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Ford K, Zuin E, Righelli D, Medina E, Schoch H, Singletary K, Muheim C, Frank MG, Hicks SC, Risso D, Peixoto L. A Global Transcriptional Atlas of the Effect of Sleep Deprivation in the Mouse Frontal Cortex. bioRxiv 2023:2023.11.28.569011. [PMID: 38076891 PMCID: PMC10705260 DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.28.569011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
Abstract
Sleep deprivation (SD) has negative effects on brain function. Sleep problems are prevalent in neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. Thus, understanding the molecular consequences of SD is of fundamental importance in neuroscience. In this study, we present the first simultaneous bulk and single-nuclear (sn)RNA sequencing characterization of the effects of SD in the mouse frontal cortex. We show that SD predominantly affects glutamatergic neurons, specifically in layers 4 and 5, and produces isoform switching of thousands of transcripts. At both the global and cell-type specific level, SD has a large repressive effect on transcription, down-regulating thousands of genes and transcripts; underscoring the importance of accounting for the effects of sleep loss in transcriptome studies of brain function. As a resource we provide extensive characterizations of cell types, genes, transcripts and pathways affected by SD; as well as tutorials for data analysis.
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- Kaitlyn Ford
- Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology, Sleep and Performance Research Center. Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Washington State University, Spokane, WA
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy
- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy
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- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology, Sleep and Performance Research Center. Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Washington State University, Spokane, WA
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- Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology, Sleep and Performance Research Center. Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Washington State University, Spokane, WA
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- Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology, Sleep and Performance Research Center. Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Washington State University, Spokane, WA
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- Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology, Sleep and Performance Research Center. Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Washington State University, Spokane, WA
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- Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology, Sleep and Performance Research Center. Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Washington State University, Spokane, WA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Center for Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA
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- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy
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- Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology, Sleep and Performance Research Center. Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Washington State University, Spokane, WA
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Eckenrode KB, Righelli D, Ramos M, Argelaguet R, Vanderaa C, Geistlinger L, Culhane AC, Gatto L, Carey V, Morgan M, Risso D, Waldron L. Curated single cell multimodal landmark datasets for R/Bioconductor. PLoS Comput Biol 2023; 19:e1011324. [PMID: 37624866 PMCID: PMC10497156 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2022] [Revised: 09/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The majority of high-throughput single-cell molecular profiling methods quantify RNA expression; however, recent multimodal profiling methods add simultaneous measurement of genomic, proteomic, epigenetic, and/or spatial information on the same cells. The development of new statistical and computational methods in Bioconductor for such data will be facilitated by easy availability of landmark datasets using standard data classes. RESULTS We collected, processed, and packaged publicly available landmark datasets from important single-cell multimodal protocols, including CITE-Seq, ECCITE-Seq, SCoPE2, scNMT, 10X Multiome, seqFISH, and G&T. We integrate data modalities via the MultiAssayExperiment Bioconductor class, document and re-distribute datasets as the SingleCellMultiModal package in Bioconductor's Cloud-based ExperimentHub. The result is single-command actualization of landmark datasets from seven single-cell multimodal data generation technologies, without need for further data processing or wrangling in order to analyze and develop methods within Bioconductor's ecosystem of hundreds of packages for single-cell and multimodal data. CONCLUSIONS We provide two examples of integrative analyses that are greatly simplified by SingleCellMultiModal. The package will facilitate development of bioinformatic and statistical methods in Bioconductor to meet the challenges of integrating molecular layers and analyzing phenotypic outputs including cell differentiation, activity, and disease.
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- Kelly B. Eckenrode
- Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, NY, NY, United States of America
- Institute for Implementation Science in Public Health, City University of New York, NY, NY, United States of America
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- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, NY, NY, United States of America
- Institute for Implementation Science in Public Health, City University of New York, NY, NY, United States of America
- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
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- European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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- Center for Computational Biomedicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York, NY, NY, United States of America
- Institute for Implementation Science in Public Health, City University of New York, NY, NY, United States of America
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Policastro V, Righelli D, Ravà L, Vernocchi P, Bianchi M, Vallone C, Signore F, Manco M. Dietary Fatty Acids Contribute to Maintaining the Balance between Pro-Inflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Responses during Pregnancy. Nutrients 2023; 15:nu15112432. [PMID: 37299395 DOI: 10.3390/nu15112432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Revised: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND During pregnancy, the balance between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses is essential for ensuring healthy outcomes. Dietary Fatty acids may modulate inflammation. METHODS We investigated the association between dietary fatty acids as profiled on red blood cells membranes and a few pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines, including the adipokines leptin and adiponectin at ~38 weeks in 250 healthy women. RESULTS We found a number of associations, including, but not limited to those of adiponectin with C22:3/C22:4 (coeff -1.44; p = 0.008), C18:1 c13/c14 (coeff 1.4; p = 0.02); endotoxin with C20:1 (coeff -0.9; p = 0.03), C22:0 (coeff -0.4; p = 0.05); MCP-1 with C16:0 (coeff 0.8; p = 0.04); and ICAM-1 with C14:0 (coeff -86.8; p = 0.045). Several cytokines including leptin were associated with maternal body weight (coeff 0.9; p = 2.31 × 10-5), smoking habits (i.e., ICAM-1 coeff 133.3; p = 0.09), or gestational diabetes (i.e., ICAM-1 coeff 688; p = 0.06). CONCLUSIONS In a general cohort of pregnant women, the intake of fatty acids influenced the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory molecules together with weight gain, smoking habits, and gestational diabetes.
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- Valeria Policastro
- Department of Political Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80138 Naples, Italy
- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone", National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone", National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, 35121 Padua, Italy
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- Clinical Epidemiology, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Human Microbiome, Multimodal Laboratory Medicine Research Area, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy
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- Research Unit of Molecular Genetics of Complex Phenotypes, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00146 Rome, Italy
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, USL Roma1, San Filippo Neri Hospital, 00135 Rome, Italy
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- Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, USL Roma2, Sant 'Eugenio Hospital, 00144 Rome, Italy
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- Research Area for Fetal, Neonatal and Cardiological Sciences, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Roma, Italy
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Graziano S, Righelli D, Ciciriello F, Alghisi F, Boldrini F, Tabarini P, Quittner A. P169 Psychometric properties of the gastrointestinal symptom tracker self-report measure. J Cyst Fibros 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-1993(22)00500-8] [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: 11/28/2022]
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Righelli D, Weber LM, Crowell HL, Pardo B, Collado-Torres L, Ghazanfar S, Lun ATL, Hicks SC, Risso D. SpatialExperiment: infrastructure for spatially-resolved transcriptomics data in R using Bioconductor. Bioinformatics 2022; 38:3128-3131. [PMID: 35482478 PMCID: PMC9154247 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [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: 08/18/2021] [Revised: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 04/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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SUMMARY SpatialExperiment is a new data infrastructure for storing and accessing spatially-resolved transcriptomics data, implemented within the R/Bioconductor framework, which provides advantages of modularity, interoperability, standardized operations and comprehensive documentation. Here, we demonstrate the structure and user interface with examples from the 10x Genomics Visium and seqFISH platforms, and provide access to example datasets and visualization tools in the STexampleData, TENxVisiumData and ggspavis packages. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The SpatialExperiment, STexampleData, TENxVisiumData and ggspavis packages are available from Bioconductor. The package versions described in this manuscript are available in Bioconductor version 3.15 onwards. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Queretaro 76230, Mexico,Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE, United Kingdom
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Ieranò C, Righelli D, D'Alterio C, Napolitano M, Portella L, Rea G, Auletta F, Santagata S, Trotta AM, Guardascione G, Liotti F, Prevete N, Maiolino P, Luciano A, Barbieri A, Di Mauro A, Roma C, Esposito Abate R, Tatangelo F, Pacelli R, Normanno N, Melillo RM, Scala S. In PD-1+ human colon cancer cells NIVOLUMAB promotes survival and could protect tumor cells from conventional therapies. J Immunother Cancer 2022; 10:jitc-2021-004032. [PMID: 35246475 PMCID: PMC8900051 DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2021-004032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [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] [Accepted: 01/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most prevalent and deadly tumors worldwide. The majority of CRC is resistant to anti-programmed cell death-1 (PD-1)-based cancer immunotherapy, with approximately 15% with high-microsatellite instability, high tumor mutation burden, and intratumoral lymphocytic infiltration. Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1)/PD-1 signaling was described in solid tumor cells. In melanoma, liver, and thyroid cancer cells, intrinsic PD-1 signaling activates oncogenic functions, while in lung cancer cells, it has a tumor suppressor effect. Our work aimed to evaluate the effects of the anti-PD-1 nivolumab (NIVO) on CRC cells. METHODS In vitro NIVO-treated human colon cancer cells (HT29, HCT116, and LoVo) were evaluated for cell growth, chemo/radiotherapeutic sensitivity, apoptosis, and spheroid growth. Total RNA-seq was assessed in 6-24 hours NIVO-treated human colon cancer cells HT29 and HCT116 as compared with NIVO-treated PES43 human melanoma cells. In vivo mice carrying HT29 xenograft were intraperitoneally treated with NIVO, OXA (oxaliplatin), and NIVO+OXA, and the tumors were characterized for growth, apoptosis, and pERK1/2/pP38. Forty-eight human primary colon cancers were evaluated for PD-1 expression through immunohistochemistry. RESULTS In PD-1+ human colon cancer cells, intrinsic PD-1 signaling significantly decreased proliferation and promoted apoptosis. On the contrary, NIVO promoted proliferation, reduced apoptosis, and protected PD-1+ cells from chemo/radiotherapy. Transcriptional profile of NIVO-treated HT29 and HCT116 human colon cancer cells revealed downregulation of BATF2, DRAM1, FXYD3, IFIT3, MT-TN, and TNFRSF11A, and upregulation of CLK1, DCAF13, DNAJC2, MTHFD1L, PRPF3, PSMD7, and SCFD1; the opposite regulation was described in NIVO-treated human melanoma PES43 cells. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were significantly enriched for interferon pathway, innate immune, cytokine-mediated signaling pathways. In vivo, NIVO promoted HT29 tumor growth, thus reducing OXA efficacy as revealed through significant Ki-67 increase, pERK1/2 and pP38 increase, and apoptotic cell reduction. Eleven out of 48 primary human colon cancer biopsies expressed PD-1 (22.9%). PD-1 expression is significantly associated with lower pT stage. CONCLUSIONS In PD-1+ human colon cancer cells, NIVO activates tumor survival pathways and could protect tumor cells from conventional therapies.
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- Caterina Ieranò
- Microenvironment Molecular Targets, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Microenvironment Molecular Targets, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Microenvironment Molecular Targets, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Microenvironment Molecular Targets, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Microenvironment Molecular Targets, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Microenvironment Molecular Targets, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Microenvironment Molecular Targets, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Microenvironment Molecular Targets, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Microenvironment Molecular Targets, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Institute of Endocrinology and Experimental Oncology (IEOS), CNR-NA1, Napoli, Italy
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- Institute of Endocrinology and Experimental Oncology (IEOS), CNR-NA1, Napoli, Italy.,Traslational Medical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Pharmacy, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Animal Facility, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Animal Facility, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Pathology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Cell Biology and Biotherapy, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Cell Biology and Biotherapy, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Pathology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Cell Biology and Biotherapy, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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- Institute of Endocrinology and Experimental Oncology (IEOS), CNR-NA1, Napoli, Italy.,Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy
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- Microenvironment Molecular Targets, Istituto Nazionale Tumori - IRCCS - Fondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy
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Cao KAL, Abadi AJ, Davis-Marcisak EF, Hsu L, Arora A, Coullomb A, Deshpande A, Feng Y, Jeganathan P, Loth M, Meng C, Mu W, Pancaldi V, Sankaran K, Righelli D, Singh A, Sodicoff JS, Stein-O'Brien GL, Subramanian A, Welch JD, You Y, Argelaguet R, Carey VJ, Dries R, Greene CS, Holmes S, Love MI, Ritchie ME, Yuan GC, Culhane AC, Fertig E. Author Correction: Community-wide hackathons to identify central themes in single-cell multi-omics. Genome Biol 2021; 22:246. [PMID: 34433496 PMCID: PMC8385897 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02468-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- Kim-Anh Lê Cao
- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
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- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of the Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Centre de Recherches en Cancérologie de Toulouse (INSERM), Université Paul Sabatier III, Toulouse, France
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- Cancer Convergence Institute and Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Cancer Convergence Institute and Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Bavarian Center for Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (BayBioMS), School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Centre de Recherches en Cancérologie de Toulouse (INSERM), Université Paul Sabatier III, Toulouse, France
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
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- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, PD, Italy
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of the Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Cancer Convergence Institute and Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Epigenetics and Development Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Computational Biomedicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Health AI and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Department of Genetics, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Epigenetics and Development Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cancer Convergence Institute and Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Lê Cao KA, Abadi AJ, Davis-Marcisak EF, Hsu L, Arora A, Coullomb A, Deshpande A, Feng Y, Jeganathan P, Loth M, Meng C, Mu W, Pancaldi V, Sankaran K, Righelli D, Singh A, Sodicoff JS, Stein-O’Brien GL, Subramanian A, Welch JD, You Y, Argelaguet R, Carey VJ, Dries R, Greene CS, Holmes S, Love MI, Ritchie ME, Yuan GC, Culhane AC, Fertig E. Community-wide hackathons to identify central themes in single-cell multi-omics. Genome Biol 2021; 22:220. [PMID: 34353350 PMCID: PMC8340473 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02433-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Kim-Anh Lê Cao
- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of the Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
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- Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA USA
- Department of Genetics, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY USA
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- Centre de Recherches en Cancérologie de Toulouse (INSERM), Université Paul Sabatier III, Toulouse, France
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- Cancer Convergence Institute and Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
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- Melbourne Integrative Genomics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Cancer Convergence Institute and Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
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- Bavarian Center for Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (BayBioMS), School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC USA
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- Centre de Recherches en Cancérologie de Toulouse (INSERM), Université Paul Sabatier III, Toulouse, France
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA
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- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, PD Italy
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
- PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, BC Canada
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- McKusick-Nathans Institute of the Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
- Cancer Convergence Institute and Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
- Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
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- Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA
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- Epigenetics and Development Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA USA
- Department of Computational Biomedicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA USA
- Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), Boston University, Boston, MA USA
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- Center for Health AI and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO USA
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- Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC USA
- Department of Genetics, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC USA
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- Epigenetics and Development Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY USA
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- Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA USA
- Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA
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- Cancer Convergence Institute and Division of Quantitative Sciences, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, Baltimore, MD USA
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Graziano S, Boldrini F, Righelli D, Milo F, Lucidi V, Quittner A, Tabarini P. Psychological interventions during COVID pandemic: Telehealth for individuals with cystic fibrosis and caregivers. Pediatr Pulmonol 2021; 56:1976-1984. [PMID: 33905614 PMCID: PMC8242876 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.25413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [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: 01/17/2021] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in China, leading to worldwide morbidity and mortality, including depression and anxiety. As the pandemic spread throughout Italy, mental health concerns increased for people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF), who are at greater risk. The aim was to pilot a Telehealth Psychological Support Intervention for pwCF and caregivers to reduce stress, depression, and anxiety during the lockdown in Italy in March 2020. METHODS This intervention utilized cognitive behavioral skills (e.g., cognitive reframing). Participants included 16 pwCF and 14 parents, who completed four individual telehealth sessions with a psychologist. Stress ratings, Patient Health Questionnaire and General Anxiety Disorder, PHQ-8 and GAD-7, were completed, in addition to Feasibility and Satisfaction ratings. RESULTS Ratings of stress significantly decreased from pre- to post-testing for pwCF (paired t(14) = -4.06, p < .01) and parents (paired t = -5.2, p < .001). A large percentage of both groups scored in the clinical range for depression and anxiety at baseline (pwCF: depression/anxiety = 71%; parents: depression = 57%; anxiety = 79%); a large proportion (20%-40%) reported moderate to severe symptomatology. Significant reductions in depression for pwCF were found (pre: M = 8.0 to post: M = 4.7; paired t(14) = 2.8, p < .05) but not anxiety (pre: M = 6.9 to post: M = 5.6, t(14) = 1.2, p = NS-non-significant). Parental depression decreased for parents (pre: M = 6.4 to post: M = 5.1, t(14) = -2.5, p < .05), but not anxiety (pre: M = 8.1 to post: M = 7.9, t(14) = -0.2, p = NS). Feasibility and Satisfaction were positive. CONCLUSION This telehealth intervention yielded reductions in stress and depression for participants. Anxiety did not significantly decrease, possibly because COVID was ongoing. This feasible, satisfactory intervention was effective for improving mental health.
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- Sonia Graziano
- Unit of Clinical Psychology, Department of Neurological Sciences, Bambino Gesù, Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Clinical Psychology, Department of Neurological Sciences, Bambino Gesù, Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Unit of Clinical Psychology, Department of Neurological Sciences, Bambino Gesù, Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù, Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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- Unit of Clinical Psychology, Department of Neurological Sciences, Bambino Gesù, Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
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Righelli D, Angelini C. Easyreporting simplifies the implementation of Reproducible Research layers in R software. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0244122. [PMID: 33970927 PMCID: PMC8109797 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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During last years "irreproducibility" became a general problem in omics data analysis due to the use of sophisticated and poorly described computational procedures. For avoiding misleading results, it is necessary to inspect and reproduce the entire data analysis as a unified product. Reproducible Research (RR) provides general guidelines for public access to the analytic data and related analysis code combined with natural language documentation, allowing third-parties to reproduce the findings. We developed easyreporting, a novel R/Bioconductor package, to facilitate the implementation of an RR layer inside reports/tools. We describe the main functionalities and illustrate the organization of an analysis report using a typical case study concerning the analysis of RNA-seq data. Then, we show how to use easyreporting in other projects to trace R functions automatically. This latter feature helps developers to implement procedures that automatically keep track of the analysis steps. Easyreporting can be useful in supporting the reproducibility of any data analysis project and shows great advantages for the implementation of R packages and GUIs. It turns out to be very helpful in bioinformatics, where the complexity of the analyses makes it extremely difficult to trace all the steps and parameters used in the study.
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- Dario Righelli
- Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “Mauro Picone”, National Research Council, Naples, Italy
- * E-mail: (DR); (CA)
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “Mauro Picone”, National Research Council, Naples, Italy
- * E-mail: (DR); (CA)
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Graziano S, Spanò B, Majo F, Righelli D, Vincenzina L, Quittner A, Tabarini P. Rates of depression and anxiety in Italian patients with cystic fibrosis and parent caregivers: Implementation of the Mental Health Guidelines. Respir Med 2020; 172:106147. [PMID: 32961510 DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2020.106147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2020] [Revised: 08/30/2020] [Accepted: 09/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Individuals with chronic respiratory conditions are at-risk for depression and anxiety. In the largest mental health screening study of over 6000 people with cystic fibrosis (CF) and 4000 parent caregivers (TIDES, 2014), rates of symptomatology were two to three times higher than in the general population. International guidelines recommend annual screening of mental health. This is the first study to implement these guidelines in one of the largest CF Centers in Italy. METHODS All individuals with CF, 12 and older (n = 167) and caregivers of children with CF (n = 186), birth to 18, were screened. Health outcome data were also collected (i.e FEV1, BMI, pulmonary exacerbations, CF-related diabetes). Prevalence data and associations between psychological symptoms and health outcomes were examined. RESULTS A high percentage of patients and parent caregivers reported scored above the clinical cut-off for depression and anxiety (37%-48% of adolescents, 45%-46% of adults, 49%-66% of mothers and fathers). Most scores fell in the mild range, however, over 30% were in the moderate to severe range. Elevations in depression and anxiety were correlated. Adolescents who had more pulmonary exacerbations reported higher anxiety. Adults with recent events of hemoptysis reported higher symptoms of depression. CONCLUSIONS Symptoms of depression and anxiety were elevated in both individuals with CF and parents. Implementation of mental health screening was critical for identifying those in need of psychological interventions. These results strongly suggest that mental health should be integrated into physical health care for those with complex, chronic respiratory conditions, including COPD, PCD.
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- Sonia Graziano
- Unit of Clinical Psychology, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, IT.
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- Neuroimaging Laboratory, Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, IT
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- Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, IT
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo Mauro Picone, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Sezione di Napoli, Naples, IT
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- Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, IT
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- Unit of Clinical Psychology, Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, Rome, IT
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Cirino A, Aurigemma I, Franzese M, Lania G, Righelli D, Ferrentino R, Illingworth E, Angelini C, Baldini A. Chromatin and Transcriptional Response to Loss of TBX1 in Early Differentiation of Mouse Cells. Front Cell Dev Biol 2020; 8:571501. [PMID: 33015063 PMCID: PMC7505952 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.571501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 08/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The T-box transcription factor TBX1 has critical roles in the cardiopharyngeal lineage and the gene is haploinsufficient in DiGeorge syndrome, a typical developmental anomaly of the pharyngeal apparatus. Despite almost two decades of research, if and how TBX1 function triggers chromatin remodeling is not known. Here, we explored genome-wide gene expression and chromatin remodeling in two independent cellular models of Tbx1 loss of function, mouse embryonic carcinoma cells P19Cl6, and mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs). The results of our study revealed that the loss or knockdown of TBX1 caused extensive transcriptional changes, some of which were cell type-specific, some were in common between the two models. However, unexpectedly we observed only limited chromatin changes in both systems. In P19Cl6 cells, differentially accessible regions (DARs) were not enriched in T-BOX binding motifs; in contrast, in mESCs, 34% (n = 47) of all DARs included a T-BOX binding motif and almost all of them gained accessibility in Tbx1 -/- cells. In conclusion, despite a clear transcriptional response of our cell models to loss of TBX1 in early cell differentiation, chromatin changes were relatively modest.
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- Andrea Cirino
- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, National Research Council, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
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- Institute Applicazioni del Calcolo, National Research Council, Naples, Italy
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- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, National Research Council, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
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- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, National Research Council, Naples, Italy
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- Institute Applicazioni del Calcolo, National Research Council, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, National Research Council, Naples, Italy
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Graziano S, Ciciriello F, Alghisi F, Righelli D, Quittner A, Boldrini F, Lucidi V, Tabarini P. P379 Relationship between psychological symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms, and Health-Related Quality of Life in cystic fibrosis (HRQoL). J Cyst Fibros 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-1993(20)30707-4] [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: 11/30/2022]
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Di Filippo L, Righelli D, Gagliardi M, Matarazzo MR, Angelini C. HiCeekR: A Novel Shiny App for Hi-C Data Analysis. Front Genet 2019; 10:1079. [PMID: 31749839 PMCID: PMC6844183 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2019.01079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [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: 07/19/2019] [Accepted: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The High-throughput Chromosome Conformation Capture (Hi-C) technique combines the power of the Next Generation Sequencing technologies with chromosome conformation capture approach to study the 3D chromatin organization at the genome-wide scale. Although such a technique is quite recent, many tools are already available for pre-processing and analyzing Hi-C data, allowing to identify chromatin loops, topological associating domains and A/B compartments. However, only a few of them provide an exhaustive analysis pipeline or allow to easily integrate and visualize other omic layers. Moreover, most of the available tools are designed for expert users, who have great confidence with command-line applications. In this paper, we present HiCeekR (https://github.com/lucidif/HiCeekR), a novel R Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allows researchers to easily perform a complete Hi-C data analysis. With the aid of the Shiny libraries, it integrates several R/Bioconductor packages for Hi-C data analysis and visualization, guiding the user during the entire process. Here, we describe its architecture and functionalities, then illustrate its capabilities using a publicly available dataset.
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- Lucio Di Filippo
- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli, Italy
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone," Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli, Italy
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- Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.,Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati A. Traverso," Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli, Italy
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- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati A. Traverso," Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli, Italy
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone," Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Napoli, Italy
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Ingiosi AM, Schoch H, Wintler T, Singletary KG, Righelli D, Roser LG, Medina E, Risso D, Frank MG, Peixoto L. Shank3 modulates sleep and expression of circadian transcription factors. eLife 2019; 8:e42819. [PMID: 30973326 PMCID: PMC6488297 DOI: 10.7554/elife.42819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [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: 10/14/2018] [Accepted: 04/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is the most prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder in the United States and often co-presents with sleep problems. Sleep problems in ASD predict the severity of ASD core diagnostic symptoms and have a considerable impact on the quality of life of caregivers. Little is known, however, about the underlying molecular mechanisms of sleep problems in ASD. We investigated the role of Shank3, a high confidence ASD gene candidate, in sleep architecture and regulation. We show that mice lacking exon 21 of Shank3 have problems falling asleep even when sleepy. Using RNA-seq we show that sleep deprivation increases the differences in prefrontal cortex gene expression between mutants and wild types, downregulating circadian transcription factors Per3, Bhlhe41, Hlf, Tef, and Nr1d1. Shank3 mutants also have trouble regulating wheel-running activity in constant darkness. Overall, our study shows that Shank3 is an important modulator of sleep and clock gene expression.
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- Ashley M Ingiosi
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Elson S. Floyd College of MedicineWashington State UniversitySpokaneUnited States
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Elson S. Floyd College of MedicineWashington State UniversitySpokaneUnited States
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Elson S. Floyd College of MedicineWashington State UniversitySpokaneUnited States
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Elson S. Floyd College of MedicineWashington State UniversitySpokaneUnited States
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “M. Picone”Consiglio Nazionale della RicercheNapoliItaly
- Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali Management & Innovation SystemsUniversity of FuscianoFiscianoItaly
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Elson S. Floyd College of MedicineWashington State UniversitySpokaneUnited States
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Elson S. Floyd College of MedicineWashington State UniversitySpokaneUnited States
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- Department of Statistical SciencesUniversity of PadovaPadovaItaly
- Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Healthcare Policy and ResearchWeill Cornell MedicineNew YorkUnited States
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Elson S. Floyd College of MedicineWashington State UniversitySpokaneUnited States
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Elson S. Floyd College of MedicineWashington State UniversitySpokaneUnited States
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Savi D, Schiavetto S, Simmonds NJ, Righelli D, Palange P. Effects of Lumacaftor/Ivacaftor on physical activity and exercise tolerance in three adults with cystic fibrosis. J Cyst Fibros 2019; 18:420-424. [PMID: 30879989 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcf.2019.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2018] [Revised: 03/01/2019] [Accepted: 03/01/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The combination of the corrector lumacaftor with the potentiator ivacaftor has been approved for treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients homozygous for the Phe508del CFTR mutation. There are no reports detailing the effect of lumacaftor-ivacaftor on physical activity (PA) and exercise tolerance. We performed incremental cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) and we assessed PA pre- and post 2 years initiation of lumacaftor-ivacaftor in three CF adults. PA of mild intensity improved by +13% in patient 1, + 84% in patients 2 and + 89% in patient 3. Oxygen uptake increased both at anaerobic threshold and at peak exercise (patient 1 + 33%, patient 2 + 42% and patient 3 + 20%). Daily physical activities and exercise tolerance improved after two years of lumacaftor-ivacaftor therapy.
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- Daniela Savi
- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Cystic Fibrosis, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London SW3 6NP, UK.
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- Institute for Applied Mathematics "M. Picone" - National Research Council, 80131, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; Eleonora Lorrillard-Spencer Cenci Foundation, 00185 Rome, Italy.
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Costa V, Righelli D, Russo F, De Berardinis P, Angelini C, D'Apice L. Distinct Antigen Delivery Systems Induce Dendritic Cells' Divergent Transcriptional Response: New Insights from a Comparative and Reproducible Computational Analysis. Int J Mol Sci 2017; 18:ijms18030494. [PMID: 28245601 PMCID: PMC5372510 DOI: 10.3390/ijms18030494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2017] [Revised: 02/11/2017] [Accepted: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Vaccination is the most successful and cost-effective method to prevent infectious diseases. However, many vaccine antigens have poor in vivo immunogenic potential and need adjuvants to enhance immune response. The application of systems biology to immunity and vaccinology has yielded crucial insights about how vaccines and adjuvants work. We have previously characterized two safe and powerful delivery systems derived from non-pathogenic prokaryotic organisms: E2 and fd filamentous bacteriophage systems. They elicit an in vivo immune response inducing CD8+ T-cell responses, even in absence of adjuvants or stimuli for dendritic cells’ maturation. Nonetheless, a systematic and comparative analysis of the complex gene expression network underlying such activation is missing. Therefore, we compared the transcriptomes of ex vivo isolated bone marrow-derived dendritic cells exposed to these antigen delivery systems. Significant differences emerged, especially for genes involved in innate immunity, co-stimulation, and cytokine production. Results indicate that E2 drives polarization toward the Th2 phenotype, mainly mediated by Irf4, Ccl17, and Ccr4 over-expression. Conversely, fd-scαDEC-205 triggers Th1 T cells’ polarization through the induction of Il12b, Il12rb, Il6, and other molecules involved in its signal transduction. The data analysis was performed using RNASeqGUI, hence, addressing the increasing need of transparency and reproducibility of computational analysis.
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- Valerio Costa
- Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "Adriano Buzzati-Traverso", CNR, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali-Management & Innovation Systems/DISA-MIS, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy.
- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, CNR, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy.
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, CNR, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy.
- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy.
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- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy.
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, CNR, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy.
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- Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy.
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Russo F, Righelli D, Angelini C. Advancements in RNASeqGUI towards a Reproducible Analysis of RNA-Seq Experiments. Biomed Res Int 2016; 2016:7972351. [PMID: 26977414 PMCID: PMC4764726 DOI: 10.1155/2016/7972351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2015] [Revised: 12/11/2015] [Accepted: 01/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We present the advancements and novelties recently introduced in RNASeqGUI, a graphical user interface that helps biologists to handle and analyse large data collected in RNA-Seq experiments. This work focuses on the concept of reproducible research and shows how it has been incorporated in RNASeqGUI to provide reproducible (computational) results. The novel version of RNASeqGUI combines graphical interfaces with tools for reproducible research, such as literate statistical programming, human readable report, parallel executions, caching, and interactive and web-explorable tables of results. These features allow the user to analyse big datasets in a fast, efficient, and reproducible way. Moreover, this paper represents a proof of concept, showing a simple way to develop computational tools for Life Science in the spirit of reproducible research.
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- Francesco Russo
- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, CNR, 80131 Napoli, Italy
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, CNR, 80131 Napoli, Italy
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- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, CNR, 80131 Napoli, Italy
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