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Krebs P, Nägele M, Fomina P, Virtanen V, Nippolainen E, Shaikh R, Afara I, Töyräs J, Usenov I, Sakharova T, Artyushenko V, Tafintseva V, Solheim J, Zimmermann B, Kohler A, König O, Saarakkala S, Mizaikoff B. Laser-irradiating infrared attenuated total reflection spectroscopy of articular cartilage: Potential and challenges for diagnosing osteoarthritis. Osteoarthr Cartil Open 2024; 6:100466. [PMID: 38623306 PMCID: PMC11016904 DOI: 10.1016/j.ocarto.2024.100466] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/17/2024] Open
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Objective A prototype infrared attenuated total reflection (IR-ATR) laser spectroscopic system designed for in vivo classification of human cartilage tissue according to its histological health status during arthroscopic surgery is presented. Prior to real-world in vivo applications, this so-called osteoarthritis (OA) scanner has been tested at in vitro conditions revealing the challenges associated with complex sample matrices and the accordingly obtained sparse spectral datasets. Methods In vitro studies on human knee cartilage samples at different contact pressures (i.e., 0.2-0.5 MPa) allowed recording cartilage degeneration characteristic IR signatures comparable to in vivo conditions with high temporal resolution. Afterwards, the cartilage samples were assessed based on the clinically acknowledged osteoarthritis cartilage histopathology assessment (OARSI) system and correlated with the obtained sparse IR data. Results Amide and carbohydrate signal behavior was observed to be almost identical between the obtained sparse IR data and previously measured FTIR data used for sparse partial least squares discriminant analysis (SPLSDA) to identify the spectral regions relevant to cartilage condition. Contact pressures between 0.3 and 0.4 MPa seem to provide the best sparse IR spectra for cylindrical (d = 3 mm) probe tips. Conclusion Laser-irradiating IR-ATR spectroscopy is a promising analytical technique for future arthroscopic applications to differentiate healthy and osteoarthritic cartilage tissue. However, this study also revealed that the flexible connection between the laser-based analyzer and the arthroscopic ATR-probe via IR-transparent fiberoptic cables may affect the robustness of the obtained IR data and requires further improvements.
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- P. Krebs
- Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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- Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Technical Physics, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
- Science Service Center, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
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- Nanoplus Advanced Photonics Gerbrunn GmbH, Gerbrunn, Germany
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- Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
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- Institute of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
- Hahn-Schickard, Ulm, Germany
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Eichinger J, Zimmermann B, Elger B, McLennan S, Filges I, Koné I. 'It's a nightmare': informed consent in paediatric genome-wide sequencing. A qualitative expert interview study from Germany and Switzerland. Eur J Hum Genet 2023; 31:1398-1406. [PMID: 37773517 PMCID: PMC10689462 DOI: 10.1038/s41431-023-01468-9] [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: 01/23/2023] [Revised: 08/27/2023] [Accepted: 09/18/2023] [Indexed: 10/01/2023] Open
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The use of genome-wide sequencing (GWS) in paediatrics has added complexity to informed consent (IC) and pretest counselling because of the vast number and interpretation of potential findings, and their implications. However, empirical data from continental Europe on these issues remains limited. This study therefore aimed to explore the experiences and views of medical geneticists working with children in Germany and Switzerland regarding the challenges of obtaining valid IC in paediatric GWS. Qualitative interviews with 20 medical geneticists were analysed employing reflexive thematic analysis. In the interviews, many medical geneticists questioned the validity of parents' IC due to the enormous amount of relevant information given and the variety and complexity of the possible test outcomes. Key barriers identified included familial implications, administrative challenges and struggles with non-directiveness. Medical geneticists' suggestions for improvement included increasing the number of genetics professionals and better information material, which is crucial as GWS becomes a diagnostic standard in the early care pathways of children. An adjustment of aspirations from still existing ideal of traditional fully IC to appropriate IC seems to be needed. Such a more realistic and ethically sound adaptation of the requirements for IC can lead to better 'informedness' and improve the validity of the consent. This might also help reduce the moral distress for the medical geneticists involved.
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- Johanna Eichinger
- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Philosophy & Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Center for Legal Medicine (CURML), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Medical Genetics, Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Zimmermann B, Buyx A, McLennan S. Newspaper coverage on solidarity and personal responsibility in the COVID-19 pandemic: A content analysis from Germany and German-speaking Switzerland. SSM Popul Health 2023; 22:101388. [PMID: 37008806 PMCID: PMC10043459 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2022] [Revised: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 03/29/2023] Open
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Solidarity and personal responsibility have been repeatedly called upon during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study quantifies and contextualizes the use of these terms in newspaper coverage in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland based on n = 640 articles from six functionally equivalent newspapers. The term solidarity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic was mentioned in 541/640 articles (84.5%) and was primarily used during phases with high death rates and comparatively stringent policies in place, supporting the idea that solidarity was used to explain restrictive measures to the population and motivate people to comply with these measures. German newspapers published more articles on solidarity than Swiss-German newspapers, consistent with more stringent COVID-19 policies in Germany. Personal responsibility was mentioned in 133/640 articles (20.8%), meaning that the term was less frequently discussed than solidarity. Articles covering personal responsibility included more negative evaluations during phases of high infection rates as compared to phases of low infection rates. Findings indicate that the two terms were, at least to some extent, used in newspaper reporting to contextualize and justify COVID-19 policy during phases of high infection rates. Moreover, the term solidarity was used in a high variety of different contexts and the inherent limits of solidarity were rarely mentioned. Policymakers and journalists need to take this into account for future crises to not jeopardize the positive effects of solidarity.
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Ausilio G, Wikenros C, Sand H, Wabakken P, Eriksen A, Zimmermann B. Environmental and anthropogenic features mediate risk from human hunters and wolves for moose. Ecosphere 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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- G. Ausilio
- Faculty of Applied Ecology, Agricultural Sciences and Biotechnology, Campus Evenstad Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Koppang Norway
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- Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Riddarhyttan Sweden
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- Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Riddarhyttan Sweden
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- Faculty of Applied Ecology, Agricultural Sciences and Biotechnology, Campus Evenstad Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Koppang Norway
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- Faculty of Applied Ecology, Agricultural Sciences and Biotechnology, Campus Evenstad Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Koppang Norway
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- Faculty of Applied Ecology, Agricultural Sciences and Biotechnology, Campus Evenstad Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Koppang Norway
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Virtanen V, Tafintseva V, Shaikh R, Nippolainen E, Haas J, Afara I, Töyräs J, Kröger H, Solheim J, Zimmermann B, Kohler A, Mizaikoff B, Finnilä M, Rieppo L, Saarakkala S. Infrared spectroscopy is suitable for objective assessment of articular cartilage health. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open 2022; 4:100250. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ocarto.2022.100250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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Fiske A, Schönweitz F, Eichinger J, Zimmermann B, Hangel N, Sierawska A, McLennan S, Buyx A. The COVID-19 Vaccine: Trust, doubt, and hope for a future beyond the pandemic in Germany. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0266659. [PMID: 35390085 PMCID: PMC8989326 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Public perceptions of COVID-19 vaccines are critical in reaching protective levels of herd immunity. Vaccine skepticism has always been relatively high in Germany, and surveys suggest that over the course of the pandemic, enthusiasm for the COVID-19 vaccine has dropped. Looking at the period just prior to the approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines in Germany in the latter half of 2020, this paper aims to assess the reasons for and against COVID-19 vaccine uptake among residents of Germany, and to provide in-depth qualitative data to better understand and address concerns surrounding the safety and efficacy of a COVID-19 vaccine. Our findings indicate that there is widespread trust in German institutions and health experts to provide a safe vaccine for those who need it most. However, interviewees also point to the need for more information and the centrality of support from trusted medical authorities in making individual vaccination decisions. We also present the complexity of individual positions on vaccination, and suggest that vaccine hesitancy in relation to COVID-19 needs to be understood as a nuanced, and socially malleable, territory. This indicates that the goal of a vaccination campaign is not only achieving ‘herd immunity,’ but also a social endorsement of the collaborative effort that is required for a vaccine to be successful.
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- Amelia Fiske
- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Fiske A, Galasso I, Eichinger J, McLennan S, Radhuber I, Zimmermann B, Prainsack B. The second pandemic: Examining structural inequality through reverberations of COVID-19 in Europe. Soc Sci Med 2021; 292:114634. [PMID: 34883310 PMCID: PMC8648175 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Revised: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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While everyone has been impacted directly or indirectly by the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to contain it, not everyone has been impacted in the same way and certainly not to the same degree. Media coverage in early 2020 emphasized the “unprecedented” nature of the pandemic, and some even predicted that the virus could be a global “equalizer.” Ensuing debates over how the pandemic should be handled have often hinged on oppositions between protecting health and healthcare systems versus saving livelihoods and the economy, a dichotomy that we argue is false. Drawing on 482 interviews conducted in Germany, Italy, Ireland, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland and the UK over two points in a 6-month period as part of the ‘Solidarity in times of Pandemics Research Consortium’ (SolPan), we illustrate the ways that oppositions posed between saving lives or saving livelihoods fail to capture the entangled, long-standing nature of structural inequalities that have been revealed through the pandemic. Health- and wealth-related inequalities intersect to produce the “second pandemic,” a term used by a research participant to explain the other forms of devastation that run in parallel with virus. Our findings thus complicate such dichotomies through a qualitative understanding of the pandemic as a lived experience. The pandemic emerges as a critical juncture which, in exacerbating these existing structural inequalities, also poses an opportunity to work to better resolve them.
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- Amelia Fiske
- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
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- College of Business, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, TUM School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Tan A, Lai G, Saw S, Chua K, Takano A, Ong B, Koh T, Jain A, Tan W, Ng Q, Kanesvaran R, Rajasekaran T, Kalshnikova E, Shchegrova S, H. -Ta, Lin J, Renner D, Sethi H, Zimmermann B, Aleshin A, Lim W, Tan E, Skanderup A, Ang M, Tan D. MA07.06 Circulating Tumor DNA for Monitoring Minimal Residual Disease and Early Detection of Recurrence in Early Stage Lung Cancer. J Thorac Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2021.08.144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Eichinger J, Elger BS, Koné I, Filges I, Shaw D, Zimmermann B, McLennan S. The full spectrum of ethical issues in pediatric genome-wide sequencing: a systematic qualitative review. BMC Pediatr 2021; 21:387. [PMID: 34488686 PMCID: PMC8420043 DOI: 10.1186/s12887-021-02830-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2021] [Accepted: 08/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Background The use of genome-wide sequencing in pediatric medicine and research is growing exponentially. While this has many potential benefits, the normative and empirical literature has highlighted various ethical issues. There have not been, however, any systematic reviews of these issues. The aim of this systematic review is to determine systematically the spectrum of ethical issues that is raised for stakeholders in in pediatric genome-wide sequencing. Methods A systematic review in PubMed and Google Books (publications in English or German between 2004 and 2021) was conducted. Further references were identified via reference screening. Data were analyzed and synthesized using qualitative content analysis. Ethical issues were defined as arising when a relevant normative principle is not adequately considered or when two principles come into conflict. Results Our literature search retrieved 3175 publications of which 143 were included in the analysis. Together these mentioned 106 ethical issues in pediatric genome-wide sequencing, categorized into five themes along the pediatric genome-wide sequencing lifecycle. Most ethical issues identified in relation to genome-wide sequencing typically reflect ethical issues that arise in general genetic testing, but they are often amplified by the increased quantity of data obtained, and associated uncertainties. The most frequently discussed ethical aspects concern the issue of unsolicited findings. Conclusion Concentration of the debate on unsolicited findings risks overlooking other ethical challenges. An overarching difficulty presents the terminological confusion: both with regard to both the test procedure/ the scope of analysis, as well as with the topic of unsolicited findings. It is important that the genetics and ethics communities together with other medical professions involved work jointly on specific case related guidelines to grant the maximum benefit for the care of the children, while preventing patient harm and disproportionate overload of clinicians and the healthcare system by the wealth of available options and economic incentives to increase testing. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12887-021-02830-w.
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- Johanna Eichinger
- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland. .,Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland.,Center for legal medicine (CURML), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland
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- Medical Genetics, Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland.,Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland.,Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland.,Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Klarin D, Kalashnikova E, Wu HT, Mehta S, Salari R, Sethi H, Zimmermann B, Billings P, Aleshin A. 1762P Association of clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential with higher risk of disease progression. Ann Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2021.08.1707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Diepenbroek M, Amory C, Niederstätter H, Zimmermann B, Szargut M, Zielińska G, Dür A, Teul I, Mazurek W, Persak K, Ossowski A, Parson W. Genetic and phylogeographic evidence for Jewish Holocaust victims at the Sobibór death camp. Genome Biol 2021; 22:200. [PMID: 34353344 PMCID: PMC8343952 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02420-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. Archaeological excavations in the area of the death camp in Sobibór, Poland, revealed ten sets of human skeletal remains presumptively assigned to Polish victims of the totalitarian regimes. However, their genetic analyses indicate that the remains are of Ashkenazi Jews murdered as part of the mass extermination of European Jews by the Nazi regime and not of otherwise hypothesised non-Jewish partisan combatants. In accordance with traditional Jewish rite, the remains were reburied in the presence of a Rabbi at the place of their discovery.
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- Marta Diepenbroek
- Department of Forensic Genetics, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland.,Institute of Legal Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Forensic Genetics, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Department of Forensic Genetics, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Institute of Mathematics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Anatomy, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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- Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Forensic Genetics, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. .,Forensic Science Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
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Ococks E, Ng A, Devonshire G, Dashner S, Chan WC, Sharma S, Wu HT, Redmond A, Northrop A, Grehan N, Sethi H, Zimmermann B, Smyth E, Aleshin A, Fitzgerald R. 370P Bespoke circulating tumour DNA assay for the detection of minimal residual disease in esophageal adenocarcinoma patients. Ann Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2020.10.594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Henriksen T, Tarazona N, Reinert T, Carbonell-Asins J, Roda D, Huerta M, Roselló S, Madsen A, Iversen L, Gotschalck K, Sharma S, Wu HT, Shchegrova S, Tin A, Sethi H, Zimmermann B, Aleshin A, Andersen C, Cervantes A. 420P Minimal residual disease detection and tracking tumour evolution using ctDNA in stage I-III colorectal cancer patients. Ann Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2020.08.531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Kollbrunner L, Rost M, Koné I, Zimmermann B, Padrutt Y, Wangmo T, Elger B. Acute and transitional care or rehabilitation? Retrospective analysis of discharge planning from a municipal hospital in Switzerland. BMC Health Serv Res 2020; 20:712. [PMID: 32746810 PMCID: PMC7397668 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-020-05547-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2019] [Accepted: 07/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Background Due to rising health care costs, in 2012 Switzerland introduced SwissDRG, a reimbursement system for hospitals based on lump sum per case. To circumvent possible negative consequences like reduction in length of stay, acute and transitional care (ATC) was anchored into the law (Federal act on health insurance) in 2011. ATC as a discharge option is applicable to patients who physicians deem will not fulfill rehabilitation criteria, but are unable to return home and are in need of temporary professional nursing care. ATC is associated with higher out of pocket costs to the patient than rehabilitation. Since social service workers are responsible for organizing discharge for patients with ongoing care needs after hospitalization, the aim of this study was to investigate how social service workers manage patient discharge in light of the new discharge option ATC. Methods Data was collected from 423 medical records of inpatients from Zurich’s municipal hospital, Triemli, discharged to ATC or rehabilitation, in 2016. We compared the two groups using inferential statistics and qualitatively analyzed written statements from social service workers. Results Our results showed that patients discharged to rehabilitation had a higher total number of discussions, but a shorter duration of discussions. Patients discharged to rehabilitation faced more delays, mainly due to unavailability of beds in rehabilitation centers. Conflicts concerning discharge arose mainly because of costs, discharge placement and too early discharge. Conclusions Our findings demonstrate how important social service workers are in providing information to patients about different discharge options. The newness of SwissDRG and ATC is still likely to cause longer discussion times and, consequently, more workload for social service workers. Only a small fraction of patients disagreed with their place of discharge, mostly due to financial reasons.
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- Lara Kollbrunner
- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland.
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of legal science, University of Zurich, Treichlerstrasse 10, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056, Basel, Switzerland.,Center for legal medicine, University of Geneva, Rue Michel-Servet 1, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Zimmermann B, Starke G, Shaw D, Elger B, Koné I. Actionability and scope should determine the extent of counselling for presymptomatic genetic testing. Swiss Med Wkly 2020; 150:w20274. [PMID: 32654108 DOI: 10.4414/smw.2020.20274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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- Bettina Zimmermann
- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland / Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine, Technical University of Munich School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland / Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland / Centre for Legal Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Barbarić L, Lipovac K, Sukser V, Rožić S, Korolija M, Zimmermann B, Parson W. Maternal perspective of Croatian genetic diversity. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2020; 44:102190. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2019.102190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2019] [Accepted: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Blomqvist J, Langseter A, Markina D, Zimmermann B, Kohler A, Shapaval V. Production of polyunsaturated fatty acids from animal fat emulsion by oleaginous filamentous fungi. J Biotechnol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2019.05.065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Langster A, Zimmermann B, Kohler A, Blomqvist J, Sandgren M, Passoth V, Marova I, Shapaval V. Green solvent extraction of microbial lipids. J Biotechnol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2019.05.066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Aab A, Abreu P, Aglietta M, Albuquerque I, Albury J, Allekotte I, Almela A, Alvarez Castillo J, Alvarez-Muñiz J, Anastasi G, Anchordoqui L, Andrada B, Andringa S, Aramo C, Asorey H, Assis P, Avila G, Badescu A, Bakalova A, Balaceanu A, Barbato F, Barreira Luz R, Baur S, Becker K, Bellido J, Berat C, Bertaina M, Bertou X, Biermann P, Biteau J, Blaess S, Blanco A, Blazek J, Bleve C, Boháčová M, Boncioli D, Bonifazi C, Borodai N, Botti A, Brack J, Bretz T, Bridgeman A, Briechle F, Buchholz P, Bueno A, Buitink S, Buscemi M, Caballero-Mora K, Caccianiga L, Calcagni L, Cancio A, Canfora F, Carceller J, Caruso R, Castellina A, Catalani F, Cataldi G, Cazon L, Cerda M, Chinellato J, Chudoba J, Chytka L, Clay R, Cobos Cerutti A, Colalillo R, Coleman A, Coluccia M, Conceição R, Condorelli A, Consolati G, Contreras F, Convenga F, Cooper M, Coutu S, Covault C, Daniel B, Dasso S, Daumiller K, Dawson B, Day J, de Almeida R, de Jong S, De Mauro G, de Mello Neto J, De Mitri I, de Oliveira J, de Oliveira Salles F, de Souza V, Debatin J, del Río M, Deligny O, Dhital N, Díaz Castro M, Diogo F, Dobrigkeit C, D’Olivo J, Dorosti Q, dos Anjos R, Dova M, Dundovic A, Ebr J, Engel R, Erdmann M, Escobar C, Etchegoyen A, Falcke H, Farmer J, Farrar G, Fauth A, Fazzini N, Feldbusch F, Fenu F, Ferreyro L, Figueira J, Filipčič A, Freire M, Fujii T, Fuster A, García B, Gemmeke H, Gherghel-Lascu A, Ghia P, Giaccari U, Giammarchi M, Giller M, Głas D, Glombitza J, Gobbi F, Golup G, Gómez Berisso M, Gómez Vitale P, Gongora J, González N, Goos I, Góra D, Gorgi A, Gottowik M, Grubb T, Guarino F, Guedes G, Guido E, Halliday R, Hampel M, Hansen P, Harari D, Harrison T, Harvey V, Haungs A, Hebbeker T, Heck D, Heimann P, Hill G, Hojvat C, Holt E, Homola P, Hörandel J, Horvath P, Hrabovský M, Huege T, Hulsman J, Insolia A, Isar P, Jandt I, Johnsen J, Josebachuili M, Jurysek J, Kääpä A, Kampert K, Keilhauer B, Kemmerich N, Kemp J, Klages H, Kleifges M, Kleinfeller J, Krause R, Kuempel D, Kukec Mezek G, Kuotb Awad A, Lago B, LaHurd D, Lang R, Legumina R, Leigui de Oliveira M, Lenok V, Letessier-Selvon A, Lhenry-Yvon I, Lippmann O, Lo Presti D, Lopes L, López R, López Casado A, Lorek R, Luce Q, Lucero A, Malacari M, Mancarella G, Mandat D, Manning B, Mantsch P, Mariazzi A, Mariş I, Marsella G, Martello D, Martinez H, Martínez Bravo O, Mastrodicasa M, Mathes H, Mathys S, Matthews J, Matthiae G, Mayotte E, Mazur P, Medina-Tanco G, Melo D, Menshikov A, Merenda KD, Michal S, Micheletti M, Middendorf L, Miramonti L, Mitrica B, Mockler D, Mollerach S, Montanet F, Morello C, Morlino G, Mostafá M, Müller A, Muller M, Müller S, Mussa R, Nellen L, Nguyen P, Niculescu-Oglinzanu M, Niechciol M, Nitz D, Nosek D, Novotny V, Nožka L, Nucita A, Núñez L, Olinto A, Palatka M, Pallotta J, Panetta M, Papenbreer P, Parente G, Parra A, Pech M, Pedreira F, Pȩkala J, Pelayo R, Peña-Rodriguez J, Pereira L, Perlin M, Perrone L, Peters C, Petrera S, Phuntsok J, Pierog T, Pimenta M, Pirronello V, Platino M, Poh J, Pont B, Porowski C, Prado R, Privitera P, Prouza M, Puyleart A, Querchfeld S, Quinn S, Ramos-Pollan R, Rautenberg J, Ravignani D, Reininghaus M, Ridky J, Riehn F, Risse M, Ristori P, Rizi V, Rodrigues de Carvalho W, Rodriguez Rojo J, Roncoroni M, Roth M, Roulet E, Rovero A, Ruehl P, Saffi S, Saftoiu A, Salamida F, Salazar H, Salina G, Sanabria Gomez J, Sánchez F, Santos E, Santos E, Sarazin F, Sarmento R, Sarmiento-Cano C, Sato R, Savina P, Schauer M, Scherini V, Schieler H, Schimassek M, Schimp M, Schlüter F, Schmidt D, Scholten O, Schovánek P, Schröder F, Schröder S, Schumacher J, Sciutto S, Scornavacche M, Shellard R, Sigl G, Silli G, Sima O, Šmída R, Snow G, Sommers P, Soriano J, Souchard J, Squartini R, Stanca D, Stanič S, Stasielak J, Stassi P, Stolpovskiy M, Streich A, Suarez F, Suárez-Durán M, Sudholz T, Suomijärvi T, Supanitsky A, Šupík J, Szadkowski Z, Taboada A, Taborda O, Tapia A, Timmermans C, Todero Peixoto C, Tomé B, Torralba Elipe G, Travaini A, Travnicek P, Trini M, Tueros M, Ulrich R, Unger M, Urban M, Valdés Galicia J, Valiño I, Valore L, van Bodegom P, van den Berg A, van Vliet A, Varela E, Vargas Cárdenas B, Veberič D, Ventura C, Vergara Quispe I, Verzi V, Vicha J, Villaseñor L, Vink J, Vorobiov S, Wahlberg H, Watson A, Weber M, Weindl A, Wiedeński M, Wiencke L, Wilczyński H, Winchen T, Wirtz M, Wittkowski D, Wundheiler B, Yang L, Yushkov A, Zas E, Zavrtanik D, Zavrtanik M, Zehrer L, Zepeda A, Zimmermann B, Ziolkowski M, Zong Z, Zuccarello F. Data-driven estimation of the invisible energy of cosmic ray showers with the Pierre Auger Observatory. Int J Clin Exp Med 2019. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.100.082003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Correa A, Connolly D, Balcioglu M, Wu HT, Dashner S, Shchegrova S, Kalashnikova E, Pawar H, Uzzo R, Gong Y, Kister D, Collins M, Donovan M, Winters R, Aleshin A, Sethi H, Salari R, Louie M, Zimmermann B, Abbosh P. Presence of circulating tumour DNA in surgically resected renal cell carcinoma is associated with advanced disease and poor patient prognosis. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz239.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Jacobs S, Sethi H, Kolveska T, George T, Shchegrova S, Tin T, Lee J, Olson A, Renner D, Kalashnikova E, Yothers G, Wolmark N, Pogue-Geile K, Srinivasan A, Kortmansky J, Louie M, Salari R, Zimmermann B, Aleshin A, Allegra C. Analysis of circulating tumour DNA for early relapse detection in stage III colorectal cancer after adjuvant chemotherapy. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz239.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background: Predictive genetic testing (PGT) raises many ethical issues and is of increasing interest to the general population. Mass media, especially newspapers, are the public's main source of information on this topic. Methods: We conducted a content analysis of British newspaper reporting, assessing which ethical issues were mentioned. The analysis was qualitative with semi-quantitative aspects. All articles about PGT published in The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph from 2011 to 2016 were included. Results: Most ethical issues discussed in the scientific and ethical literature are implicitly or explicitly covered in newspapers, but there was no discussion of incidental findings and the possibility of false reassurance of a negative test result was mentioned only once. There are also important gaps regarding the multidimensional nature and complexity of many issues. The Guardian mentioned ethical issues more frequently than the Daily Telegraph. Most ethical issues were portrayed as first-person narratives. Conclusions: Ethical issues concern potential test users and society more than scientific background knowledge about such tests; therefore, more efforts should be taken to address these complex issues in a manner that is comprehensible for the lay public.
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- Bettina Zimmermann
- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel , Basel , Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel , Basel , Switzerland
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- Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel , Basel , Switzerland
- Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University , Maastricht , the Netherlands
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Zimmermann B, Sturk-Andreaggi K, Huber N, Xavier C, Saunier J, Tahir M, Chouery E, Jalkh N, Megarbane A, Bodner M, Coble M, Irwin J, Parsons T, Parson W. Mitochondrial DNA control region variation in Lebanon, Jordan, and Bahrain. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2019; 42:99-102. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2019.06.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Revised: 06/06/2019] [Accepted: 06/25/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Strobl C, Churchill Cihlar J, Lagacé R, Wootton S, Roth C, Huber N, Schnaller L, Zimmermann B, Huber G, Lay Hong S, Moura-Neto R, Silva R, Alshamali F, Souto L, Anslinger K, Egyed B, Jankova-Ajanovska R, Casas-Vargas A, Usaquén W, Silva D, Barletta-Carrillo C, Tineo DH, Vullo C, Würzner R, Xavier C, Gusmão L, Niederstätter H, Bodner M, Budowle B, Parson W. Evaluation of mitogenome sequence concordance, heteroplasmy detection, and haplogrouping in a worldwide lineage study using the Precision ID mtDNA Whole Genome Panel. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2019; 42:244-251. [PMID: 31382159 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2019.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [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: 06/03/2019] [Revised: 07/09/2019] [Accepted: 07/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The emergence of Massively Parallel Sequencing technologies enabled the analysis of full mitochondrial (mt)DNA sequences from forensically relevant samples that have, so far, only been typed in the control region or its hypervariable segments. In this study, we evaluated the performance of a commercially available multiplex-PCR-based assay, the Precision ID mtDNA Whole Genome Panel (Thermo Fisher Scientific), for the amplification and sequencing of the entire mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) from even degraded forensic specimens. For this purpose, more than 500 samples from 24 different populations were selected to cover the vast majority of established superhaplogroups. These are known to harbor different signature sequence motifs corresponding to their phylogenetic background that could have an effect on primer binding and, thus, could limit a broad application of this molecular genetic tool. The selected samples derived from various forensically relevant tissue sources and were DNA extracted using different methods. We evaluated sequence concordance and heteroplasmy detection and compared the findings to conventional Sanger sequencing as well as an orthogonal MPS platform. We discuss advantages and limitations of this approach with respect to forensic genetic workflow and analytical requirements.
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- Christina Strobl
- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Human Identification Group, ThermoFisher Scientific, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Human Identification Group, ThermoFisher Scientific, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Human Identification Group, ThermoFisher Scientific, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
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- Laboratório de Biologia Molecular Forense, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Dubai Police, Gen. Dept. Forensic Science & Criminology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Laboratorio de Genética Aplicada, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Genetics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, Criminalistic and Medical Deontology, Medical Faculty, University "St. Cyril and Methodius", Skopje, Macedonia
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- Group of Population Genetics and Identification, Genetics Institute, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Group of Population Genetics and Identification, Genetics Institute, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- DNA Diagnostic Laboratory (LDD), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Instituto de Medicina Legal del Perú, Lima, Peru
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- DNA Forensic Laboratory, Argentinean Forensic Anthropology team (EAAF), Córdoba, Argentina
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- Division of Hygiene & Med. Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- DNA Diagnostic Laboratory (LDD), State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Center for Human Identification, University of North Texas Health Science Center, TX, USA
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; Forensic Science Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
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Lim R, Sugino T, Nolte H, Andrade J, Zimmermann B, Shi C, Doddaballapur A, Ong YT, Wilhelm K, Fasse JWD, Ernst A, Kaulich M, Husnjak K, Boettger T, Guenther S, Braun T, Krüger M, Benedito R, Dikic I, Potente M. Deubiquitinase USP10 regulates Notch signaling in the endothelium. Science 2019; 364:188-193. [PMID: 30975888 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat0778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2018] [Accepted: 03/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Notch signaling is a core patterning module for vascular morphogenesis that codetermines the sprouting behavior of endothelial cells (ECs). Tight quantitative and temporal control of Notch activity is essential for vascular development, yet the details of Notch regulation in ECs are incompletely understood. We found that ubiquitin-specific peptidase 10 (USP10) interacted with the NOTCH1 intracellular domain (NICD1) to slow the ubiquitin-dependent turnover of this short-lived form of the activated NOTCH1 receptor. Accordingly, inactivation of USP10 reduced NICD1 abundance and stability and diminished Notch-induced target gene expression in ECs. In mice, the loss of endothelial Usp10 increased vessel sprouting and partially restored the patterning defects caused by ectopic expression of NICD1. Thus, USP10 functions as an NICD1 deubiquitinase that fine-tunes endothelial Notch responses during angiogenic sprouting.
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- Angiogenesis and Metabolism Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Angiogenesis and Metabolism Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Institute for Genetics and Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, D-50931 Cologne, Germany
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- Angiogenesis and Metabolism Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Angiogenesis and Metabolism Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Angiogenesis and Metabolism Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Angiogenesis and Metabolism Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Angiogenesis and Metabolism Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Angiogenesis and Metabolism Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Angiogenesis and Metabolism Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry II, Faculty of Medicine, Goethe University, D-60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Project Group Translational Medicine and Pharmacology TMP, D-60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry II, Faculty of Medicine, Goethe University, D-60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry II, Faculty of Medicine, Goethe University, D-60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Cardiac Development and Remodeling, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Department of Cardiac Development and Remodeling, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Department of Cardiac Development and Remodeling, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany
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- Institute for Genetics and Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, D-50931 Cologne, Germany
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- Molecular Genetics of Angiogenesis Laboratory, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), 28029 Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Biochemistry II, Faculty of Medicine, Goethe University, D-60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Angiogenesis and Metabolism Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, D-61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany. .,DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Frankfurt Rhine-Main, D-13347 Berlin, Germany.,International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 02-109 Warsaw, Poland
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Kowalczyk J, Numata J, Zimmermann B, Klinger R, Habedank F, Just P, Schafft H, Lahrssen-Wiederholt M. Suitability of Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) as a Bioindicator for Environmental Pollution with Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS). Arch Environ Contam Toxicol 2018; 75:594-606. [PMID: 30116839 DOI: 10.1007/s00244-018-0552-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2017] [Accepted: 07/30/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Wildlife species, such as roe deer, moose, brown hare, wild boar, etc., are known to accumulate persistent environmental contaminants and thus are useful as bioindicators for environmental pollution. Wild boars become exposed to perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) from flora, fauna, water, and soil. The main exposure pathway to PFOA and PFOS is assumed to be the oral intake. From studies in domestic pigs (belonging to the same species Sus scrofa), it has been established that the oral exposure results in the liver accumulation of PFOA and PFOS. Thus, we posit that wild boars can be quantitatively used as suitable bioindicators for the presence of these substances in the environment. After the environmental pollution case in the Hessian region Sauerland in 2006, monitoring programs of individual Federal States from 2007 to 2013 showed that almost all wild boar liver samples contained PFOA and PFOS. In 2014, the analyses of PFOA and PFOS in liver of wild boars hunted in the south, north, and west of Germany showed liver concentrations at the same level among regions. Overall, an average ratio of PFOS:PFOA concentration in liver of 20.5:1 was found. To estimate the actual ratio of PFOS:PFOA in the wild boars' dietary exposure, we performed toxicokinetic modeling. According to the model, the PFOS exposure is only 2.2 times that of PFOA (because PFOS has slower elimination kinetics and higher affinity for the liver than PFOA). Overall, the determination of PFOA and PFOS in liver of wild boars indicates that both substances are ubiquitously distributed in the environment. At the same time, higher exposures were found for animals living in closer proximity to dense human populations.
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- J Kowalczyk
- German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Max-Dohrn-Str. 8-10, 10589, Berlin, Germany.
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- German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Max-Dohrn-Str. 8-10, 10589, Berlin, Germany
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- Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764, Oberschleißheim, Germany
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- Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764, Oberschleißheim, Germany
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- State Office of Agriculture, Food Safety and Fisheries, Thierfelderstr. 18, 18059, Rostock, Germany
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- Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute (CVUA) Westfalen, Westhoffstr. 17, 44791, Bochum, Germany
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- German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Max-Dohrn-Str. 8-10, 10589, Berlin, Germany
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- German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Max-Dohrn-Str. 8-10, 10589, Berlin, Germany
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Blümel R, Lukacs R, Zimmermann B, Bağcıoğlu M, Kohler A. Observation of Mie ripples in the synchrotron Fourier transform infrared spectra of spheroidal pollen grains. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis 2018; 35:1769-1779. [PMID: 30462098 DOI: 10.1364/josaa.35.001769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2018] [Accepted: 09/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Conceptually, biological cells are dielectric, photonic resonators that are expected to show a rich variety of shape resonances when exposed to electromagnetic radiation. For spheroidal cells, these shape resonances may be predicted and analyzed using the Mie theory of dielectric spheres, which predicts that a special class of resonances, i.e., whispering gallery modes (WGMs), causes ripples in the absorbance spectra of spheroidal cells. Indeed, the first tentative indication of the presence of Mie ripples in the synchrotron Fourier transform infrared (SFTIR) absorbance spectra of Juniperus chinensis pollen has already been reported [Analyst140, 3273 (2015)ANLYAG0365-488510.1039/C5AN00401B]. To show that this observation is no isolated incidence, but a generic spectral feature that can be expected to occur in all spheroidal biological cells, we measured and analyzed the SFTIR absorbance spectra of Cunninghamia lanceolata, Juniperus chinensis, Juniperus communis, and Juniperus excelsa. All four pollen species show Mie ripples. Since the WGMs causing the ripples are surface modes, we propose ripple spectroscopy as a powerful tool for studying the surface properties of spheroidal biological cells. In addition, our paper draws attention to the fact that shape resonances need to be taken into account when analyzing (S)FTIR spectra of isolated biological cells since shape resonances may distort the shape or mimic the presence of chemical absorption bands.
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Reinert T, Henriksen T, Rasmussen M, Sethi H, Salari R, Shchegrova S, Swenerton R, Wu HT, Sharma S, Christensen E, Natarajan P, Dashner S, Tin T, Olson A, Pawar H, Zimmermann B, Iversen L, Madsen M, Lin J, Andersen C. Serial circulating tumor DNA analysis for detection of residual disease, assessment of adjuvant therapy efficacy and for early recurrence detection in colorectal cancer. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy281.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Birkenkamp-Demtröder K, Christensen E, Sethi H, Sharma S, Wu HT, Taber A, Agerbæk M, Swenerton R, Salari R, Hafez D, Nordentoft I, Lamy P, Srinivasan R, Balcioglu M, Navarro S, Assaf Z, Zimmermann B, Lin J, Bjerggaard Jensen J, Dyrskjøt L. Longitudinal assessment of multiplex patient-specific ctDNA biomarkers in bladder cancer for diagnosis, surveillance and recurrence. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy269.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Farnsworth B, Peuckert C, Zimmermann B, Jazin E, Kettunen P, Emilsson LS. Gene Expression of Quaking in Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease Patients is Both Upregulated and Related to Expression Levels of Genes Involved in Amyloid Plaque and Neurofibrillary Tangle Formation. J Alzheimers Dis 2018; 53:209-19. [PMID: 27163826 PMCID: PMC4942724 DOI: 10.3233/jad-160160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Quaking (QKI) is a gene exclusively expressed within glial cells. QKI has previously been implicated in various neurological disorders and diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a condition for which increasing evidence suggests a central role of glia cells. The objective of the present study was to investigate the expression levels of QKI and three QKI isoforms (QKI5, QKI6, and QKI7) in AD. Genes that have previously been related to the ontogeny and progression of AD, specifically APP, PSEN1, PSEN2, and MAPT, were also investigated. A real-time PCR assay of 123 samples from human postmortem sporadic AD patients and control brains was performed. The expression values were analyzed with an analysis of covariance model and subsequent multiple regressions to explore the possibility of related expression values between QKI, QKI isoforms, and AD-related genes. Further, the sequences of AD-related genes were analyzed for the presence of QKI binding domains. QKI and all measured QKI isoforms were found to be significantly upregulated in AD samples, relative to control samples. However, APP, PSEN1, PSEN2, and MAPT were not found to be significantly different. QKI and QKI isoforms were found to be predictive for the variance of APP, PSEN1, PSEN2, and MAPT, and putative QKI binding sites suggests an interaction with QKI. Overall, these results implicate a possible role of QKI in AD, although the exact mechanism by which this occurs remains to be uncovered.
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- Bryn Farnsworth
- Department of Evolution and Development, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Neuroscience, Uppsala Biomedical Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Evolution and Development, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Evolution and Development, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.,Department of Neuropathology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Evolution and Development, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Koné I, Zimmermann B, Wangmo T, Richner S, Weber M, Elger B. Hospital discharge of patients with ongoing care needs: a cross-sectional study using data from a city hospital under SwissDRG. Swiss Med Wkly 2018; 148:w14575. [PMID: 29376546 DOI: 10.4414/smw.2018.14575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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AIM OF THE STUDY Switzerland introduced the SwissDRG in 2012. The goal of this reimbursement system was to promote cost containment and efficiency in hospital care. To ensure that patients with care needs are not released prematurely because of constraints under the new hospital financing system, the Swiss law on Acute and Transitional Care (ATC) was introduced one year earlier. The objective of the present study was to investigate the impact of ATC and its effects on discharge of patients with persisting care needs after hospitalisation. METHODS Social service workers, nurses and palliative care team members at a Swiss municipal hospital were asked to complete a four-page closed-ended questionnaire about patients who require care after their hospital discharge. This included questions on discharge management, their perceptions of the appropriateness of discharge timing and details about conflicts regarding discharge. Information on length of stay, discharge location, age and sex was extracted from hospital records and matched to the information from the questionnaires. Demographic data are presented descriptively, differences between patients released to ATC and patients released elsewhere (home, nursing home, rehabilitation, etc.) were evaluated with chi-square tests. Logistic regression analyses were performed to evaluate differences between those sent to ATC and rehabilitation with age, length of stay and sex as predictors. RESULTS A total 1410 of valid questionnaires were collected, comprised of 746 female patients (52.9%) and 664 male patients (47.1%). The mean age of our patient cohort was 73.2 years (SD 15.1), and the mean hospital stay was 12.8 days (SD 9.1). After their hospital stay, 553 patients (39.2%) returned home either alone, or with the help of family members or Spitex. More than a quarter of the sample, 387 (27.4%) patients, was sent to rehabilitation. Less than a fifth, 199 (14.1%) patients, received ATC in an inpatient institution (e.g., nursing home). Compared with patients released elsewhere, significantly more problems/conflicts with regard to hospital discharge were reported for ATC patients (28.6 vs 20.6%, p = 0.01) and their relatives (12.6 vs 7.2%, p = 0.01). Women had a higher probability of being discharged to ATC (OR 1.522, p = 0.014) and a lower chance of receiving rehabilitation upon discharge (OR 0.733, p = 0.014). CONCLUSION The study identified important concerns related to receiving ATC after a hospital stay, that is, more problems/conflicts occur with patients discharged to ATC and that the introduction of ATC might particularly disadvantage female patients, who are less likely to receive rehabilitation care.
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- Insa Koné
- Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Central City Hospital Triemli of Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Surgery, Central City Hospital Triemli of Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Aab A, Abreu P, Aglietta M, Al Samarai I, Albuquerque I, Allekotte I, Almela A, Alvarez Castillo J, Alvarez-Muñiz J, Anastasi G, Anchordoqui L, Andrada B, Andringa S, Aramo C, Arqueros F, Arsene N, Asorey H, Assis P, Aublin J, Avila G, Badescu A, Balaceanu A, Barbato F, Barreira Luz R, Beatty J, Becker K, Bellido J, Berat C, Bertaina M, Bertou X, Biermann P, Biteau J, Blaess S, Blanco A, Blazek J, Bleve C, Boháčová M, Boncioli D, Bonifazi C, Borodai N, Botti A, Brack J, Brancus I, Bretz T, Bridgeman A, Briechle F, Buchholz P, Bueno A, Buitink S, Buscemi M, Caballero-Mora K, Caccianiga L, Cancio A, Canfora F, Caramete L, Caruso R, Castellina A, Catalani F, Cataldi G, Cazon L, Chavez A, Chinellato J, Chudoba J, Clay R, Cobos A, Colalillo R, Coleman A, Collica L, Coluccia M, Conceição R, Consolati G, Contreras F, Cooper M, Coutu S, Covault C, Cronin J, D’Amico S, Daniel B, Dasso S, Daumiller K, Dawson B, de Almeida R, de Jong S, De Mauro G, de Mello Neto J, De Mitri I, de Oliveira J, de Souza V, Debatin J, Deligny O, Díaz Castro M, Diogo F, Dobrigkeit C, D’Olivo J, Dorosti Q, dos Anjos R, Dova M, Dundovic A, Ebr J, Engel R, Erdmann M, Erfani M, Escobar C, Espadanal J, Etchegoyen A, Falcke H, Farmer J, Farrar G, Fauth A, Fazzini N, Fenu F, Fick B, Figueira J, Filipčič A, Fratu O, Freire M, Fujii T, Fuster A, Gaior R, García B, Garcia-Pinto D, Gaté F, Gemmeke H, Gherghel-Lascu A, Ghia P, Giaccari U, Giammarchi M, Giller M, Głas D, Glaser C, Golup G, Gómez Berisso M, Gómez Vitale P, González N, Gorgi A, Gorham P, Grillo A, Grubb T, Guarino F, Guedes G, Halliday R, Hampel M, Hansen P, Harari D, Harrison T, Harton J, Haungs A, Hebbeker T, Heck D, Heimann P, Herve A, Hill G, Hojvat C, Holt E, Homola P, Hörandel J, Horvath P, Hrabovský M, Huege T, Hulsman J, Insolia A, Isar P, Jandt I, Johnsen J, Josebachuili M, Jurysek J, Kääpä A, Kambeitz O, Kampert K, Keilhauer B, Kemmerich N, Kemp E, Kemp J, Kieckhafer R, Klages H, Kleifges M, Kleinfeller J, Krause R, Krohm N, Kuempel D, Kukec Mezek G, Kunka N, Kuotb Awad A, Lago B, LaHurd D, Lang R, Lauscher M, Legumina R, Leigui de Oliveira M, Letessier-Selvon A, Lhenry-Yvon I, Link K, Lo Presti D, Lopes L, López R, López Casado A, Lorek R, Luce Q, Lucero A, Malacari M, Mallamaci M, Mandat D, Mantsch P, Mariazzi A, Mariş I, Marsella G, Martello D, Martinez H, Martínez Bravo O, Masías Meza J, Mathes H, Mathys S, Matthews J, Matthews J, Matthiae G, Mayotte E, Mazur P, Medina C, Medina-Tanco G, Melo D, Menshikov A, Merenda KD, Michal S, Micheletti M, Middendorf L, Miramonti L, Mitrica B, Mockler D, Mollerach S, Montanet F, Morello C, Mostafá M, Müller A, Müller G, Muller M, Müller S, Mussa R, Naranjo I, Nellen L, Nguyen P, Niculescu-Oglinzanu M, Niechciol M, Niemietz L, Niggemann T, Nitz D, Nosek D, Novotny V, Nožka L, Núñez L, Ochilo L, Oikonomou F, Olinto A, Palatka M, Pallotta J, Papenbreer P, Parente G, Parra A, Paul T, Pech M, Pedreira F, Pękala J, Pelayo R, Peña-Rodriguez J, Pereira L, Perlin M, Perrone L, Peters C, Petrera S, Phuntsok J, Piegaia R, Pierog T, Pimenta M, Pirronello V, Platino M, Plum M, Porowski C, Prado R, Privitera P, Prouza M, Quel E, Querchfeld S, Quinn S, Ramos-Pollan R, Rautenberg J, Ravignani D, Ridky J, Riehn F, Risse M, Ristori P, Rizi V, Rodrigues de Carvalho W, Rodriguez Fernandez G, Rodriguez Rojo J, Rogozin D, Roncoroni M, Roth M, Roulet E, Rovero A, Ruehl P, Saffi S, Saftoiu A, Salamida F, Salazar H, Saleh A, Salesa Greus F, Salina G, Sánchez F, Sanchez-Lucas P, Santos E, Santos E, Sarazin F, Sarmento R, Sarmiento-Cano C, Sato R, Schauer M, Scherini V, Schieler H, Schimp M, Schmidt D, Scholten O, Schovánek P, Schröder F, Schröder S, Schulz A, Schumacher J, Sciutto S, Segreto A, Shadkam A, Shellard R, Sigl G, Silli G, Sima O, Śmiałkowski A, Šmída R, Smith B, Snow G, Sommers P, Sonntag S, Squartini R, Stanca D, Stanič S, Stasielak J, Stassi P, Stolpovskiy M, Strafella F, Streich A, Suarez F, Suarez Durán M, Sudholz T, Suomijärvi T, Supanitsky A, Šupík J, Swain J, Szadkowski Z, Taboada A, Taborda O, Theodoro V, Timmermans C, Todero Peixoto C, Tomankova L, Tomé B, Torralba Elipe G, Travnicek P, Trini M, Ulrich R, Unger M, Urban M, Valdés Galicia J, Valiño I, Valore L, van Aar G, van Bodegom P, van den Berg A, van Vliet A, Varela E, Vargas Cárdenas B, Varner G, Vázquez R, Veberič D, Ventura C, Vergara Quispe I, Verzi V, Vicha J, Villaseñor L, Vorobiov S, Wahlberg H, Wainberg O, Walz D, Watson A, Weber M, Weindl A, Wiencke L, Wilczyński H, Wileman C, Wirtz M, Wittkowski D, Wundheiler B, Yang L, Yushkov A, Zas E, Zavrtanik D, Zavrtanik M, Zepeda A, Zimmermann B, Ziolkowski M, Zong Z, Zuccarello F. Inferences on mass composition and tests of hadronic interactions from 0.3 to 100 EeV using the water-Cherenkov detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory. Int J Clin Exp Med 2017. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.96.122003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Koerner K, Sahlmen P, Zimmermann B, Cardoso M, Kubanek B. In vitro Platelet Function during Storage in Three Different Additive Solutions. Vox Sang 2017. [DOI: 10.1159/000462581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Farnsworth B, Radomska KJ, Zimmermann B, Kettunen P, Jazin E, Emilsson LS. QKI6B mRNA levels are upregulated in schizophrenia and predict GFAP expression. Brain Res 2017; 1669:63-68. [PMID: 28552414 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2017.05.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [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: 03/04/2017] [Revised: 05/21/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Schizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder with a heterogeneous symptomatology. Research increasingly indicates the importance of the crucial and often overlooked glial perturbations within schizophrenia. Within this study, we examined an isoform of quaking (a gene encoding an RNA-binding protein that is exclusively expressed in glial cells), known as QKI6B, and a prototypical astrocyte marker, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), postulated to be under the regulation of QKI. The expression levels of these genes were quantified across post-mortem brain samples from 55 schizophrenic individuals, and 55 healthy controls, using real-time PCR. We report, through an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) model, an upregulation of both QKI6B, and GFAP in the prefrontal cortex of brain samples of schizophrenic individuals, as compared to control samples. Previous research has suggested that the QKI protein directly regulates the expression of several genes through interaction with a motif in the target's sequence, termed the Quaking Response Element (QRE). We therefore examined if QKI6B expression can predict the outcome of GFAP, and several oligodendrocyte-related genes, using a multiple linear regression approach. We found that QKI6B significantly predicts the expression of GFAP, but does not predict oligodendrocyte-related gene outcome, as previously seen with other QKI isoforms.
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- B Farnsworth
- Department of Evolution and Development, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Evolution and Development, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Evolution and Development, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Neuropathology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Department of Evolution and Development, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Evolution and Development, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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Gomes SM, van Oven M, Souto L, Morreira H, Brauer S, Bodner M, Zimmermann B, Huber G, Strobl C, Röck AW, Côrte-Real F, Parson W, Kayser M. Lack of gene-language correlation due to reciprocal female but directional male admixture in Austronesians and non-Austronesians of East Timor. Eur J Hum Genet 2017; 25:246-252. [PMID: 27485412 PMCID: PMC5255940 DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2016.101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [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: 06/11/2015] [Revised: 06/13/2016] [Accepted: 06/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Nusa Tenggara, including East Timor, located at the crossroad between Island Southeast Asia, Near Oceania, and Australia, are characterized by a complex cultural structure harbouring speakers from two different major linguistic groups of different geographic origins (Austronesian (AN) and non-Austronesian (NAN)). This provides suitable possibilities to study gene-language relationship; however, previous studies from other parts of Nusa Tenggara reported conflicting evidence about gene-language correlation in this region. Aiming to investigate gene-language relationships including sex-mediated aspects in East Timor, we analysed the paternally inherited non-recombining part of the Y chromosome (NRY) and the maternally inherited mitochondrial (mt) DNA in a representative collection of AN- and NAN-speaking groups. Y-SNP (single-nucleotide polymorphism) data were newly generated for 273 samples and combined with previously established Y-STR (short tandem repeat) data of the same samples, and with previously established mtDNA data of 290 different samples with, however, very similar representation of geographic and linguistic coverage of the country. We found NRY and mtDNA haplogroups of previously described putative East/Southeast Asian (E/SEA) and Near Oceanian (NO) origins in both AN and NAN speakers of East Timor, albeit in different proportions, suggesting reciprocal genetic admixture between both linguistic groups for females, but directional admixture for males. Our data underline the dual genetic origin of East Timorese in E/SEA and NO, and highlight that substantial genetic admixture between the two major linguistic groups had occurred, more so via women than men. Our study therefore provides another example where languages and genes do not conform due to sex-biased genetic admixture across major linguistic groups.
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- Sibylle M Gomes
- Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Genetic Identification, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Genetic Identification, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Forensic Science Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetic Identification, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Aab A, Abreu P, Aglietta M, Ahn EJ, Al Samarai I, Albuquerque IFM, Allekotte I, Allen JD, Allison P, Almela A, Alvarez Castillo J, Alvarez-Muñiz J, Ambrosio M, Anastasi GA, Anchordoqui L, Andrada B, Andringa S, Aramo C, Arqueros F, Arsene N, Asorey H, Assis P, Aublin J, Avila G, Badescu AM, Baus C, Beatty JJ, Becker KH, Bellido JA, Berat C, Bertaina ME, Bertou X, Biermann PL, Billoir P, Biteau J, Blaess SG, Blanco A, Blazek J, Bleve C, Blümer H, Boháčová M, Boncioli D, Bonifazi C, Borodai N, Botti AM, Brack J, Brancus I, Bretz T, Bridgeman A, Briechle FL, Buchholz P, Bueno A, Buitink S, Buscemi M, Caballero-Mora KS, Caccianiga B, Caccianiga L, Cancio A, Canfora F, Caramete L, Caruso R, Castellina A, Cataldi G, Cazon L, Cester R, Chavez AG, Chiavassa A, Chinellato JA, Chirinos Diaz JC, Chudoba J, Clay RW, Colalillo R, Coleman A, Collica L, Coluccia MR, Conceição R, Contreras F, Cooper MJ, Coutu S, Covault CE, Cronin J, Dallier R, D'Amico S, Daniel B, Dasso S, Daumiller K, Dawson BR, de Almeida RM, de Jong SJ, De Mauro G, de Mello Neto JRT, De Mitri I, de Oliveira J, de Souza V, Debatin J, Del Peral L, Deligny O, Dhital N, Di Giulio C, Di Matteo A, Díaz Castro ML, Diogo F, Dobrigkeit C, D'Olivo JC, Dorofeev A, Dos Anjos RC, Dova MT, Dundovic A, Ebr J, Engel R, Erdmann M, Erfani M, Escobar CO, Espadanal J, Etchegoyen A, Falcke H, Fang K, Farrar GR, Fauth AC, Fazzini N, Ferguson AP, Fick B, Figueira JM, Filevich A, Filipčič A, Fratu O, Freire MM, Fujii T, Fuster A, Gallo F, García B, Garcia-Pinto D, Gate F, Gemmeke H, Gherghel-Lascu A, Ghia PL, Giaccari U, Giammarchi M, Giller M, Głas D, Glaser C, Glass H, Golup G, Gómez Berisso M, Gómez Vitale PF, González N, Gookin B, Gordon J, Gorgi A, Gorham P, Gouffon P, Griffith N, Grillo AF, Grubb TD, Guarino F, Guedes GP, Hampel MR, Hansen P, Harari D, Harrison TA, Harton JL, Hasankiadeh Q, Haungs A, Hebbeker T, Heck D, Heimann P, Herve AE, Hill GC, Hojvat C, Hollon N, Holt E, Homola P, Hörandel JR, Horvath P, Hrabovský M, Huege T, Hulsman J, Insolia A, Isar PG, Jandt I, Jansen S, Jarne C, Johnsen JA, Josebachuili M, Kääpä A, Kambeitz O, Kampert KH, Kasper P, Katkov I, Keilhauer B, Kemp E, Kieckhafer RM, Klages HO, Kleifges M, Kleinfeller J, Krause R, Krohm N, Kuempel D, Kukec Mezek G, Kunka N, Kuotb Awad A, LaHurd D, Latronico L, Lauscher M, Lautridou P, Lebrun P, Legumina R, Leigui de Oliveira MA, Letessier-Selvon A, Lhenry-Yvon I, Link K, Lopes L, López R, López Casado A, Lucero A, Malacari M, Mallamaci M, Mandat D, Mantsch P, Mariazzi AG, Marin V, Mariş IC, Marsella G, Martello D, Martinez H, Martínez Bravo O, Masías Meza JJ, Mathes HJ, Mathys S, Matthews J, Matthews JAJ, Matthiae G, Maurizio D, Mayotte E, Mazur PO, Medina C, Medina-Tanco G, Mello VBB, Melo D, Menshikov A, Messina S, Micheletti MI, Middendorf L, Minaya IA, Miramonti L, Mitrica B, Molina-Bueno L, Mollerach S, Montanet F, Morello C, Mostafá M, Moura CA, Müller G, Muller MA, Müller S, Naranjo I, Navas S, Necesal P, Nellen L, Nelles A, Neuser 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Testing Hadronic Interactions at Ultrahigh Energies with Air Showers Measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 117:192001. [PMID: 27858429 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.192001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
Ultrahigh energy cosmic ray air showers probe particle physics at energies beyond the reach of accelerators. Here we introduce a new method to test hadronic interaction models without relying on the absolute energy calibration, and apply it to events with primary energy 6-16 EeV (E_{CM}=110-170 TeV), whose longitudinal development and lateral distribution were simultaneously measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory. The average hadronic shower is 1.33±0.16 (1.61±0.21) times larger than predicted using the leading LHC-tuned models EPOS-LHC (QGSJetII-04), with a corresponding excess of muons.
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- A Aab
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik-Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Germany
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- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
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- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Torino, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Italy
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
| | - I Al Samarai
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, France
| | | | - I Allekotte
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), Argentina
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- New York University, New York, New York, USA
| | - P Allison
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - A Almela
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
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- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
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- INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Italy
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- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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- University of Bucharest, Physics Department, Romania
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), Argentina
- Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
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- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, France
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- Observatorio Pierre Auger, Argentina
- Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
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- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Germany
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Italy
- Università Torino, Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), Argentina
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, France
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, France
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- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
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- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
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- Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi", Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Italy
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Germany
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
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- INFN Laboratori del Gran Sasso, Italy
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Instituto de Física, Brazil
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Instituto de Física, Brazil
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Poland
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- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
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- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik-Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Germany
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- Universidad de Granada and C.A.F.P.E., Spain
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- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Università di Catania, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Italy
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, France
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- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Università di Catania, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Italy
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- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Torino, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Italy
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- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Italy
- Università Torino, Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
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- Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico
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- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Italy
- Università Torino, Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
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- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
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- University of Adelaide, Australia
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- INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Italy
- Università di Napoli "Federico II", Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
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- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | | | - M R Coluccia
- Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi", Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Italy
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- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
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- Observatorio Pierre Auger, Argentina
- Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
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- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, France
- Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay, France
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- INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Italy
- Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Italy
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- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
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- Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE, CONICET-UBA), Argentina
- Departamento de Física and Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge Energie Fysica (NIKHEF), Netherlands
| | - G De Mauro
- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | | | - I De Mitri
- Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi", Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Italy
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Inst. de Física de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil
| | - J Debatin
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, France
| | - N Dhital
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
| | - C Di Giulio
- Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
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- INFN, Sezione di L'Aquila, Italy
- Università dell'Aquila, Dipartimento di Chimica e Fisica, Italy
| | | | - F Diogo
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
| | - C Dobrigkeit
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
| | - J C D'Olivo
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
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- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
| | - R C Dos Anjos
- Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor Palotina, Brazil
| | - M T Dova
- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, Argentina
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- Universität Hamburg, II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Germany
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- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
| | - R Engel
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
| | - M Erfani
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik-Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Germany
| | - C O Escobar
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
| | - J Espadanal
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
| | - A Etchegoyen
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge Energie Fysica (NIKHEF), Netherlands
- Stichting Astronomisch Onderzoek in Nederland (ASTRON), Dwingeloo, Netherlands
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- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - G R Farrar
- New York University, New York, New York, USA
| | - A C Fauth
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
| | - N Fazzini
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
| | - A P Ferguson
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| | - B Fick
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
| | - J M Figueira
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
| | - A Filevich
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
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- Experimental Particle Physics Department, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
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- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
| | - M M Freire
- Instituto de Física de Rosario (IFIR)-CONICET/U.N.R. and Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas U.N.R., Argentina
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- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - A Fuster
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - F Gallo
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
| | - B García
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM) and Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Facultad Regional Mendoza (CONICET/CNEA), Argentina
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- SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, France
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik (IPE), Germany
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- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, France
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Instituto de Física, Brazil
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- University of Łódź, Poland
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), Argentina
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), Argentina
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- Observatorio Pierre Auger, Argentina
- Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
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- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Torino, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Italy
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Inst. de Física, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Italy
- Università di Napoli "Federico II", Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
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- Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Brazil
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- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
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- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, Argentina
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), Argentina
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- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik-Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Germany
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- University of Adelaide, Australia
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
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- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Poland
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- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge Energie Fysica (NIKHEF), Netherlands
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- Palacky University, RCPTM, Czech Republic
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Università di Catania, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Italy
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- Institute of Space Science, Romania
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- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
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- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge Energie Fysica (NIKHEF), Netherlands
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- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, Argentina
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- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
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- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
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- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Germany
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- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
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- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
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- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - M Kleifges
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik (IPE), Germany
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
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- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
| | - D Kuempel
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
| | - G Kukec Mezek
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | - N Kunka
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik (IPE), Germany
| | - A Kuotb Awad
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - D LaHurd
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
| | - P Lautridou
- SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, France
| | - P Lebrun
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
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- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, France
| | - I Lhenry-Yvon
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, France
| | - K Link
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Germany
| | - L Lopes
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
| | - R López
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico
| | | | - A Lucero
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | | | - M Mallamaci
- INFN, Sezione di Milano, Italy
- Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
| | - D Mandat
- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
| | - P Mantsch
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
| | - A G Mariazzi
- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, Argentina
| | - V Marin
- SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, France
| | - I C Mariş
- Universidad de Granada and C.A.F.P.E., Spain
| | - G Marsella
- Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi", Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Italy
| | - D Martello
- Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi", Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Italy
| | - H Martinez
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV), Mexico
| | | | - J J Masías Meza
- Departamento de Física and Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - H J Mathes
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - S Mathys
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
| | - J Matthews
- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
| | | | - G Matthiae
- Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
| | - D Maurizio
- Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas (CBPF), Brazil
| | - E Mayotte
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
| | - P O Mazur
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois, USA
| | - C Medina
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
| | | | - V B B Mello
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Instituto de Física, Brazil
| | - D Melo
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
| | - A Menshikov
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik (IPE), Germany
| | - S Messina
- KVI-Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, Netherlands
| | - M I Micheletti
- Instituto de Física de Rosario (IFIR)-CONICET/U.N.R. and Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas U.N.R., Argentina
| | - L Middendorf
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
| | - I A Minaya
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
| | - L Miramonti
- INFN, Sezione di Milano, Italy
- Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
| | - B Mitrica
- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania
| | | | - S Mollerach
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), Argentina
| | - F Montanet
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, France
| | - C Morello
- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Torino, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Italy
| | - M Mostafá
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - C A Moura
- Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), Brazil
| | - G Müller
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
| | - M A Muller
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
- Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
| | - S Müller
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - I Naranjo
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), Argentina
| | - S Navas
- Universidad de Granada and C.A.F.P.E., Spain
| | - P Necesal
- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
| | - L Nellen
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
| | - A Nelles
- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge Energie Fysica (NIKHEF), Netherlands
| | - J Neuser
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
| | | | | | - M Niechciol
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik-Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Germany
| | - L Niemietz
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
| | - T Niggemann
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
| | - D Nitz
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
| | - D Nosek
- University Prague, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Czech Republic
| | - V Novotny
- University Prague, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Czech Republic
| | - H Nožka
- Palacky University, RCPTM, Czech Republic
| | - L A Núñez
- Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
| | - L Ochilo
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik-Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Germany
| | - F Oikonomou
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - A Olinto
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | | | - M Palatka
- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
| | - J Pallotta
- Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEDEF and CONICET, Argentina
| | - P Papenbreer
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
| | - G Parente
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - A Parra
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico
| | - T Paul
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, USA
- Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - M Pech
- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
| | - F Pedreira
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - J Pękala
- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Poland
| | - R Pelayo
- Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (UPIITA-IPN), Mexico
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- Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
| | | | - L Perrone
- Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi", Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Italy
| | - E Petermann
- University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
| | - C Peters
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
| | - S Petrera
- INFN, Sezione di L'Aquila, Italy
- Università dell'Aquila, Dipartimento di Chimica e Fisica, Italy
| | - J Phuntsok
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - R Piegaia
- Departamento de Física and Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - T Pierog
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - P Pieroni
- Departamento de Física and Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - M Pimenta
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
| | - V Pirronello
- Università di Catania, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Italy
| | - M Platino
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
| | - M Plum
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
| | - C Porowski
- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Poland
| | - R R Prado
- Universidade de São Paulo, Inst. de Física de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil
| | - P Privitera
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - M Prouza
- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
| | - E J Quel
- Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEDEF and CONICET, Argentina
| | - S Querchfeld
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
| | - S Quinn
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| | - J Rautenberg
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
| | - O Ravel
- SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, France
| | - D Ravignani
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
| | - B Revenu
- SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, France
| | - J Ridky
- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
| | - M Risse
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik-Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Germany
| | - P Ristori
- Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEDEF and CONICET, Argentina
| | - V Rizi
- INFN, Sezione di L'Aquila, Italy
- Università dell'Aquila, Dipartimento di Chimica e Fisica, Italy
| | | | | | | | - D Rogozin
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - J Rosado
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
| | - M Roth
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - E Roulet
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), Argentina
| | - A C Rovero
- Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE, CONICET-UBA), Argentina
| | | | - A Saftoiu
- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania
| | - H Salazar
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico
| | - A Saleh
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | - F Salesa Greus
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - G Salina
- INFN, Sezione di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
| | | | - F Sánchez
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Inst. de Física, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - E Santos
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
| | - F Sarazin
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
| | - B Sarkar
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
| | - R Sarmento
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
| | | | - R Sato
- Observatorio Pierre Auger, Argentina
| | - C Scarso
- Observatorio Pierre Auger, Argentina
| | - M Schauer
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
| | - V Scherini
- Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi", Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Italy
| | - H Schieler
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - D Schmidt
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- KVI-Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, Netherlands
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- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
| | - F G Schröder
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - J Schulz
- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - J Schumacher
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
| | - S J Sciutto
- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, Argentina
| | - A Segreto
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Italy
- INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo, Italy
| | - M Settimo
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, France
| | - A Shadkam
- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
| | - R C Shellard
- Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas (CBPF), Brazil
| | - G Sigl
- Universität Hamburg, II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Germany
| | - O Sima
- University of Bucharest, Physics Department, Romania
| | | | - R Šmída
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - G R Snow
- University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
| | - P Sommers
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - S Sonntag
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik-Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Germany
| | | | | | - D Stanca
- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania
| | - S Stanič
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | | | | | - F Strafella
- Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi", Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Italy
| | - A Stutz
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, France
| | - F Suarez
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, France
| | - A D Supanitsky
- Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE, CONICET-UBA), Argentina
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- Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | | | - O A Taborda
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), Argentina
| | - A Tapia
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
| | - A Tepe
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik-Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Germany
| | - V M Theodoro
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
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- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nationaal Instituut voor Kernfysica en Hoge Energie Fysica (NIKHEF), Netherlands
| | | | - L Tomankova
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - B Tomé
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas-LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
| | - A Tonachini
- INFN, Sezione di Torino, Italy
- Università Torino, Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
| | | | - D Torres Machado
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Instituto de Física, Brazil
| | - P Travnicek
- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
| | - M Trini
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | - R Ulrich
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - M Unger
- New York University, New York, New York, USA
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - M Urban
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
| | | | | | - I Valiño
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - L Valore
- INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Italy
- Università di Napoli "Federico II", Dipartimento di Fisica, Italy
| | - G van Aar
- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | | | - A M van den Berg
- KVI-Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, Netherlands
| | - A van Vliet
- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - E Varela
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), Mexico
| | | | - G Varner
- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
| | | | - R A Vázquez
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - D Veberič
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - V Verzi
- INFN, Sezione di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
| | - J Vicha
- Institute of Physics (FZU) of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
| | - M Videla
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
| | - L Villaseñor
- Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico
| | - S Vorobiov
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | - H Wahlberg
- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, Argentina
| | - O Wainberg
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - D Walz
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Germany
| | - A A Watson
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
| | - M Weber
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik (IPE), Germany
| | - A Weindl
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik (IKP), Germany
| | - L Wiencke
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
| | | | - T Winchen
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
| | - D Wittkowski
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Department of Physics, Germany, Germany
| | - B Wundheiler
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
| | - S Wykes
- Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics (IMAPP), Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - L Yang
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | - T Yapici
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
| | - D Yelos
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - E Zas
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - D Zavrtanik
- Experimental Particle Physics Department, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | - M Zavrtanik
- Experimental Particle Physics Department, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | - A Zepeda
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV), Mexico
| | - B Zimmermann
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik (IPE), Germany
| | - M Ziolkowski
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik-Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Germany
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- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, France
| | - F Zuccarello
- Università di Catania, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Catania, Italy
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Measurement of the Radiation Energy in the Radio Signal of Extensive Air Showers as a Universal Estimator of Cosmic-Ray Energy. Phys Rev Lett 2016; 116:241101. [PMID: 27367377 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.241101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2015] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
We measure the energy emitted by extensive air showers in the form of radio emission in the frequency range from 30 to 80 MHz. Exploiting the accurate energy scale of the Pierre Auger Observatory, we obtain a radiation energy of 15.8±0.7(stat)±6.7(syst) MeV for cosmic rays with an energy of 1 EeV arriving perpendicularly to a geomagnetic field of 0.24 G, scaling quadratically with the cosmic-ray energy. A comparison with predictions from state-of-the-art first-principles calculations shows agreement with our measurement. The radiation energy provides direct access to the calorimetric energy in the electromagnetic cascade of extensive air showers. Comparison with our result thus allows the direct calibration of any cosmic-ray radio detector against the well-established energy scale of the Pierre Auger Observatory.
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- A Aab
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik - Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany
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- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - M Aglietta
- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
| | - E J Ahn
- Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
| | - I Al Samarai
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - I F M Albuquerque
- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - I Allekotte
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
| | - P Allison
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - A Almela
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - J Alvarez Castillo
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
| | - J Alvarez-Muñiz
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - R Alves Batista
- Universität Hamburg, II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Hamburg, Germany
| | - M Ambrosio
- Università di Napoli "Federico II" and Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy
| | - A Aminaei
- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - G A Anastasi
- Università di Catania and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - L Anchordoqui
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, USA
| | - S Andringa
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - C Aramo
- Università di Napoli "Federico II" and Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy
| | - F Arqueros
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
| | - N Arsene
- University of Bucharest, Physics Department, Bucharest, Romania
| | - H Asorey
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
- Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
| | - P Assis
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - J Aublin
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France
| | - G Avila
- Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Malargüe, Argentina
| | - N Awal
- New York University, New York, New York, USA
| | - A M Badescu
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - C Baus
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - J J Beatty
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - K H Becker
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - J A Bellido
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - C Berat
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - M E Bertaina
- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
| | - P L Biermann
- Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
| | - P Billoir
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France
| | - S G Blaess
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - A Blanco
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - M Blanco
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France
| | - J Blazek
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - C Bleve
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi" dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland
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- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
| | - I Brancus
- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - A Bridgeman
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - P Brogueira
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - P Buchholz
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik - Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany
| | - A Bueno
- Universidad de Granada and C.A.F.P.E., Granada, Spain
| | - S Buitink
- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - M Buscemi
- Università di Napoli "Federico II" and Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy
| | | | - B Caccianiga
- Università di Milano and Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy
| | - L Caccianiga
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France
| | - M Candusso
- Università di Roma II "Tor Vergata" and Sezione INFN, Roma, Italy
| | - L Caramete
- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | - R Caruso
- Università di Catania and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - A Castellina
- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
| | - G Cataldi
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi" dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
| | - L Cazon
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - R Cester
- Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
| | - A G Chavez
- Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
| | - A Chiavassa
- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
| | - J A Chinellato
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - J Chudoba
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Cilmo
- Università di Napoli "Federico II" and Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy
| | - R W Clay
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - G Cocciolo
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi" dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
| | - R Colalillo
- Università di Napoli "Federico II" and Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy
| | - A Coleman
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - L Collica
- Università di Milano and Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy
| | - M R Coluccia
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi" dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
| | - R Conceição
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - F Contreras
- Observatorio Pierre Auger, Malargüe, Argentina
| | - M J Cooper
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - A Cordier
- Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - S Coutu
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - C E Covault
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| | - J Cronin
- University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - R Dallier
- SUBATECH, école des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
- Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS/INSU, Nançay, France
| | - B Daniel
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - S Dasso
- Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE, CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - K Daumiller
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - B R Dawson
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - R M de Almeida
- Universidade Federal Fluminense, EEIMVR, Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| | - S J de Jong
- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - G De Mauro
- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - J R T de Mello Neto
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| | - I De Mitri
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi" dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
| | - J de Oliveira
- Universidade Federal Fluminense, EEIMVR, Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| | - V de Souza
- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - L Del Peral
- Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
| | - O Deligny
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - N Dhital
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
| | - C Di Giulio
- Università di Roma II "Tor Vergata" and Sezione INFN, Roma, Italy
| | - A Di Matteo
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche dell'Università dell'Aquila and INFN, L'Aquila, Italy
| | - J C Diaz
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
| | - M L Díaz Castro
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - F Diogo
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - C Dobrigkeit
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - W Docters
- KVI - Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
| | - J C D'Olivo
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
| | - A Dorofeev
- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
| | | | - R C Dos Anjos
- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - M T Dova
- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
| | - J Ebr
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - R Engel
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - M Erdmann
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - M Erfani
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik - Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany
| | - C O Escobar
- Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - J Espadanal
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - A Etchegoyen
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - H Falcke
- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands
| | - K Fang
- University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - G Farrar
- New York University, New York, New York, USA
| | - A C Fauth
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
| | | | - A P Ferguson
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| | - B Fick
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
| | - J M Figueira
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - A Filevich
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - A Filipčič
- Experimental Particle Physics Department, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | - O Fratu
- University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
| | - M M Freire
- Instituto de Física de Rosario (IFIR) - CONICET/U.N.R. and Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas U.N.R., Rosario, Argentina
| | - T Fujii
- University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - B García
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), and Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Mendoza (CONICET/CNEA), Mendoza, Argentina
| | - D Garcia-Gamez
- Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | | | - F Gate
- SUBATECH, école des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
| | - H Gemmeke
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - A Gherghel-Lascu
- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | - P L Ghia
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France
| | - U Giaccari
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| | - M Giammarchi
- Università di Milano and Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy
| | - M Giller
- University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
| | - D Głas
- University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - H Glass
- Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
| | - G Golup
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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- Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Malargüe, Argentina
| | - N González
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - B Gookin
- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
| | - J Gordon
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
| | - P Gorham
- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
| | - P Gouffon
- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - N Griffith
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
| | - A F Grillo
- INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy
| | - T D Grubb
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - F Guarino
- Università di Napoli "Federico II" and Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy
| | - G P Guedes
- Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
| | - M R Hampel
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - P Hansen
- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
| | - D Harari
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
| | - T A Harrison
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - S Hartmann
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - J L Harton
- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
| | - A Haungs
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - T Hebbeker
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - D Heck
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - P Heimann
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik - Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany
| | - A E Herve
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - G C Hill
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - C Hojvat
- Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
| | - N Hollon
- University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - E Holt
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - P Homola
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - J R Hörandel
- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - P Horvath
- Palacky University, RCPTM, Olomouc, Czech Republic
| | - M Hrabovský
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
- Palacky University, RCPTM, Olomouc, Czech Republic
| | - D Huber
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - T Huege
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - A Insolia
- Università di Catania and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - P G Isar
- Institute of Space Science, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | - I Jandt
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - S Jansen
- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - C Jarne
- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
| | - J A Johnsen
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
| | - M Josebachuili
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - A Kääpä
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - O Kambeitz
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - K H Kampert
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - P Kasper
- Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
| | - I Katkov
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - B Keilhauer
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - E Kemp
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - R M Kieckhafer
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
| | - H O Klages
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - M Kleifges
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | | | - R Krause
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - N Krohm
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - D Kuempel
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - G Kukec Mezek
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | - N Kunka
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - A W Kuotb Awad
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - D LaHurd
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| | - L Latronico
- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
| | - R Lauer
- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
| | - M Lauscher
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - P Lautridou
- SUBATECH, école des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
| | - S Le Coz
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - D Lebrun
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - P Lebrun
- Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
| | | | - A Letessier-Selvon
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France
| | - I Lhenry-Yvon
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - K Link
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - L Lopes
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - R López
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - A López Casado
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - K Louedec
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - A Lucero
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - M Malacari
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - M Mallamaci
- Università di Milano and Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy
| | - J Maller
- SUBATECH, école des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
| | - D Mandat
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | | | - A G Mariazzi
- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
| | - V Marin
- SUBATECH, école des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
| | - I C Mariş
- Universidad de Granada and C.A.F.P.E., Granada, Spain
| | - G Marsella
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi" dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
| | - D Martello
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi" dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
| | - H Martinez
- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV), México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
| | | | - D Martraire
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - J J Masías Meza
- Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - H J Mathes
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - S Mathys
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - J Matthews
- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
| | | | - G Matthiae
- Università di Roma II "Tor Vergata" and Sezione INFN, Roma, Italy
| | - D Maurizio
- Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| | - E Mayotte
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
| | | | - C Medina
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
| | - G Medina-Tanco
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
| | - R Meissner
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - V B B Mello
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| | - D Melo
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - A Menshikov
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - S Messina
- KVI - Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
| | - M I Micheletti
- Instituto de Física de Rosario (IFIR) - CONICET/U.N.R. and Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas U.N.R., Rosario, Argentina
| | - L Middendorf
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - I A Minaya
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
| | - L Miramonti
- Università di Milano and Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy
| | - B Mitrica
- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | | | - S Mollerach
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
| | - F Montanet
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - C Morello
- Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
| | - M Mostafá
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - C A Moura
- Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - M A Muller
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
| | - G Müller
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - S Müller
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - S Navas
- Universidad de Granada and C.A.F.P.E., Granada, Spain
| | - P Necesal
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - L Nellen
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
| | - A Nelles
- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - J Neuser
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - P H Nguyen
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - M Niculescu-Oglinzanu
- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | - M Niechciol
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik - Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany
| | - L Niemietz
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - T Niggemann
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - D Nitz
- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
| | - D Nosek
- Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - V Novotny
- Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - L Nožka
- Palacky University, RCPTM, Olomouc, Czech Republic
| | - L A Núñez
- Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
| | - L Ochilo
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik - Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany
| | - F Oikonomou
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - A Olinto
- University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - N Pacheco
- Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
| | - D Pakk Selmi-Dei
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - M Palatka
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - J Pallotta
- Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEDEF and CONICET, Villa Martelli, Argentina
| | - P Papenbreer
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - G Parente
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - A Parra
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - T Paul
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, USA
- Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - M Pech
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - J Pȩkala
- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland
| | - R Pelayo
- Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (UPIITA- IPN), México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
| | - I M Pepe
- Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil
| | - L Perrone
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi" dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
| | - E Petermann
- University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
| | - C Peters
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - S Petrera
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche dell'Università dell'Aquila and INFN, L'Aquila, Italy
- Gran Sasso Science Institute (INFN), L'Aquila, Italy
| | - Y Petrov
- Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
| | - J Phuntsok
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - R Piegaia
- Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - T Pierog
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - P Pieroni
- Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - M Pimenta
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - V Pirronello
- Università di Catania and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
| | - M Platino
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - M Plum
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - A Porcelli
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - C Porowski
- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland
| | - R R Prado
- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - P Privitera
- University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - M Prouza
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - E J Quel
- Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEDEF and CONICET, Villa Martelli, Argentina
| | - S Querchfeld
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - S Quinn
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| | - J Rautenberg
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - O Ravel
- SUBATECH, école des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
| | - D Ravignani
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - D Reinert
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - B Revenu
- SUBATECH, école des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
| | - J Ridky
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Risse
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik - Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany
| | - P Ristori
- Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEDEF and CONICET, Villa Martelli, Argentina
| | - V Rizi
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche dell'Università dell'Aquila and INFN, L'Aquila, Italy
| | | | | | | | - D Rogozin
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - J Rosado
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
| | - M Roth
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - E Roulet
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
| | - A C Rovero
- Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE, CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - S J Saffi
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - A Saftoiu
- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | - H Salazar
- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
| | - A Saleh
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | - F Salesa Greus
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - G Salina
- Università di Roma II "Tor Vergata" and Sezione INFN, Roma, Italy
| | | | - F Sánchez
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | | | - E Santos
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - E M Santos
- Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - F Sarazin
- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
| | - B Sarkar
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - R Sarmento
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | | | - R Sato
- Observatorio Pierre Auger, Malargüe, Argentina
| | - C Scarso
- Observatorio Pierre Auger, Malargüe, Argentina
| | - M Schauer
- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
| | - V Scherini
- Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "E. De Giorgi" dell'Università del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
| | - H Schieler
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - D Schmidt
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - O Scholten
- KVI - Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
| | | | - P Schovánek
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - F G Schröder
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - A Schulz
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - J Schulz
- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - J Schumacher
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - S J Sciutto
- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
| | - A Segreto
- Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo (INAF), Palermo, Italy
| | - M Settimo
- Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France
| | - A Shadkam
- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
| | - R C Shellard
- Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| | - G Sigl
- Universität Hamburg, II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Hamburg, Germany
| | - O Sima
- University of Bucharest, Physics Department, Bucharest, Romania
| | | | - R Šmída
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - G R Snow
- University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
| | - P Sommers
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
| | - S Sonntag
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik - Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany
| | - J Sorokin
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - R Squartini
- Observatorio Pierre Auger, Malargüe, Argentina
| | | | - D Stanca
- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | - S Stanič
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | | | - J Stasielak
- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland
| | - M Stephan
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - A Stutz
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, Grenoble, France
| | - F Suarez
- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - M Suarez Durán
- Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
| | - T Suomijärvi
- Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France
| | - A D Supanitsky
- Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE, CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | | | - J Swain
- Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | | | - O A Taborda
- Centro Atómico Bariloche and Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
| | - A Tapia
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - A Tepe
- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik - Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany
| | - V M Theodoro
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - C Timmermans
- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - C J Todero Peixoto
- Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Engenharia de Lorena, Lorena, São Paulo, Brazil
| | - G Toma
- "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
| | - L Tomankova
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - B Tomé
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas - LIP and Instituto Superior Técnico - IST, Universidade de Lisboa - UL, Lisboa, Portugal
| | - A Tonachini
- Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
| | - G Torralba Elipe
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - D Torres Machado
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
| | - P Travnicek
- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
| | - M Trini
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
| | - R Ulrich
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - M Unger
- New York University, New York, New York, USA
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - M Urban
- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
| | - J F Valdés Galicia
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
| | - I Valiño
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - L Valore
- Università di Napoli "Federico II" and Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy
| | - G van Aar
- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - P van Bodegom
- University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - A M van den Berg
- KVI - Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Universität Hamburg, II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Hamburg, Germany
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- Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Università di Roma II "Tor Vergata" and Sezione INFN, Roma, Italy
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- Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
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- Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
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- IFLP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina
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- Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland
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- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
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- Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Fachbereich C - Physik, Wuppertal, Germany
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- Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
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- Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
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- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik - Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany
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- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Experimental Particle Physics Department, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
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- Experimental Particle Physics Department, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
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- Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (CINVESTAV), México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 7 Physik - Experimentelle Teilchenphysik, Siegen, Germany
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- Università di Catania and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
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Jamal-Hanjani M, Wilson GA, Horswell S, Mitter R, Sakarya O, Constantin T, Salari R, Kirkizlar E, Sigurjonsson S, Pelham R, Kareht S, Zimmermann B, Swanton C. Detection of ubiquitous and heterogeneous mutations in cell-free DNA from patients with early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer. Ann Oncol 2016; 27:862-7. [PMID: 26823523 DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw037] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [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: 11/08/2015] [Accepted: 01/19/2016] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The aim of this pilot study was to assess whether both ubiquitous and heterogeneous somatic mutations could be detected in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) from patients with early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). PATIENTS AND METHODS Three stage I and one stage II primary NSCLC tumors were subjected to multiregion whole-exome sequencing (WES) and validated with AmpliSeq. A subset of ubiquitous and heterogeneous single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) were chosen. Multiplexed PCR using custom-designed primers, coupled with next-generation sequencing (mPCR-NGS), was used to detect these SNVs in both tumor DNA and cfDNA isolated from plasma obtained before surgical resection of the tumors. The limit of detection for each assay was determined using cfDNA from 48 presumed-normal healthy volunteers. RESULTS Tumor DNA and plasma-derived cfDNA was successfully amplified and sequenced for 37/50 (74%) SNVs using the mPCR-NGS method. Twenty-five (68%) were ubiquitous and 12 (32%) were heterogeneous SNVs. Variant detection by mPCR-NGS and WES-AmpliSeq in tumor tissue was well correlated (R(2) = 0.8722, P < 0.0001). Sixteen (43%) out of 37 SNVs were detected in cfDNA. Twelve of these were ubiquitous SNVs with a variant allele frequency (VAF) range of 0.15-23.25%, and four of these were heterogeneous SNVs with a VAF range of 0.28-1.71%. There was a statistically significant linear relationship between the VAFs for tumor and cfDNA (R(2) = 0.5144; P = 0.0018). For all four patients, at least two variants were detected in plasma. The estimated number of copies of variant DNA present in each sample ranged from 5 to 524. The average number of variant copies required for detection (VCRD) was 3.16 (range: 0.2-7.6 copies). CONCLUSIONS The mPCR-NGS method revealed intratumor heterogeneity in early-stage NSCLC tumors, and was able to detect both ubiquitous and heterogeneous SNVs in cfDNA. Further validation of mPCR-NGS in cfDNA is required to define its potential use in clinical practice.
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- M Jamal-Hanjani
- Translational Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London
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- Translational Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London Translational Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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- Translational Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London Translational Cancer Therapeutics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London
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Gross SJ, Stosic M, McDonald‐McGinn DM, Bassett AS, Norvez A, Dhamankar R, Kobara K, Kirkizlar E, Zimmermann B, Wayham N, Babiarz JE, Ryan A, Jinnett KN, Demko Z, Benn P. Clinical experience with single-nucleotide polymorphism-based non-invasive prenatal screening for 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2016; 47:177-83. [PMID: 26396068 PMCID: PMC5064640 DOI: 10.1002/uog.15754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2015] [Revised: 09/09/2015] [Accepted: 09/14/2015] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate the performance of a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) for the detection of fetal 22q11.2 deletion syndrome in clinical practice, assess clinical follow-up and review patient choices for women with high-risk results. METHODS In this study, 21 948 samples were submitted for screening for 22q11.2 deletion syndrome using a SNP-based NIPT and subsequently evaluated. Follow-up was conducted for all cases with a high-risk result. RESULTS Ninety-five cases were reported as high risk for fetal 22q11.2 deletion. Diagnostic testing results were available for 61 (64.2%) cases, which confirmed 11 (18.0%) true positives and identified 50 (82.0%) false positives, resulting in a positive predictive value (PPV) of 18.0%. Information regarding invasive testing was available for 84 (88.4%) high-risk cases: 57.1% (48/84) had invasive testing and 42.9% (36/84) did not. Ultrasound anomalies were present in 81.8% of true-positive and 18.0% of false-positive cases. Two additional cases were high risk for a maternal 22q11.2 deletion; one was confirmed by diagnostic testing and one had a positive family history. There were three pregnancy terminations related to screening results of 22q11.2 deletion, two of which were confirmed as true positive by invasive testing. CONCLUSIONS Clinical experience with this SNP-based non-invasive screening test for 22q11.2 deletion syndrome indicates that these deletions have a frequency of approximately 1 in 1000 in the referral population with most identifiable through this test. Use of this screening method requires the availability of counseling and other management resources for high-risk pregnancies.
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- Division of Human Genetics, The Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaPerelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaPAUSA
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- Clinical Genetics Research ProgramCentre for Addiction and Mental HealthTorontoOntarioCanada
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- Division of Human Genetics, Department of Genetics and Genome SciencesUniversity of Connecticut Health CenterFarmingtonCTUSA
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Chaitanya L, van Oven M, Brauer S, Zimmermann B, Huber G, Xavier C, Parson W, de Knijff P, Kayser M. High-quality mtDNA control region sequences from 680 individuals sampled across the Netherlands to establish a national forensic mtDNA reference database. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2015; 21:158-67. [PMID: 26774101 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2015.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2015] [Revised: 10/20/2015] [Accepted: 12/06/2015] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The use of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) for maternal lineage identification often marks the last resort when investigating forensic and missing-person cases involving highly degraded biological materials. As with all comparative DNA testing, a match between evidence and reference sample requires a statistical interpretation, for which high-quality mtDNA population frequency data are crucial. Here, we determined, under high quality standards, the complete mtDNA control-region sequences of 680 individuals from across the Netherlands sampled at 54 sites, covering the entire country with 10 geographic sub-regions. The complete mtDNA control region (nucleotide positions 16,024-16,569 and 1-576) was amplified with two PCR primers and sequenced with ten different sequencing primers using the EMPOP protocol. Haplotype diversity of the entire sample set was very high at 99.63% and, accordingly, the random-match probability was 0.37%. No population substructure within the Netherlands was detected with our dataset. Phylogenetic analyses were performed to determine mtDNA haplogroups. Inclusion of these high-quality data in the EMPOP database (accession number: EMP00666) will improve its overall data content and geographic coverage in the interest of all EMPOP users worldwide. Moreover, this dataset will serve as (the start of) a national reference database for mtDNA applications in forensic and missing person casework in the Netherlands.
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- Lakshmi Chaitanya
- Department of Genetic Identification, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetic Identification, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetic Identification, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Human Biological Traces, Netherlands Forensic Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; Forensic Science Program, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Forensic Laboratory for DNA Research, Department of Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Department of Genetic Identification, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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Weil M, Peters J, Baumann M, Dura H, Zimmermann B. Elektrochemische Energiespeicher für mobile Anwendungen im Fokus der Systemanalyse. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.14512/tatup.24.3.20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Hasseli R, Frommer K, Zimmermann B, Schönburg M, Rehart S, Müller-Ladner U, Neumann E. OP0260 Adipokines Alter the Interaction of Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Fibroblasts with Endothelial Cells. Ann Rheum Dis 2015. [DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-eular.4226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Gomes SM, Bodner M, Souto L, Zimmermann B, Huber G, Strobl C, Röck AW, Achilli A, Olivieri A, Torroni A, Côrte-Real F, Parson W. Human settlement history between Sunda and Sahul: a focus on East Timor (Timor-Leste) and the Pleistocenic mtDNA diversity. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:70. [PMID: 25757516 PMCID: PMC4342813 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-014-1201-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2014] [Accepted: 12/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Distinct, partly competing, "waves" have been proposed to explain human migration in(to) today's Island Southeast Asia and Australia based on genetic (and other) evidence. The paucity of high quality and high resolution data has impeded insights so far. In this study, one of the first in a forensic environment, we used the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) for generating complete mitogenome sequences via stand-alone massively parallel sequencing and describe a standard data validation practice. RESULTS In this first representative investigation on the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation of East Timor (Timor-Leste) population including >300 individuals, we put special emphasis on the reconstruction of the initial settlement, in particular on the previously poorly resolved haplogroup P1, an indigenous lineage of the Southwest Pacific region. Our results suggest a colonization of southern Sahul (Australia) >37 kya, limited subsequent exchange, and a parallel incubation of initial settlers in northern Sahul (New Guinea) followed by westward migrations <28 kya. CONCLUSIONS The temporal proximity and possible coincidence of these latter dispersals, which encompassed autochthonous haplogroups, with the postulated "later" events of (South) East Asian origin pinpoints a highly dynamic migratory phase.
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- Sibylle M Gomes
- Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, Aveiro, Portugal.
- Cencifor Centro de Ciências Forenses, Coimbra, Portugal.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "L. Spallanzani", University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "L. Spallanzani", University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie "L. Spallanzani", University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University of Innsbruck, Müllerstr. 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
- Penn State Eberly College of Science, University Park, PA, USA.
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Bau S, Zimmermann B, Payet R, Witschger O. A laboratory study of the performance of the handheld diffusion size classifier (DiSCmini) for various aerosols in the 15-400 nm range. Environ Sci Process Impacts 2015; 17:261-269. [PMID: 25366997 DOI: 10.1039/c4em00491d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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In addition to chemical composition, particle concentration and size are among the main parameters used to characterize exposure to airborne ultrafine or nanoparticles. To assess occupational inhalation exposure, real-time instruments are recommended in recent strategies published. Among portable devices for personal exposure assessment in the workplace, DiSCmini (Matter Aerosol AG, Switzerland) has been identified as a potential candidate with its capacity to measure the airborne nanoparticle concentration and average particle size with good time-resolution. Monodisperse and polydisperse test nanoaerosols of varying compositions and morphologies were produced in the laboratory using the CAIMAN facility. These aerosols covered a range of particle sizes between 15 and 400 nm and number concentrations from 700 to 840,000 cm(-3). The aerosols were used to investigate the behavior of DiSCmini, comparing experimental data to reference data. In spite of a slight tendency to underestimate particle size, all particle diameters, number concentrations and surface area concentrations measured were in the same order of magnitude as reference data. Furthermore, no significant effect due to particle composition or morphology was noted.
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- S Bau
- Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité (INRS), Laboratoire de Métrologie des Aérosols, Rue du morvan CS 60024, 54519 Vandoeuvre les Nancy Cedex, France.
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Just RS, Scheible MK, Fast SA, Sturk-Andreaggi K, Röck AW, Bush JM, Higginbotham JL, Peck MA, Ring JD, Huber GE, Xavier C, Strobl C, Lyons EA, Diegoli TM, Bodner M, Fendt L, Kralj P, Nagl S, Niederwieser D, Zimmermann B, Parson W, Irwin JA. Full mtGenome reference data: Development and characterization of 588 forensic-quality haplotypes representing three U.S. populations. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2015; 14:141-55. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2014.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2014] [Revised: 09/08/2014] [Accepted: 09/26/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Jankova-Ajanovska R, Zimmermann B, Huber G, Röck AW, Bodner M, Jakovski Z, Janeska B, Duma A, Parson W. Mitochondrial DNA control region analysis of three ethnic groups in the Republic of Macedonia. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2014; 13:1-2. [PMID: 25051224 PMCID: PMC4234079 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2014.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [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: 05/09/2014] [Revised: 06/21/2014] [Accepted: 06/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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A total of 444 individuals representing three ethnic groups (Albanians, Turks and Romanies) in the Republic of Macedonia were sequenced in the mitochondrial control region. The mtDNA haplogroup composition differed between the three groups. Our results showed relatively high frequencies of haplogroup H12 in Albanians (8.8%) and less in Turks (3.3%), while haplogroups M5a1 and H7a1a were dominant in Romanies (13.7% and 10.3%, respectively) but rare in the former two. This highlights the importance of regional sampling for forensic mtDNA databasing purposes. These population data will be available on EMPOP under accession numbers EMP00644 (Albanians), EMP00645 (Romanies) and EMP00646 (Turks).
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- Renata Jankova-Ajanovska
- Institute of Forensic Medicine, Criminalistic and Medical Deontology, Medical Faculty, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Skopje, Macedonia
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, Criminalistic and Medical Deontology, Medical Faculty, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Skopje, Macedonia
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, Criminalistic and Medical Deontology, Medical Faculty, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Skopje, Macedonia
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- Institute of Forensic Medicine, Criminalistic and Medical Deontology, Medical Faculty, University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius", Skopje, Macedonia
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; Penn State Eberly College of Science, University Park, PA, USA.
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Aim To provide a valuable tool for graphical representation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) data that enables visual emphasis on complex substructures within the network to highlight possible ambiguities and errors. Method We applied the new NETWORK graphical user interface, available via EMPOP (European DNA Profiling Group Mitochondrial DNA Population Database; www.empop.org) by means of two mtDNA data sets that were submitted for quality control. Results The quasi-median network torsi of the two data sets resulted in complex reticulations, suggesting ambiguous data. To check the corresponding raw data, accountable nodes and connecting branches of the network could be identified by highlighting induced subgraphs with concurrent dimming of their complements. This is achieved by accentuating the relevant substructures in the network: mouse clicking on a node displays a list of all mtDNA haplotypes included in that node; the selection of a branch specifies the mutation(s) connecting two nodes. It is indicated to evaluate these mutations by means of the raw data. Conclusion Inspection of the raw data confirmed the presence of phantom mutations due to suboptimal electrophoresis conditions and data misinterpretation. The network software proved to be a powerful tool to highlight problematic data and guide quality control of mtDNA data tables.
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- Walther Parson, Institute of Legal Medicine, Medical University, Mullerstrasse 44, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria,
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Neumann E, Zimmermann B, Köppert S, Rehart S, Müller-Ladner U. SAT0555 Transmigration and Mobility of Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Fibroblasts is Dependent on Distinct Interaction Processes with Endothelial Cells. Ann Rheum Dis 2014. [DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-eular.2471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Just RS, Scheible MK, Fast SA, Sturk-Andreaggi K, Higginbotham JL, Lyons EA, Bush JM, Peck MA, Ring JD, Diegoli TM, Röck AW, Huber GE, Nagl S, Strobl C, Zimmermann B, Parson W, Irwin JA. Development of forensic-quality full mtGenome haplotypes: success rates with low template specimens. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2014; 10:73-79. [PMID: 24637383 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2014.01.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [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: 10/01/2013] [Revised: 12/12/2013] [Accepted: 01/28/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Forensic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) testing requires appropriate, high quality reference population data for estimating the rarity of questioned haplotypes and, in turn, the strength of the mtDNA evidence. Available reference databases (SWGDAM, EMPOP) currently include information from the mtDNA control region; however, novel methods that quickly and easily recover mtDNA coding region data are becoming increasingly available. Though these assays promise to both facilitate the acquisition of mitochondrial genome (mtGenome) data and maximize the general utility of mtDNA testing in forensics, the appropriate reference data and database tools required for their routine application in forensic casework are lacking. To address this deficiency, we have undertaken an effort to: (1) increase the large-scale availability of high-quality entire mtGenome reference population data, and (2) improve the information technology infrastructure required to access/search mtGenome data and employ them in forensic casework. Here, we describe the application of a data generation and analysis workflow to the development of more than 400 complete, forensic-quality mtGenomes from low DNA quantity blood serum specimens as part of a U.S. National Institute of Justice funded reference population databasing initiative. We discuss the minor modifications made to a published mtGenome Sanger sequencing protocol to maintain a high rate of throughput while minimizing manual reprocessing with these low template samples. The successful use of this semi-automated strategy on forensic-like samples provides practical insight into the feasibility of producing complete mtGenome data in a routine casework environment, and demonstrates that large (>2kb) mtDNA fragments can regularly be recovered from high quality but very low DNA quantity specimens. Further, the detailed empirical data we provide on the amplification success rates across a range of DNA input quantities will be useful moving forward as PCR-based strategies for mtDNA enrichment are considered for targeted next-generation sequencing workflows.
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Affiliation(s)
- Rebecca S Just
- Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, 115 Purple Heart Dr., Dover AFB, DE 19902, United States; American Registry of Pathology, 120A Old Camden Rd., Camden, DE 19934, United States; University of Maryland, College Park, 8082 Baltimore Ave., College Park, MD 20740, United States.
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- Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, 115 Purple Heart Dr., Dover AFB, DE 19902, United States; American Registry of Pathology, 120A Old Camden Rd., Camden, DE 19934, United States
| | - Spence A Fast
- Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, 115 Purple Heart Dr., Dover AFB, DE 19902, United States; American Registry of Pathology, 120A Old Camden Rd., Camden, DE 19934, United States
| | - Kimberly Sturk-Andreaggi
- Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, 115 Purple Heart Dr., Dover AFB, DE 19902, United States; American Registry of Pathology, 120A Old Camden Rd., Camden, DE 19934, United States
| | - Jennifer L Higginbotham
- Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, 115 Purple Heart Dr., Dover AFB, DE 19902, United States; American Registry of Pathology, 120A Old Camden Rd., Camden, DE 19934, United States
| | - Elizabeth A Lyons
- Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, 115 Purple Heart Dr., Dover AFB, DE 19902, United States; American Registry of Pathology, 120A Old Camden Rd., Camden, DE 19934, United States
| | - Jocelyn M Bush
- Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, 115 Purple Heart Dr., Dover AFB, DE 19902, United States; American Registry of Pathology, 120A Old Camden Rd., Camden, DE 19934, United States
| | - Michelle A Peck
- Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, 115 Purple Heart Dr., Dover AFB, DE 19902, United States; American Registry of Pathology, 120A Old Camden Rd., Camden, DE 19934, United States
| | - Joseph D Ring
- Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, 115 Purple Heart Dr., Dover AFB, DE 19902, United States; American Registry of Pathology, 120A Old Camden Rd., Camden, DE 19934, United States
| | - Toni M Diegoli
- Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, 115 Purple Heart Dr., Dover AFB, DE 19902, United States; American Registry of Pathology, 120A Old Camden Rd., Camden, DE 19934, United States
| | - Alexander W Röck
- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Müllerstrasse 44, Innsbruck, Austria
| | - Gabriela E Huber
- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Müllerstrasse 44, Innsbruck, Austria
| | - Simone Nagl
- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Müllerstrasse 44, Innsbruck, Austria
| | - Christina Strobl
- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Müllerstrasse 44, Innsbruck, Austria
| | - Bettina Zimmermann
- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Müllerstrasse 44, Innsbruck, Austria
| | - Walther Parson
- Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Müllerstrasse 44, Innsbruck, Austria; Penn State Eberly College of Science, 517 Thomas Building, University Park, PA 16802, United States
| | - Jodi A Irwin
- Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, 115 Purple Heart Dr., Dover AFB, DE 19902, United States; American Registry of Pathology, 120A Old Camden Rd., Camden, DE 19934, United States
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