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Gichohi-Wainaina WN, Kee-Tui SH, Zoethout M, Talsma EF, Edel I, Hauser M. Determinants of dietary diversity and drivers of food choice among low-income consumers in urban Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe. J Hum Nutr Diet 2023; 36:2180-2200. [PMID: 37798958 DOI: 10.1111/jhn.13244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/07/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Rapid urbanisation affects lifestyle and eating habits, predominantly causing a dietary shift that adds challenges to meet dietary recommendations within a complex food system. This research investigated dietary diversity and food choice drivers among low-income consumers in three urban settlements (Nairobi, Kenya; Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and Lilongwe, Malawi, representing rapid, moderate and slow urban growth patterns, respectively) as a first step towards improving diets across cultures and geographies. METHODS Mixed methods data collection was employed for this study. Qualitative methods such as rapid foodscape appraisal workshops and food stories in selected low-income settlements in Nairobi, Bulawayo and Lilongwe were utilised to collect information on the food environments (food balances, infrastructure, safety, policies and institutions). Quantitative data such as socio-demographic characteristics and dietary diversity were collected via structured questionnaires using Cognitive Edge's SenseMaker® (n = 890, 450 and 440 for Nairobi, Bulawayo and Lilongwe, respectively). The dietary intake of respondents was assessed using a 24-h recall, which was then converted to the food group diversity score (FGDS). RESULTS Different levels of compounded stress affected dietary diversity and quality, including high food prices, concerns about sanitation and hygiene and the role of food standards regulation bodies. The mean FGDS across all locations was lower than the recommended cut-off of 5 (4.5, 2.8 and 2.6 across Nairobi, Zimbabwe and Lilongwe, respectively). Additionally, in Nairobi, there were gender differences in diet diversity, with men having a higher dietary diversity score than women (4.6% vs. 4.3%; p = 0.004). The majority of respondents in Lilongwe (65%) reported price as the most important driver of food choice, compared to 38% in Nairobi and 42% in Bulawayo. DISCUSSION/CONCLUSIONS Our observation of poor-quality diets provides further evidence of the need for food policies that are cognisant of the nutrition and health of the growing population of the urban poor. Such policies would focus on lowering the costs of nutritious foods as well as ensuring food safety within the complex food system observed in the urban low-income environment.
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- Wanjiku N Gichohi-Wainaina
- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Lilongwe, Malawi
- Food, Policy and Nutrition Laboratory, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
- Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT, Lilongwe, Malawi
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition and Health, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Nairobi, Kenya
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Nairobi, Kenya
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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Han X, Gharahkhani P, Hamel AR, Ong JS, Rentería ME, Mehta P, Dong X, Pasutto F, Hammond C, Young TL, Hysi P, Lotery AJ, Jorgenson E, Choquet H, Hauser M, Cooke Bailey JN, Nakazawa T, Akiyama M, Shiga Y, Fuller ZL, Wang X, Hewitt AW, Craig JE, Pasquale LR, Mackey DA, Wiggs JL, Khawaja AP, Segrè AV, MacGregor S. Large-scale multitrait genome-wide association analyses identify hundreds of glaucoma risk loci. Nat Genet 2023; 55:1116-1125. [PMID: 37386247 PMCID: PMC10335935 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-023-01428-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [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: 03/09/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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Glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible blindness, is a highly heritable human disease. Previous genome-wide association studies have identified over 100 loci for the most common form, primary open-angle glaucoma. Two key glaucoma-associated traits also show high heritability: intraocular pressure and optic nerve head excavation damage quantified as the vertical cup-to-disc ratio. Here, since much of glaucoma heritability remains unexplained, we conducted a large-scale multitrait genome-wide association study in participants of European ancestry combining primary open-angle glaucoma and its two associated traits (total sample size over 600,000) to substantially improve genetic discovery power (263 loci). We further increased our power by then employing a multiancestry approach, which increased the number of independent risk loci to 312, with the vast majority replicating in a large independent cohort from 23andMe, Inc. (total sample size over 2.8 million; 296 loci replicated at P < 0.05, 240 after Bonferroni correction). Leveraging multiomics datasets, we identified many potential druggable genes, including neuro-protection targets likely to act via the optic nerve, a key advance for glaucoma because all existing drugs only target intraocular pressure. We further used Mendelian randomization and genetic correlation-based approaches to identify novel links to other complex traits, including immune-related diseases such as multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus.
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- Xikun Han
- Statistical Genetics Lab, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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- Statistical Genetics Lab, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Statistical Genetics Lab, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Mental Health and Neuroscience Program, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC), Oakland, CA, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Department of Retinal Disease Control, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Department of Advanced Ophthalmic Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Department of Ophthalmic Imaging and Information Analytics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
- Department of Neuroscience, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Neuroscience Division, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- 23andMe, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
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- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Western Australia, Lions Eye Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Statistical Genetics Lab, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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Kratzer B, Grabmeier-Pfistershammer K, Trapin D, Körmöczi U, Rottal A, Feichter M, Waidhofer-Söllner P, Smogavec M, Laccone F, Hauser M, Winkler S, Pickl WF, Lechner AM. Mycobacterium avium Complex Infections: Detailed Phenotypic and Functional Immunological Work-Up Is Required despite Genetic Analyses. Int Arch Allergy Immunol 2023; 184:914-931. [PMID: 37279717 DOI: 10.1159/000530844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Cervical scrofulous lymphadenitis due to Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) in immunocompetent adults is a rare disease. The presence of MAC infections demands meticulous clinical evaluation of patients along with detailed phenotypic and functional evaluation of their immune system including next-generation sequencing (NGS) analyses of target genes. METHODS Exact clinical histories of the index patients both suffering from retromandibular/cervical scrofulous lymphadenitis were obtained along with phenotypic and functional immunological evaluations of leukocyte populations followed by targeted NGS-based sequencing of candidate genes. RESULTS Immunological investigations showed normal serum immunoglobulin and complement levels, but lymphopenia, which was caused by significantly reduced CD3+CD4+CD45RO+ memory T-cell and CD19+ B-cell numbers. Despite normal T-cell proliferation to a number of accessory cell-dependent and -independent stimuli, the PBMC of both patients elaborated clearly reduced levels of a number of cytokines, including IFN-γ, IL-10, IL-12p70, IL-1α, IL-1β, and TNF-α upon TCR-dependent T-cell stimulation with CD3-coated beads but also superantigens. The IFN-γ production deficiency was confirmed for CD3+CD4+ helper and CD4+CD8+ cytotoxic T cells on the single-cell level by multiparametric flow cytometry irrespective of whether PMA/ionomycin-stimulated whole blood cells or gradient-purified PBMC was analyzed. In the female patient L1, targeted NGS-based sequencing revealed a homozygous c.110T>C mutation in the interferon-γ receptor type 1 (IFNGR1) leading to significantly reduced receptor expression on both CD14+ monocytes and CD3+ T cells. Patient S2 presented with normal IFNGR1 expression on CD14+ monocytes but significantly reduced IFNGR1 expression on CD3+ T cells, despite the absence of detectable homozygous mutations in the IFNGR1 itself or disease-related target genes. Exogenous addition of increasing doses of IFN-γ resulted in proper upregulation of high-affinity FcγRI (CD64) on monocytes from patient S2, whereas monocytes from patient L1 showed only partial induction of CD64 expression after incubation with high doses of IFN-γ. CONCLUSION A detailed phenotypic and functional immunological examination is urgently required to determine the cause of a clinically relevant immunodeficiency, despite detailed genetic analyses.
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- Bernhard Kratzer
- Medical University of Vienna, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Institute of Immunology, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University of Vienna, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Institute of Immunology, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University of Vienna, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Institute of Immunology, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University of Vienna, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Institute of Immunology, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University of Vienna, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Institute of Immunology, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University of Vienna, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Institute of Immunology, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University of Vienna, Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics, Institute of Medical Genetics, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University of Vienna, Center for Pathobiochemistry and Genetics, Institute of Medical Genetics, Vienna, Austria
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- Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Biosciences, Salzburg, Austria
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- Medical University of Vienna, Department of Medicine I, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Medical University of Vienna, Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Institute of Immunology, Vienna, Austria
- Karl Landsteiner University, Krems, Austria
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- Paracelsus University Salzburg, University Institute for Clinical Microbiology and Hygiene, Salzburg, Austria
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Hauser M, Zimmermann H, Hofbauer M. Indirect Time-of-Flight with GHz Correlation Frequency and Integrated SPAD Reaching Sub-100 µm Precision in 0.35 µm CMOS. Sensors (Basel) 2023; 23:2733. [PMID: 36904936 PMCID: PMC10007574 DOI: 10.3390/s23052733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
The purpose of this work is to prove the suitability of integrated single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD)-based indirect time-of-flight (iTOF) for sub-100 µm precision depth sensing using a correlation approach with GHz modulation frequencies. For this purpose, a prototype containing a single pixel consisting of an integrated SPAD, quenching circuit, and two independent correlator circuits was fabricated in a 0.35 µm CMOS process and characterized. It achieved a precision of 70 µm and a nonlinearity of less than 200 µm at a received signal power of less than 100 pW. Sub-mm precision was achieved with a signal power of less than 200 fW. These results and the simplicity of our correlation approach underline the great potential of SPAD-based iTOF for future depth sensing applications.
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Dramburg S, Hilger C, Santos AF, de Las Vecillas L, Aalberse RC, Acevedo N, Aglas L, Altmann F, Arruda KL, Asero R, Ballmer-Weber B, Barber D, Beyer K, Biedermann T, Bilo MB, Blank S, Bosshard PP, Breiteneder H, Brough HA, Bublin M, Campbell D, Caraballo L, Caubet JC, Celi G, Chapman MD, Chruszcz M, Custovic A, Czolk R, Davies J, Douladiris N, Eberlein B, Ebisawa M, Ehlers A, Eigenmann P, Gadermaier G, Giovannini M, Gomez F, Grohman R, Guillet C, Hafner C, Hamilton RG, Hauser M, Hawranek T, Hoffmann HJ, Holzhauser T, Iizuka T, Jacquet A, Jakob T, Janssen-Weets B, Jappe U, Jutel M, Kalic T, Kamath S, Kespohl S, Kleine-Tebbe J, Knol E, Knulst A, Konradsen JR, Korošec P, Kuehn A, Lack G, Le TM, Lopata A, Luengo O, Mäkelä M, Marra AM, Mills C, Morisset M, Muraro A, Nowak-Wegrzyn A, Nugraha R, Ollert M, Palosuo K, Pastorello EA, Patil SU, Platts-Mills T, Pomés A, Poncet P, Potapova E, Poulsen LK, Radauer C, Radulovic S, Raulf M, Rougé P, Sastre J, Sato S, Scala E, Schmid JM, Schmid-Grendelmeier P, Schrama D, Sénéchal H, Traidl-Hoffmann C, Valverde-Monge M, van Hage M, van Ree R, Verhoeckx K, Vieths S, Wickman M, Zakzuk J, Matricardi PM, Hoffmann-Sommergruber K. EAACI Molecular Allergology User's Guide 2.0. Pediatr Allergy Immunol 2023; 34 Suppl 28:e13854. [PMID: 37186333 DOI: 10.1111/pai.13854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2022] [Accepted: 09/05/2022] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
Abstract
Since the discovery of immunoglobulin E (IgE) as a mediator of allergic diseases in 1967, our knowledge about the immunological mechanisms of IgE-mediated allergies has remarkably increased. In addition to understanding the immune response and clinical symptoms, allergy diagnosis and management depend strongly on the precise identification of the elicitors of the IgE-mediated allergic reaction. In the past four decades, innovations in bioscience and technology have facilitated the identification and production of well-defined, highly pure molecules for component-resolved diagnosis (CRD), allowing a personalized diagnosis and management of the allergic disease for individual patients. The first edition of the "EAACI Molecular Allergology User's Guide" (MAUG) in 2016 rapidly became a key reference for clinicians, scientists, and interested readers with a background in allergology, immunology, biology, and medicine. Nevertheless, the field of molecular allergology is moving fast, and after 6 years, a new EAACI Taskforce was established to provide an updated document. The Molecular Allergology User's Guide 2.0 summarizes state-of-the-art information on allergen molecules, their clinical relevance, and their application in diagnostic algorithms for clinical practice. It is designed for both, clinicians and scientists, guiding health care professionals through the overwhelming list of different allergen molecules available for testing. Further, it provides diagnostic algorithms on the clinical relevance of allergenic molecules and gives an overview of their biology, the basic mechanisms of test formats, and the application of tests to measure allergen exposure.
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- Stephanie Dramburg
- Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Department of Women and Children's Health (Pediatric Allergy), School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Children's Allergy Service, Evelina London, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Sanquin Research, Dept Immunopathology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Landsteiner Laboratory, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Immunological Research, University of Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Colombia
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- Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brasil, Brazil
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- Ambulatorio di Allergologia, Clinica San Carlo, Paderno Dugnano, Italy
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- Klinik für Dermatologie und Allergologie, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Molecular Medicine Nemesio Diez (IMMAND), Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad San Pablo CEU, CEU Universities, Madrid, Spain
- RETIC ARADyAL and RICORS Enfermedades Inflamatorias (REI), Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein, School of Medicine, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Allergy Unit Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Ospedali Riuniti di Ancona, Torrette, Italy
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine and Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Women and Children's Health (Pediatric Allergy), School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Children's Allergy Service, Evelina London, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Allergy and Immunology, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Institute for Immunological Research, University of Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Colombia
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- Pediatric Allergy Unit, Department of Child and Adolescent, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Centro DH Allergologia e Immunologia Clinica ASST- MANTOVA (MN), Mantova, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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- National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
- Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Queensland University of Technology, Centre for Immunology and Infection Control, School of Biomedical Sciences, Herston, Queensland, Australia
- Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Emergency Operations Centre, Herston, Queensland, Australia
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- Allergy Department, 2nd Paediatric Clinic, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein, School of Medicine, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Clinical Research Center for Allergy and Rheumatology, National Hospital Organization, Sagamihara National Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Center for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Immunology and Dermatology/ Allergology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Pediatric Allergy Unit, Department of Child and Adolescent, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Allergy Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Meyer Children's University Hospital, Florence, Italy
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- Allergy Unit IBIMA-Hospital Regional Universitario de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
- Spanish Network for Allergy research RETIC ARADyAL, Malaga, Spain
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- NYU Langone Health, Department of Internal Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital St. Poelten, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, St. Poelten, Austria
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Dermatology and Allergology, Paracelsus Private Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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- Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Respiratory Diseases and Allergy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Laboratory of Protein Science, Graduate School of Life Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Dermatology and Allergology, University Medical Center, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany
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- Department of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
- Odense Research Center for Anaphylaxis, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Division of Clinical and Molecular Allergology, Priority Research Area Asthma and Allergy, Research Center Borstel, Borstel, Germany
- Leibniz Lung Center, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Germany
- Interdisciplinary Allergy Outpatient Clinic, Dept. of Pneumology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Immunology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital St. Poelten, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, St. Poelten, Austria
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- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Molecular Allergy Research Laboratory, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr- Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- Allergy & Asthma Center Westend, Outpatient Clinic and Clinical Research Center, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Immunology and Dermatology/ Allergology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Immunology and Dermatology/ Allergology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Golnik, Golnik, Slovenia
- Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Department of Women and Children's Health (Pediatric Allergy), School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Children's Allergy Service, Evelina London, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Center for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Immunology and Dermatology/ Allergology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Molecular Allergy Research Laboratory, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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- RETIC ARADyAL and RICORS Enfermedades Inflamatorias (REI), Madrid, Spain
- Allergy Section, Internal Medicine Department, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Allergy, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Pediatric Department, Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Food Allergy Referral Centre, Department of Woman and Child Health, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy
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- Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Collegium Medicum, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland
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- Molecular Allergy Research Laboratory, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Department of Aquatic Product Technology, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia
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- Department of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
- Odense Research Center for Anaphylaxis, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Allergology, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Departments of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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- Institut Pasteur, Immunology Department, Paris, France
- Allergy & Environment Research Team Armand Trousseau Children Hospital, APHP, Paris, France
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- Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Allergy Clinic, Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Copenhagen University Hospital-Herlev and Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Women and Children's Health (Pediatric Allergy), School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
- Children's Allergy Service, Evelina London, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Institute for Prevention and Occupational Medicine of the German Social Accident Insurance, Institute of the Ruhr- Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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- UMR 152 PharmaDev, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Pharmacie, Toulouse, France
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- Allergy Service, Fundación Jiménez Díaz; CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES); Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Allergy Department, 2nd Paediatric Clinic, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Clinical and Laboratory Molecular Allergy Unit - IDI- IRCCS, Fondazione L M Monti Rome, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Respiratory Diseases and Allergy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education CK-CARE, Davos, Switzerland
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- Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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- Allergy & Environment Research Team Armand Trousseau Children Hospital, APHP, Paris, France
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- Christine Kühne Center for Allergy Research and Education CK-CARE, Davos, Switzerland
- Department of Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
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- Allergy Service, Fundación Jiménez Díaz; CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES); Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Medicine Solna, Division of Immunology and Allergy, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Experimental Immunology and Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Immunology and Dermatology/ Allergology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Allergology, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany
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- Department of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute for Immunological Research, University of Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Colombia
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- Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Westphal DS, Hauser M, Beckmann BM, Wolf CM, Hessling G, Oberhoffer-Fritz R, Wacker-Gussmann A. Fetal Bradycardia Caused by Monogenic Disorders-A Review of the Literature. J Clin Med 2022; 11:jcm11236880. [PMID: 36498454 PMCID: PMC9741304 DOI: 10.3390/jcm11236880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Revised: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 11/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Introduction: The standard obstetric definition of fetal bradycardia is a sustained fetal heart rate < 110 bpm over at least 10 min. Fetal bradycardia can be the first and only prenatal presentation of a heart disease. We present an overview on different genetic disorders that should be taken into consideration in case of diagnosed fetal bradycardia. Methods: A literature review was conducted using a PubMed- and OMIM-based search for monogenetic disorders causing fetal bradycardia in September 2022. Results: The review on the literature identified nine monogenic diseases that could lead to fetal bradycardia. Four of these disorders can be associated with extracardiac findings. Discussion: Genetic testing should be considered in cases with fetal bradycardia, especially in cases of additional extracardiac findings. Broad sequencing techniques and improved prenatal phenotyping could help to establish a diagnosis in an increasing number of cases.
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- Dominik S. Westphal
- Department of Internal Medicine I, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany
- Institute of Human Genetics, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University Munich, 81675 Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, 60596 Frankfurt, Germany
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, 80802 Munich, Germany
- Department of Congenital Heart Defects and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University Munich, 80636 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Defects and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University Munich, 80636 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Defects and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University Munich, 80636 Munich, Germany
- Institute of Preventive Pediatrics, TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University Munich, 80992 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Defects and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University Munich, 80636 Munich, Germany
- Institute of Preventive Pediatrics, TUM Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University Munich, 80992 Munich, Germany
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Sixt GN, Hauser M, Blackstone NT, Engler A, Hatfield J, Hendriks SL, Ihouma S, Madramootoo C, Robins RJ, Smith P, Ziska LH, Webb P. A new convergent science framework for food system sustainability in an uncertain climate. Food Energy Secur 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/fes3.423] [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: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Gregory N. Sixt
- Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts USA
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- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi‐arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Nairobi Kenya
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna Austria
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- Retired USDA‐ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment Ames Iowa USA
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- Department for Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development University of Pretoria Hatfield South Africa
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre Agriculture and Agri‐Food Canada Ottawa Ontario Canada
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- Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts USA
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Aberdeen Aberdeen UK
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health New York New York USA
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- Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Tufts University Boston Massachusetts USA
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Quilcaille Y, Gudmundsson L, Beusch L, Hauser M, Seneviratne SI. Showcasing MESMER-X: Spatially Resolved Emulation of Annual Maximum Temperatures of Earth System Models. Geophys Res Lett 2022; 49:e2022GL099012. [PMID: 36245896 PMCID: PMC9541273 DOI: 10.1029/2022gl099012] [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] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Revised: 08/05/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Emulators of Earth System Models (ESMs) are complementary to ESMs by providing climate information at lower computational costs. Thus far, the emulation of spatially resolved climate extremes has only received limited attention, even though extreme events are one of the most impactful aspects of climate change. Here, we propose a method for the emulation of local annual maximum temperatures, with a focus on reproducing essential statistical properties such as correlations in space and time. We test different emulator configurations and find that driving the emulations with global mean surface temperature offers an optimal compromise between model complexity and performance. We show that the emulations can mimic the temporal evolution and spatial patterns of the underlying climate model simulations and are able to reproduce their natural variability. The general design and the good performance for annual maximum temperatures suggest that the proposed methodology can be applied to other climate extremes.
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- Y. Quilcaille
- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate ScienceDepartment of Environmental Systems ScienceETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate ScienceDepartment of Environmental Systems ScienceETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate ScienceDepartment of Environmental Systems ScienceETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
- Now at: Federal Office of Meteorology and ClimatologyMeteoSwissZurichSwitzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate ScienceDepartment of Environmental Systems ScienceETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate ScienceDepartment of Environmental Systems ScienceETH ZurichZurichSwitzerland
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Adebamowo CA, Adeyemo A, Ashaye A, Akpa OM, Chikowore T, Choudhury A, Fakim YJ, Fatumo S, Hanchard N, Hauser M, Mitchell B, Mulder N, Ofori-Acquah SF, Owolabi M, Ramsay M, Tayo B, VasanthKumar AB, Zhang Y, Adebamowo SN. Polygenic risk scores for CARDINAL study. Nat Genet 2022; 54:527-530. [PMID: 35513726 PMCID: PMC9907721 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-022-01074-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The Cardiometabolic Disorders in African-Ancestry Populations (CARDINAL) study site is a well-powered, first-of-its-kind resource for developing, refining and validating methods for research into polygenic risk scores that accounts for local ancestry, to improve risk prediction in diverse populations.
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- Clement A Adebamowo
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Biotechnology, University of Mauritius, Reduit, MU, Mauritius
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- The African Computational Genomics (TACG) Research Group, MRC/UVRI and LSHTM (Uganda Research Unit), Entebbe, Uganda
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Computational Biology Division, IDM, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- West African Genetic Medicine Centre (WAGMC), University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
- Center for Translational and International Hematology, Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Center for Genomic and Precision Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA
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- University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenbaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Strack K, Freilinger S, Busse AJ, Ewert P, Hauser M, Huntgeburth M, Kaemmerer AS, Nagdyman N, Schopen J, Kaemmerer H, von Scheidt F. Long-term course of pulmonary arterial hypertension in adults with congenital heart disease under targeted therapy: a retrospective analysis of a single tertiary center. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther 2022; 12:655-670. [PMID: 36329967 PMCID: PMC9622403 DOI: 10.21037/cdt-22-266] [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: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/29/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Background Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a common complication in adults with congenital heart disease (CHD), leads to significant morbidity and mortality. Targeted PAH medication is available, but PAH-CHD patient data are limited. Several questions regarding indication, treatment escalation, and combination therapy remain unanswered. The aim of this study was therefore to evaluate PAH-specific treatment in adults with PAH-CHD to better understand PAH-specific therapy management. Methods In this cross-sectional study we retrospectively examined clinical, demographic, and cardiac-catheterization data and medical management for PAH-CHD, and analyzed clinical course and midterm outcome. Results Over up to 14 years (median, 6.2 years), 103 PAH-CHD patients (66% female) receiving targeted PAH-therapy for pre-tricuspid-shunt (15.5%), post-tricuspid-shunt (32.0%), and complex CHD (52.4%) were followed. Based on modified clinical European Society of Cardiology (ESC) classification, patients were assigned to the following subgroups: Eisenmenger syndrome (ES) (45.6%), severe pulmonary vascular disease (PVD) in complex CHD (20.4%), post-repair patients (19.4%), prevalent systemic-to-pulmonary shunt (3.9%), coincidental/small defects (0%), and Fontan circulation (10.7%). Changes in targeted PAH therapy were observed 249 times, with up to 6 (median, 2) therapy changes over a median period of 1.3 years. Over the study course, the medical treatment strategy changed towards combination therapy (baseline, 13.6%; study-end, 41%), resulting mostly in stabilized functional class or even improvement in cases of prevalent systemic-to-pulmonary shunt, ES, and patients with repaired CHD. Functional class deterioration, however, was seen in patients with severe PVD due to complex CHD, and Fontan patients. Of the 103 patients in the study, 25 died (24.3%). Patients with repaired CHD and patients with systemic-to-pulmonary shunt or ES showed the best survival rates. Mortality was remarkably higher in patients with severe PVD in complex CHD and Fontan patients. Conclusions Many patients with PAH-CHD benefited from targeted PAH therapy over a median period of 6.2 years. Treatment decisions after targeted PAH-medication initiation were based mainly on clinical assessment. To counteract disease progression, an escalation towards combination therapy was observed during the study course. We consider survival rates under targeted PAH medication to be favorable, particularly in the ES subgroup. Nevertheless, further research is needed to optimize the use of PAH medication, especially in patients with complex CHD.
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- Katharina Strack
- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Centre Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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Mills-Goodlet R, Johnson L, Hoppe IJ, Regl C, Geppert M, Schenck M, Huber S, Hauser M, Ferreira F, Hüsing N, Huber CG, Brandstetter H, Duschl A, Himly M. The nanotopography of SiO 2 particles impacts the selectivity and 3D fold of bound allergens. Nanoscale 2021; 13:20508-20520. [PMID: 34854455 PMCID: PMC8675021 DOI: 10.1039/d1nr05958k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2021] [Accepted: 11/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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A detailed description of the changes that occur during the formation of protein corona represents a fundamental question in nanoscience, given that it not only impacts the behaviour of nanoparticles but also affects the bound proteins. Relevant questions include whether proteins selectively bind particles, whether a specific orientation is preferred for binding, and whether particle binding leads to a modulation of their 3D fold. For allergens, it is important to answer these questions given that all these effects can modify the allergenic response of atopic individuals. These potential impacts on the bound allergen are closely related to the specific properties of the involved nanoparticles. One important property influencing the formation of protein corona is the nanotopography of the particles. Herein, we studied the effect of nanoparticle porosity on allergen binding using mesoporous and non-porous SiO2 NPs. We investigated (i) the selectivity of allergen binding from a mixture such as crude pollen extract, (ii) whether allergen binding results in a preferred orientation, (iii) the influence of binding on the conformation of the allergen, and (iv) how the binding affects the allergenic response. Nanotopography was found to play a major role in the formation of protein corona, impacting the physicochemical and biological properties of the NP-bound allergen. The porosity of the surface of the SiO2 nanoparticles resulted in a higher binding capacity with pronounced selectivity for (preferentially) binding the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1. Furthermore, the binding of Bet v 1 to the mesoporous rather than the non-porous SiO2 nanoparticles influenced the 3D fold of the protein, resulting in at least partial unfolding. Consequently, this conformational change influenced the allergenic response, as observed by mediator release assays employing the sera of patients and immune effector cells. For an in-depth understanding of the bio-nano interactions, the properties of the particles need to be considered not only regarding the identity and morphology of the material, but also their nanotopography, given that porosity may greatly influence the structure, and hence the biological behaviour of the bound proteins. Thus, thorough structural investigations upon the formation of protein corona are important when considering immunological outcomes, as particle binding can influence the allergenic response elicited by the bound allergen.
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- Dept. Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
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- Dept. Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Tools for Biosimilar Characterization, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
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- Dept. Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
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- Dept. Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
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- Dept. Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
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- Dept. Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
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- Dept. Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
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- Dept. Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
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- Dept. Chemistry and Physics of Materials, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
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- Dept. Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Tools for Biosimilar Characterization, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
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- Dept. Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Tools for Biosimilar Characterization, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
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- Dept. Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
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- Dept. Biosciences, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria.
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Olawoye O, Chuka-Okosa C, Akpa O, Realini T, Hauser M, Ashaye A. Eyes of Africa: The Genetics of Blindness: Study Design and Methodology. BMC Ophthalmol 2021; 21:272. [PMID: 34243759 PMCID: PMC8267233 DOI: 10.1186/s12886-021-02029-8] [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] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND This report describes the design and methodology of the "Eyes of Africa: The Genetics of Blindness," a collaborative study funded through the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) program of the National Institute of Health. METHODS This is a case control study that is collecting a large well phenotyped data set among glaucoma patients and controls for a genome wide association study. (GWAS). Multiplex families segregating Mendelian forms of early-onset glaucoma will also be collected for exome sequencing. DISCUSSION A total of 4500 cases/controls have been recruited into the study at the end of the 3rd funded year of the study. All these participants have been appropriately phenotyped and blood samples have been received from these participants. Recent GWAS of POAG in African individuals demonstrated genome-wide significant association with the APBB2 locus which is an association that is unique to individuals of African ancestry. This study will add to the existing knowledge and understanding of POAG in the African population.
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- Olusola Olawoye
- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria
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- Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University, NC Durham, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University, NC Durham, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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Huber S, Kleij H, Wildner S, Wolf M, Wallner M, Hofer H, Asam C, Briza P, Ferreira F, Hauser M. Chemical modification of ragweed extract results in an increased safety profile while maintaining immunogenicity. Allergy 2021; 76:2226-2229. [PMID: 33368383 PMCID: PMC8359213 DOI: 10.1111/all.14721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2020] [Revised: 12/01/2020] [Accepted: 12/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Sara Huber
- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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Chemtob RA, Sale S, Wyler D, Mehta A, Hauser M, Wallace L, Soltesz E, Wierup P, Roselli EE, Svensson LG, Johnston DR. Postpump Aortic Insufficiency Is Transient After Valve Replacement with a Novel Prosthesis. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2021; 34:1017-1019. [PMID: 33991599 DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2021.04.020] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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- Raphaelle A Chemtob
- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Aortic Valve Center, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Aortic Valve Center, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Aortic Valve Center, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Aortic Valve Center, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio; Aortic Valve Center, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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Di Muzio M, Wildner S, Huber S, Hauser M, Vejvar E, Auzinger W, Regl C, Laimer J, Zennaro D, Wopfer N, Huber CG, van Ree R, Mari A, Lackner P, Ferreira F, Schubert M, Gadermaier G. Hydrogen/deuterium exchange memory NMR reveals structural epitopes involved in IgE cross-reactivity of allergenic lipid transfer proteins. J Biol Chem 2021; 295:17398-17410. [PMID: 33453986 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra120.014243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2020] [Revised: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Identification of antibody-binding epitopes is crucial to understand immunological mechanisms. It is of particular interest for allergenic proteins with high cross-reactivity as observed in the lipid transfer protein (LTP) syndrome, which is characterized by severe allergic reactions. Art v 3, a pollen LTP from mugwort, is frequently involved in this cross-reactivity, but no antibody-binding epitopes have been determined so far. To reveal human IgE-binding regions of Art v 3, we produced three murine high-affinity mAbs, which showed 70-90% coverage of the allergenic epitopes from mugwort pollen-allergic patients. As reliable methods to determine structural epitopes with tightly interacting intact antibodies under native conditions are lacking, we developed a straightforward NMR approach termed hydrogen/deuterium exchange memory (HDXMEM). It relies on the slow exchange between the invisible antigen-mAb complex and the free 15N-labeled antigen whose 1H-15N correlations are detected. Due to a memory effect, changes of NH protection during antibody binding are measured. Differences in H/D exchange rates and analyses of mAb reactivity to homologous LTPs revealed three structural epitopes: two partially cross-reactive regions around α-helices 2 and 4 as well as a novel Art v 3-specific epitope at the C terminus. Protein variants with exchanged epitope residues confirmed the antibody-binding sites and revealed strongly reduced IgE reactivity. Using the novel HDXMEM for NMR epitope mapping allowed identification of the first structural epitopes of an allergenic pollen LTP. This knowledge enables improved cross-reactivity prediction for patients suffering from LTP allergy and facilitates design of therapeutics.
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- Martina Di Muzio
- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Tools for Biosimilar Characterization, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Tools for Biosimilar Characterization, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Tools for Biosimilar Characterization, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Centri Associati di Allergologica Molecolare (CAAM), Latina, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Tools for Biosimilar Characterization, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Experimental Immunology and of Otorhinolaryngology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centri Associati di Allergologica Molecolare (CAAM), Latina, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Tools for Biosimilar Characterization, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria; Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Tools for Biosimilar Characterization, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
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Gharahkhani P, Jorgenson E, Hysi P, Khawaja AP, Pendergrass S, Han X, Ong JS, Hewitt AW, Segrè AV, Rouhana JM, Hamel AR, Igo RP, Choquet H, Qassim A, Josyula NS, Cooke Bailey JN, Bonnemaijer PWM, Iglesias A, Siggs OM, Young TL, Vitart V, Thiadens AAHJ, Karjalainen J, Uebe S, Melles RB, Nair KS, Luben R, Simcoe M, Amersinghe N, Cree AJ, Hohn R, Poplawski A, Chen LJ, Rong SS, Aung T, Vithana EN, Tamiya G, Shiga Y, Yamamoto M, Nakazawa T, Currant H, Birney E, Wang X, Auton A, Lupton MK, Martin NG, Ashaye A, Olawoye O, Williams SE, Akafo S, Ramsay M, Hashimoto K, Kamatani Y, Akiyama M, Momozawa Y, Foster PJ, Khaw PT, Morgan JE, Strouthidis NG, Kraft P, Kang JH, Pang CP, Pasutto F, Mitchell P, Lotery AJ, Palotie A, van Duijn C, Haines JL, Hammond C, Pasquale LR, Klaver CCW, Hauser M, Khor CC, Mackey DA, Kubo M, Cheng CY, Craig JE, MacGregor S, Wiggs JL. Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1258. [PMID: 33627673 PMCID: PMC7904932 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20851-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 158] [Impact Index Per Article: 52.7] [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: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), is a heritable common cause of blindness world-wide. To identify risk loci, we conduct a large multi-ethnic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies on a total of 34,179 cases and 349,321 controls, identifying 44 previously unreported risk loci and confirming 83 loci that were previously known. The majority of loci have broadly consistent effects across European, Asian and African ancestries. Cross-ancestry data improve fine-mapping of causal variants for several loci. Integration of multiple lines of genetic evidence support the functional relevance of the identified POAG risk loci and highlight potential contributions of several genes to POAG pathogenesis, including SVEP1, RERE, VCAM1, ZNF638, CLIC5, SLC2A12, YAP1, MXRA5, and SMAD6. Several drug compounds targeting POAG risk genes may be potential glaucoma therapeutic candidates.
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- Puya Gharahkhani
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC), Oakland, CA, USA
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- Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
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- Geisinger Research, Biomedical and Translational Informatics Institute, Danville, PA, USA
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
- Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC), Oakland, CA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
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- Geisinger Research, Biomedical and Translational Informatics Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Depatment of Ophthalmology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- The Rotterdam Eye Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Depatment of Ophthalmology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Depatment of Ophthalmology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK
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- Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kings College London, London, United Kingdom
- Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Germany
- Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Certre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Certre, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore, Republic of Singapore
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- Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, 1-4-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Department of Retinal Disease Control, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Department of Advanced Ophthalmic Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
- Department of Ophthalmic Imaging and Information Analytics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
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- 23 and Me Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Unit of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Laboratory of Complex Trait Genomics, Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory for Statistical Analysis, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
- Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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- Laboratory for Genotyping Development, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust & UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK
- UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK
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- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust & UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK
- UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK
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- Cardiff Centre for Vision Sciences, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Maindy Road, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust & UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK
- UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK
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- Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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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 Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, 10029, USA
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- Depatment of Ophthalmology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Ophthalmology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Institute for Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
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- Division of Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
- Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University of Western Australia, Lions Eye Institute, Nedlands, WA, Australia
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- RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Certre, Singapore, Singapore
- Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Academic Clinical Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
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- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Li Z, Wang Z, Lee MC, Zenkel M, Peh E, Ozaki M, Topouzis F, Nakano S, Chan A, Chen S, Williams SEI, Orr A, Nakano M, Kobakhidze N, Zarnowski T, Popa-Cherecheanu A, Mizoguchi T, Manabe SI, Hayashi K, Kazama S, Inoue K, Mori Y, Miyata K, Sugiyama K, Higashide T, Chihara E, Ideta R, Ishiko S, Yoshida A, Tokumo K, Kiuchi Y, Ohashi T, Sakurai T, Sugimoto T, Chuman H, Aihara M, Inatani M, Mori K, Ikeda Y, Ueno M, Gaston D, Rafuse P, Shuba L, Saunders J, Nicolela M, Chichua G, Tabagari S, Founti P, Sim KS, Meah WY, Soo HM, Chen XY, Chatzikyriakidou A, Keskini C, Pappas T, Anastasopoulos E, Lambropoulos A, Panagiotou ES, Mikropoulos DG, Kosior-Jarecka E, Cheong A, Li Y, Lukasik U, Nongpiur ME, Husain R, Perera SA, Álvarez L, García M, González-Iglesias H, Fernández-Vega Cueto A, Fernández-Vega Cueto L, Martinón-Torres F, Salas A, Oguz Ç, Tamcelik N, Atalay E, Batu B, Irkec M, Aktas D, Kasim B, Astakhov YS, Astakhov SY, Akopov EL, Giessl A, Mardin C, Hellerbrand C, Cooke Bailey JN, Igo RP, Haines JL, Edward DP, Heegaard S, Davila S, Tan P, Kang JH, Pasquale LR, Kruse FE, Reis A, Carmichael TR, Hauser M, Ramsay M, Mossböck G, Yildirim N, Tashiro K, Konstas AGP, Coca-Prados M, Foo JN, Kinoshita S, Sotozono C, Kubota T, Dubina M, Ritch R, Wiggs JL, Pasutto F, Schlötzer-Schrehardt U, Ho YS, Aung T, Tam WL, Khor CC. Association of Rare CYP39A1 Variants With Exfoliation Syndrome Involving the Anterior Chamber of the Eye. JAMA 2021; 325:753-764. [PMID: 33620406 PMCID: PMC7903258 DOI: 10.1001/jama.2021.0507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
IMPORTANCE Exfoliation syndrome is a systemic disorder characterized by progressive accumulation of abnormal fibrillar protein aggregates manifesting clinically in the anterior chamber of the eye. This disorder is the most commonly known cause of glaucoma and a major cause of irreversible blindness. OBJECTIVE To determine if exfoliation syndrome is associated with rare, protein-changing variants predicted to impair protein function. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A 2-stage, case-control, whole-exome sequencing association study with a discovery cohort and 2 independently ascertained validation cohorts. Study participants from 14 countries were enrolled between February 1999 and December 2019. The date of last clinical follow-up was December 2019. Affected individuals had exfoliation material on anterior segment structures of at least 1 eye as visualized by slit lamp examination. Unaffected individuals had no signs of exfoliation syndrome. EXPOSURES Rare, coding-sequence genetic variants predicted to be damaging by bioinformatic algorithms trained to recognize alterations that impair protein function. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The primary outcome was the presence of exfoliation syndrome. Exome-wide significance for detected variants was defined as P < 2.5 × 10-6. The secondary outcomes included biochemical enzymatic assays and gene expression analyses. RESULTS The discovery cohort included 4028 participants with exfoliation syndrome (median age, 78 years [interquartile range, 73-83 years]; 2377 [59.0%] women) and 5638 participants without exfoliation syndrome (median age, 72 years [interquartile range, 65-78 years]; 3159 [56.0%] women). In the discovery cohort, persons with exfoliation syndrome, compared with those without exfoliation syndrome, were significantly more likely to carry damaging CYP39A1 variants (1.3% vs 0.30%, respectively; odds ratio, 3.55 [95% CI, 2.07-6.10]; P = 6.1 × 10-7). This outcome was validated in 2 independent cohorts. The first validation cohort included 2337 individuals with exfoliation syndrome (median age, 74 years; 1132 women; n = 1934 with demographic data) and 2813 individuals without exfoliation syndrome (median age, 72 years; 1287 women; n = 2421 with demographic data). The second validation cohort included 1663 individuals with exfoliation syndrome (median age, 75 years; 587 women; n = 1064 with demographic data) and 3962 individuals without exfoliation syndrome (median age, 74 years; 951 women; n = 1555 with demographic data). Of the individuals from both validation cohorts, 5.2% with exfoliation syndrome carried CYP39A1 damaging alleles vs 3.1% without exfoliation syndrome (odds ratio, 1.82 [95% CI, 1.47-2.26]; P < .001). Biochemical assays classified 34 of 42 damaging CYP39A1 alleles as functionally deficient (median reduction in enzymatic activity compared with wild-type CYP39A1, 94.4% [interquartile range, 78.7%-98.2%] for the 34 deficient variants). CYP39A1 transcript expression was 47% lower (95% CI, 30%-64% lower; P < .001) in ciliary body tissues from individuals with exfoliation syndrome compared with individuals without exfoliation syndrome. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this whole-exome sequencing case-control study, presence of exfoliation syndrome was significantly associated with carriage of functionally deficient CYP39A1 sequence variants. Further research is needed to understand the clinical implications of these findings.
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
- iScreen Research Team, Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
- Department of Ophthalmology, University Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan
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- Department of Medicine and Engineering Combined Research Institute, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Miyazaki Medical College Hospital, Miyazaki, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Miyazaki Medical College Hospital, Miyazaki, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Science, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Glaucoma Unit, Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, England
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Laboratory of Medical Biology-Genetics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Medical Biology-Genetics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- First Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago and GENVIP Research Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Unidade de Xenética, Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and GenPoB Research Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, Galicia, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- DAMAGEN Genetic Diagnostic Center, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Emil-Fischer-Zentrum, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute for Computational Biology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Institute for Computational Biology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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- Institute for Computational Biology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
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- King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Eye Pathology Section, Department of Pathology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Precision Medicine, Singapore
- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Precision Medicine, Singapore
- Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- First and Third Departments of Ophthalmology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki School of Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
- Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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- Department of Frontier Medical Science and Technology for Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan
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- State Research Institute of Highly Pure Biopreparations FMBA Russia, St Petersburg, Russia
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- Einhorn Clinical Research Center, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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- Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Nanyang Technological University School of Biological Sciences, Singapore
- Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore
- Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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Hauser M, Wolf-Hofstetter S, Acklin-Menzi F, Studer E, Rediger D, Seefried F, Drögemüller C. [Grey, curly and short-haired Swiss Holstein cattle show genetic traces of the Simmental breed]. SCHWEIZ ARCH TIERH 2020; 162:551-559. [PMID: 32855122 DOI: 10.17236/sat00272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Occasionally black-and-white spotted calves appear in Switzerland, which show a special fur only in the pigmented area. Otherwise these animals are normally developed. The white hairs are normal, but they appear relatively long and smooth, because the pigmented hairs are curly and thus appear shortened. In addition, the affected animals show a variable intensity of coat colour in the pigmented area. At birth affected calves often appear black, whereas older cattle show bright colours from reddish brown to grey. This is associated with a variable hair loss that increases during growth and is limited to the pigmented area of the coat. In adult cattle the coloured hairs appear rather smooth, but they are considerably shorter. This phenomenon of pigmentation-associated hypotrichosis was previously described internationally in various beef cattle populations. The affected cattle are often solid black and show only small white spots. Therefore, the loss of hair at the pigmented fur and most visibly at the pigmented tail is called rat-tail syndrome. Another name used is also crossbreeding-related congenital hypotrichosis. Molecular genetic investigations showed that the affected animals are heterozygous carriers for two variants in two different genes associated with pigmentation. The same genotype constellation was found in the 33 similarly affected cattle from Switzerland presented here. On one hand, they each carry a copy of the MC1R gene gain-of-function variant causing dominant black, as well as a copy of the recessively inherited red factor loss-of-function variant in the MC1R gene. On the other hand, all cases are heterozygous carriers for a variant in the PMEL gene that is associated with a semi-dominantly inherited form of colour dilution (dun or silver) in Simmental, Hereford and Highland Cattle. The introgression of Holstein cattle into the Original Simmental breed, which has been practised for decades, explains the occasional occurrence of this phenomenon in Swiss cattle breeding.
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- M Hauser
- Institut für Genetik, Vetsuisse-Fakultät, Universität Bern
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- Institut für Genetik, Vetsuisse-Fakultät, Universität Bern
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- Wiederkäuerklinik, Vetsuisse-Fakultät, Universität Bern
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- Wiederkäuerklinik, Vetsuisse-Fakultät, Universität Bern
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- Institut für Genetik, Vetsuisse-Fakultät, Universität Bern
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Hufnagl K, Afify SM, Braun N, Wagner S, Wallner M, Hauser M, Wiederstein M, Gadermaier G, Wildner S, Redegeld FA, Blokhuis BR, Hofstetter G, Pali‐Schöll I, Roth‐Walter F, Pacios LF, Jensen‐Jarolim E. Retinoic acid-loading of the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1 may improve specific allergen immunotherapy: In silico, in vitro and in vivo data in BALB/c mice. Allergy 2020; 75:2073-2077. [PMID: 32141090 PMCID: PMC7522679 DOI: 10.1111/all.14259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2019] [Revised: 01/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Karin Hufnagl
- The interuniversity Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- The interuniversity Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna Vienna Austria
- Laboratory Medicine and Immunology Department Faculty of Medicine Menoufia University Shebin El‐Kom Egypt
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- The interuniversity Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- The interuniversity Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Protein Bioinformatics Research Group Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Division of Pharmacology Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty of Science Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
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- Division of Pharmacology Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty of Science Utrecht University Utrecht The Netherlands
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- The interuniversity Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- The interuniversity Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- The interuniversity Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics CBGP (UPM‐INIA) and Department of Biotechnology‐Plant Biology Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid Spain
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- The interuniversity Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Medical University of Vienna and University of Vienna Vienna Austria
- Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research Center of Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology Medical University Vienna Vienna Austria
- Biomedical International R+D GmbH Vienna Austria
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Korotchenko E, Moya R, Scheiblhofer S, Joubert IA, Horejs‐Hoeck J, Hauser M, Calzada D, Iraola V, Carnés J, Weiss R. Laser-facilitated epicutaneous immunotherapy with depigmented house dust mite extract alleviates allergic responses in a mouse model of allergic lung inflammation. Allergy 2020; 75:1217-1228. [PMID: 31880319 DOI: 10.1111/all.14164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [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: 07/04/2019] [Revised: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND Skin-based immunotherapy of type 1 allergies has recently been re-investigated as an alternative for subcutaneous injections. In the current study, we employed a mouse model of house dust mite (HDM)-induced lung inflammation to explore the potential of laser-facilitated epicutaneous allergen-specific treatment. METHODS Mice were sensitized against native Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus extract and repeatedly treated by application of depigmented D pteronyssinus extract via laser-generated skin micropores or by subcutaneous injection with or without alum. Following aerosol challenges, lung function was determined by whole-body plethysmography and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid was analyzed for cellular composition and cytokine levels. HDM-specific IgG subclass antibodies were determined by ELISA. Serum as well as cell-bound IgE was measured by ELISA, rat basophil leukemia cell assay, and ex vivo using a basophil activation test, respectively. Cultured lymphocytes were analyzed for cytokine secretion profiles and cellular polarization by flow cytometry. RESULTS Immunization of mice by subcutaneous injection or epicutaneous laser microporation induced comparable IgG antibody levels, but the latter preferentially induced regulatory T cells and in general downregulated T cell cytokine production. This effect was found to be a result of the laser treatment itself, independent from extract application. Epicutaneous treatment of sensitized animals led to induction of blocking IgG, and improvement of lung function, superior compared to the effects of subcutaneous therapy. During the whole therapy schedule, no local or systemic side effects occurred. CONCLUSION Allergen-specific immunotherapy with depigmented HDM extract via laser-generated skin micropores offers a safe and effective treatment option for HDM-induced allergy and lung inflammation.
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- Evgeniia Korotchenko
- Division of Allergy and Immunology Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- R&D Allergy & Immunology Unit Laboratorios LETI S.L.U Madrid Spain
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- Division of Allergy and Immunology Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Division of Allergy and Immunology Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Division of Allergy and Immunology Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- Division of Allergy and Immunology Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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- R&D Allergy & Immunology Unit Laboratorios LETI S.L.U Madrid Spain
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- R&D Allergy & Immunology Unit Laboratorios LETI S.L.U Madrid Spain
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- R&D Allergy & Immunology Unit Laboratorios LETI S.L.U Madrid Spain
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- Division of Allergy and Immunology Department of Biosciences University of Salzburg Salzburg Austria
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Abstract
The cerebral cortex underlies our complex cognitive capabilities, yet little is known about the specific genetic loci that influence human cortical structure. To identify genetic variants that affect cortical structure, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of brain magnetic resonance imaging data from 51,665 individuals. We analyzed the surface area and average thickness of the whole cortex and 34 regions with known functional specializations. We identified 199 significant loci and found significant enrichment for loci influencing total surface area within regulatory elements that are active during prenatal cortical development, supporting the radial unit hypothesis. Loci that affect regional surface area cluster near genes in Wnt signaling pathways, which influence progenitor expansion and areal identity. Variation in cortical structure is genetically correlated with cognitive function, Parkinson's disease, insomnia, depression, neuroticism, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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- Katrina L. Grasby
- Psychiatric Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Jodie N. Painter
- Psychiatric Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
| | - Lucía Colodro-Conde
- Psychiatric Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Faculty of Psychology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain
| | - Janita Bralten
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Derrek P. Hibar
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Personalized Healthcare, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
| | - Penelope A. Lind
- Psychiatric Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
| | - Fabrizio Pizzagalli
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Christopher R. K. Ching
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Graduate Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Mary Agnes B. McMahon
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Natalia Shatokhina
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Leo C. P. Zsembik
- Department of Genetics and UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Sophia I. Thomopoulos
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Alyssa H. Zhu
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Lachlan T. Strike
- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
| | - Ingrid Agartz
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Centre for Psychiatric Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
- Neurology Department, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, USA
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- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Priority Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Institute for Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Centre for Neuroimaging and Cognitive Genomics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Departments of Psychiatry and Biological and Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas-UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
- BRAINN-Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Campinas, Brazil
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- Faculty of Health, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - Katharina Dohm
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Division of Psychological and Social Medicine and Developmental Neurosciences, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Division of Human Genetics, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Division of Cerebral Integration, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
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- Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- NORMENT K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychiatric Research, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
| | - Boris A. Gutman
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
| | - Mathew A. Harris
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Edinburgh Imaging, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Marc B. Harrison
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Courtney C. Haswell
- Duke UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
- Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center for Post Deployment Mental Health, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Michael Hauser
- Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Stefan Herms
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Genomics, Life & Brain Research Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Dirk J. Heslenfeld
- Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuropsychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - New Fei Ho
- Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore
| | - David Hoehn
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
| | - Per Hoffmann
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, School of Medicine and University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Laurena Holleran
- Centre for Neuroimaging and Cognitive Genomics, School of Psychology, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
| | - Martine Hoogman
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - Masashi Ikeda
- Department of Psychiatry, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan
| | - Deborah Janowitz
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Neurology, Alzheimer Center, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and BrainInspired Intelligence (Fudan University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China
- Centre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (PONS), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Neuroinformatics, Araya, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
- Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK
- Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Sherif Karama
- Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- Genomics England, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Public Psychiatry Division, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Masataka Kikuchi
- Department of Genome Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Biometry, Informatics and Epidemiology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Annchen R. Knodt
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Bernd Krämer
- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
- Centre for Translational Research in Systems Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore
- Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Thomas M. Lancaster
- Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada
- McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas-UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
- BRAINN-Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand
- New Zealand Brain Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Brain Research New Zealand-Rangahau Roro Aotearoa, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health and Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC/Vrije Universiteit and GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Institute of Neurogenomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- BRAINN-Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Campinas, Brazil
- IC-Institute of Computing, Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute of Brain Research, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany
- Institute of Translational Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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- Centre for Neuroimaging and Cognitive Genomics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
- Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharmaceuticals, Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba, Ibaraki , Japan
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Biostatistics and Computational Biology Unit, University of Otago, Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science, University of Otago, Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand
- New Zealand Brain Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Brain Research New Zealand-Rangahau Roro Aotearoa, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Priority Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Centre for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital HT, Nesodden, Norway
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas-UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
- BRAINN-Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Campinas, Brazil
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Arvin Saremi
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Andrew J. Saykin
- Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
| | - Fenja Schlag
- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Lianne Schmaal
- Orygen, The National Centre of Excellence for Youth Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- The Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Department of Psychiatry, Vrije Universiteit University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - Peter R. Schofield
- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Rodrigo Secolin
- Department of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas-UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
- BRAINN-Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Campinas, Brazil
| | - Chin Yang Shapland
- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Li Shen
- Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
| | - Jean Shin
- The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Population Neuroscience & Developmental Neuroimaging, Bloorview Research Institute, University of Toronto, East York, ON, Canada
| | - Elena Shumskaya
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Ida E. Sønderby
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
| | - Emma Sprooten
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Katherine E. Tansey
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
| | - Alexander Teumer
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Anbupalam Thalamuthu
- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Diana Tordesillas-Gutiérrez
- Neuroimaging Unit, Technological Facilities, Valdecilla Biomedical Research Institute IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
- Centro Investigacion Biomedica en Red Salud Mental, Santander, Spain
| | - Jessica A. Turner
- Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM, USA
| | - Anne Uhlmann
- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
| | - Costanza L. Vallerga
- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
| | - Dennis van derMeer
- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- School of Mental Health and Neuroscience, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
| | | | - Liza van Eijk
- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
| | - Theo G. M. van Erp
- Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, School of Medicine University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
| | - Neeltje E. M. van Haren
- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
| | - Daan van Rooij
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Marie-José van Tol
- Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
| | - Jan H. Veldink
- Department of Neurology, Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - Ellen Verhoef
- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Esther Walton
- Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Bristol, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK
| | - Mingyuan Wang
- Research Division, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore
| | - Yunpeng Wang
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - Joanna M. Wardlaw
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Edinburgh Imaging, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- UK Dementia Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Wei Wen
- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Lars T. Westlye
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - Christopher D. Whelan
- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Stephanie H. Witt
- Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
| | - Katharina Wittfeld
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Rostock/Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Christiane Wolf
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
| | - Thomas Wolfers
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Jing Qin Wu
- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
| | - Clarissa L. Yasuda
- BRAINN-Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Campinas, Brazil
- Department of Neurology, FCM, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
| | - Dario Zaremba
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - Zuo Zhang
- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
| | - Marcel P. Zwiers
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Eric Artiges
- INSERM ERL Developmental Trajectories and Psychiatry; Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Université de Paris, and CNRS 9010, Centre Borelli, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
| | - Amelia A. Assareh
- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Rosa Ayesa-Arriola
- Centro Investigacion Biomedica en Red Salud Mental, Santander, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria–IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
| | - Aysenil Belger
- Duke UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
| | - Christine L. Brandt
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - Gregory G. Brown
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
- VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
| | - Sven Cichon
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
| | - Joanne E. Curran
- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, USA
| | | | - Franziska Degenhardt
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, School of Medicine and University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Michelle F. Dennis
- Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center for Post Deployment Mental Health, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Bruno Dietsche
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
| | - Srdjan Djurovic
- Department of Medical Genetics, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
| | - Colin P. Doherty
- Department of Neurology, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Academic Unit of Neurology, TBSI, Dublin, Ireland
- Future Neuro, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Ryan Espiritu
- Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Daniel Garijo
- Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Yolanda Gil
- Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Penny A. Gowland
- Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
| | - Robert C. Green
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- The Broad Institute, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Alexander N. Häusler
- Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
| | - Walter Heindel
- Department of Clinical Radiology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - Beng-Choon Ho
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
| | - Wolfgang U. Hoffmann
- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Rostock/Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Florian Holsboer
- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
- HMNC Holding GmbH, Munich, Germany
| | - Georg Homuth
- University Medicine Greifswald, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Department of Functional Genomics, Greifswald, Germany
| | - Norbert Hosten
- Institute of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | | | - MiHyun Jang
- Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Andreas Jansen
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Core-Unit Brainimaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
| | - Nathan A. Kimbrel
- Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center for Post Deployment Mental Health, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Knut Kolskår
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital HT, Nesodden, Norway
| | - Sanne Koops
- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - Axel Krug
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
| | - Kelvin O. Lim
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
| | - Jurjen J. Luykx
- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Department of Translational Neuroscience, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- GGNet Mental Health, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
| | - Daniel H. Mathalon
- Department of Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Mental Health Service 116d, Veterans Affairs San Francisco Healthcare System, San Francisco, CA, USA
| | - Karen A. Mather
- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Venkata S. Mattay
- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
| | - Sarah Matthews
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Bristol, UK
| | - Jaqueline Mayoral Van Son
- Centro Investigacion Biomedica en Red Salud Mental, Santander, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria–IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
| | - Sarah C. McEwen
- Pacific Brain Health Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA
- John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, CA, USA
| | - Ingrid Melle
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - Derek W. Morris
- Centre for Neuroimaging and Cognitive Genomics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
| | - Bryon A. Mueller
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
| | - Matthias Nauck
- Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
| | | | - Markus M. Nöthen
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, School of Medicine and University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
| | - Daniel S. O’Leary
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
| | - Nils Opel
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - Marie-Laure Paillère Martinot
- INSERM ERL Developmental Trajectories and Psychiatry; Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Université de Paris, and CNRS 9010, Centre Borelli, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- APHP.Sorbonne Université, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France
| | - G. Bruce Pike
- Radiology and Clinical Neurosciences, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
| | - Adrian Preda
- School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
| | - Erin B. Quinlan
- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
| | - Paul E. Rasser
- Priority Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Priority Centre for Stroke and Brain Injury, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
| | - Varun Ratnakar
- Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Simone Reppermund
- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Vidar M. Steen
- NORMENT, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Dr. Einar Martens Research Group for Biological Psychiatry, Center for Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
| | - Paul A. Tooney
- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
| | - Fábio R. Torres
- Department of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas-UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
- BRAINN-Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Campinas, Brazil
| | - Dick J. Veltman
- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health and Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC/Vrije Universiteit and GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - James T. Voyvodic
- Duke UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
| | - Robert Whelan
- School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Tonya White
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Radiology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
| | - Hidenaga Yamamori
- Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
| | - Hieab H. H. Adams
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
| | - Joshua C. Bis
- Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Stephanie Debette
- INSERM, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, team VINTAGE, UMR 1219, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Department of Neurology, CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
| | - Charles Decarli
- Department of Neurology, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA
| | - Myriam Fornage
- Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
| | - Vilmundur Gudnason
- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
| | - Edith Hofer
- Clinical Division of Neurogeriatrics, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
| | - M. Arfan Ikram
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
| | - Lenore Launer
- Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - W. T. Longstreth
- Departments of Neurology and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Oscar L. Lopez
- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
| | - Bernard Mazoyer
- Neurodegenerative Diseases Institute UMR 5293, CNRS, CEA, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
| | - Thomas H. Mosley
- MIND Center, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
| | - Gennady V. Roshchupkin
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
| | - Claudia L. Satizabal
- Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
- Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Reinhold Schmidt
- Clinical Division of Neurogeriatrics, Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
| | - Sudha Seshadri
- Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Framingham Heart Study and Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Qiong Yang
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Marina K. M. Alvim
- BRAINN-Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Campinas, Brazil
- Department of Neurology, FCM, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
| | - David Ames
- Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- National Ageing Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
| | - Tim J. Anderson
- Department of Medicine, University of Otago, Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand
- New Zealand Brain Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Brain Research New Zealand-Rangahau Roro Aotearoa, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Department of Neurology, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand
| | - Ole A. Andreassen
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - Alejandro Arias-Vasquez
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Mark E. Bastin
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Edinburgh Imaging, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Bernhard T. Baune
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
| | - Jean C. Beckham
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
- VA Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center for Post Deployment Mental Health, Durham, VA Healthcare System, Durham, NC, USA
| | - John Blangero
- Department of Human Genetics and South Texas Diabetes and Obesity Institute, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Brownsville, TX, USA
| | - Dorret I. Boomsma
- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - Henry Brodaty
- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Dementia Centre for Research Collaboration, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
| | - Han G. Brunner
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Genetics and School for Oncology and Developmental Biology (GROW), Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands
| | - Randy L. Buckner
- Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
| | - Jan K. Buitelaar
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Juan R. Bustillo
- Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
| | - Wiepke Cahn
- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | - Murray J. Cairns
- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Priority Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Schizophrenia Research Institute, Randwick, NSW, Australia
| | - Vince Calhoun
- Tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
| | - Vaughan J. Carr
- School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
| | - Xavier Caseras
- MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
| | - Svenja Caspers
- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- JARA-BRAIN, Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance, Jülich, Germany
- Institute for Anatomy I, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany
| | - Gianpiero L. Cavalleri
- Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
- The SFI FutureNeuro Research Centre, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Fernando Cendes
- BRAINN-Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Campinas, Brazil
- Department of Neurology, FCM, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil
| | - Aiden Corvin
- Department of Psychiatry, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Benedicto Crespo-Facorro
- Centro Investigacion Biomedica en Red Salud Mental, Santander, Spain
- Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria–IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
- Hospital Universitario Virgen Del Rocio, IBiS, Universidad De Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
| | - John C. Dalrymple-Alford
- New Zealand Brain Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Brain Research New Zealand-Rangahau Roro Aotearoa, Christchurch, New Zealand
- School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
| | - Udo Dannlowski
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
| | - Eco J. C. de Geus
- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
| | - Ian J. Deary
- Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
| | - Norman Delanty
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
- Future Neuro, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Chantal Depondt
- Department of Neurology, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
| | - Sylvane Desrivières
- Centre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (PONS), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
| | - Gary Donohoe
- Centre for Neuroimaging and Cognitive Genomics, School of Psychology, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
| | - Thomas Espeseth
- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
| | - Guillén Fernández
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Simon E. Fisher
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
| | - Herta Flor
- Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Medical Genetics and Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, School of Medicine and University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry (UPK), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Centre for Human Genetics, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Olin Neuropsychiatric Research Center, Institute of Living, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA
- Tommy Fuss Center for Neuropsychiatric Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Rostock/Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Section for Experimental Psychopathology and Neuroimaging, Department of General Psychiatry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Psychiatry, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
- Molecular Research Center for Children’s Mental Development, United Graduate School of Child Development, Osaka University, Suita, Japan
- Department of Pathology of Mental Diseases, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Health Behaviour Research Group, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Maryland Psychiatry Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Comparative Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
- Department of Cognitive Science, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
- Center for Human Development, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- NORMENT-K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Centre for Psychiatric Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science, University of Otago, Christchurch, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Maryland Psychiatry Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Neurogenetics and Epigenetics, Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- NORMENT, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Dr. Einar Martens Research Group for Biological Psychiatry, Center for Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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- School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Hunter New England Mental Health Service, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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- Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- INSERM ERL Developmental Trajectories and Psychiatry; Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Université de Paris, and CNRS 9010, Centre Borelli, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Centre for Neuroimaging and Cognitive Genomics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Faculty of Health, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Herston Imaging Research Facility, School of Clinical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
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- Duke UNC Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
- Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center for Post Deployment Mental Health, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
- Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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- Emma Children’s Hospital Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Pediatrics, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Clinical Neuropsychology section, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
- NorthWestern Mental Health, Sunshine Hospital, St Albans, VIC, Australia
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- Bloorview Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Centre for Developing Brain, Child Mind Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam Public Health and Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC/Vrije Universiteit and GGZ inGeest, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Genetic Epidemiology in Psychiatry, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Maryland Psychiatry Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Neuropsychiatric Institute, The Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Priority Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Centre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (PONS), Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
- PONS Research Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapie, Charité Campus Mitte, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
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- School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
- Division of Molecular Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights, NSW, Australia
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- General Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
- Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy, ChalfontSt-Peter, UK
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- Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
- Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
- Department of Medical and Biological Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- SAMRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- Division of Mind and Brain Research, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience, Genetics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Center for Sleep and Cognition, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Genetics and UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Psychiatric Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Blum K, Bowirrat A, Baron D, Lott L, Ponce JV, Brewer R, Siwicki D, Boyett B, Gondre-Lewis MC, Smith DE, Panayotis K T, Badgaiyan S, Hauser M, Fried L, A R, Downs BW, Badgaiyan RD. Biotechnical development of genetic addiction risk score (GARS) and selective evidence for inclusion of polymorphic allelic risk in substance use disorder (SUD). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 6. [PMID: 33614164 PMCID: PMC7891477 DOI: 10.15761/jsin.1000221] [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] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Research into the neurogenetic basis of addiction identified and characterized by Reward Deficiency Syndrome (RDS) includes all drug and non-drug addictive, obsessive and compulsive behaviors. We are proposing herein that a new model for the prevention and treatment of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) a subset of RDS behaviors, based on objective biologic evidence, should be given serious consideration in the face of a drug epidemic. The development of the Genetic Addiction Risk Score (GARS) followed seminal research in 1990, whereby, Blum’s group identified the first genetic association with severe alcoholism published in JAMA. While it is true that no one to date has provided adequate RDS free controls there have been many studies using case –controls whereby SUD has been eliminated. We argue that this deficiency needs to be addressed in the field and if adopted appropriately many spurious results would be eliminated reducing confusion regarding the role of genetics in addiction. However, an estimation, based on these previous literature results provided herein, while not representative of all association studies known to date, this sampling of case- control studies displays significant associations between alcohol and drug risk. In fact, we present a total of 110,241 cases and 122,525 controls derived from the current literature. We strongly suggest that while we may take argument concerning many of these so-called controls (e.g. blood donors) it is quite remarkable that there are a plethora of case –control studies indicating selective association of these risk alleles ( measured in GARS) for the most part indicating a hypodopaminergia. The paper presents the detailed methodology of the GARS. Data collection procedures, instrumentation, and the analytical approach used to obtain GARS and subsequent research objectives are described. Can we combat SUD through early genetic risk screening in the addiction field enabling early intervention by the induction of dopamine homeostasis? It is envisaged that GARS type of screening will provide a novel opportunity to help identify causal pathways and associated mechanisms of genetic factors, psychological characteristics, and addictions awaiting additional scientific evidence including a future meta- analysis of all available data –a work in progress.
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- K Blum
- Western University Health Sciences Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA.,Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX, USA.,Division Addiction Services, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingston, RI, USA.,Division of Nutrigenomics, Victory Nutrition International. Inc. Lederach, PA, USA.,Divion of Neuroscience & Addiction Research, Pathway HealthCare, LLC, Birmingham, AL.,Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.,Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont, Burlington, VM. USA.,Centre for Genomics and Applied Gene Technology, Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology, Nonakuri, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India.,Department of Psychiatry, Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine and Dayton VA Medical Centre, Dayton, OH, USA
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- Departments of Clinical Neuroscience and Population Genetics, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Department of Neuroscience, Israel
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- Western University Health Sciences Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA
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- Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Divion of Neuroscience & Addiction Research, Pathway HealthCare, LLC, Birmingham, AL
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- National Human Genome Center, Howard University, Washington DC, USA.,Departments of Anatomy, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington DC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, USA
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- Behavioral Neuropharmacology and Neuroimaging Laboratory on Addictions, Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Division Addiction Services, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingston, RI, USA
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- Transformations Treatment Center, Del-Ray Beach, FL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Division of Nutrigenomics, Victory Nutrition International. Inc. Lederach, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY., USA.,Department of Psychiatry, South Texas Veteran Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital, San Antonio, TX, USA.,Long School of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Center, San Antonio, USAInstituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía
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Kornhuber KTI, Seidel H, Pujol C, Meierhofer C, Röschenthaler F, Pressler A, Stöckl A, Nagdyman N, Neidenbach RC, von Hundelshausen P, Halle M, Holdenrieder S, Ewert P, Kaemmerer H, Hauser M. Hemostatic abnormalities in adult patients with Marfan syndrome. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther 2019; 9:S209-S220. [PMID: 31737529 DOI: 10.21037/cdt.2019.08.09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Background Aortic root ectasia might induce hemostatic disorders in patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS) via altered blood flow and rheology. The aim of this study was to explore the hemostasis in patients with MFS compared with healthy controls. Methods In this cross-sectional case-control study we included patients with verified MFS (n=51) and sex- and age-matched healthy controls (n=50). Main criteria were the aortic root in echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and the coagulation status. Results When compared with healthy controls, patients with MFS showed significantly increased diameters of the aortic roots (43.0±7.72 vs. 28.8±3.74 mm, P<0.001) and aortic Z-scores (4.36±2.77 vs. 0.948±1.09, P<0.001), considerably higher values of Multiplate® tests (e.g., MP-ADP: 878.4±201.7 vs. 660.4±243.6 AU*min, P<0.001) and PFA-100® tests (PFA Col/ADP: 102.5±45.5 vs. 91.1±46.2 s, P<0.05), PTT (30.0±3.91 vs. 28.7±2.50 s, P<0.05) and D-dimers (0.488±0.665 vs. 0.254±0.099 mg/L, P<0.001). In MFS von Willebrand factor (VWF) activity (81.9%±41.8% vs. 106.3%±41.5%, P<0.05) and antigen (93.8%±43.9% vs. 118.8%±47.8%, P<0.05) and factor VIII activity (108.9%±29.6% vs. 126.7%±28.4%, P<0.05) were reduced. Significant positive correlations were found between aortic diameters and D-dimers (all P<0.05), as well as PFA Col/ADP (all P<0.01) in MFS patients. Factor VIII activity correlated significantly negatively with the diameter of the aortic root in MFS (r=-0.55, P<0.05). Conclusions In conclusion, our study reveals hemostatic deviations in patients with MFS. Further studies are necessary to understand the causal relationship and the exact pathomechanism.
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- Katharina T I Kornhuber
- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Outpatients' Clinic for Prevention, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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- Outpatients' Clinic for Prevention, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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Blum K, Gondré-Lewis MC, Modestino EJ, Lott L, Baron D, Siwicki D, McLaughlin T, Howeedy A, Krengel MH, Oscar-Berman M, Thanos PK, Elman I, Hauser M, Fried L, Bowirrat A, Badgaiyan RD. Understanding the Scientific Basis of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Precision Behavioral Management Overrides Stigmatization. Mol Neurobiol 2019; 56:7836-7850. [PMID: 31124077 DOI: 10.1007/s12035-019-1600-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [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: 11/25/2018] [Accepted: 04/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe polygenic disorder triggered by environmental factors. Many polymorphic genes, particularly the genetic determinants of hypodopaminergia (low dopamine function), associate with a predisposition to PTSD as well as substance use disorder. Support from the National Institutes of Health for neuroimaging research and molecular, genetic applied technologies has improved understanding of brain reward circuitry functions that have inspired the development of new innovative approaches to their early diagnosis and treatment of some PTSD symptomatology and addiction. This review presents psychosocial and genetic evidence that vulnerability or resilience to PTSD can theoretically be impacted by dopamine regulation. From a neuroscience perspective, dopamine is widely accepted as a major neurotransmitter. Questions about how to modulate dopamine clinically in order to treat and prevent PTSD and other types of reward deficiency disorders remain. Identification of genetic variations associated with the relevant genotype-phenotype relationships can be characterized using the Genetic Addiction Risk Score (GARS®) and psychosocial tools. Development of an advanced genetic panel is under study and will be based on a new array of genes linked to PTSD. However, for now, the recommendation is that enlistees for military duty be given the opportunity to voluntarily pre-test for risk of PTSD with GARS, before exposure to environmental triggers or upon return from deployment as part of PTSD management. Dopamine homeostasis may be achieved via customization of neuronutrient supplementation "Precision Behavioral Management" (PBM™) based on GARS test values and other pro-dopamine regulation interventions like exercise, mindfulness, biosensor tracking, and meditation.
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- Kenneth Blum
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Western University Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA. .,Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. .,Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright University, Dayton, OH, USA. .,Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX, USA. .,Division of Neurogenetic Research & Addiction Therapy, The Florida House Experience, Deerfield Beach, FL, USA. .,Division of Addiction Services, Dominion Diagnostics, North Kingston, RI, USA. .,Division of Neuroscience & Addiction Research, Pathway Healthcare, LLC., Burmingham, AL, USA.
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- Department of Anatomy, Developmental Neuropsychopharmacology Laboratory, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA
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- Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Western University Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA
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- Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX, USA.,Division of Addiction Services, Dominion Diagnostics, North Kingston, RI, USA
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- Center for Psychiatric Medicine, Lawrence, MA, USA
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- Division of Neurogenetic Research & Addiction Therapy, The Florida House Experience, Deerfield Beach, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine and VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine and VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
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- Behavioral Neuropharmacology & Neuroimaging Laboratory on Addiction, Research Institute on Addictions, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA
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- Division of Addiction Services, Dominion Diagnostics, North Kingston, RI, USA
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- Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX, USA.,Transformations Treatment Center, Delray Beach, FL, USA
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- Division of Anatomy, Biochemistry and Genetics Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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This letter deals with neural networks as dynamical systems governed by finite difference equations. It shows that the introduction of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>k</mml:mi></mml:math> -many skip connections into network architectures, such as residual networks and additive dense networks, defines <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>k</mml:mi></mml:math> th order dynamical equations on the layer-wise transformations. Closed-form solutions for the state-space representations of general <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>k</mml:mi></mml:math> th order additive dense networks, where the concatenation operation is replaced by addition, as well as <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>k</mml:mi></mml:math> th order smooth networks, are found. The developed provision endows deep neural networks with an algebraic structure. Furthermore, it is shown that imposing <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>k</mml:mi></mml:math> th order smoothness on network architectures with <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>d</mml:mi></mml:math> -many nodes per layer increases the state-space dimension by a multiple of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi>k</mml:mi></mml:math> , and so the effective embedding dimension of the data manifold by the neural network is <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mo>·</mml:mo><mml:mi>d</mml:mi></mml:mrow></mml:math> -many dimensions. It follows that network architectures of these types reduce the number of parameters needed to maintain the same embedding dimension by a factor of <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msup><mml:mi>k</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msup></mml:math> when compared to an equivalent first-order, residual network. Numerical simulations and experiments on CIFAR10, SVHN, and MNIST have been conducted to help understand the developed theory and efficacy of the proposed concepts.
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- Michael Hauser
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.
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Barker C, Brown T, Hauser M, Thorpe R, Whitfield K. COPING AS A PREDICTOR OF HEALTH AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN SIBLINGS; PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM (SOLSAA). Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.2434] [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: 11/14/2022] Open
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- C Barker
- Center for Biobehavioral Health Disparities Research
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Whitfield KE, Thorpe RJ, Brown T, Barker C, Maher B, Hauser M. STRESS AND LONGEVITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.1245] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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- K E Whitfield
- Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
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- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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Neidenbach RC, Lummert E, Vigl M, Zachoval R, Fischereder M, Engelhardt A, Pujol C, Oberhoffer R, Nagdyman N, Ewert P, Hauser M, Kaemmerer H. Non-cardiac comorbidities in adults with inherited and congenital heart disease: report from a single center experience of more than 800 consecutive patients. Cardiovasc Diagn Ther 2018; 8:423-431. [PMID: 30214857 DOI: 10.21037/cdt.2018.03.11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Background As a result of improved surgical and therapeutical management, more than 90% of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) reach adulthood. However, the natural course of CHD is complicated by noncardiac medical problems. Aim of the study was to evaluate noncardiac comorbidities in a contemporary cohort of adults with CHD (ACHD). Methods In a tertiary care center for ACHD, 821 consecutive patients, admitted to the outpatient clinic, were evaluated for clinically relevant noncardiac comorbidities. Results The consecutively included patients (age: range, 15-80 years; 56% female) represent all types and severity grades of acyanotic and cyanotic CHD. A considerable proportion of ACHD had significant noncardiac comorbidities, which have the potential to profoundly influence the natural course of the underlying disease. In 95.5%, relevant non-cardiac comorbidities were apparent, that could be related to 16 special medical fields as endocrinologic/metabolic disease, gastroenterology/hepatology, gynecology/obstetrics, angiology, orthopedics, neurology/psychiatry and others. Most frequently seen comorbidities were endocrine and metabolic disorders (43.97%). Conclusions Non-cardiac comorbidities are increasingly common in ACHD. The data revealed non-cardiac comorbidities as they were presented in the cohort of ACHD seen in a tertiary center. The study proves that ACHD with significant non-cardiac comorbidities need multidisciplinary care by medical organ specialists, aside the congenital cardiologist, with a deep knowledge about congenital heart defects, the special effects of the organ disease on the particular heart defect and, how the heart defect may affect the course of the particular organ disease. The study may create the basis for the development of screening programs for comorbidities in ACHD as well as a multidisciplinary concept for diagnosis and treatment of concomitant disorders or for disease prevention. Particularly disease prevention may improve quality of life as well as the further fate of the affected patients.
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- Rhoia Clara Neidenbach
- Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Deutsches Institut für Ernährungsforschung (DIFE), Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Nuthetal, Germany
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Nephrology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany.,Preventive Pediatrics, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center Munich, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
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Asam C, Roulias A, Parigiani MA, Haab A, Wallner M, Wolf M, Briza P, Bohle B, Ferreira F, Hauser M. Harmonization of the Genetic Code Effectively Enhances the Recombinant Production of the Major Birch Pollen Allergen Bet v 1. Int Arch Allergy Immunol 2018; 177:116-122. [PMID: 29940558 DOI: 10.1159/000489707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [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: 02/13/2018] [Accepted: 04/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Enhancing the quality and yield of protein production in heterologous expression systems is an important issue for developing new biopharmaceuticals. It has been shown that the dynamics of protein folding is influenced by codon frequencies. As codon usage frequencies are species specific, this can affect heterologous protein expression. In this respect, "codon harmonization," that is, the usage of synonymous codons with usage frequencies in the host resembling the usage frequencies in the native organism, is a promising strategy. As recombinant proteins are important tools in the area of allergy research, we investigated in this study the influence of codon harmonization on the production of the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1.0101. METHODS To accomplish this task, parallel production of several batches of rBet v 1, BWT, together with a harmonized variant, BH, was applied. The expression yield of soluble and insoluble protein was assayed via densitometric analysis of -SDS-PAGEs for every batch. The quality of purified proteins was assessed with a variety of physicochemical methods including mass spectrometry, circular dichroism, dynamic light scattering, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, in vitro degradation, and 1-anilino-8-naphthalene sulfonate-binding assays. Patients' IgE reactivity was tested in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and rat basophil mediator release experiments. RESULTS No significant differences in the ligand-binding capacity and secondary structure elements, as well as, in immunological assays could be found; however, the production yield was drastically increased for BH. CONCLUSION We could show that codon harmonization is a powerful method to enhance protein yields in heterologous expression systems and should be considered especially for difficult-to-express proteins.
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- Claudia Asam
- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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Wolf M, Aglas L, Twaroch TE, Steiner M, Huber S, Hauser M, Hofer H, Parigiani MA, Ebner C, Bohle B, Briza P, Neubauer A, Stolz F, Wallner M, Ferreira F. Endolysosomal protease susceptibility of Amb a 1 as a determinant of allergenicity. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2018; 141:1488-1491.e5. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2016] [Revised: 09/27/2017] [Accepted: 10/18/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Meinild Lundby AK, Jacobs RA, Gehrig S, de Leur J, Hauser M, Bonne TC, Flück D, Dandanell S, Kirk N, Kaech A, Ziegler U, Larsen S, Lundby C. Exercise training increases skeletal muscle mitochondrial volume density by enlargement of existing mitochondria and not de novo biogenesis. Acta Physiol (Oxf) 2018; 222. [PMID: 28580772 DOI: 10.1111/apha.12905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [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: 10/28/2016] [Revised: 12/01/2016] [Accepted: 05/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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AIMS (i) To determine whether exercise-induced increases in muscle mitochondrial volume density (MitoVD ) are related to enlargement of existing mitochondria or de novo biogenesis and (ii) to establish whether measures of mitochondrial-specific enzymatic activities are valid biomarkers for exercise-induced increases in MitoVD . METHOD Skeletal muscle samples were collected from 21 healthy males prior to and following 6 weeks of endurance training. Transmission electron microscopy was used for the estimation of mitochondrial densities and profiles. Biochemical assays, western blotting and high-resolution respirometry were applied to detect changes in specific mitochondrial functions. RESULT MitoVD increased with 55 ± 9% (P < 0.001), whereas the number of mitochondrial profiles per area of skeletal muscle remained unchanged following training. Citrate synthase activity (CS) increased (44 ± 12%, P < 0.001); however, there were no functional changes in oxidative phosphorylation capacity (OXPHOS, CI+IIP ) or cytochrome c oxidase (COX) activity. Correlations were found between MitoVD and CS (P = 0.01; r = 0.58), OXPHOS, CI+CIIP (P = 0.01; R = 0.58) and COX (P = 0.02; R = 0.52) before training; after training, a correlation was found between MitoVD and CS activity only (P = 0.04; R = 0.49). Intrinsic respiratory capacities decreased (P < 0.05) with training when respiration was normalized to MitoVD. This was not the case when normalized to CS activity although the percentage change was comparable. CONCLUSIONS: MitoVD was increased by inducing mitochondrial enlargement rather than de novo biogenesis. CS activity may be appropriate to track training-induced changes in MitoVD.
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- A.-K. Meinild Lundby
- Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology; Institute of Physiology; University of Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology; Institute of Physiology; University of Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
- Department of Biology; University of Colorado; Denver CO USA
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- Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology; Institute of Physiology; University of Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology; Institute of Physiology; University of Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology; Institute of Physiology; University of Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology; Institute of Physiology; University of Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology; Institute of Physiology; University of Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences; University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen Denmark
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- Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology; Institute of Physiology; University of Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis; University of Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis; University of Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences; University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen Denmark
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- Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology; Institute of Physiology; University of Zürich; Zürich Switzerland
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Blum K, Gold M, Modestino EJ, Baron D, Boyett B, Siwicki D, Lott L, Podesta A, Roy AK, Hauser M, Downs BW, Badgaiyan RD. Would induction of dopamine homeostasis via coupling genetic addiction risk score (GARS®) and pro-dopamine regulation benefit benzodiazepine use disorder (BUD)? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018; 4. [PMID: 31750006 PMCID: PMC6865059 DOI: 10.15761/jsin.1000196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [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] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
Abstract
Prescriptions for Benzodiazepines (BZDs) have risen continually. According to national statistics, the combination of BZDs with opioids has increased since 1999. BZDs (sometimes called “benzos”) work to calm or sedate a person by raising the level of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA in the brain. In terms of neurochemistry, BZDs act at the GABAA receptors to inhibit excitatory neurons, reducing VTA glutaminergic drive to reduce dopamine release at the Nucleus accumbens. Benzodiazepine Use Disorder (BUD) is very difficult to treat, partly because BZDs are used to reduce anxiety which paradoxically induces hypodopaminergia. Considering this, we are proposing a paradigm shift. Instead of simply targeting chloride channel direct GABAA receptors for replacement or substitution therapy, we propose the induction of dopamine homeostasis. Our rationale is supported by the well-established notion that the root cause of drug and non-drug addictions (i.e. Reward Deficiency Syndrome [RDS]), at least in adults, involve dopaminergic dysfunction and heightened stress. This proposition involves coupling the Genetic Addiction Risk Score (GARS) with a subsequent polymorphic matched genetic customized Pro-Dopamine Regulator known as KB220ZPBM (Precision Behavioral Management). Induction of dopamine homeostasis will be clinically beneficial in attempts to combat BUD for at least three reasons: 1) During detoxification of alcoholism, the potential induction of dopamine regulation reduces the need for BZDs; 2) A major reason for BZD abuse is because people want to achieve stress reduction and subsequently, the potential induction of dopamine regulation acts as an anti-stress factor; and 3) BUD and OUD are known to reduce resting state functional connectivity, and as such, potential induction of dopamine regulation enhances resting state functional connectivity. Future randomized placebo-controlled studies will investigate this forward thinking proposed novel modality.
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- K Blum
- Western University Health Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA.,Division of Nutrigenomics, Geneus Health, LLC., San Antonio, TX, USA.,Division of Neuroscience & Addiction Research, Pathway Healthcare, LLc., Birmingham, AL, USA.,Division of Addiction Services, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingstown, RI, USA.,Division of Nutrigenomic Research, Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA
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- Western University Health Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA.,Division of Nutrigenomics, Geneus Health, LLC., San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Division of Neuroscience & Addiction Research, Pathway Healthcare, LLc., Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Division of Nutrigenomics, Geneus Health, LLC., San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Division of Nutrigenomics, Geneus Health, LLC., San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of psychiatry, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Department of psychiatry, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Division of Addiction Services, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingstown, RI, USA
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- Division of Nutrigenomic Research, Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Administration Hospital at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Wolf M, Twaroch TE, Huber S, Reithofer M, Steiner M, Aglas L, Hauser M, Aloisi I, Asam C, Hofer H, Parigiani MA, Ebner C, Bohle B, Briza P, Neubauer A, Stolz F, Jahn-Schmid B, Wallner M, Ferreira F. Amb a 1 isoforms: Unequal siblings with distinct immunological features. Allergy 2017; 72:1874-1882. [PMID: 28464293 PMCID: PMC5700413 DOI: 10.1111/all.13196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [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] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Background Ragweed pollen represents a major allergy risk factor. Ragweed extracts contain five different isoforms of the major allergen Amb a 1. However, the immunological characteristics of Amb a 1 isoforms are not fully investigated. Here, we compared the physicochemical and immunological properties of three most important Amb a 1 isoforms. Methods After purification, the isoforms were physicochemically characterized, tested for antibody binding and induction of human T‐cell proliferative responses. Their immunological properties were further evaluated in vitro and in vivo in a mouse model. Results Amb a 1 isoforms exhibited distinct patterns of IgE binding and immunogenicity. Compared to Amb a 1.02 or 03 isoforms, Amb a 1.01 showed higher IgE‐binding activity. Isoforms 01 and 03 were the most potent stimulators of patients’ T cells. In a mouse model of immunization, Amb a 1.01 induced higher levels of IgG and IgE antibodies when compared to isoforms 02 and 03. Interestingly, ragweed‐sensitized patients also displayed an IgG response to Amb a 1 isoforms. However, unlike therapy‐induced antibodies, sensitization‐induced IgG did not show IgE‐blocking activity. Conclusion The present study showed that naturally occurring isoforms of Amb a 1 possess different immunogenic and sensitizing properties. These findings should be considered when selecting sequences for molecule‐based diagnosis and therapy for ragweed allergy. Due to its high IgE‐binding activity, isoform Amb a 1.01 should be included in diagnostic tests. In contrast, due to their limited B‐ and T‐cell cross‐reactivity patterns, a combination of different isoforms might be a more attractive strategy for ragweed immunotherapy.
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- M. Wolf
- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research; Medical University of Vienna; Vienna Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
- Laboratory for Immunological and
Molecular Cancer Research; Paracelsus Medical University; Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences; University of Bologna; Bologna Italy
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- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Allergy Clinic Reumannplatz; Vienna Austria
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research; Medical University of Vienna; Vienna Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Biomay AG; Vienna Competence Center; Vienna Austria
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- Biomay AG; Vienna Competence Center; Vienna Austria
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research; Medical University of Vienna; Vienna Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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Petry T, Bury D, Fautz R, Hauser M, Huber B, Markowetz A, Mishra S, Rettinger K, Schuh W, Teichert T. Review of data on the dermal penetration of mineral oils and waxes used in cosmetic applications. Toxicol Lett 2017; 280:70-78. [PMID: 28789996 DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2017.07.899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [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: 04/13/2017] [Revised: 07/25/2017] [Accepted: 07/31/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Mineral oils and waxes used in cosmetic products, also referred to as "personal care products" outside the European Union, are mixtures of predominantly saturated hydrocarbons consisting of straight-chain, branched and ring structures with carbon chain lengths greater than C16. They are used in skin and lip care cosmetic products due to their excellent skin tolerance as well as their high protecting and cleansing performance and broad viscosity options. Recently, concerns have been raised regarding potential adverse health effects of mineral oils and waxes from dermal application of cosmetics. In order to be able to assess the risk for the consumer the dermal penetration potential of these ingredients has to be evaluated. The scope and objective of this review are to identify and summarize publicly available literature on the dermal penetration of mineral oils and waxes as used in cosmetic products. For this purpose, a comprehensive literature search was conducted. A total of 13 in vivo (human, animal) and in vitro studies investigating the dermal penetration of mineral oils and waxes has been identified and analysed. The majority of the substances were dermally adsorbed to the stratum corneum and only a minor fraction reached deeper skin layers. Overall, there is no evidence from the various studies that mineral oils and waxes are percutaneously absorbed and become systemically available. Thus, given the absence of dermal uptake, mineral oils and waxes as used in cosmetic products do not present a risk to the health of the consumer.
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- T Petry
- ToxMinds B.V.B.A., Avenue de Broqueville 116, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium.
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- L'Oréal Safety R&I, Worldwide Safety Evaluation, 9 rue Pierre Dreyfus, F-92110 Clichy, France
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- Kao Germany GmbH, Pfungstädter Strasse 98-100, D-64297 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Johnson & Johnson GmbH, Johnson & Johnson Platz 2, D-41470 Neuss, Germany
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- IKW - The German Cosmetic, Toiletry, Perfumery and Detergent Association, Mainzer Landstrasse 55, D-60 329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Procter & Gamble Service GmbH, Sulzbacher Str. 40, D-65824 Schwalbach am Taunus, Germany
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- ToxMinds B.V.B.A., Avenue de Broqueville 116, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium
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- IKW - The German Cosmetic, Toiletry, Perfumery and Detergent Association, Mainzer Landstrasse 55, D-60 329 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Henkelstraße 67, D-40589 Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Beiersdorf AG, Unnastrasse 48, D-20245 Hamburg, Germany
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Aung T, Ozaki M, Lee MC, Schlötzer-Schrehardt U, Thorleifsson G, Mizoguchi T, Igo RP, Haripriya A, Williams SE, Astakhov YS, Orr AC, Burdon KP, Nakano S, Mori K, Abu-Amero K, Hauser M, Li Z, Prakadeeswari G, Bailey JNC, Cherecheanu AP, Kang JH, Nelson S, Hayashi K, Manabe SI, Kazama S, Zarnowski T, Inoue K, Irkec M, Coca-Prados M, Sugiyama K, Järvelä I, Schlottmann P, Lerner SF, Lamari H, Nilgün Y, Bikbov M, Park KH, Cha SC, Yamashiro K, Zenteno JC, Jonas JB, Kumar RS, Perera SA, Chan ASY, Kobakhidze N, George R, Vijaya L, Do T, Edward DP, de Juan Marcos L, Pakravan M, Moghimi S, Ideta R, Bach-Holm D, Kappelgaard P, Wirostko B, Thomas S, Gaston D, Bedard K, Greer WL, Yang Z, Chen X, Huang L, Sang J, Jia H, Jia L, Qiao C, Zhang H, Liu X, Zhao B, Wang YX, Xu L, Leruez S, Reynier P, Chichua G, Tabagari S, Uebe S, Zenkel M, Berner D, Mossböck G, Weisschuh N, Hoja U, Welge-Luessen UC, Mardin C, Founti P, Chatzikyriakidou A, Pappas T, Anastasopoulos E, Lambropoulos A, Ghosh A, Shetty R, Porporato N, Saravanan V, Venkatesh R, Shivkumar C, Kalpana N, Sarangapani S, Kanavi MR, Beni AN, Yazdani S, Lashay A, Naderifar H, Khatibi N, Fea A, Lavia C, Dallorto L, Rolle T, Frezzotti P, Paoli D, Salvi E, Manunta P, Mori Y, Miyata K, Higashide T, Chihara E, Ishiko S, Yoshida A, Yanagi M, Kiuchi Y, Ohashi T, Sakurai T, Sugimoto T, Chuman H, Aihara M, Inatani M, Miyake M, Gotoh N, Matsuda F, Yoshimura N, Ikeda Y, Ueno M, Sotozono C, Jeoung JW, Sagong M, Park KH, Ahn J, Cruz-Aguilar M, Ezzouhairi SM, Rafei A, Chong YF, Ng XY, Goh SR, Chen Y, Yong VHK, Khan MI, Olawoye OO, Ashaye AO, Ugbede I, Onakoya A, Kizor-Akaraiwe N, Teekhasaenee C, Suwan Y, Supakontanasan W, Okeke S, Uche NJ, Asimadu I, Ayub H, Akhtar F, Kosior-Jarecka E, Lukasik U, Lischinsky I, Castro V, Grossmann RP, Sunaric Megevand G, Roy S, Dervan E, Silke E, Rao A, Sahay P, Fornero P, Cuello O, Sivori D, Zompa T, Mills RA, Souzeau E, Mitchell P, Wang JJ, Hewitt AW, Coote M, Crowston JG, Astakhov SY, Akopov EL, Emelyanov A, Vysochinskaya V, Kazakbaeva G, Fayzrakhmanov R, Al-Obeidan SA, Owaidhah O, Aljasim LA, Chowbay B, Foo JN, Soh RQ, Sim KS, Xie Z, Cheong AWO, Mok SQ, Soo HM, Chen XY, Peh SQ, Heng KK, Husain R, Ho SL, Hillmer AM, Cheng CY, Escudero-Domínguez FA, González-Sarmiento R, Martinon-Torres F, Salas A, Pathanapitoon K, Hansapinyo L, Wanichwecharugruang B, Kitnarong N, Sakuntabhai A, Nguyn HX, Nguyn GTT, Nguyn TV, Zenz W, Binder A, Klobassa DS, Hibberd ML, Davila S, Herms S, Nöthen MM, Moebus S, Rautenbach RM, Ziskind A, Carmichael TR, Ramsay M, Álvarez L, García M, González-Iglesias H, Rodríguez-Calvo PP, Fernández-Vega Cueto L, Oguz Ç, Tamcelik N, Atalay E, Batu B, Aktas D, Kasım B, Wilson MR, Coleman AL, Liu Y, Challa P, Herndon L, Kuchtey RW, Kuchtey J, Curtin K, Chaya CJ, Crandall A, Zangwill LM, Wong TY, Nakano M, Kinoshita S, den Hollander AI, Vesti E, Fingert JH, Lee RK, Sit AJ, Shingleton BJ, Wang N, Cusi D, Qamar R, Kraft P, Pericak-Vance MA, Raychaudhuri S, Heegaard S, Kivelä T, Reis A, Kruse FE, Weinreb RN, Pasquale LR, Haines JL, Thorsteinsdottir U, Jonasson F, Allingham RR, Milea D, Ritch R, Kubota T, Tashiro K, Vithana EN, Micheal S, Topouzis F, Craig JE, Dubina M, Sundaresan P, Stefansson K, Wiggs JL, Pasutto F, Khor CC. Genetic association study of exfoliation syndrome identifies a protective rare variant at LOXL1 and five new susceptibility loci. Nat Genet 2017; 49:993-1004. [PMID: 28553957 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Accepted: 04/26/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Exfoliation syndrome (XFS) is the most common known risk factor for secondary glaucoma and a major cause of blindness worldwide. Variants in two genes, LOXL1 and CACNA1A, have previously been associated with XFS. To further elucidate the genetic basis of XFS, we collected a global sample of XFS cases to refine the association at LOXL1, which previously showed inconsistent results across populations, and to identify new variants associated with XFS. We identified a rare protective allele at LOXL1 (p.Phe407, odds ratio (OR) = 25, P = 2.9 × 10-14) through deep resequencing of XFS cases and controls from nine countries. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of XFS cases and controls from 24 countries followed by replication in 18 countries identified seven genome-wide significant loci (P < 5 × 10-8). We identified association signals at 13q12 (POMP), 11q23.3 (TMEM136), 6p21 (AGPAT1), 3p24 (RBMS3) and 5q23 (near SEMA6A). These findings provide biological insights into the pathology of XFS and highlight a potential role for naturally occurring rare LOXL1 variants in disease biology.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tin Aung
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
| | - Mineo Ozaki
- Ozaki Eye Hospital, Hyuga, Miyazaki, Japan.,Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
| | - Mei Chin Lee
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Academic Clinical Program for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Office of Clinical and Academic Faculty Affairs, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
| | - Ursula Schlötzer-Schrehardt
- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
| | | | | | - Robert P Igo
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| | | | - Susan E Williams
- Division of Ophthalmology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
| | - Yury S Astakhov
- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - Andrew C Orr
- Department of Ophthalmology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.,Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
| | - Kathryn P Burdon
- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.,Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
| | - Satoko Nakano
- Department of Ophthalmology, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan
| | - Kazuhiko Mori
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Khaled Abu-Amero
- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
| | - Michael Hauser
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
| | - Zheng Li
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
| | | | - Jessica N Cooke Bailey
- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
| | - Alina Popa Cherecheanu
- 'Carol Davila' University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania.,Department of Ophthalmology, University Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
| | - Jae H Kang
- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
| | - Sarah Nelson
- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
| | | | | | | | - Tomasz Zarnowski
- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
| | | | - Murat Irkec
- Department of Ophthalmology, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
| | - Miguel Coca-Prados
- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain.,Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
| | - Kazuhisa Sugiyama
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan
| | - Irma Järvelä
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
| | | | - S Fabian Lerner
- Fundación para el Estudio del Glaucoma, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - Hasnaa Lamari
- Clinique Spécialisée en Ophtalmologie Mohammedia, Mohammedia, Morocco
| | - Yildirim Nilgün
- Department of Ophthalmology, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Meselik, Eskisehir, Turkey
| | | | - Ki Ho Park
- Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Soon Cheol Cha
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea
| | - Kenji Yamashiro
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.,Department of Ophthalmology, Otsu Red Cross Hospital, Otsu, Japan
| | - Juan C Zenteno
- Genetics Department, Institute of Ophthalmology 'Conde de Valenciana', Mexico City, Mexico.,Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
| | - Jost B Jonas
- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany.,Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
| | | | - Shamira A Perera
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore
| | - Anita S Y Chan
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore.,Academic Clinical Program for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Office of Clinical and Academic Faculty Affairs, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
| | | | - Ronnie George
- Jadhavbhai Nathamal Singhvi Department of Glaucoma, Medical Research Foundation, Chennai, India
| | - Lingam Vijaya
- Jadhavbhai Nathamal Singhvi Department of Glaucoma, Medical Research Foundation, Chennai, India
| | - Tan Do
- Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology, Hanoi, Vietnam
| | - Deepak P Edward
- King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
| | - Lourdes de Juan Marcos
- Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.,Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain
| | - Mohammad Pakravan
- Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Sasan Moghimi
- Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University Eye Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | | | | | | | - Barbara Wirostko
- John A. Moran Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
| | - Samuel Thomas
- John A. Moran Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
| | - Daniel Gaston
- Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
| | - Karen Bedard
- Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
| | - Wenda L Greer
- Department of Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
| | - Zhenglin Yang
- Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Human Disease Gene Study, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.,School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
| | - Xueyi Chen
- Department of Ophthalmology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumchi, China
| | - Lulin Huang
- Center for Human Molecular Biology and Genetics, Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences and Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, China.,Sichuan Translational Research Hospital, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
| | - Jinghong Sang
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
| | - Hongyan Jia
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
| | - Liyun Jia
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China.,Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Chunyan Qiao
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
| | - Hui Zhang
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
| | - Xuyang Liu
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Shenzhen Eye Hospital, Jinan University, Shenzhen, China
| | - Bowen Zhao
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China.,Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Ya-Xing Wang
- Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
| | - Liang Xu
- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China
| | - Stéphanie Leruez
- Département d'Ophtalmologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Angers, France
| | - Pascal Reynier
- Département de Biochimie et Génétique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Angers, France
| | | | | | - Steffen Uebe
- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Matthias Zenkel
- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Daniel Berner
- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Georg Mossböck
- Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
| | - Nicole Weisschuh
- Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
| | - Ursula Hoja
- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Ulrich-Christoph Welge-Luessen
- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Christian Mardin
- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
| | - Panayiota Founti
- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - Anthi Chatzikyriakidou
- Laboratory of General Biology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - Theofanis Pappas
- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - Eleftherios Anastasopoulos
- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - Alexandros Lambropoulos
- Laboratory of General Biology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
| | - Arkasubhra Ghosh
- GROW Research Laboratory, Narayana Nethralaya Foundation, Bangalore, India
| | - Rohit Shetty
- Narayana Nethralaya Eye Hospital, Bangalore, India
| | | | - Vijayan Saravanan
- Department of Genetics, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Madurai, India
| | | | | | | | | | - Mozhgan R Kanavi
- Ocular Tissue Engineering Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Afsaneh Naderi Beni
- Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Shahin Yazdani
- Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Alireza Lashay
- Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University Eye Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Homa Naderifar
- Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University Eye Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Nassim Khatibi
- Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University Eye Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
| | - Antonio Fea
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - Carlo Lavia
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - Laura Dallorto
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - Teresa Rolle
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
| | - Paolo Frezzotti
- Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
| | - Daniela Paoli
- Department of Ophthalmology, Monfalcone Hospital, Gorizia, Italy
| | - Erika Salvi
- Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
| | - Paolo Manunta
- Department of Nephrology, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
| | | | | | - Tomomi Higashide
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa, Japan
| | | | - Satoshi Ishiko
- Department of Medicine and Engineering Combined Research Institute, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
| | - Akitoshi Yoshida
- Department of Ophthalmology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan
| | - Masahide Yanagi
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | - Yoshiaki Kiuchi
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
| | | | | | - Takako Sugimoto
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
| | - Hideki Chuman
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
| | - Makoto Aihara
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Masaru Inatani
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medical Science, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan
| | - Masahiro Miyake
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Norimoto Gotoh
- Center for Genomic Medicine, INSERM U852, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Fumihiko Matsuda
- Center for Genomic Medicine, INSERM U852, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Nagahisa Yoshimura
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.,Tazuke Kofukai Foundation, Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan
| | - Yoko Ikeda
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Morio Ueno
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Chie Sotozono
- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
| | - Jin Wook Jeoung
- Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Min Sagong
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea
| | - Kyu Hyung Park
- Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea
| | - Jeeyun Ahn
- Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Marisa Cruz-Aguilar
- Genetics Department, Institute of Ophthalmology 'Conde de Valenciana', Mexico City, Mexico
| | - Sidi M Ezzouhairi
- Clinique Spécialisée en Ophtalmologie Mohammedia, Mohammedia, Morocco
| | | | | | - Xiao Yu Ng
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore
| | | | | | | | - Muhammad Imran Khan
- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
| | - Olusola O Olawoye
- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.,Department of Ophthalmology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
| | - Adeyinka O Ashaye
- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.,Department of Ophthalmology, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria
| | | | - Adeola Onakoya
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria.,Guinness Eye Centre, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria
| | - Nkiru Kizor-Akaraiwe
- Department of Ophthalmology, ESUT Teaching Hospital Parklane, Enugu, Nigeria.,Eye Specialists Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria
| | - Chaiwat Teekhasaenee
- Department of Ophthalmology, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
| | - Yanin Suwan
- Department of Ophthalmology, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
| | - Wasu Supakontanasan
- Department of Ophthalmology, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
| | - Suhanya Okeke
- Department of Ophthalmology, ESUT Teaching Hospital Parklane, Enugu, Nigeria.,Eye Specialists Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria
| | - Nkechi J Uche
- Eye Specialists Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria.,Department of Ophthalmology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria.,Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ituku Ozalla Campus, Enugu, Nigeria
| | - Ifeoma Asimadu
- Department of Ophthalmology, ESUT Teaching Hospital Parklane, Enugu, Nigeria
| | - Humaira Ayub
- Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
| | - Farah Akhtar
- Pakistan Institute of Ophthalmology, Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
| | - Ewa Kosior-Jarecka
- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
| | - Urszula Lukasik
- Department of Diagnostics and Microsurgery of Glaucoma, Medical University, Lublin, Poland
| | | | - Vania Castro
- Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza, Lima, Peru
| | | | - Gordana Sunaric Megevand
- Clinical Research Centre Adolphe de Rothschild, Société Médicale de Beaulieu, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Sylvain Roy
- Clinical Research Centre Adolphe de Rothschild, Société Médicale de Beaulieu, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Edward Dervan
- Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Eoin Silke
- Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
| | - Aparna Rao
- Shri Mithu Tulsi, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | - Priti Sahay
- Shri Mithu Tulsi, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, India
| | | | | | - Delia Sivori
- Fundación para el Estudio del Glaucoma, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - Tamara Zompa
- Centro Oftalmologico Charles, Buenos Aires, Argentina
| | - Richard A Mills
- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - Emmanuelle Souzeau
- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
| | - Paul Mitchell
- Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Jie Jin Wang
- Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
| | - Alex W Hewitt
- Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Michael Coote
- Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Jonathan G Crowston
- Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA), University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| | - Sergei Y Astakhov
- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - Eugeny L Akopov
- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | - Anton Emelyanov
- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia.,St. Petersburg Academic University, St. Petersburg, Russia
| | | | | | | | - Saleh A Al-Obeidan
- Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| | - Ohoud Owaidhah
- King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
| | | | - Balram Chowbay
- Clinical Pharmacology, SingHealth, Singapore.,Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory, National Cancer Centre, Singapore.,Office of Clinical Sciences, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
| | - Jia Nee Foo
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore.,Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
| | | | | | | | | | - Shi Qi Mok
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
| | | | | | - Su Qin Peh
- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
| | | | | | - Su-Ling Ho
- Department of Ophthalmology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
| | | | - Ching-Yu Cheng
- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.,Academic Clinical Program for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Office of Clinical and Academic Faculty Affairs, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
| | | | - Rogelio González-Sarmiento
- Institute for Biomedical Research of Salamanca (IBSAL), Salamanca, Spain.,Molecular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
| | - Frederico Martinon-Torres
- Translational Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,GENVIP Research Group, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - Antonio Salas
- Unidade de Xenética, Departamento de Anatomía Patolóxica e Ciencias Forenses, Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.,Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
| | - Kessara Pathanapitoon
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
| | - Linda Hansapinyo
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
| | | | - Naris Kitnarong
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Institut Pasteur, Functional Genetics of Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Genomes and Genetics, Paris, France.,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité de Recherche Associée 3012, Paris, France
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- Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Department of General Pediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of General Pediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of General Pediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore.,Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Disease, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Genomics, Life &Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.,Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,Division of Medical Genetics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Genomics, Life &Brain Center, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.,Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Division of Ophthalmology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Fernández-Vega University Institute and Foundation of Ophthalmological Research, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain.,Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain
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- Department of Genetics, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Meselik, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- DAMAGEN Genetic Diagnostic Center, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
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- School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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- Center for Community Outreach and Policy, Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, James and Jean Culver Discovery Institute, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- John A. Moran Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- John A. Moran Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- John A. Moran Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Hamilton Glaucoma Center, Department of Ophthalmology and Shiley Eye Institute, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.,Department of Frontier Medical Science and Technology for Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.,Department of Ophthalmology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
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- Institute for Vision Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.,Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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- Beijing Tongren Eye Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Ophthalmology and Visual Science Key Laboratory, Beijing, China.,Beijing Institute of Ophthalmology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Italian National Research Centre (ITB-CNR), Segrate-Milano, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.,Department of Biochemistry, Al-Nafees Medical College and Hospital, Isra University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Divisions of Genetics and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,Institute of Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.,Rheumatology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Pathology, Rigshospitalet, Eye Pathology Section, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- David Tvildiani Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Hamilton Glaucoma Center, Department of Ophthalmology and Shiley Eye Institute, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
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- Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.,Institute of Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Department of Ophthalmology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University Eye Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore.,Academic Clinical Program for Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Office of Clinical and Academic Faculty Affairs, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
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- Einhorn Clinical Research Center, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan
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- Department of Genomic Medical Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Pavlov First Saint Petersburg State Medical University, St. Petersburg, Russia.,St. Petersburg Academic University, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Dr. G.Venkataswamy Eye Research Institute, Aravind Medical Research Foundation, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India
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- deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.,Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore.,Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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Kitzmüller C, Kalser J, Mutschlechner S, Hauser M, Zlabinger GJ, Ferreira F, Bohle B. Fusion proteins of flagellin and the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1 show enhanced immunogenicity, reduced allergenicity, and intrinsic adjuvanticity. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2017; 141:293-299.e6. [PMID: 28456624 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.02.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [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: 07/29/2016] [Revised: 02/03/2017] [Accepted: 02/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Recombinant fusion proteins of flagellin and antigens have been demonstrated to induce strong innate and adaptive immune responses. Such fusion proteins can enhance the efficacy of allergen-specific immunotherapy. OBJECTIVE We sought to characterize different fusion proteins of flagellin and the major birch pollen allergen Bet v 1 for suitability as allergy vaccines. METHODS A truncated version of flagellin (NtCFlg) was genetically fused to the N- or C-terminus of Bet v 1. Toll-like receptor (TLR) 5 binding was assessed with HEK293 cells expressing TLR5. Upregulation of CD40, CD80, CD83, and CD86 on monocyte-derived dendritic cells from allergic patients was analyzed by using flow cytometry. The T cell-stimulatory capacity of the fusion proteins was assessed with naive and Bet v 1-specific T cells. IgE binding was tested in inhibition ELISAs and basophil activation tests. Mice were immunized with the fusion proteins in the absence and presence of aluminum hydroxide. Cellular and antibody responses were monitored. Murine antibodies were tested for blocking capacity in basophil activation tests. RESULTS Both fusion proteins matured monocyte-derived dendritic cells through TLR5. Compared with Bet v 1, the fusion proteins showed stronger T cell-stimulatory and reduced IgE-binding capacity and induced murine Bet v 1-specific antibodies in the absence of aluminum hydroxide. However, only antibodies induced by means of immunization with NtCFlg fused to the C-terminus of Bet v 1 inhibited binding of patients' IgE antibodies to Bet v 1. CONCLUSION Bet v 1-flagellin fusion proteins show enhanced immunogenicity, reduced allergenicity, and intrinsic adjuvanticity and thus represent promising vaccines for birch pollen allergen-specific immunotherapy. However, the sequential order of allergen and adjuvant within a fusion protein determines its immunologic characteristics.
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- Claudia Kitzmüller
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Immunomodulation, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Immunomodulation, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Immunomodulation, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Immunomodulation, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Hauser M, Lummert E, Braun SL, Vigl M, Engelhardt A, Pujol C, Neidenbach RC, Oberhoffer R, Ewert P, Kaemmerer H. Nichtkardiale Komorbiditäten bei erwachsenen Patienten mit angeborenen Herzfehlern. Z Herz- Thorax- Gefäßchir 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s00398-016-0127-9] [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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Sancho AI, Wallner M, Hauser M, Nagl B, Himly M, Asam C, Ebner C, Jahn-Schmid B, Bohle B, Ferreira F. T Cell Epitope-Containing Domains of Ragweed Amb a 1 and Mugwort Art v 6 Modulate Immunologic Responses in Humans and Mice. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0169784. [PMID: 28081194 PMCID: PMC5231356 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 12/21/2016] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) and mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) are the major cause of pollen allergy in late summer. Allergen-specific lymphocytes are crucial for immune modulation during immunotherapy. We sought to generate and pre-clinically characterise highly immunogenic domains of the homologous pectate lyases in ragweed (Amb a 1) and mugwort pollen (Art v 6) for immunotherapy. METHODS Domains of Amb a 1 (Amb a 1α) and Art v 6 (Art v 6α) and a hybrid molecule, consisting of both domains, were designed, expressed in E. coli and purified. Human IgE reactivity and allergenicity were assessed by ELISA and mediator release experiments using ragweed and mugwort allergic patients. Moreover, T cell proliferation was determined. Blocking IgG antibodies and cytokine production in BALB/c mice were studied by ELISA and ELISPOT. RESULTS The IgE binding capacity and in vitro allergenic activity of the Amb a 1 and Art v 6 domains and the hybrid were either greatly reduced or abolished. The recombinant proteins induced T cell proliferative responses comparable to those of the natural allergens, indicative of retained allergen-specific T cell response. Mice immunisation with the hypoallergens induced IL-4, IL-5, IL-13 and IFN-γ production after antigen-specific in vitro re-stimulation of splenocytes. Moreover, murine IgG antibodies that inhibited specific IgE binding of ragweed and mugwort pollen allergic patients were detected. CONCLUSION Accumulation of T cell epitopes and deletion of IgE reactive areas of Amb a 1 and Art v 6, modulated the immunologic properties of the allergen immuno-domains, leading to promising novel candidates for therapeutic approach.
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- Ana I. Sancho
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Immunomodulation, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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Hilger C, Swiontek K, Fischer J, Hentges F, Lehners C, Morisset M, Eberlein B, Biedermann T, Ollert M, Wildner S, Stemeseder T, Freier R, Briza P, Lang R, Batanero E, Villalba M, Lidholm J, Hawranek T, Ferreira F, Brandstetter H, Gadermaier G, Moingeon P, Groeme R, Bouley J, Bordas V, Le Mignon M, Bussières L, Lautrette A, Mascarell L, Lombardi V, Baron-Bodo V, Chabre H, Batard T, Nony E, De Amicis KM, Watanabe AS, Figo DD, Dos Santos-Pinto JRA, Palma MS, Castro FFM, Kalil J, Wohlschlager T, Ferreira-Briza F, Santos KS, Faber M, Van Gasse A, Sabato V, Hagendorens MM, Bridts CH, De Clerck LS, Perales AD, Ebo D, Zavadakova P, Buchwalder A, Rebeaud F, Märki I, Gepp B, Lengger N, Möbs C, Pfützner W, Radauer C, Bohle B, Galvao CE, Santos-Pinto JRA, Schwager C, Kull S, Schocker F, Behrends J, Becker WM, Jappe U, Mastrorilli C, Tripodi S, Caffarelli C, Asero R, Dondi A, Ricci G, Dascola CP, Calamelli E, Di Rienzo Businco A, Bianchi A, Frediani T, Verga C, Iacono ID, Peroni D, Pingitore G, Bernardini R, Matricardi PM, Hofer H, Asam C, Hauser M, Himly M, Ebner C, Lemoine P, Jain K, Abiteboul K, Arvidsson M, Rak S, Mota I, Garcia FB, Gaspar A, Arêde C, Piedade S, Sampaio G, Pires G, Borrego LM, Santa-Marta C, Morais-Almeida M, Popescu FD, Vieru M, Secureanu FA, Fernandes RAR, Carrapatoso I, Gomes R, Pereira C, Todo-Bom A, De Basoa MCMF, Regio JB, De Castro Cordova J, Ferreiro AF, Tsilochristou O, Perna S, Schwarz A, Rohrbach A, Cappella A, Hatzler L, Bauer CP, Hoffmann U, Forster J, Zepp F, Schuster A, D’amelio R, Wahn U, Keil T, Lau S, Apoil PA, Mailhol C, Broué-Chabbert A, Juchet A, Didier A, Carrer E, Lanot T, Blancher A, Kurtaj A, Hillebrand C, Fichtinger G, Danzer M, Gabriel C, Thalhamer T, Scheiblhofer S, Thalhamer J, Weiss R, Wolf M, Pichler U, Twaroch T, Yokoi H, Takai T, Didierlaurent A, Mari A, Behrendt H, Neubauer A, Stolz F, Ferreira F, Wallner M, Carvalho S, Lourenço T, Cosme J, Duarte FC, Santos AS, Costa AC, Barbosa MP, Klinglmayr E, Schweidler B, Lueftenegger L, Moser S, Doppler P, Oostingh GJ, Bathke A, Zumbach J, Panzner P, Vachova M, Vlas T, Maly M, Posa D, Hofmaier S, Stock P, Grabenhenrich L, Chen KW, Resch Y, Vrtala S, Valenta R, Abramidze T, Lomidze N, Gotua M, Dapkeviciute A, Einikyte R, Norkuniene J, Skrickiene L, Miskiniene A, Kvedariene V, Schiener M, Moreno-Aguilar C, Pietsch G, Intyre MM, Schwarze L, Rußkamp D, Spillner E, Darsow U, Schmidt-Weber C, Blank S, Longé C, Brazdova A, Brunet JL, Schwartz C, Girodet B, Lavaud F, Birnbaum J, Thi NP, Duchateau M, Chamot-Rooke J, Guilloux L, Selva MA, Couderc R, Sénéchal H, Sutra JP, Poncet P, Augustin S, Pump L, Wald M, Eichhorn T, Fischer F, Willers C, Miehe M, Plum M, Wolf S, Jabs F, Raiber T, Bantleon F, Seismann H, Jakob T, Apostolovic D, Tran AT, Sanchez-Vidaurre S, Velickovic TC, Starkhammar M, Hamsten C, Van Hage M, Dubiela P, Humeniuk P, Pfeifer S, Bublin M, Borowski T, Hoffmann-Sommergruber K, Verschuren MCM, Bastiaan-Net S, Depoortere D, Foetisch K, Scheurer S, Wichers HJ, Noij T, Van Uden NM, Vandenberghe K, Wichers HJ, Noij THM, Roulias A, Parigiani MA, Ahammer L, Grutsch S, Tollinger M, Moya R, López-Matas MA, Reyes R, Carnés J, Larré C, Rogniaux H, Lupi R, Denery-Papini S, Pablos IM, Eichhorn S, Machado Y, Park JW, Arora N, Vieths S, Tanaka C, Pineau F, Drouet M, Beaudouin E, Altenbach S, Mameri H, Brossard C, Gaudin JC, Moneret-Vautrin DA, Paty E, Tranquet O, Masci S, Moneret-Vautrin DA, Petersen A, Böttger M, Rennert S, Krause S, Ernst M, Gutsmann T, Bauer J, Lindner B, Koppelman S, Jayasena S, Luykx D, Schepens E, De Jong G, Isleib T, Nordlee J, Baumert J, Taylor S, Maleki S, Palladino C, Sirvent S, Angelina A, Eiwegger T, Palomares O, Breiteneder H, Claude M, Bouchaud G, Bodinier M, Korte R, Bräcker J, Brockmeyer J, Satoh R, Teshima R, Tscheppe A, Palmberger D, Grabherr R, Raith M, Sonnleitner L, Zach D, Woroszylo K, Focke-Tejkl M, Wank H, Graf T, Kuehn A, Swoboda I, Huber S, Gay-Crosier F, Polak D, Nagl B, Kitzmüller C, Samadi N, Geyeregger R, Jahn-Schmid B, Gomez A, Haka J, Hattara L, Heikkinen M, Niemi MH, Rouvinen J, Saviranta P, Mattila P, Takkinen K, Laukkanen ML, Pablos I, Kastner B, Silar M, Selb J, Kogovsek R, Kosnik M, Korosec P, Pestana L, Melo AC, Mendes A, Pedro ME, Santos MCP, Bienvenu F, Goursaud C, Garnier L, Jacquenet S, Degaud M, Viel S, Barre A, Rougé P, Bienvenu J, Vitte J, Bensalah A, Cleach I, Mousseau L, Agabriel C, Liabeuf V, Birnbaum J, Mège JL, Gardner J, Gandhi M, Kariyawasam H, Rotiroti G, Regateiro F, Faria E, Schmid JM, Dahl R, Hoffmann HJ, Pestana L, Silva D, Vieira T, Pereira AM, Moreira A, Delgado L, Prates S, Alves C, Finelli E, Pinto PL, Cardoso BK, Cruz C, Semedo F, Tomaz E, Inácio F, Maity S, Baricevic-Jones I, Marsh JT, Johnson PE, Balasundaram A, Hope AM, Taekema A, Simpson A, Semic-Jusufagic A, Clare Mills EN, Nelly GD, Laetitia S, Bruno P, Elodie M, Khaled M, Bertrand E, Jean-Luc F, Goodman RE, Plata ER, Amaral L, Bartolomé B, Coimbra A, Placido JL, Ganea CS, Costello CA, Sorensen M, Mills C, Rogers A, Otherhals A, Kalic T, Ellinger I, Waltl E, Niederberger-Leppin V, Szczepankiewicz D, Pruszynska-Oszmalek E, Skrzypski M, Nowak KW, Szczepankiewicz A, Jang GC, Markovic I, Borowski A, Vetter T, Wohlmann A, Kuepper M, Friedrich K, Gracia IE, Bosco A, Dollner R, Melum GR, Jones AC, Lexberg M, Holt PG, Bækkevold ES, Jahnsen FL, Sobkowiak P, Rachel M, Narozna B, Jenerowicz D, Swiatowy W, Breborowicz A, Nestelbacher R, Fukui H. 6th International Symposium on Molecular Allergology (ISMA). Clin Transl Allergy 2016. [PMCID: PMC5103240 DOI: 10.1186/s13601-016-0123-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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ORAL ABSTRACTS Symposium 1: Biochemistry, structure and environment of the allergen: what makes a protein an allergen? O1 Two cell-membrane peptidases carrying galactose-alpha-1,3-galactose are implicated in delayed anaphylactic reactions upon pork kidney ingestion in patients with IgE-antibodies to alpha-Gal Christiane Hilger, Kyra Swiontek, Jörg Fischer, François Hentges, Christiane Lehners, Martine Morisset, Bernadette Eberlein, Tilo Biedermann, Markus Ollert O2 Structure solution of Pla l 1 suggests similar folding of Ole e 1-like family members but distinct immunological properties Sabrina Wildner, Teresa Stemeseder, Regina Freier, Peter Briza, Roland Lang, Eva Batanero, Mayte Villalba, Jonas Lidholm, Thomas Hawranek, Fatima Ferreira, Hans Brandstetter, Gabriele Gadermaier Symposium 2: New allergen molecules in the spotlight O3 Identification of the cysteine protease Amb a 11 as a novel major allergen from short ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) Philippe Moingeon, Rachel Groeme, Julien Bouley, Véronique Bordas, Maxime Le Mignon, Laetitia Bussières, Aurélie Lautrette, Laurent Mascarell, Vincent Lombardi, Véronique Baron-Bodo, Henri Chabre, Thierry Batard, Emmanuel Nony O4 Production and characterization of polybia paulista recombinant antigen 5: a valuable diagnostic tool Karine Marafigo De Amicis, Alexandra Sayuri Watanabe, Daniele Danella Figo, José Roberto Aparecido Dos Santos-Pinto, Mario Sergio Palma, Fabio Fernandes Morato Castro, Jorge Kalil, Therese Wohlschlager, Peter Briza, Sabrina Wildner, Fatima Ferreira-Briza, Gabriele Gadermaier, Keity Souza Santos Symposium 3: Progress in molecular and cellular diagnosis O5 Basophil activation test with recombinant Pru p 3; identifying genuine peach allergic patients Margaretha Faber, Athina Van Gasse, Vito Sabato, Margo M. Hagendorens, Chris H. Bridts, Luc S. De Clerck, Araceli Diaz Perales, Didier Ebo O6 Nanofluidic technology enables rapid, near-patient quantification of allergen-specific IgE Petra Zavadakova, Aurélie Buchwalder, Fabien Rebeaud, Iwan Märki Symposium 4: Relevance of molecular diagnostics for intervention and treatment O7 Longitudinal analysis of Bet v 1-specific epitope repertoires during birch pollen immunotherapy Barbara Gepp, Nina Lengger, Christian Möbs, Wolfgang Pfützner, Christian Radauer, Barbara Bohle O8 A natural CCD-free tool: is polistes sp. venom suitable for polybia paulista diagnosis and therapy? Karine Marafigo De Amicis, Alexandra Sayuri Watanabe, Clovis Eduardo Galvao, Daniele Danella Figo, Jose Roberto Aparecido Santos-Pinto, Mario Sergio Palma, Fabio Fernandes Morato Castro, Jorge Kalil, Fatima Ferreira, Gabriele Gadermaier, Keity Souza Santos Symposium 5: The advent of molecular allergology in epidemiology O9 Peanut oleosins: from identification to diagnostic testing Christian Schwager, Skadi Kull, Frauke Schocker, Jochen Behrends, Wolf-Meinhard Becker, Uta Jappe O10 Endotypes of oral allergy syndrome in childhood: a molecular diagnostic approach Carla Mastrorilli, Salvatore Tripodi, Carlo Caffarelli, Riccardo Asero, Arianna Dondi, Giampaolo Ricci, Carlotta Povesi Dascola, Elisabetta Calamelli, Andrea Di Rienzo Businco, Annamaria Bianchi, Tullio Frediani, Carmen Verga, Iride Dello Iacono, Diego Peroni, Giuseppe Pingitore, Roberto Bernardini, Paolo Maria Matricardi Symposium 6: Molecular AIT: which approaches will make it to market? O11 Mbc4: an innovative molecule to tackle birch pollen and concomitant food allergies Heidi Hofer, Claudia Asam, Michael Hauser, Peter Briza, Martin Himly, Christof Ebner, Fatima Ferreira O12 Challenges and solutions associated with the production of recombinant Bet v 1 allergen as a therapeutic protein Emmanuel Nony, Maxime Le Mignon, Pierrick Lemoine, Karine Jain, Kathy Abiteboul, Monica Arvidsson, Sabina Rak, Philippe Moingeon Clinical Cases: Breakthroughs and headaches from CRD: interactive session CC1 Anaphylaxis caused by lipid transfer proteins: a complex clinical pattern syndrome Inês Mota, Filipe Benito Garcia, Angela Gaspar, Cristina Arêde, Susana Piedade, Graça Sampaio, Graça Pires, Luís Miguel Borrego, Cristina Santa-Marta, Mário Morais-Almeida CC2 IgE sensitization profile in a patient with asteraceae pollen-exotic fruits association Florin-Dan Popescu, Mariana Vieru, Florin-Adrian Secureanu CC3 Food-dependent: exercise induced anaphylaxis. Which component to blame? Rosa Anita Rodrigues Fernandes, Isabel Carrapatoso, Raquel Gomes, Celso Pereira, Ana Todo-Bom CC4 Anaphylaxis to intravenous iron preparations in a patient that tolerates oral administration María Cecilia Martín Fernández De Basoa, Javier Barrios Regio, Juan De Castro Cordova, Antón Fernández Ferreiro CC5 IgE sensitization pattern in an adult patient with oral allergy syndrome to peanuts and pollinosis from southern Romania Florin-Dan Popescu, Mariana Vieru, Florin-Adrian Secureanu CC6 Evidence of specific IgE to plant-derived cross-reactive carbohydrate determinant in a patient with delayed anaphylaxis to red meat Mariana Vieru, Florin-Dan Popescu, Florin-Adrian Secureanu POSTER PRESENTATIONS Poster Session 1: Molecular allergology and epidemiology P1 Atopic children produce stronger and more frequent IgG responses than non-atopic children: longitudinal data from the German MAS birth cohort Olympia Tsilochristou, Serena Perna, Alina Schwarz, Alexander Rohrbach, Antonio Cappella, Laura Hatzler, Carl-Peter Bauer, Ute Hoffmann, Johannes Forster, Fred Zepp, Antje Schuster, Raffael D’amelio, Ulrich Wahn, Thomas Keil, Susanne Lau, Paolo Maria Matricardi P2 The IgG sensitization profiles against 112 allergenic components support the absence of a protective role of IgG in allergic individuals, outside of the context of SIT Pol André Apoil, Claire Mailhol, Anne Broué-Chabbert, Agnès Juchet, Alain Didier, Elodie Carrer, Thomas Lanot, Antoine Blancher P3 The immune response against the timothy grass pollen allergen Phl p 5 in non-allergic humans Almedina Kurtaj, Christoph Hillebrand, Gerda Fichtinger, Martin Danzer, Christian Gabriel, Theresa Thalhamer, Sandra Scheiblhofer, Josef Thalhamer, Richard Weiss P4 Analyzing the cross-reactivity profile of the major ragweed allergen Amb a 1 Martin Wolf, Michael Hauser, Ulrike Pichler, Teresa Twaroch, Gabriele Gadermaier, Christof Ebner, Hidenori Yokoi, Toshiro Takai, Alain Didierlaurent, Adriano Mari, Peter Briza, Heidrun Behrendt, Angela Neubauer, Frank Stolz, Fátima Ferreira, Michael Wallner P5 LTP (Pru p 3) sensitisation in skin prick test: which means in clinical practice? Sara Carvalho, Tatiana Lourenço, Joana Cosme, Fátima Cabral Duarte, Amélia Spínola Santos, Ana Célia Costa, Manuel Pereira Barbosa P6 IgE profiles, allergen exposure and lifestyle of 501 Austrian pupils: investigation of influences on the development of allergic sensitizations Teresa Stemeseder, Eva Klinglmayr, Bettina Schweidler, Lisa Lueftenegger, Stephanie Moser, Patrick Doppler, Roland Lang, Martin Himly, Gertie J. Oostingh, Arne Bathke, Joerg Zumbach, Thomas Hawranek, Gabriele Gadermaier P7 Molecular profiles of sensitization to perennial inhalant allergens in a middle European region Petr Panzner, Martina Vachova, Tomas Vlas, Marek Maly P8 Evolution of the IgE response to house dust mite allergen molecules in childhood Daniela Posa, Serena Perna, Stephanie Hofmaier, Laura Hatzler, Alexander Rohrbach, Carl-Peter Bauer, Ute Hoffmann, Johannes Forster, Fred Zepp, Antje Schuster, Philippe Stock, Ulrich Wahn, Linus Grabenhenrich, Thomas Keil, Susanne Lau, Kuan-Wei Chen, Yvonne Resch, Susanne Vrtala, Rudolf Valenta, Paolo Maria Matricardi P9 Tropomyosin (Pen a1): to include or not to include in skin prick testing? Joana Cosme, Sara Carvalho, Tatiana Lourenço, Amélia Spínola Santos, Manuel Pereira Barbosa Immunoallergy Department - Hospital de Santa Maria – Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisbon, Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal; Immunoallergy Department - Hospital de Santa Maria – Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte, Lisbon, Portugal; Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal P10 Component-resolved IgE profiles in Georgian patients Tamar Abramidze, Nino Lomidze, Maia Gotua P11 Cross reactivity between food and pollen allergens in Lithuania according to spIgE evaluation Austeja Dapkeviciute, Ruta Einikyte, Jolita Norkuniene, Laima Skrickiene, Asta Miskiniene, Violeta Kvedariene P12 Distribution of inhalant allergy in the population of Lithuania Ruta Einikyte, Austeja Dapkeviciute, Jolita Norkuniene, Laima Skrickiene, Asta Miskiniene, Violeta Kvedariene Poster Session 2: Allergen molecules: identification, characterization, structure and function P13 Interference of antigen 5-based cross-reactivity in the diagnosis of hymenoptera venom allergy Maximilian Schiener, Bernadette Eberlein, Carmen Moreno-Aguilar, Gunilla Pietsch, Mareike Mc Intyre, Lea Schwarze, Dennis Rußkamp, Tilo Biedermann, Edzard Spillner, Ulf Darsow, Carsten Schmidt-Weber, Markus Ollert, Simon Blank P14 IgE cross-reactivity between European Hymenoptera and Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) venom allergens Cyril Longé, Andrea Brazdova, Jean-Louis Brunet, Claire Schwartz, Bruno Girodet, François Lavaud, Joelle Birnbaum, Nhân Pham Thi, Magalie Duchateau, Julia Chamot-Rooke, Laurence Guilloux, Marie-Ange Selva, Rémy Couderc, Hélène Sénéchal, Jean-Pierre Sutra, Pascal Poncet P15 Carbohydrate composition of house dust mite extracts and major group 1 and group 2 allergens Steffen Augustin, Linda Pump, Martin Wald, Thomas Eichhorn, Frank Fischer, Christoph Willers P16 Specificity of monoclonal antibodies against cross-reactive carbohydrate determinants Michaela Miehe, Melanie Plum, Sara Wolf, Frederic Jabs, Tim Raiber, Frank Bantleon, Henning Seismann, Thilo Jakob, Edzard Spillner P17 Red meat allergic patients have a selective IgE response to the a-Gal glycan Danijela Apostolovic, Anh Thu Tran, Sara Sanchez-Vidaurre, Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic, Maria Starkhammar, Carl Hamsten, Marianne Van Hage P18 Specificity of non-specific lipid transfer proteins and influence of the ligands on their three-dimensional structure Pawel Dubiela, Piotr Humeniuk, Sabine Pfeifer, Merima Bublin, Tomasz Borowski, Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber P19 Real-time PCR analysis of Pru av 1 and Pru av 3 allergens Martie C.M. Verschuren, Shanna Bastiaan-Net, Defien Depoortere, Kay Foetisch, Stephan Scheurer, Harry J Wichers, Theo Noij P20 Specificity of anti-Pru av 1 antibodies for the detection of Pru av 1 isoallergens Martie C.M. Verschuren, Shanna Bastiaan-Net, Nikki M.E. Van Uden, Karel Vandenberghe, Kay Foetisch, Stephan Scheurer, Harry J. Wichers H.J., Theo H.M. Noij P21 Enhancing recombinant production yield of Bet v 1 through codon usage harmonization Anargyros Roulias, Maria Alejandra Parigiani, Heidi Hofer, Claudia Asam, Christof Ebner, Fátima Ferreira P22 Structural and dynamic insights into the world of PR-10 allergens Linda Ahammer, Sarina Grutsch, Martin Tollinger Poster Session 3: Allergen molecules: identification, characterization, structure and function P23 Purification of polcalcin from different pollen allergenic sources by antibody-affinity chromatography Raquel Moya, Mª Angeles López-Matas, Raquel Reyes, Jerónimo Carnés P24 Variations of wheat allergens in cultivars measured through a targeted quantitative mass spectrometry approach Colette Larré, Hélène Rogniaux, Roberta Lupi, Sandra Denery-Papini P25 Art v 1, Amb a 4 and Par h 1 defensin-like proteins share similar structural features but distinct immunological and allergenic properties Isabel Maria Pablos, Stephanie Eichhorn, Yoan Machado, Peter Briza, Christof Ebner, Jung-Won Park, Alain Didierlaurent, Naveen Arora, Stefan Vieths, Gabriele Gadermaier, Fatima Ferreira P26 Homogeneity or diversity of IgE-binding proteins in wheat dependant exercise induced anaphylaxis? Sandra Denery-Papini, Charlene Tanaka, Florence Pineau, Roberta Lupi, Martine Drouet, Etienne Beaudouin, Martine Morisset, Susan Altenbach P27 Deciphering the role of disulfide bonds and of repetitive epitopes in immunoglobulin E binding to wheat gliadins Sandra Denery-Papini, Hamza Mameri, Chantal Brossard, Roberta Lupi, Florence Pineau, Jean Charles Gaudin, Denise Anne Moneret-Vautrin, Etienne Beaudouin, Evelyne Paty, Martine Drouet, Olivier Tranquet, Colette Larré P28 Assessment of the allergenicity of soluble fractions from bread and durum wheats genotypes Roberta Lupi, Stefania Masci, Olivier Tranquet, Denise-Anne Moneret-Vautrin, Sandra Denery-Papini, Colette Larré P29 Isolation and characterization of Ara h 12 and Ara h 13: defensins, a novel class of peanut allergens Skadi Kull, Arnd Petersen, Marisa Böttger, Sandra Rennert, Wolf-Meinhard Becker, Susanne Krause, Martin Ernst, Thomas Gutsmann, Johann Bauer, Buko Lindner, Uta Jappe P30 Allergenicity attributes of different peanut market types Stef Koppelman, Shyamali Jayasena, Dion Luykx, Erik Schepens, Danijela Apostolovic, Govardus De Jong, Tom Isleib, Julie Nordlee, Joe Baumert, Steve Taylor, Soheila Maleki P31 The impact of peanut lipids on Ara h 1-induced immune responses in monocytes-derived dendritic cells Chiara Palladino, Barbara Gepp, Sofía Sirvent, Alba Angelina, Merima Bublin, Christian Radauer, Nina Lengger, Thomas Eiwegger, Oscar Palomares, Heimo Breiteneder P32 Compared allergenicity of native and thermally aggregated ovalbumin as large agglomerated particles Mathilde Claude, Roberta Lupi, Grégory Bouchaud, Marie Bodinier, Chantal Brossard, Sandra Denery-Papini P33 Simulation of the gastrointestinal digestion of the hazelnut allergens Cor a 9 and Cor a 11 by an in-vitro model and characterisation of peptidic products including epitopes by HPLC-MS/MS Robin Korte, Julia Bräcker, Jens Brockmeyer P34 Analysis of distribution of rice allergens in brown rice grain and allergenicity of the products containing rice bran Rie Satoh, Reiko Teshima Poster Session 4: Molecular approaches in AIT P35 Production of a recombinant hypoallergenic variant of the major peanut allergen Ara h 2 for allergen-specific immunotherapy Angelika Tscheppe, Dieter Palmberger, Merima Bublin, Christian Radauer, Chiara Palladino, Barbara Gepp, Nina Lengger, Reingard Grabherr, Heimo Breiteneder P36 Mutagenesis of amino acids critical for calcium-binding leads to the generation of a hypoallergenic Phl p 7 variant Marianne Raith, Linda Sonnleitner, Doris Zach, Konrad Woroszylo, Margit Focke-Tejkl, Herbert Wank, Thorsten Graf, Annette Kuehn, Ines Swoboda P37 Are birch pollen allergen immunotherapy induced blocking antibodies protective for cross-reactive allergens? Claudia Asam, Sara Huber, Heidi Hofer, Roland Lang, Thomas Hawranek, Fátima Ferreira, Michael Wallner P38 High success of 58 subcutaneous immunotherapy for pets allergy in a polyallergic cohort of patients: a component resolved individually adapted treatment (CRIAT) Fabienne Gay-Crosier P39 Neutrophils are potential antigen presenting cells in IgE- mediated allergy Dominika Polak, Birgit Nagl, Claudia Kitzmüller, Barbara Bohle P40 Characterization of allergen-specific CD8+ T cells in type I allergy Nazanin Samadi, Claudia Kitzmüller, Rene Geyeregger, Barbara Bohle, Beatrice Jahn-Schmid Poster Session 5: Molecular and cellular diagnostic tests P41 Nanofluidic-based biosensors allow quantification of total circulating IgE from a drop of blood in 5 minutes Aurélie Buchwalder, Ariel Gomez, Fabien Rebeaud, Iwan Märki P42 Allergen microarray for the analysis of serum IgE binding profile and allergenic activity Jaana Haka, Liisa Hattara, Marika Heikkinen, Merja H Niemi, Juha Rouvinen, Petri Saviranta, Pekka Mattila, Kristiina Takkinen, Marja-Leena Laukkanen P43 Generation of a well-characterized panel of periplaneta americana allergens for component resolved diagnosis Stephanie Eichhorn, Isabel Pablos, Bianca Kastner, Bettina Schweidler, Sabrina Wildner, Peter Briza, Jung-Won Park, Naveen Arora, Stefan Vieths, Gabriele Gadermaier, Fatima Ferreira P44 Improved diagnostic sensitivity of recombinant Api m 1 and Ves v 5 in diagnosis of Hymenoptera venom allergy Mira Silar, Julij Selb, Rok Kogovsek, Mitja Kosnik, Peter Korosec P45 Added value of biomarkers of primary sensitization and cross-reactivity in patients with hymenoptera venom allergy Leticia Pestana, Alcinda Campos Melo, Ana Mendes, Maria Elisa Pedro, Manuel Pereira Barbosa, Maria Conceição Pereira Santos P46 Cosensitization to Alt a 1 and Act d 2: more than a fortuitous association? Françoise Bienvenu, Claire Goursaud, Lorna Garnier, Sandrine Jacquenet, Michaël Degaud, Sébastien Viel, Annick Barre, Pierre Rougé, Jacques Bienvenu, Joana Vitte P47 Molecular diagnosis for peanut allergy: ALFA method performs as well as established methods for Ara h 1, Ara h 2, Ara h 6, Ara h 9 and CCD Amel Bensalah, Isabelle Cleach, Laurent Mousseau, Chantal Agabriel, Valérie Liabeuf, Joëlle Birnbaum, Jean-Louis Mège, Joana Vitte P48 Evaluation of a food challenge service in relation to specific IgE to molecular components in children with suspected peanut allergy James Gardner, Minal Gandhi, Harsha Kariyawasam, Giuseppina Rotiroti P49 Component resolved diagnosis in cereal allergy Isabel Carrapatoso, Celso Pereira, Frederico Regateiro, Emília Faria, Ana Todo-Bom Poster Session 6: Molecular diagnosis in prevention and therapy P50 Pretreatment molecular sensitizations determine the sIgG4 induction during the updosing of SCIT and may be useful to identify clinically relevant additional sensitizations Johannes Martin Schmid, Ronald Dahl, Hans Juergen Hoffmann P51 Usefulness of recombinant latex allergens in immunotherapy’s decision and follow-up Inês Mota, Filipe Benito Garcia, Angela Gaspar, Mário Morais-Almeida P52 Omega-5-gliadin in the diagnosis of wheat-dependent anaphylaxis induced by ibuprofen but not by exercise Joana Cosme, Letícia Pestana, Amélia Spínola Santos, Manuel Pereira Barbosa P53 Food dependent exercise-induced anaphylaxis: a component-resolved and in vitro depletion approach to access IgE cross-reactivity Diana Silva, Teresa Vieira, Ana Maria Pereira, André Moreira, Luís Delgado P54 Olive pollen allergens: what are we missing? Sara Prates, Cátia Alves, Elena Finelli, Paula Leiria Pinto P55 Purified Alt a 1 extract in Alternaria alternata allergy diagnosis Bárbara Kong Cardoso, Cíntia Cruz, Filipa Semedo, Elza Tomaz, Filipe Inácio P56 Use of specific IgE Bos d8 (casein) to aid early introduction of dietary baked milk in children with cows’ milk allergy James Gardner, Santanu Maity, Giuseppina Rotiroti, Minal Gandhi P57 Molecular characterisation and immunoreactivity of a peanut ingredient for use in oral food challenges Ivona Baricevic-Jones, Justin T. Marsh, Phil E. Johnson, Anuradha Balasundaram, Anya-May Hope, Aafke Taekema, Angela Simpson, Aida Semic-Jusufagic, E.N. Clare Mills P58 Specific IgE to recombinant allergens of hazelnut and oral food challenge in children Gourdon Dubois Nelly, Sellam Laetitia, Pereira Bruno, Michaud Elodie, Messaoudi Khaled, Evrard Bertrand, Fauquert Jean-Luc Poster session 7/8: miscellaneous P59 What defines a protein as an allergen? A discussion of sources and sufficiency Richard E. Goodman P60 Cat allergy: relationship between clinical and molecular diagnostic María Cecilia Martín Fernández De Basoa, Antón Fernández Ferreiro, Elena Rodríguez Plata P61 Anaphylaxis to rabbit: the cat came in last Luis Amaral, Borja Bartolomé, Alice Coimbra, Jose L Placido P62 Dog allergy: relationship between clinical and molecular diagnostic María Cecilia Martín Fernández De Basoa, Antón Fernández Ferreiro, Elena Rodríguez Plata P63 Correlation of serum timothy grass-pollen specific IgE levels determined by two immunoblot test systems Mariana Vieru, Florin-Dan Popescu, Florin-Adrian Secureanu, Carmen Saviana Ganea P64 Development of oral food challenge formulations for diagnosis of fish allergy using powdered fish ingredients Carol Ann Costello, Ivona Baricevic-Jones, Martin Sorensen, Clare Mills, Adrian Rogers, Aage Otherhals P65 Fish and peanut allergens interact with plasma membranes of intestinal and bronchial epithelial cells and induce differential gene expression of cytokines and chemokines Tanja Kalic, Isabella Ellinger, Chiara Palladino, Barbara Gepp, Eva Waltl, Verena Niederberger-Leppin, Heimo Breiteneder P66 Interleukin 4 affects fat tissue metabolism and expression of pro-inflammatory factors in isolated rat adipocytes Dawid Szczepankiewicz, Ewa Pruszynska-Oszmalek, Marek Skrzypski, Krzysztof W. Nowak, Aleksandra Szczepankiewicz P67 Ozone induced airway hyperreactivity in PD-L2−/− mice model Gwang-Cheon Jang P68 Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) and its receptor as targets for the development of anti-inflammatory inhibitory agents Iva Markovic, Andreas Borowski, Tina Vetter, Andreas Wohlmann, Michael Kuepper, Karlheinz Friedrich P69 The mononuclear phagocyte system in experimentally-induced allergic rhinitis Ibon Eguiluz Gracia, Anthony Bosco, Ralph Dollner, Guro Reinholt Melum, Anya C Jones, Maria Lexberg, Patrick G Holt, Espen Sønderaal Bækkevold, Frode Lars Jahnsen P70 Expression of histamine metabolizing enzymes is increased in allergic children Aleksandra Szczepankiewicz, Paulina Sobkowiak, Marta Rachel, Beata Narozna, Dorota Jenerowicz, Witold Swiatowy, Anna Breborowicz P71 Modifying the glycosylation of human IgE towards oligomannosidic structures does not affect its biological activity Melanie Plum, Sara Wolf, Frank Bantleon, Henning Seismann, Frederic Jabs, Michaela Miehe, Thilo Jakob, Edzard Spillner P72 Flying Labs: an educational initiative to transfer allergy research into high-school settings Michael Wallner, Heidi Hofer, Fatima Ferreira, Reinhard Nestelbacher P73 Clinical significance of antihistamines and Kujin, an anti-allergic Kampo medicine Hiroyuki Fukui
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Brkljacic B, Sucic M, Bozikov V, Hauser M, Hebrang A. Treatment of autonomous and toxic thyroid adenomas by percutaneous ultrasound-guided ethanol injection. Acta Radiol 2016; 42:477-81. [PMID: 11552885 DOI: 10.1080/028418501127347205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of US-guided percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) in the treatment of autonomous and toxic thyroid adenomas. Material and Methods: PEI was performed in 42 patients with solitary, scintigraphically "hot" nodules (n=37) or toxic nodular goiter (n=5). The nodular volume ranged from 2.5 to 38 cm3 (mean volume, 20.7±14.1 cm3). Ethanol was injected using a free-hand technique, usually in multiple sessions, using color and power Doppler US guidance. Treatment success was evaluated following 3-4 months after PEI by scintigraphy, hormonal status, and US findings. Results: The procedure was technically successful in 39 patients (93%). Three patients were lost to follow-up. Minor complications were pain (all patients), subcutaneous hematoma (n=6), and transitory dysphonia (n=1). A complete cure was achieved in 22 patients (52%), and a partial cure in 10 patients (24%). In 4 cases (9%), the result was unsatisfactory since only moderate hormonal remission was observed. A satisfactory results was thus achieved in 32/42 patients (76%). Significant nodular volume reduction was observed in all cases. Better results were observed in smaller nodules and in cases of autonomous adenomas. There were no cases of recurrent hyperthyreosis. Conclusion: US-guided PEI is an efficient and safe method in the treatment of autonomous thyroid nodules and it enables inactivation of nodules with minimal or transitory complications.
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital Merkur, Zagreb, Croatia
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Central venous access is an important aspect of medical treatment. There are different designs of access devices for different purposes. In essence, they can be classified as short- and long-term devices. Insertion procedures vary for different devices. There is a risk for both acute and delayed complications. Radiology plays a central role both in placement and in device management. Image-guided insertion increases technical success and reduces the rate of acute complications. The diagnostic approach to long-term complications includes radiography, fluoroscopy, CT, and ultrasound. Treatment by interventional procedures is possible for a number of these conditions. These interventions increase device lifespan and reduce the number of necessary reinsertions.
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Montebello, NO-0310 Oslo, Norway.
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Hauser M, Amamcharla J. Novel methods to study the effect of protein content and dissolution temperature on the solubility of milk protein concentrate: Focused beam reflectance and ultrasonic flaw detector-based methods. J Dairy Sci 2016; 99:3334-3344. [DOI: 10.3168/jds.2015-10541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2015] [Accepted: 01/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Hauser M, Amamcharla J. Development of a method to characterize high-protein dairy powders using an ultrasonic flaw detector. J Dairy Sci 2016; 99:1056-1064. [DOI: 10.3168/jds.2015-9960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2015] [Accepted: 10/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Oeder S, Alessandrini F, Wirz OF, Braun A, Wimmer M, Frank U, Hauser M, Durner J, Ferreira F, Ernst D, Mempel M, Gilles S, Buters JTM, Behrendt H, Traidl-Hoffmann C, Schmidt-Weber C, Akdis M, Gutermuth J. Pollen-derived nonallergenic substances enhance Th2-induced IgE production in B cells. Allergy 2015. [PMID: 26214762 DOI: 10.1111/all.12707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BACKGROUND B cells play a central role in IgE-mediated allergies. In damaged airway epithelium, they are exposed directly to aeroallergens. We aimed to assess whether direct exposure of B cells to pollen constituents affects allergic sensitization. METHODS B cells from murine splenocytes and from blood samples of healthy donors were incubated for 8 days under Th2-like conditions with aqueous ragweed pollen extracts (Amb-APE) or its constituents. Secreted total IgM, IgG, and IgE was quantified by ELISA. Additionally, birch, grass, or pine-pollen extracts were tested. The number of viable cells was evaluated by ATP measurements. B-cell proliferation was measured by CFSE staining. IgE class switch was analyzed by quantitation of class switch transcripts. In an OVA/Alum i.p.-sensitization mouse model, Amb-APE was intranasally instilled for 11 consecutive days. RESULTS Upon Th2 priming of murine B cells, ragweed pollen extract caused a dose-dependent increase in IgE production, while IgG and IgM were not affected. The low-molecular-weight fraction and phytoprostane E1 (PPE1) increased IgE production, while Amb a 1 did not. PPE1 enhanced IgE also in human memory B cells. Under Th1 conditions, Amb-APE did not influence immunoglobulin secretion. The IgE elevation was not ragweed specific. It correlated with proliferation of viable B cells, but not with IgE class switch. In vivo, Amb-APE increased total IgE and showed adjuvant activity in allergic airway inflammation. CONCLUSIONS Aqueous pollen extracts, the protein-free fraction of Amb-APE, and the pollen-contained substance PPE1 specifically enhance IgE production in Th2-primed B cells. Thus, pollen-derived nonallergenic substances might be responsible for B-cell-dependent aggravation of IgE-mediated allergies.
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- S. Oeder
- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; CK-CARE; Davos Switzerland
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; CK-CARE; Davos Switzerland
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF); Davos Switzerland
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology; University Medical Center; Georg August University; Göttingen Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; CK-CARE; Davos Switzerland
- Institute of Environmental Medicine; UNIKA-T; Technische Universität München; Munich Germany
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- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; CK-CARE; Davos Switzerland
- Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology; Helmholtz Center Munich; Neuherberg Germany
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- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; CK-CARE; Davos Switzerland
- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology; Helmholtz Center Munich; Neuherberg Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology; Helmholtz Center Munich; Neuherberg Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology; University Medical Center; Georg August University; Göttingen Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; CK-CARE; Davos Switzerland
- Institute of Environmental Medicine; UNIKA-T; Technische Universität München; Munich Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; CK-CARE; Davos Switzerland
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; CK-CARE; Davos Switzerland
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; CK-CARE; Davos Switzerland
- Institute of Environmental Medicine; UNIKA-T; Technische Universität München; Munich Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Munich Germany
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF); Davos Switzerland
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität München and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Department of Dermatology; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Brussels Belgium
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The soldier flies of the genera Nemotelus Geoffroy, 1762 and Oxycera Meigen, 1803 collected in the Arasbaran forests (northwestern of Iran) during 2009-2012. A total of nine species were collected of which eight species [Nemotelus rudifranci (Berezovsky, Nartshuk. 1993); N. nigrinus Fallen, 1817; N. notatus Zetterstedt, 1842; N. pantherinus (Linnaeus, 1758); Oxycera fallenii Staeger, 1844; O. meigenii Staeger, 1844; O. notata Loew, 1873; O. trilineata (Linnaeus, 1767)] are recorded for the first time from Iran. Data on the geographical distribution of these species with figures are provided
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Wimmer M, Alessandrini F, Gilles S, Frank U, Oeder S, Hauser M, Ring J, Ferreira F, Ernst D, Winkler JB, Schmitt-Kopplin P, Ohnmacht C, Behrendt H, Schmidt-Weber C, Traidl-Hoffmann C, Gutermuth J. Pollen-derived adenosine is a necessary cofactor for ragweed allergy. Allergy 2015; 70:944-54. [PMID: 25939785 DOI: 10.1111/all.12642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [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] [Accepted: 03/28/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) is a strong elicitor of allergic airway inflammation with worldwide increasing prevalence. Various components of ragweed pollen are thought to play a role in the development of allergic responses. The aim of this study was to identify critical factors for allergenicity of ragweed pollen in a physiological model of allergic airway inflammation. METHODS Aqueous ragweed pollen extract, the low molecular weight fraction or the major allergen Amb a 1 was instilled intranasally on 1-11 consecutive days, and allergic airway inflammation was evaluated by bronchoalveolar lavage, lung histology, serology, gene expression in lung tissue, and measurement of lung function. Pollen-derived adenosine was removed from the extract enzymatically to analyze its role in ragweed-induced allergy. Migration of human neutrophils and eosinophils toward supernatants of ragweed-stimulated bronchial epithelial cells was analyzed. RESULTS Instillation of ragweed pollen extract, but not of the major allergen or the low molecular weight fraction, induced specific IgG1 , pulmonary infiltration with inflammatory cells, a Th2-associated cytokine signature in pulmonary tissue, and impaired lung function. Adenosine aggravated ragweed-induced allergic lung inflammation. In vitro, human neutrophils and eosinophils migrated toward supernatants of bronchial epithelial cells stimulated with ragweed extract only if adenosine was present. CONCLUSIONS Pollen-derived adenosine is a critical factor in ragweed-pollen-induced allergic airway inflammation. Future studies aim at therapeutic strategies to control these allergen-independent pathways.
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- M. Wimmer
- Institute of Environmental Medicine; UNIKA-T; Technische Universität München; Munich Germany
- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; Zurich Switzerland
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; Zurich Switzerland
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine; UNIKA-T; Technische Universität München; Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; Zurich Switzerland
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- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; Zurich Switzerland
- Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology; Helmholtz Zentrum München; Munich Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; Zurich Switzerland
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- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; Zurich Switzerland
- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy; Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; Zurich Switzerland
- Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein; TU Munich; Munich Germany
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- Christian Doppler Laboratory for Allergy Diagnosis and Therapy; Department of Molecular Biology; University of Salzburg; Salzburg Austria
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- Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology; Helmholtz Zentrum München; Munich Germany
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- Research Unit Environmental Simulation at the Institute of Biochemical Plant Pathology; Helmholtz Zentrum München; Munich Germany
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- Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry; Helmholtz Zentrum München; Munich Germany
- Analytical Food Chemistry; Technische Universität München; Munich Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung research (DZL); Munich Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; Zurich Switzerland
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung research (DZL); Munich Germany
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine; UNIKA-T; Technische Universität München; Munich Germany
- Christine Kühne - Center for Allergy Research and Education; Zurich Switzerland
- Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein; TU Munich; Munich Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM); Technische Universität and Helmholtz Zentrum München; Member of the German Center for Lung research (DZL); Munich Germany
- Department of Dermatology and Allergy Biederstein; TU Munich; Munich Germany
- Department of Dermatology; Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Brussel Belgium
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Tiemann L, Wegscheider W, Hauser M. Electron spin polarization by isospin ordering in correlated two-layer quantum Hall systems. Phys Rev Lett 2015; 114:176804. [PMID: 25978250 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.176804] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Enhancement of the electron spin polarization in a correlated two-layer, two-dimensional electron system at a total Landau level filling factor of 1 is reported. Using resistively detected nuclear magnetic resonance, we demonstrate that the electron spin polarization of two closely spaced two-dimensional electron systems becomes maximized when interlayer Coulomb correlations establish spontaneous isospin ferromagnetic order. This correlation-driven polarization dominates over the spin polarizations of competing single-layer fractional quantum Hall states under electron density imbalances.
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- L Tiemann
- Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Williams SEI, Carmichael TR, Allingham RR, Hauser M, Ramsay M. The genetics of POAG in black South Africans: a candidate gene association study. Sci Rep 2015; 5:8378. [PMID: 25669751 PMCID: PMC4323640 DOI: 10.1038/srep08378] [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] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2014] [Accepted: 01/19/2015] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Multiple loci have been associated with either primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) or heritable ocular quantitative traits associated with this condition. This study examined the association of these loci with POAG, with central corneal thickness (CCT), vertical cup-to-disc ratio (VCDR) and with diabetes mellitus in a group of black South Africans (215 POAG cases and 214 controls). The population was homogeneous and distinct from other African and European populations. Single SNPs in the MYOC, COL8A2, COL1A1 and ZNF469 gene regions showed marginal associations with POAG. No association with POAG was identified with tagging SNPs in TMCO1, CAV1/CAV2, CYP1B1, COL1A2, COL5A1, CDKN2B/CDKN2BAS-1, SIX1/SIX6 or the chromosome 2p16 regions and there were no associations with CCT or VCDR. However, SNP rs12522383 in WDR36 was associated with diabetes mellitus (p = 0.00008). This first POAG genetic association study in black South Africans has therefore identified associations that require additional investigation in this and other populations to determine their significance. This highlights the need for larger studies in this population if we are to achieve the goal of facilitating early POAG detection and ultimately preventing irreversible blindness from this condition.
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- Susan E I Williams
- Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Neurosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Duke Center for Human Genetics, Duke University, Durham, USA
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- 1] Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa [2] Sydney Brenner Institute of Molecular Bioscience, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Haberger S, Hauser M, Braun SL, Schuster T, Ewert P, Nagdyman N, Hess J, Kaemmerer H. Prognostic Value of Plasma B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in the Long-Term Follow-up of Patients With Transposition of the Great Arteries With Morphologic Right Systemic Ventricle After Atrial Switch Operation. Circ J 2015; 79:2677-81. [DOI: 10.1253/circj.cj-15-0348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Stefanie Haberger
- Department for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center
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- Department for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center
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- Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Rechts der Isar Hospital, Technical University Munich
- Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University
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- Department for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center
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- Department for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center
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- Department for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center
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- Department for Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, German Heart Center
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