polymorphic residues were imputed and tested for association, including conditional analyses for the identification of key causative variants and residues. Genetic correlations with other traits and diagnoses were also studied. RESULTS We detected strong HLA association with CC, and conditional analyses highlighted the DRB1*03:01 allele and its residues Y26, N77, and R74 as key to this association (best p = 1.4 × 10-23, odds ratio [OR] = 1.96). Nominally significant genetic correlations were detected between CC and pneumonia [rg = 0.77; p = 0.048] and oesophageal diseases [rg = 0.45, p = 0.023]. An additional locus was identified in MC GWAS analyses near the CLEC16A and RMI2 genes on chromosome 16 [rs35099084, p = 2.0 × 10-8, OR = 1.31]. No significant association was detected for LC. CONCLUSION Our results suggest CC and LC have distinct pathophysiological underpinnings, characterised by an HLA predisposing role only in CC. This challenges existing classifications, eventually calling for a re-evaluation of the utility of MC umbrella definitions.
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- Tenghao Zheng
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
- Clinical Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biostructures and Biosystems National Institute, Rome, Italy
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Universitari Mútua de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Clinical Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
- Clinical Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Skane University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Skane University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Gastroenterology, Dermatology and Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Orebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden
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- Centre for Digestive Diseases, Internal Medicine Centre Eppendorf, and Centre for Oesophageal Disorders, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Gastroenterology, CRH Clinic Siloah, Hannover, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen and University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases, Biodonostia Health Research Institute, Donostia University Hospital, Universidad del País Vasco, San Sebastian, Spain
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- Rheumatology Research Group, Vall d' Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
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- Rheumatology Research Group, Vall d' Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Universitari Mútua de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Gastroenterology, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Neuro-Immuno-Gastroenterology Group, Digestive System Research Unit, Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca, Barcelona, Spain
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Universitari Mútua de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, Barcelona, Spain
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- Pathology Department, Hospital Universitari Mútua de Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Division Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Division Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Department of Health, Medicine, and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Gastroenterology, Dermatology and Rheumatology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Dr Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Clinical Epidemiology Division, Department of Medicine Solna, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Gastrointestinal Genetics Lab, CIC bioGUNE - BRTA, Derio, Spain
- Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
- Department of Medicine and Surgery, LUM University, Casamassima, Italy
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Danne C, Skerniskyte J, Marteyn B, Sokol H. Neutrophils: from IBD to the gut microbiota. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 2024; 21:184-197. [PMID: 38110547 DOI: 10.1038/s41575-023-00871-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract that results from dysfunction in innate and/or adaptive immune responses. Impaired innate immunity, which leads to lack of control of an altered intestinal microbiota and to activation of the adaptive immune system, promotes a secondary inflammatory response that is responsible for tissue damage. Neutrophils are key players in innate immunity in IBD, but their roles have been neglected compared with those of other immune cells. The latest studies on neutrophils in IBD have revealed unexpected complexities, with heterogeneous populations and dual functions, both deleterious and protective, for the host. In parallel, interconnections between disease development, intestinal microbiota and neutrophils have been highlighted. Numerous IBD susceptibility genes (such as NOD2, NCF4, LRRK2, CARD9) are involved in neutrophil functions related to defence against microorganisms. Moreover, severe monogenic diseases involving dysfunctional neutrophils, including chronic granulomatous disease, are characterized by intestinal inflammation that mimics IBD and by alterations in the intestinal microbiota. This observation demonstrates the dialogue between neutrophils, gut inflammation and the microbiota. Neutrophils affect microbiota composition and function in several ways. In return, microbial factors, including metabolites, regulate neutrophil production and function directly and indirectly. It is crucial to further investigate the diverse roles played by neutrophils in host-microbiota interactions, both at steady state and in inflammatory conditions, to develop new IBD therapies. In this Review, we discuss the roles of neutrophils in IBD, in light of emerging evidence proving strong interconnections between neutrophils and the gut microbiota, especially in an inflammatory context.
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- Camille Danne
- Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRS-938, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine, CRSA, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Service de Gastroentérologie, Paris, France.
- Paris Center For Microbiome Medicine (PaCeMM) FHU, Paris, France.
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- CNRS, UPR 9002, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Strasbourg, France
- Institute of Biosciences, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- CNRS, UPR 9002, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN, Strasbourg, France
- University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS), Strasbourg, France
- Institut Pasteur, Université de Paris, Inserm 1225 Unité de Pathogenèse des Infections Vasculaires, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, INSERM UMRS-938, Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine, CRSA, AP-HP, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Service de Gastroentérologie, Paris, France
- Paris Center For Microbiome Medicine (PaCeMM) FHU, Paris, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, INRAe, AgroParisTech, Micalis Institute, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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Qing X, Wang L, Fang S, Ban Y, Zhong Z, Sun W, Zhang C, Zhang T, Yang Y, Wei W. Association of Antidiabetic Drug Target Genes with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study. J Inflamm Res 2024; 17:1389-1396. [PMID: 38476469 PMCID: PMC10927373 DOI: 10.2147/jir.s441231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
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Background An unmet medical need for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) exists. A part of antidiabetic drugs had potential effects on IBD in various observational research. Objective To investigate the potential of antidiabetic drugs on IBD. Methods We undertook a summary-data-based Mendelian randomization (SMR) using the expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) expressed in the blood or colon and a two sample Mendelian randomization (TSMR) utilizing single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of antidiabetic drug target genes mediated by blood glucose traits. Participants encompassed patients with IBD (25,042 cases/34,915 controls), UC (12,366 cases/33,609 controls), and CD (12,194 cases/28,072 controls). Data on eQTL in the blood or the colon were from the eQTLGen consortium (31,684 individuals) or GTEx Consortium V8, respectively. SMR was performed by SMR software (20,220,322); the primary method for TSMR was inverse-variance weighted (IVW) or Wald ratio through R studio (2023.06.0+421). Sensitivity analyses were carried out. Results A 1-SD upper expression of the KCNJ11 gene (target gene of sulfonylureas) in the blood reduced the risk of CD (OR per 1-SD = 0.728, 95% CI = 0.586-0.903, P = 0.004) according to the result of SMR. ABCC8 (target gene of sulfonylureas) expressed in the colon did not affect CD, UC, or IBD. T2D-mediated KCNJ11 has a protective effect on CD (OR = 0.475, 95% CI = 0.297-0.761, P = 0.002). Gene predicted no relationship between T2D and CD. Conclusion Sulfonylureas (SUs) may have side effects on CD. This work provides some suggestions for the selection of antidiabetic drugs in patients with CD.
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- Xiangli Qing
- Department of Gastroenterology, Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
- School of Clinical Medicine, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
- Graduate School of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of General Medicine, Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Wangjing Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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Belei O, Basaca DG, Olariu L, Pantea M, Bozgan D, Nanu A, Sîrbu I, Mărginean O, Enătescu I. The Interaction between Stress and Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Pediatric and Adult Patients. J Clin Med 2024; 13:1361. [PMID: 38592680 PMCID: PMC10932475 DOI: 10.3390/jcm13051361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2024] [Revised: 02/23/2024] [Accepted: 02/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/10/2024] Open
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Background: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) have seen an exponential increase in incidence, particularly among pediatric patients. Psychological stress is a significant risk factor influencing the disease course. This review assesses the interaction between stress and disease progression, focusing on articles that quantified inflammatory markers in IBD patients exposed to varying degrees of psychological stress. Methods: A systematic narrative literature review was conducted, focusing on the interaction between IBD and stress among adult and pediatric patients, as well as animal subjects. The research involved searching PubMed, Scopus, Medline, and Cochrane Library databases from 2000 to December 2023. Results: The interplay between the intestinal immunity response, the nervous system, and psychological disorders, known as the gut-brain axis, plays a major role in IBD pathophysiology. Various types of stressors alter gut mucosal integrity through different pathways, increasing gut mucosa permeability and promoting bacterial translocation. A denser microbial load in the gut wall emphasizes cytokine production, worsening the disease course. The risk of developing depression and anxiety is higher in IBD patients compared with the general population, and stress is a significant trigger for inducing acute flares of the disease. Conclusions: Further large studies should be conducted to assess the relationship between stressors, psychological disorders, and their impact on the course of IBD. Clinicians involved in the medical care of IBD patients should aim to implement stress reduction practices in addition to pharmacological therapies.
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- Oana Belei
- First Pediatric Clinic, Disturbances of Growth and Development on Children Research Center, “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timișoara, Romania; (O.B.); (O.M.)
- Department of Pediatrics, First Pediatric Clinic, “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timișoara, Romania;
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- First Pediatric Clinic, Disturbances of Growth and Development on Children Research Center, “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timișoara, Romania; (O.B.); (O.M.)
- Department of Pediatrics, First Pediatric Clinic, “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timișoara, Romania;
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- Department of Pediatrics, First Pediatric Clinic, “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timișoara, Romania;
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- Twelfth Department, Neonatology Clinic, “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timișoara, Romania; (M.P.); (I.E.)
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- Clinic of Neonatology, “Pius Brânzeu” County Emergency Clinical Hospital, 300723 Timișoara, Romania;
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- Third Pediatric Clinic, “Louis Țurcanu” Emergency Children Hospital, 300011 Timișoara, Romania; (A.N.); (I.S.)
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- Third Pediatric Clinic, “Louis Țurcanu” Emergency Children Hospital, 300011 Timișoara, Romania; (A.N.); (I.S.)
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- First Pediatric Clinic, Disturbances of Growth and Development on Children Research Center, “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timișoara, Romania; (O.B.); (O.M.)
- Department of Pediatrics, First Pediatric Clinic, “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timișoara, Romania;
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- Twelfth Department, Neonatology Clinic, “Victor Babeș” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 300041 Timișoara, Romania; (M.P.); (I.E.)
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Gong T, Brew BK, Lundholm C, Smew AI, Harder A, Kuja-Halkola R, Ludvigsson JF, Lu Y, Almqvist C. Comorbidity Between Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Asthma and Allergic Diseases: A Genetically Informed Study. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2024:izae027. [PMID: 38412344 DOI: 10.1093/ibd/izae027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/29/2024]
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BACKGROUND Little is known about shared origins between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and allergic diseases (asthma, allergic rhinitis, and eczema). We aimed to expand current knowledge on the etiological sources of comorbidities between these disorders using a range of genetically informed methods. METHODS Within-individual and familial co-aggregation analysis was applied to 2 873 445 individuals born in Sweden from 1987 to 2014 and their first- and second-degree relatives. Quantitative genetic modeling was applied to 38 723 twin pairs to decompose the genetic and environmental sources for comorbidity. Polygenic risk score analysis between IBD and allergic diseases was conducted in 48 186 genotyped twins, and linkage disequilibrium score regression was applied using publicly available data to explore the genetic overlap. RESULTS IBD was associated with asthma (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 1.35; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.30 to 1.40), allergic rhinitis (aOR, 1.27; 95% CI, 1.20 to 1.34), and eczema (aOR, 1.47; 95% CI, 1.38 to 1.56), with similar estimates for ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. The ORs for familial co-aggregation decreased with decreasing genetic relatedness. Quantitative genetic modeling revealed little evidence of common genetic factors between IBD and allergic diseases (eg, IBD and allergic rhinitis; genetic correlation ra = 0.06; 95% CI, -0.03 to 0.15) but did reveal some evidence of unique environmental factors between IBD and eczema (re = 0.16; 95% CI, 0.00 to 0.32). Molecular genetic analyses were similarly null for IBD and allergic diseases, except for a slight association between Crohn's disease polygenic risk score and eczema (OR, 1.09; 95% CI, 1.06 to 1.12). CONCLUSIONS We found little evidence to support a shared origin between IBD and any allergic disease but weak evidence for shared genetic and unique environmental components for IBD and eczema.
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- Tong Gong
- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Big Data Research in Health and School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Pediatrics, Orebro University Hospital, Orebro, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Shadrin AA, Hindley G, Hagen E, Parker N, Tesfaye M, Jaholkowski P, Rahman Z, Kutrolli G, Fominykh V, Djurovic S, Smeland OB, O’Connell KS, van der Meer D, Frei O, Andreassen OA, Dale AM. Dissecting the genetic overlap between three complex phenotypes with trivariate MiXeR. medRxiv 2024:2024.02.23.24303236. [PMID: 38464132 PMCID: PMC10925360 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.23.24303236] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
Abstract
Comorbidities are an increasing global health challenge. Accumulating evidence suggests overlapping genetic architectures underlying comorbid complex human traits and disorders. The bivariate causal mixture model (MiXeR) can quantify the polygenic overlap between complex phenotypes beyond global genetic correlation. Still, the pattern of genetic overlap between three distinct phenotypes, which is important to better characterize multimorbidities, has previously not been possible to quantify. Here, we present and validate the trivariate MiXeR tool, which disentangles the pattern of genetic overlap between three phenotypes using summary statistics from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Our simulations show that the trivariate MiXeR can reliably reconstruct different patterns of genetic overlap. We further demonstrate how the tool can be used to estimate the proportions of genetic overlap between three phenotypes using real GWAS data, providing examples of complex patterns of genetic overlap between diverse human traits and diseases that could not be deduced from bivariate analyses. This contributes to a better understanding of the etiology of complex phenotypes and the nature of their relationship, which may aid in dissecting comorbidity patterns and their biological underpinnings.
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- Alexey A. Shadrin
- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental disorders, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, 16 De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AB, UK
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Center for Bioinformatics, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Precision Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental disorders, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Radiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States of America
- Multimodal Imaging Laboratory, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States of America
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Neurosciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States of America
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Kim K, Park S, Lee Y, Baek J, Kim Y, Hwang SW, Lee JL, Park SH, Yang SK, Han B, Song K, Yoon YS, Lee HS, Ye BD. Transcriptomic Profiling and Cellular Composition of Creeping Fat in Crohn's disease. J Crohns Colitis 2024; 18:223-232. [PMID: 37594364 DOI: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjad141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Creeping fat [CF] is a poorly understood feature of Crohn's disease [CD], characterized by the wrapping of mesenteric adipose tissue [MAT] around the inflamed intestine. The aim of this study was to investigate the transcriptional profile and compositional features of CF. METHODS We collected 59 MAT samples: 23 paired samples from patients with CD (CF [CD-CF] and MAT around the uninflamed intestine [CD-MAT]) and 13 MAT samples from non-CD patients [Con-MAT]. Differentially expressed gene [DEG], functional pathway, cell deconvolution, and gene co-expression network analyses were performed. RESULTS By comparing three different MAT samples, we identified a total of 529 DEGs [|log2FoldChange| > 1.5; false discovery rate < 0.05]. Of these, 323 genes showed an incremental pattern from Con-MAT to CD-MAT, and to CD-CF, while 105 genes displayed a decremental pattern. Genes with an incremental pattern were related to immune cell responses, including B- and T-cell activation, while genes with a decremental pattern were involved in cell trafficking and migration. Cell deconvolution analysis revealed significant changes in cellular composition between the CD-CF and Con-MAT groups, with increased proportions of B-cells/plasma cells [p = 1.16 × 10-4], T-cells [p = 3.66 × 10-3], and mononuclear phagocytes [p = 3.53 × 10-2] in the CD-CF group. In contrast, only the B-cell/plasma cell component showed a significant increase [p = 1.62 × 10-2] in the CD-MAT group compared to Con-MAT. CONCLUSION The distinct transcriptional profiles and altered cellular components of each MAT found in our study provide insight into the mechanisms behind CF and highlight its possible role in the pathogenesis of CD.
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- Kyuwon Kim
- Department of Gastroenterology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Gastroenterology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
- Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Gastroenterology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Gastroenterology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, BK21 Plus Biomedical Science Project, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
- Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Gastroenterology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
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Chen J, Huang Y, Chen H, Yang Q, Zheng W, Lin Y, Xue M, Wang C. Identification of a Novel NLRP12 Frameshift Mutation (Val730Glyfs 41) by Whole-Exome Sequencing in Patients with Crohn’s Disease. Hum Mutat 2024; 2024:1-11. [DOI: 10.1155/2024/5573272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/22/2024]
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NLRP12 encodes the nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat-containing receptor 12 protein and has been linked to familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome 2 (FCAS2). Previous studies have reported that NLRP12 protein can dampen inflammatory responses in DSS-induced mice colitis. To date, only four alterations in the NLRP12 gene have been associated with Crohn’s disease (CD). Here, we reported a novel heterozygous NLRP12 frameshift mutation (c.2188dupG, p.Val730Glyfs41) identified by whole-exome sequencing in the proband with CD. The Sanger sequencing confirmed that his sister and father also carried this NLRP12 mutation, which cosegregated well with the CD phenotype. In silico analysis predicted this mutation to be disease-causing. Patients heterozygous for this mutation exhibited decreased NLRP12 protein levels in the peripheral blood and colon. Functional assays showed that mutant NLRP12 plasmid-transfected HEK293T cells exhibited significantly lower NLRP12 mRNA and protein levels than wild-type plasmid-transfected cells. The nonsense-mediated decay inhibitor NMDI14 significantly increased NLRP12 mRNA and protein levels in mutant plasmid-transfected cells. Overall, our results demonstrated that this heterozygous NLRP12 mutation (c.2188dupG) resulted in decreased NLRP12 expression, which might contribute to the mechanism underlying CD.
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- Jintong Chen
- Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China
- Fujian Clinical Research Center for Liver and Intestinal Diseases, Fuzhou 350005, China
- Department of Gastroenterology, National Regional Medical Center, Binhai Campus of the First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China
- Fujian Clinical Research Center for Liver and Intestinal Diseases, Fuzhou 350005, China
- Department of Gastroenterology, National Regional Medical Center, Binhai Campus of the First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China
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- Department of Rheumatology, First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China
- Fujian Clinical Research Center for Liver and Intestinal Diseases, Fuzhou 350005, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China
- Fujian Clinical Research Center for Liver and Intestinal Diseases, Fuzhou 350005, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China
- Fujian Clinical Research Center for Liver and Intestinal Diseases, Fuzhou 350005, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China
- Fujian Clinical Research Center for Liver and Intestinal Diseases, Fuzhou 350005, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China
- Fujian Clinical Research Center for Liver and Intestinal Diseases, Fuzhou 350005, China
- Department of Gastroenterology, National Regional Medical Center, Binhai Campus of the First Affiliated Hospital, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350005, China
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Zhu Z, Chen X, Wang C, Zhang S, Cheng L. Haemorrhoidal disease reduces the risk of diverticular disease and irritable bowel syndrome: a Mendelian randomisation study. Gut 2024; 73:553-554. [PMID: 36693712 DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2022-329307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- Zijun Zhu
- College of Bioinformatics and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Bioinformatics and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Bioinformatics and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Bioinformatics and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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- College of Bioinformatics and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
- NHC Key Laboratory of Molecular Probe and Targeted Diagnosis and Therapy, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China
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Hu S, Bourgonje AR, Gacesa R, Jansen BH, Björk JR, Bangma A, Hidding IJ, van Dullemen HM, Visschedijk MC, Faber KN, Dijkstra G, Harmsen HJM, Festen EAM, Vich Vila A, Spekhorst LM, Weersma RK. Mucosal host-microbe interactions associate with clinical phenotypes in inflammatory bowel disease. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1470. [PMID: 38368394 PMCID: PMC10874382 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45855-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 02/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/19/2024] Open
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Disrupted host-microbe interactions at the mucosal level are key to the pathophysiology of IBD. This study aimed to comprehensively examine crosstalk between mucosal gene expression and microbiota in patients with IBD. To study tissue-specific interactions, we perform transcriptomic (RNA-seq) and microbial (16S-rRNA-seq) profiling of 697 intestinal biopsies (645 derived from 335 patients with IBD and 52 from 16 non-IBD controls). Mucosal gene expression patterns in IBD are mainly determined by tissue location and inflammation, whereas the mucosal microbiota composition shows a high degree of individual specificity. Analysis of transcript-bacteria interactions identifies six distinct groups of inflammation-related pathways that are associated with intestinal microbiota (adjusted P < 0.05). An increased abundance of Bifidobacterium is associated with higher expression of genes involved in fatty acid metabolism, while Bacteroides correlates with increased metallothionein signaling. In patients with fibrostenosis, a transcriptional network dominated by immunoregulatory genes is associated with Lachnoclostridium bacteria in non-stenotic tissue (adjusted P < 0.05), while being absent in CD without fibrostenosis. In patients using TNF-α-antagonists, a transcriptional network dominated by fatty acid metabolism genes is linked to Ruminococcaceae (adjusted P < 0.05). Mucosal microbiota composition correlates with enrichment of intestinal epithelial cells, macrophages, and NK-cells. Overall, these data demonstrate the presence of context-specific mucosal host-microbe interactions in IBD, revealing significantly altered inflammation-associated gene-taxa modules, particularly in patients with fibrostenotic CD and patients using TNF-α-antagonists. This study provides compelling insights into host-microbe interactions that may guide microbiota-directed precision medicine and fuels the rationale for microbiota-targeted therapeutics as a strategy to alter disease course in IBD.
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- Shixian Hu
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Institute of Precision Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
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Li A, Yu M, Wu K, Liu L, Sun X. Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Skin Cancer: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Analysis. Genet Test Mol Biomarkers 2024. [PMID: 38359386 DOI: 10.1089/gtmb.2023.0480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2024] Open
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Background: At present, numerous clinical studies suggest a correlation between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and skin cancer. However, some articles present differing views that IBD does not increase the risk of skin cancer. The presence of potential reverse causality and residual confounding is inherent in conventional observational studies. Thus, this study used a two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) study design to estimate the causal effect of IBD on the risk of skin cancer, including cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM, also named melanoma skin cancer) and nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC). Design: In this study, a two-sample MR analysis was used to estimate the causal effect of IBD on skin cancer outcomes. The inverse-variance weighted (IVW) method was used as the main MR analysis, with multiple sensitivity analyses conducted to assess the robustness of findings. Results: In examining the association between IBD and NMSC, all p-values of the IVW methods were found to be <0.05, providing evidence for a causal effect of IBD on an increased risk of NMSC. However, IVW for IBD on CMM yielded p-values >0.05, indicating no causal relationship between IBD and CMM. These findings were consistent across other MR methods, with no evidence of pleiotropy or heterogeneity. Sensitivity analyses confirmed the robustness of our results. Conclusion: Using MR analysis, we found evidence for a causal effect of genetic liability for IBD on an increased risk of NMSC. However, our study did not find sufficient evidence to support a significant impact of IBD on CMM outcomes.
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- Aoshuang Li
- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
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- Medical Research Center, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third People's Hospital of Chengdu, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
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Levic DS, Niedzwiecki D, Kandakatla A, Karlovich NS, Juneja A, Park J, Stolarchuk C, Adams S, Willer JR, Schaner MR, Lian G, Beasley C, Marjoram L, Flynn AD, Valentine JF, Onken JE, Sheikh SZ, Davis EE, Evason KJ, Garman KS, Bagnat M. TNF promoter hypomethylation is associated with mucosal inflammation in IBD and anti-TNF response. medRxiv 2024:2024.02.05.24302343. [PMID: 38370739 PMCID: PMC10871362 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.05.24302343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2024]
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Background and aims Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) are chronic inflammatory conditions influenced heavily by environmental factors. DNA methylation is a form of epigenetic regulation linking environmental stimuli to gene expression changes and inflammation. Here, we investigated how DNA methylation of the TNF promoter differs between inflamed and uninflamed mucosa of IBD patients, including anti-TNF responders and non-responders. Methods We obtained mucosal biopsies from 200 participants (133 IBD and 67 controls) and analyzed TNF promoter methylation using bisulfite sequencing, comparing inflamed with uninflamed segments, in addition to paired inflamed/uninflamed samples from individual patients. We conducted similar analyses on purified intestinal epithelial cells from bowel resections. We also compared TNF methylation levels of inflamed and uninflamed mucosa from a separate cohort of 15 anti-TNF responders and 17 non-responders. Finally, we sequenced DNA methyltransferase genes to identify rare variants in IBD patients and functionally tested them using rescue experiments in a zebrafish genetic model of DNA methylation deficiency. Results TNF promoter methylation levels were decreased in inflamed mucosa of IBD patients and correlated with disease severity. Isolated IECs from inflamed tissue showed proportional decreases in TNF methylation. Anti-TNF non-responders showed lower levels of TNF methylation than responders in uninflamed mucosa. Our sequencing analysis revealed two missense variants in DNMT1, one of which had reduced function in vivo. Conclusions Our study reveals an association of TNF promoter hypomethylation with mucosal inflammation, suggesting that IBD patients may be particularly sensitive to inflammatory environmental insults affecting DNA methylation. Together, our analyses indicate that TNF promoter methylation analysis may aid in the characterization of IBD status and evaluation of anti-TNF therapy response.
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- Daniel S. Levic
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Center for Human Disease Modeling, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Center for Human Disease Modeling, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Department of Genetics, Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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Zhao S, Crouse W, Qian S, Luo K, Stephens M, He X. Adjusting for genetic confounders in transcriptome-wide association studies improves discovery of risk genes of complex traits. Nat Genet 2024; 56:336-347. [PMID: 38279041 PMCID: PMC10864181 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-023-01648-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/28/2024]
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Many methods have been developed to leverage expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) data to nominate candidate genes from genome-wide association studies. These methods, including colocalization, transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) and Mendelian randomization-based methods; however, all suffer from a key problem-when assessing the role of a gene in a trait using its eQTLs, nearby variants and genetic components of other genes' expression may be correlated with these eQTLs and have direct effects on the trait, acting as potential confounders. Our extensive simulations showed that existing methods fail to account for these 'genetic confounders', resulting in severe inflation of false positives. Our new method, causal-TWAS (cTWAS), borrows ideas from statistical fine-mapping and allows us to adjust all genetic confounders. cTWAS showed calibrated false discovery rates in simulations, and its application on several common traits discovered new candidate genes. In conclusion, cTWAS provides a robust statistical framework for gene discovery.
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- Siming Zhao
- Department of Biomedical Data Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Dartmouth Cancer Center, Lebanon, NH, USA.
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Li Z, Chen Y, Ke H. Investigating the Causal Relationship Between Gut Microbiota and Crohn's Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Study. Gastroenterology 2024; 166:354-355. [PMID: 37678500 DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2023.08.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
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- Zitong Li
- Integrative Microecology Clinical Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Disease, Shenzhen Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Shenzhen Technology Research Center of Gut Microbiota Transplantation, Shenzhen Hospital, Southern Medical University, Shenzhen; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology, Department of Gastroenterology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Integrative Microecology Clinical Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Disease, Shenzhen Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease, Shenzhen Technology Research Center of Gut Microbiota Transplantation, Shenzhen Hospital, Southern Medical University, Shenzhen; Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology, Department of Gastroenterology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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- Hepatology Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Guo J, Luo Q, Li C, Liang H, Cao Q, Li Z, Chen G, Yu X. Evidence for the gut-skin axis: Common genetic structures in inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis. Skin Res Technol 2024; 30:e13611. [PMID: 38348734 PMCID: PMC10862160 DOI: 10.1111/srt.13611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2023] [Accepted: 01/26/2024] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
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BACKGROUND Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and psoriasis (Ps) are common immune-mediated diseases that exhibit clinical comorbidity, possibly due to a common genetic structure. However, the exact mechanism remains unknown. METHODS The study population consisted of IBD and Ps genome-wide association study (GWAS) data. Genetic correlations were first evaluated. Then, the overall evaluation employed LD score regression (LDSC), while the local assessment utilized heritability estimation from summary statistics (HESS). Causality assessment was conducted through two-sample Mendelian randomization (2SMR), and genetic overlap analysis utilized the conditional false discovery rate/conjunctional FDR (cond/conjFDR) method. Finally, LDSC applied to specifically expressed genes (LDSC-SEG) was performed at the tissue level. For IBD and Ps-specific expressed genes, genetic correlation, causality, shared genetics, and trait-specific associated tissues were methodically examined. RESULTS At the genomic level, both overall and local genetic correlations were found between IBD and Ps. MR analysis indicated a positive causal relationship between Ps and IBD. The conjFDR analysis with a threshold of < 0.01 identified 43 loci shared between IBD and Ps. Subsequent investigations into disease-associated tissues indicated a close association of IBD and Ps with whole blood, lung, spleen, and EBV-transformed lymphocytes. CONCLUSION The current research offers a novel perspective on the association between IBD and Ps. It contributes to an enhanced comprehension of the genetic structure and mechanisms of comorbidities in both diseases.
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- Jinyan Guo
- Department of Anorectal SurgeryJiangmen Wuyi Hospital of Traditional Chinese MedicineJiangmenChina
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- Clinical Medical CollegeJiangxi University of Chinese MedicineNanchangChina
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- Department of Anorectal SurgeryJiangmen Wuyi Hospital of Traditional Chinese MedicineJiangmenChina
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- Department of Anorectal SurgeryJiangmen Wuyi Hospital of Traditional Chinese MedicineJiangmenChina
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- Department of Anorectal SurgeryJiangmen Wuyi Hospital of Traditional Chinese MedicineJiangmenChina
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- Department of Anorectal SurgeryJiangmen Wuyi Hospital of Traditional Chinese MedicineJiangmenChina
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- Department of Anorectal SurgeryAffiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Chinese MedicineNanchangChina
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- Department of Anorectal SurgeryAffiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Chinese MedicineNanchangChina
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Khakoo NS, Beecham AH, Lyu J, Quintero MA, Gomez L, Abreu MT, Deshpande AR, Kerman DH, McCauley JL, Proksell S, Damas OM. Early Life and Childhood Environmental Exposures, More Than Genetic Predisposition, Influence Age of Diagnosis in a Diverse Cohort of 2952 Patients With IBD. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2024:S1542-3565(24)00097-1. [PMID: 38309494 DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2024.01.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/05/2024]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) develops from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. The aim of this study was to determine the contribution of established environmental risk factors and genetic risk on age of IBD diagnosis in a diverse cohort. METHODS IBD patients in clinic completed detailed questionnaires. Blood was drawn for genetic analysis. Environmental risk factors and age of diagnosis were analyzed by ethnicity (Hispanic/Latinx or non-Hispanic White [NHW] individuals) and IBD subtype (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease [CD]). Weighted genetic risk scores and environmental risk scores were developed. We examined the relationship between environmental risk scores, genetic risk scores, and age of diagnosis. RESULTS A total of 2952 patients were included: 58.9% had CD. A total of 46.83% were of Hispanic background. Early life exposures like cesarean delivery and being born in a developed country were associated with a younger age of IBD diagnosis. Childhood exposures such as frequent plastic water bottle use and having more than 1 bathroom at home were associated with a younger age of IBD. Hispanic and NHW individuals shared similar susceptibilities to environmental exposures. Environmental factors explained 21% of the variance in age of CD diagnosis and 39% in ulcerative colitis. In models incorporating genetic risk score and environmental risk score, the environment was the only significant factor associated with younger age of IBD diagnosis in all groups. CONCLUSIONS Early life and childhood exposures impact IBD diagnosis and influence Hispanic and NHW individuals similarly. A cumulative environmental risk score contributes more to age of IBD diagnosis than genetic risk.
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- Nidah S Khakoo
- Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
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- Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
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- Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida.
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Rudbaek JJ, Agrawal M, Torres J, Mehandru S, Colombel JF, Jess T. Deciphering the different phases of preclinical inflammatory bowel disease. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 2024; 21:86-100. [PMID: 37950021 DOI: 10.1038/s41575-023-00854-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease (IMID) of the gastrointestinal tract and includes two subtypes: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. It is well-recognized that IBD is associated with a complex multifactorial aetiology that includes genetic predisposition and environmental exposures, with downstream dysregulation of systemic immune function and host-microbial interactions in the local environment in the gut. Evidence to support the notion of a multistage development of IBD is growing, as has been observed in other IMIDs such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. With the rising worldwide incidence of IBD, it is increasingly important to understand the complex interplay of pathological events during the different stages of disease development to enable IBD prediction and prevention strategies. In this article, we review comprehensively the current evidence pertaining to the preclinical phase of IBD, including at-risk, initiation and expansion phases. We also discuss the framework of preclinical IBD, expanding on underlying pathways in IBD development, future research directions and IBD development in the context of other IMIDs.
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- Jonas J Rudbaek
- Center for Molecular Prediction of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Section for Biomarkers, Immunology and Antibodies, Department for Congenital Disorders, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhangen, Denmark
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- Center for Molecular Prediction of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital Beatriz Ângelo, Loures, Portugal
- Division of Gastroenterology, Hospital da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal
- Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Molecular Prediction of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark.
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Bull D, Matte JC, Navarron CM, McIntyre R, Whiting P, Katan M, Ducotterd F, Magno L. The hypermorphic PLCγ2 S707Y variant dysregulates microglial cell function - Insight into PLCγ2 activation in brain health and disease, and opportunities for therapeutic modulation. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2024; 1870:166978. [PMID: 38061598 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2023.166978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2023] [Revised: 10/29/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/30/2023]
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Phospholipase C-gamma 2 (PLCγ2) is highly expressed in hematopoietic and immune cells, where it is a key signalling node enabling diverse cellular functions. Within the periphery, gain-of-function (GOF) PLCγ2 variants, such as the strongly hypermorphic S707Y, cause severe immune dysregulation. The milder hypermorphic mutation PLCγ2 P522R increases longevity and confers protection in central nervous system (CNS) neurodegenerative disorders, implicating PLCγ2 as a novel therapeutic target for treating these CNS indications. Currently, nothing is known about what consequences strong PLCγ2 GOF has on CNS functionality, and more precisely on the specific biological functions of microglia. Using the PLCγ2 S707Y variant as a model of chronic activation we investigated the functional consequences of strong PLCγ2 GOF on human microglia. PLCγ2 S707Y expressing human inducible pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC)-derived microglia exhibited hypermorphic enzymatic activity under both basal and stimulated conditions, compared to PLCγ2 wild type. Despite the increase in PLCγ2 enzymatic activity, the PLCγ2 S707Y hiPSC-derived microglia display diminished functionality for key microglial processes including phagocytosis and cytokine secretion upon inflammatory challenge. RNA sequencing revealed a downregulation of genes related to innate immunity and response, providing molecular support for the phenotype observed. Our data suggests that chronic activation of PLCγ2 elicits a detrimental phenotype that is contributing to unfavourable CNS functions, and informs on the therapeutic window for targeting PLCγ2 in the CNS. Drug candidates targeting PLCγ2 will need to precisely mimic the effects of the PLCγ2 P522R variant on microglial function, but not those of the PLCγ2 S707Y variant.
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- Daniel Bull
- Alzheimer's Research UK UCL Drug Discovery Institute, University College London, The Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- Alzheimer's Research UK UCL Drug Discovery Institute, University College London, The Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SA, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Division of Biosciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Alzheimer's Research UK UCL Drug Discovery Institute, University College London, The Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Alzheimer's Research UK UCL Drug Discovery Institute, University College London, The Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
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Huang K, Huang S, Xiong M. Correlations between genetically predicted lipid-lowering drug targets and inflammatory bowel disease. Lipids Health Dis 2024; 23:31. [PMID: 38287401 PMCID: PMC10823737 DOI: 10.1186/s12944-024-02026-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/21/2024] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Millions of individuals globally suffer from Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). There is a dearth of large population-based investigations on lipid metabolism and IBDs, and it is unclear whether lipid-lowering drugs target IBDs causally. Consequently, the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of lipid-lowering medication targets on the occurrence and progression of IBDs. METHODS Among the more than 400,000 participants in the UK Biobank cohort and the more than 170,000 participants in the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium, a total of nine genes linked to lipid-lowering drug targets were obtained (ABCG5/ABCG8, APOB, APOC3, LDLR, LPL, HMGCR, NPC1L1, PCSK9, and PPARA). IBD data were acquired from de Lange et al. (patients/sample size of IBDs: 25042/59957; ulcerative colitis (UC): 12366/45,975; Crohn's disease (CD): 12194/40,266) and the FinnGen cohort (patients/total sample size of IBDs: 4420/176,899; CD: 1520/171,906; UC: 3325/173,711). All four datasets were cross-combined for validation via Mendelian randomization analysis, and potential mediating factors were explored via mediation analysis. RESULTS Genetically proxied APOC3 inhibition was related to increased IBD risk (odds ratio (95% confidence interval): 0.87 (0.80-0.95); P < 0.01) and UC risk (0.83 (0.73-0.94); P < 0.01). IBD and CD risk were reduced by genetic mimicry of LDLR and LPL enhancements, respectively (odds ratioLDLR: 1.18 (1.03-1.36); P = 0.018; odds ratioCD: 1.26 (1.11-1.43); P = 2.60E-04). Genetically proxied HMGCR inhibition was associated with increased CD risk (0.68 (0.50-0.94); P = 0.018). These findings were confirmed through Mendelian analysis of the cross-combination of four separate datasets. APOC3-mediated triglyceride levels may contribute to IBDs partly through mediated triglycerides, Clostridium sensu stricto 1, Clostridiaceae 1, or the Lachnospiraceae FCS020 group. LDLR enhancement may contribute to IBDs partly through increasing Lactobacillaceae. CONCLUSION Vigilance is required to prevent adverse effects on IBDs (UC) for patients receiving volanesorsen (an antisense oligonucleotide targeting ApoC3 mRNA) and adverse effects on CD for statin users. LPL and LDLR show promise as candidate drug targets for CD and IBD, respectively, with mechanisms that are potentially independent of their lipid-lowering effects.
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- Kuiyuan Huang
- Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi, 330000, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi, 330000, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Jiangxi, 330000, China.
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Chen Y, Li X, Sun R, Yang F, Tian W, Huang Q. Screening and experimental validation of diagnostic gene in ulcerative colitis with anti-TNF-α therapy. IUBMB Life 2024. [PMID: 38269750 DOI: 10.1002/iub.2807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/06/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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In clinical practice, the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis (UC) mainly relies on a comprehensive analysis of a series of signs and symptoms of patients. The current biomarkers for diagnosis of UC and prognostic prediction of anti-TNF-α therapy are inaccurate. The present study aimed to perform an integrative analysis of gene expression profiles in patients with UC. A total of seven datasets from the GEO database that met our strict inclusion criteria were included. After identifying differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between UC patients and healthy individuals, the diagnostic and prognostic utility of the DEGs were then analyzed via least absolute shrinkage and selection operator and support-vector machine recursive feature elimination. Subgroup analyses of the treated and untreated groups, as well as the treatment-response group and non-response group, were also performed. Furthermore, the relationship between the expressions of UC-related genes and infiltration of immune cells in the course of treatment was also investigated. Immunohistochemical (IHC) assay was used to verify the gene expression in inflamed UC tissues. When considering all the applied methods, DUOX2, PI3, S100P, MMP7, and S100A8 had priority to be defined as the characteristic genes among DEGs. The area under curve (AUC) of the five genes, which were all consistently over-expressed, based on an external validation dataset, were all above 0.94 for UC diagnosis. Four of the five genes (DUOX2, PI3, MMP7, and S100A8) were down-regulated between treatment-responsive and nonresponsive patients. A significant difference was also observed concerning the infiltration of immune cells, including macrophage and neutrophil, between the two groups (treatment responsive and nonresponsive). The changes in the expression of DUOX2 and MMP7 based on the IHC assay were highly consistent with the results obtained in the current study. This confirmed the mild to moderate diagnostic and predictive value of DUOX2 and MMP7 in patients with UC. The conducted analyses showed that the expression profile of the five identified biomarkers accurately detects UC, whereas four of the five genes evidently predicted the response to anti-TNF-α therapy.
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- Yuan Chen
- Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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- Research Institute of General Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China
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Zhang H, Kalla R, Chen J, Zhao J, Zhou X, Adams A, Noble A, Ventham NT, Wellens J, Ho GT, Dunlop MG, Nowak JK, Ding Y, Liu Z, Satsangi J, Theodoratou E, Li X. Altered DNA methylation within DNMT3A, AHRR, LTA/TNF loci mediates the effect of smoking on inflammatory bowel disease. Nat Commun 2024; 15:595. [PMID: 38238335 PMCID: PMC10796384 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44841-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/22/2024] Open
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This work aims to investigate how smoking exerts effect on the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A prospective cohort study and a Mendelian randomization study are first conducted to evaluate the association between smoking behaviors, smoking-related DNA methylation and the risks of Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). We then perform both genome-wide methylation analysis and co-localization analysis to validate the observed associations. Compared to never smoking, current and previous smoking habits are associated with increased CD (P = 7.09 × 10-10) and UC (P < 2 × 10-16) risk, respectively. DNA methylation alteration at cg17742416 [DNMT3A] is linked to both CD (P = 7.30 × 10-8) and UC (P = 1.04 × 10-4) risk, while cg03599224 [LTA/TNF] is associated with CD risk (P = 1.91 × 10-6), and cg14647125 [AHRR] and cg23916896 [AHRR] are linked to UC risk (P = 0.001 and 0.002, respectively). Our study identifies biological mechanisms and pathways involved in the effects of smoking on the pathogenesis of IBD.
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- Han Zhang
- Department of Big Data in Health Science School of Public Health and The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Edinburgh IBD Science Unit, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Big Data in Health Science School of Public Health and The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Big Data in Health Science School of Public Health and The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
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- Department of Big Data in Health Science School of Public Health and The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Translational Gastroenterology Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Experimental Medicine Division, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Translational Gastroenterology Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Experimental Medicine Division, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Academic Coloproctology, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Translational Gastroenterology Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Experimental Medicine Division, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Edinburgh IBD Science Unit, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre and Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland
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- Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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- Center for IBD Research, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
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- Translational Gastroenterology Unit, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Experimental Medicine Division, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.
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- Cancer Research UK Scotland Centre and Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
- Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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- Department of Big Data in Health Science School of Public Health and The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
- Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Shu Y, Yang B, Liu X, Xu M, Deng C, Wu H. Causal effects from inflammatory bowel disease on liver function and disease: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study. Front Med (Lausanne) 2024; 10:1320842. [PMID: 38298515 PMCID: PMC10827874 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1320842] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 02/02/2024] Open
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Background Accumulating evidence has shown that patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have liver function abnormalities and are susceptible to liver diseases. However, the existence of a causal relationship between IBD and liver function or disease remains unclear. Methods A two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis was performed using genetic associations from publicly available genome-wide association studies (GWAS). These associations encompass ulcerative colitis (UC), Crohn's disease (CD), liver function traits, and liver disease phenotypes. The liver function traits comprised hepatic biochemistries, percent liver fat, and liver iron content from the UK Biobank. Furthermore, the liver disease phenotypes included cholelithiasis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) in cohorts of European ancestry. The primary estimation used the inverse-variance weighted method, with GWAS of C-reactive protein (CRP) in the UK Biobank serving as a positive control outcome. Results Genetically predicted UC is causally associated with decreased levels of albumin (ALB) and liver iron content, while genetically predicted CD is causally associated with increased levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP). Moreover, genetically predicted UC or CD increases the risk of PSC, and CD increases the risk of PBC. Neither UC nor CD causally increases the risk of cholelithiasis and NAFLD. Conclusion UC affects the levels of ALB and liver iron content, while CD affects the levels of ALP. Both UC and CD increase the risk of PSC, and CD increases the risk of PBC.
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- Yufeng Shu
- Department of Gastroenterology, Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Division of Plastic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Molecular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China
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Kai N, Qingsong C, Kejia M, Weiwei L, Xing W, Xuejie C, Lixia C, Minzi D, Yuanyuan Y, Xiaoyan W. An Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Integrated Resources Portal (IBDIRP). Database (Oxford) 2024; 2024:baad097. [PMID: 38227799 DOI: 10.1093/database/baad097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Revised: 12/02/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
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IBD, including ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, is a chronic and debilitating gastrointestinal disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. Research on IBD has generated massive amounts of data, including literature, metagenomics, metabolomics, bioresources and databases. We aim to create an IBD Integrated Resources Portal (IBDIRP) that provides the most comprehensive resources for IBD. An integrated platform was developed that provides information on different aspects of IBD research resources, such as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), genes, transcriptome, microbiota, metabolomics, single cells and other resources. Valuable and comprehensive IBD-related data were collected from PubMed, Google, GMrepo, gutMega, gutMDisorder, Single Cell Portal and other sources. Then, the data were systematically sorted, and these resources were manually curated. We systematically sorted and cataloged more than 320 unique risk SNPs associated with IBD in the SNP section. We presented over 289 IBD-related genes based on the database collection in the gene section. We also obtained 153 manually curated IBD transcriptomics data, including 12 388 samples, on the Gene Expression Omnibus database. The sorted IBD-related microbiota data from three primary microbiome databases (GMrepo, gutMega and gutMDisorder) were available for download. We selected 23 149 IBD-related taxonomic records from these databases. Additionally, we collected 24 IBD metabolomics studies with 2896 participants in the metabolomics section. We introduced two interactive single-cell data plug-in units that provided data visualization based on cells and genes. Finally, we listed 18 significant IBD web resources, such as the official European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation and International Organization for the Study of IBD websites, IBD scoring tools, IBD genetic and multi-omics resources, IBD biobanks and other useful research resources. The IBDIRP website is the first integrated resource for global IBD researchers. This portal will help researchers by providing comprehensive knowledge and enabling them to reinforce the multidimensional impression of IBD. The IBDIRP website is accessible via www.ibdirp.com Database URL: www.ibdirp.com.
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- Nie Kai
- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Nonresolving Inflammation and Cancer, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Nonresolving Inflammation and Cancer, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Nonresolving Inflammation and Cancer, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Nonresolving Inflammation and Cancer, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Nonresolving Inflammation and Cancer, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
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- Changsha Hospital for Maternal and Child Health Care Affiliated to Hunan Normal University Changsha Hunan 410000, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Nonresolving Inflammation and Cancer, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Nonresolving Inflammation and Cancer, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
- Hunan Key Laboratory of Nonresolving Inflammation and Cancer, Changsha Hunan 410000, China
- The College of Computer Science in Sichuan University, Chengdu Sichuan 610000, China
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Zhao J, Chen R, Luo M, Gong H, Li K, Zhao Q. Lipid-lowering drugs and inflammatory bowel disease's risk: a drug-target Mendelian randomization study. Diabetol Metab Syndr 2024; 16:12. [PMID: 38191425 PMCID: PMC10775535 DOI: 10.1186/s13098-023-01252-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/31/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been associated with lipid-lowering drugs in observational studies. Drug-target Mendelian randomization (MR) was utilized in this study to examine the causal relationship between lipid-lowering drugs and incidence of IBD, aiming to identify new preventive uses for the drugs. METHODS We identified instrumental variables for three classes of lipid-lowering drugs: HMGCR inhibitors, PCSK9 inhibitors, and NPC1L1 inhibitors, using data from the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium. Summary statistics of IBD were obtained from UK Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics. The summary-data-based MR (SMR) and the inverse-variance weighted (IVW) MR were used for analysis. Sensitivity analyses were performed by conventional MR methods. RESULTS The SMR analysis showed no significant genetic association between increased gene expression of HMGCR, PCSK9, and NPC1L1 and IBD, Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). According to IVW-MR analysis, increased HMGCR expression is associated with a reduced risk of IBD (OR = 0.73, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.59-0.90, P = 0.003) and CD (OR = 0.75, 95% CI 0.57-0.97, P = 0.03), but not with UC. Additionally, increased NPC1L1 gene expression was associated with elevated risk of IBD (OR = 1.60, 95% CI 1.07-2.40, P = 0.023), but not with CD and UC. However, no significant causal relationships were found between PCSK9 gene expression and IBD, CD, and UC. The sensitivity analysis demonstrated no evidence of heterogeneity or pleiotropy among the reported results. CONCLUSIONS The heightened expression of genetic variations in HMGCR inhibitor targets could potentially reduce the risk of IBD and CD, while genetic variation in the expression of NPC1L1 targets was positively associated with IBD.
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- Jiaxi Zhao
- General Practice Ward/International Medical Center Ward General Practice Medical Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- General Practice Ward/International Medical Center Ward General Practice Medical Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Huadong Hospital, Shanghai, China
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- General Practice Ward/International Medical Center Ward General Practice Medical Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China.
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Kelly AJ, Long A. Targeting T-cell integrins in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Clin Exp Immunol 2024; 215:15-26. [PMID: 37556361 PMCID: PMC10776250 DOI: 10.1093/cei/uxad093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Revised: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/08/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023] Open
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The recruitment of T cells to tissues and their retention there are essential processes in the pathogenesis of many autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The mechanisms regulating these processes have become better understood over the past three decades and are now recognized to involve temporally and spatially specific interactions between cell-adhesion molecules. These include integrins, which are heterodimeric molecules that mediate in-to-out and out-to-in signalling in T cells, other leukocytes, and most other cells of the body. Integrin signalling contributes to T-cell circulation through peripheral lymph nodes, immunological synapse stability and function, extravasation at the sites of inflammation, and T-cell retention at these sites. Greater understanding of the contribution of integrin signalling to the role of T cells in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases has focused much attention on the development of therapeutics that target T-cell integrins. This literature review describes the structure, activation, and function of integrins with respect to T cells, then discusses the use of integrin-targeting therapeutics in inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, and psoriasis. Efficacy and safety data from clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance are presented for currently approved therapeutics, therapeutics that have been withdrawn from the market, and novel therapeutics currently in clinical trials. This literature review will inform the reader of the current means of targeting T-cell integrins in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, as well as recent developments in the field.
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- Aidan J Kelly
- Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Hospital, Dublin D08 NHY1, Ireland
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- Trinity Translational Medicine Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's Hospital, Dublin D08 NHY1, Ireland
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Qiu B, Zhang T, Qin X, Ma S, Wang Q. The immune factors have complex causal regulation effects on inflammatory bowel disease. Front Immunol 2024; 14:1322673. [PMID: 38264669 PMCID: PMC10803565 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1322673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/25/2024] Open
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Background Although a correlation between immune cell phenotypes and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been established, a causal relationship remains unestablished. Methods To assess causal associations between immune cell phenotypes and IBD and its subtypes, we employed Mendelian randomization (MR) methods and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) summary statistics. The primary outcomes were determined based on the inverse variance weighting (IVW) results, with the assessment of heterogeneity and pleiotropy conducted through Cochrane's Q-test and MR-Egger. The stability of the MR results was then examined using leave-one-out analysis, and false discovery rate (FDR) correction was applied to evaluate the strength of the causal relationship between exposure and outcome. Furthermore, to identify immunophenotypes strongly associated with IBD, a meta-integration of the effect values of all positive results in both datasets was conducted. Results The analysis of 731 immune cell phenotypes and IBD using MR techniques revealed potential causal associations between 26 phenotypes and IBD. Subsequent meta-integration of the two datasets provided evidence of solid causal associations between 18 immune phenotypes and IBD and its subtypes. Nominal causal associations were also identified in the remaining eight immune phenotypes and IBD and its subtypes. Conclusion Our study confirms causal solid associations between 18 immune phenotypes and IBD, thus guiding future clinical studies.
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- Department of Gastric and Colorectal Surgery, General Surgery Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Ling E, Nemesh J, Goldman M, Kamitaki N, Reed N, Handsaker RE, Genovese G, Vogelgsang JS, Gerges S, Kashin S, Ghosh S, Esposito JM, French K, Meyer D, Lutservitz A, Mullally CD, Wysoker A, Spina L, Neumann A, Hogan M, Ichihara K, Berretta S, McCarroll SA. Concerted neuron-astrocyte gene expression declines in aging and schizophrenia. bioRxiv 2024:2024.01.07.574148. [PMID: 38260461 PMCID: PMC10802483 DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.07.574148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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Human brains vary across people and over time; such variation is not yet understood in cellular terms. Here we describe a striking relationship between people's cortical neurons and cortical astrocytes. We used single-nucleus RNA-seq to analyze the prefrontal cortex of 191 human donors ages 22-97 years, including healthy individuals and persons with schizophrenia. Latent-factor analysis of these data revealed that in persons whose cortical neurons more strongly expressed genes for synaptic components, cortical astrocytes more strongly expressed distinct genes with synaptic functions and genes for synthesizing cholesterol, an astrocyte-supplied component of synaptic membranes. We call this relationship the Synaptic Neuron-and-Astrocyte Program (SNAP). In schizophrenia and aging - two conditions that involve declines in cognitive flexibility and plasticity 1,2 - cells had divested from SNAP: astrocytes, glutamatergic (excitatory) neurons, and GABAergic (inhibitory) neurons all reduced SNAP expression to corresponding degrees. The distinct astrocytic and neuronal components of SNAP both involved genes in which genetic risk factors for schizophrenia were strongly concentrated. SNAP, which varies quantitatively even among healthy persons of similar age, may underlie many aspects of normal human interindividual differences and be an important point of convergence for multiple kinds of pathophysiology.
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- Emi Ling
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Metwaly A, Haller D. The TNF∆ARE Model of Crohn's Disease-like Ileitis. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2024; 30:132-145. [PMID: 37756666 DOI: 10.1093/ibd/izad205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023]
Abstract
Crohn's disease (CD) is one of the 2 main phenotypes of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs); CD ischaracterized by a discontinuous, spontaneously recurring, transmural immunopathology that largely affects the terminal ileum. Crohn's disease exhibits both a relapsing and progressive course, and its prevalence is on the rise globally, mirroring the trends of industrialization. While the precise pathogenesis of CD remains unknown, various factors including immune cell dysregulation, microbial dysbiosis, genetic susceptibility, and environmental factors have been implicated in disease etiology. Animal models, particularly ileitis mouse models, have provided valuable tools for studying the specific mechanisms underlying CD, allowing longitudinal assessment and sampling in interventional preclinical studies. Furthermore, animal models assess to evaluate the distinct role that bacterial and dietary antigens play in causing inflammation, using germ-free animals, involving the introduction of individual bacteria (monoassociation studies), and experimenting with well-defined dietary components. An ideal animal model for studying IBD, specifically CD, should exhibit an inherent intestinal condition that arises spontaneously and closely mimics the distinct transmural inflammation observed in the human disease, particularly in the terminal ileum. We have recently characterized the impact of disease-relevant, noninfectious microbiota and specific bacteria in a mouse model that replicates CD-like ileitis, capturing the intricate nature of human CD, namely the TNF∆ARE mouse model. Using germ-free mice, we studied the impact of different diets on the expansion of disease-relevant pathobionts and on the severity of inflammation. In this review article, we review some of the currently available ileitis mouse models and discuss in detail the TNF∆ARE model of CD-like Ileitis.
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- Amira Metwaly
- Chair of Nutrition and Immunology, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Chair of Nutrition and Immunology, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
- ZIEL Institute for Food and Health, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
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