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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2012-04-11
    Description: Genome-wide studies have identified associations between polymorphisms in the IFN regulatory factor-5 (Irf5) gene and a variety of human autoimmune diseases. Its functional role in disease pathogenesis, however, remains unclear, as studies in Irf5−/− mice have reached disparate conclusions regarding the importance of this transcription factor in type I IFN production and antibody responses. We identified a spontaneous genomic duplication and frameshift mutation in the guanine exchange factor dedicator of cytokinesis 2 (Dock2) that has arisen in at least a subset of circulating Irf5−/− mice and inadvertently been bred to homozygosity. Retroviral expression of DOCK2, but not IRF-5, rescued defects in plasmacytoid dendritic cell and B-cell development, and Irf5−/− mice lacking the mutation in Dock2 exhibited normal plasmacytoid dendritic cell and B-cell development, largely intact type I IFN responses, and relatively normal antibody responses to viral infection. Thus, confirmation of the normal Dock2 genotype in circulating Irf5−/− mice is warranted, and our data may partly explain conflicting results in this field.
    Print ISSN: 0027-8424
    Electronic ISSN: 1091-6490
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General
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    Publication Date: 2012-01-18
    Description: Rats use their vibrissal sensory system to collect information about the nearby environment. They can accurately and rapidly identify object location, shape, and surface texture. Which features of whisker motion does the sensory system extract to construct sensations? We addressed this question by training rats to make discriminations between sinusoidal vibrations simultaneously presented to the left and right whiskers. One set of rats learned to reliably identify which of two vibrations had higher frequency (f1 vs. f2) when amplitudes were equal. Another set of rats learned to reliably identify which of two vibrations had higher amplitude (A1 vs. A2) when frequencies were equal. Although these results indicate that both elemental features contribute to the rats’ sensation, a further test found that the capacity to discriminate A and f was reduced to chance when the difference in one feature was counterbalanced by the difference in the other feature: Rats could not discriminate amplitude or frequency whenever A1f1 = A2f2. Thus, vibrations were sensed as the product Af rather than as separable elemental features, A and f. The product Af is proportional to a physical entity, the mean speed. Analysis of performance revealed that rats extracted more information about differences in Af than predicted by the sum of the information in elemental differences. These behavioral experiments support the predictions of earlier physiological studies by demonstrating that rats are “blind” to the elemental features present in a sinusoidal whisker vibration; instead, they perceive a composite feature, the speed of whisker motion.
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    Publication Date: 2014-10-15
    Description: Transcellular propagation of protein aggregates, or proteopathic seeds, may drive the progression of neurodegenerative diseases in a prion-like manner. In tauopathies such as Alzheimer’s disease, this model predicts that tau seeds propagate pathology through the brain via cell–cell transfer in neural networks. The critical role of tau seeding activity is...
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2019
    Description: Abstract Tacrolimus exhibits unpredictable pharmacokinetics after lung transplant, partly explained by CYP‐enzyme polymorphisms. However, whether exposure variability during the immediate post‐operative period affects outcomes is unknown, and pharmacogenetic dosing may be limited by residual pharmacokinetic variability. We estimated adjusted associations between early post‐operative tacrolimus concentrations and acute kidney injury (AKI) and acute cellular rejection (ACR), and identified clinical and pharmacogenetic factors that explain post‐operative tacrolimus concentration variability in 484 lung transplant patients. Increasing tacrolimus concentration was associated with higher AKI risk: HR 1.54, (95%CI 1.20‐1.96) per 5‐mg/dL, and increasing AKI severity (OR 1.29 (1.04‐1.60) per 5‐mg/dL, but not ACR: HR 1.02 (95%CI 0.73‐1.42). A model with clinical and pharmacogenetic factors explained 42% of concentration variance compared to 19% for pharmacogenetic factors only. Early tacrolimus exposure was independently associated with AKI after lung transplantation, but not ACR. Clinical factors accounted for substantial residual tacrolimus concentration variability not explained by CYP‐enzyme polymorphisms.
    Print ISSN: 0009-9236
    Electronic ISSN: 1532-6535
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Published by Springer Nature
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    Publication Date: 2015-02-07
    Description: Article Tumour cells sustain high levels of glycolysis even in presence of oxygen, which is known as the Warburg effect. Here the authors show that MnSOD contributes to the Warburg effect by increasing the levels of H 2 O 2 released from mitochondria, which sustains glycolysis by activating AMPK. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms7053 Authors: Peter C. Hart, Mao Mao, Andre Luelsdorf P. de Abreu, Kristine Ansenberger-Fricano, Dede N. Ekoue, Douglas Ganini, Andre Kajdacsy-Balla, Alan M. Diamond, Richard D. Minshall, Marcia E. L. Consolaro, Janine H. Santos, Marcelo G. Bonini
    Electronic ISSN: 2041-1723
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
    Published by Springer Nature
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    Publication Date: 2015-02-03
    Description: Highly crystalline thin films of MoS 2 were prepared over large area by pulsed laser deposition down to a single monolayer on Al 2 O 3 (0001), GaN (0001), and SiC-6H (0001) substrates. X-ray diffraction and selected area electron diffraction studies show that the films are quasi-epitaxial with good out-of-plane texture. In addition, the thin films were observed to be highly crystalline with rocking curve full width half maxima of 0.01°, smooth with a RMS roughness of 0.27 nm, and uniform in thickness based on Raman spectroscopy. From transport measurements, the as-grown films were found to be p-type.
    Print ISSN: 0003-6951
    Electronic ISSN: 1077-3118
    Topics: Physics
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    Publication Date: 2013-11-28
    Description: Author(s): M. Diamond and P. Schuster New sub-GeV gauge forces (“dark photons”) that kinetically mix with the photon provide a promising scenario for MeV–GeV dark matter and are the subject of a program of searches at fixed-target and collider facilities around the world. In such models, dark photons produced in collisions may decay inv... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 221803] Published Wed Nov 27, 2013
    Keywords: Elementary Particles and Fields
    Print ISSN: 0031-9007
    Electronic ISSN: 1079-7114
    Topics: Physics
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    Publication Date: 2009-06-19
    Description: Common copy number variations (CNVs) represent a significant source of genetic diversity, yet their influence on phenotypic variability, including disease susceptibility, remains poorly understood. To address this problem in human cancer, we performed a genome-wide association study of CNVs in the childhood cancer neuroblastoma, a disease in which single nucleotide polymorphism variations are known to influence susceptibility. We first genotyped 846 Caucasian neuroblastoma patients and 803 healthy Caucasian controls at approximately 550,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms, and performed a CNV-based test for association. We then replicated significant observations in two independent sample sets comprised of a total of 595 cases and 3,357 controls. Here we describe the identification of a common CNV at chromosome 1q21.1 associated with neuroblastoma in the discovery set, which was confirmed in both replication sets. This CNV was validated by quantitative polymerase chain reaction, fluorescent in situ hybridization and analysis of matched tumour specimens, and was shown to be heritable in an independent set of 713 cancer-free parent-offspring trios. We identified a previously unknown transcript within the CNV that showed high sequence similarity to several neuroblastoma breakpoint family (NBPF) genes and represents a new member of this gene family (NBPF23). This transcript was preferentially expressed in fetal brain and fetal sympathetic nervous tissues, and the expression level was strictly correlated with CNV state in neuroblastoma cells. These data demonstrate that inherited copy number variation at 1q21.1 is associated with neuroblastoma and implicate a previously unknown neuroblastoma breakpoint family gene in early tumorigenesis of this childhood cancer.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2755253/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2755253/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Diskin, Sharon J -- Hou, Cuiping -- Glessner, Joseph T -- Attiyeh, Edward F -- Laudenslager, Marci -- Bosse, Kristopher -- Cole, Kristina -- Mosse, Yael P -- Wood, Andrew -- Lynch, Jill E -- Pecor, Katlyn -- Diamond, Maura -- Winter, Cynthia -- Wang, Kai -- Kim, Cecilia -- Geiger, Elizabeth A -- McGrady, Patrick W -- Blakemore, Alexandra I F -- London, Wendy B -- Shaikh, Tamim H -- Bradfield, Jonathan -- Grant, Struan F A -- Li, Hongzhe -- Devoto, Marcella -- Rappaport, Eric R -- Hakonarson, Hakon -- Maris, John M -- GM081519/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R00 CA151869/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA087847/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA087847-05/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA124709/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA124709-02/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01-CA124709/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01-CA87847/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- T32-HG000046/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- U10 CA098543/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- U10 CA098543-07/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- U10-CA98543/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2009 Jun 18;459(7249):987-91. doi: 10.1038/nature08035.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Oncology and Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19536264" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Child ; Chromosome Breakage ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1/*genetics ; European Continental Ancestry Group/genetics ; Fetus/metabolism ; Gene Dosage/*genetics ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/genetics ; Genetic Variation/*genetics ; Genome-Wide Association Study ; Genotype ; Humans ; In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ; Neuroblastoma/*genetics ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics ; RNA, Messenger/genetics ; Reproducibility of Results
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    Publication Date: 2015-11-13
    Description: Neuroblastoma is a paediatric malignancy that typically arises in early childhood, and is derived from the developing sympathetic nervous system. Clinical phenotypes range from localized tumours with excellent outcomes to widely metastatic disease in which long-term survival is approximately 40% despite intensive therapy. A previous genome-wide association study identified common polymorphisms at the LMO1 gene locus that are highly associated with neuroblastoma susceptibility and oncogenic addiction to LMO1 in the tumour cells. Here we investigate the causal DNA variant at this locus and the mechanism by which it leads to neuroblastoma tumorigenesis. We first imputed all possible genotypes across the LMO1 locus and then mapped highly associated single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) to areas of chromatin accessibility, evolutionary conservation and transcription factor binding sites. We show that SNP rs2168101 G〉T is the most highly associated variant (combined P = 7.47 x 10(-29), odds ratio 0.65, 95% confidence interval 0.60-0.70), and resides in a super-enhancer defined by extensive acetylation of histone H3 lysine 27 within the first intron of LMO1. The ancestral G allele that is associated with tumour formation resides in a conserved GATA transcription factor binding motif. We show that the newly evolved protective TATA allele is associated with decreased total LMO1 expression (P = 0.028) in neuroblastoma primary tumours, and ablates GATA3 binding (P 〈 0.0001). We demonstrate allelic imbalance favouring the G-containing strand in tumours heterozygous for this SNP, as demonstrated both by RNA sequencing (P 〈 0.0001) and reporter assays (P = 0.002). These findings indicate that a recently evolved polymorphism within a super-enhancer element in the first intron of LMO1 influences neuroblastoma susceptibility through differential GATA transcription factor binding and direct modulation of LMO1 expression in cis, and this leads to an oncogenic dependency in tumour cells.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4775078/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4775078/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Oldridge, Derek A -- Wood, Andrew C -- Weichert-Leahey, Nina -- Crimmins, Ian -- Sussman, Robyn -- Winter, Cynthia -- McDaniel, Lee D -- Diamond, Maura -- Hart, Lori S -- Zhu, Shizhen -- Durbin, Adam D -- Abraham, Brian J -- Anders, Lars -- Tian, Lifeng -- Zhang, Shile -- Wei, Jun S -- Khan, Javed -- Bramlett, Kelli -- Rahman, Nazneen -- Capasso, Mario -- Iolascon, Achille -- Gerhard, Daniela S -- Guidry Auvil, Jaime M -- Young, Richard A -- Hakonarson, Hakon -- Diskin, Sharon J -- Look, A Thomas -- Maris, John M -- 100210/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 100210/Z/12/Z/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 1K99CA178189/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R00-CA151869/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA124709/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA180692/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01-CA109901/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01-CA124709/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01-CA180692/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- RC1MD004418/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/ -- T32 HG000046/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- T32-HG000046/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Dec 17;528(7582):418-21. doi: 10.1038/nature15540. Epub 2015 Nov 11.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Division of Oncology and Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. ; Medical Scientist Training Program, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. ; Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland, Auckland Region 1142, New Zealand. ; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. ; Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. ; Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and MIT, Boston, Massachusetts 02142, USA. ; Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. ; Pediatric Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. ; Thermo Fisher Scientific, Austin, Texas 78744, USA. ; The Institute of Cancer Research, London SM2 5NG, UK. ; University of Naples Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy. ; CEINGE Biotecnologie Avanzate, 80131 Naples, Italy. ; Office of Cancer Genomics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. ; Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. ; Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26560027" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Acetylation ; Alleles ; Allelic Imbalance ; Binding Sites ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*genetics ; Enhancer Elements, Genetic/*genetics ; Epigenomics ; GATA3 Transcription Factor/metabolism ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/genetics ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/*genetics ; Genome-Wide Association Study ; Genotype ; Histones/chemistry/metabolism ; Humans ; Introns/genetics ; LIM Domain Proteins/*genetics ; Lysine/metabolism ; Neuroblastoma/*genetics ; Organ Specificity ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/*genetics ; Reproducibility of Results ; Transcription Factors/*genetics
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    Publication Date: 2010-12-03
    Description: Neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer of the sympathetic nervous system that accounts for approximately 10% of all paediatric oncology deaths. To identify genetic risk factors for neuroblastoma, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on 2,251 patients and 6,097 control subjects of European ancestry from four case series. Here we report a significant association within LIM domain only 1 (LMO1) at 11p15.4 (rs110419, combined P = 5.2 x 10(-16), odds ratio of risk allele = 1.34 (95% confidence interval 1.25-1.44)). The signal was enriched in the subset of patients with the most aggressive form of the disease. LMO1 encodes a cysteine-rich transcriptional regulator, and its paralogues (LMO2, LMO3 and LMO4) have each been previously implicated in cancer. In parallel, we analysed genome-wide DNA copy number alterations in 701 primary tumours. We found that the LMO1 locus was aberrant in 12.4% through a duplication event, and that this event was associated with more advanced disease (P 〈 0.0001) and survival (P = 0.041). The germline single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) risk alleles and somatic copy number gains were associated with increased LMO1 expression in neuroblastoma cell lines and primary tumours, consistent with a gain-of-function role in tumorigenesis. Short hairpin RNA (shRNA)-mediated depletion of LMO1 inhibited growth of neuroblastoma cells with high LMO1 expression, whereas forced expression of LMO1 in neuroblastoma cells with low LMO1 expression enhanced proliferation. These data show that common polymorphisms at the LMO1 locus are strongly associated with susceptibility to developing neuroblastoma, but also may influence the likelihood of further somatic alterations at this locus, leading to malignant progression.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320515/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320515/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wang, Kai -- Diskin, Sharon J -- Zhang, Haitao -- Attiyeh, Edward F -- Winter, Cynthia -- Hou, Cuiping -- Schnepp, Robert W -- Diamond, Maura -- Bosse, Kristopher -- Mayes, Patrick A -- Glessner, Joseph -- Kim, Cecilia -- Frackelton, Edward -- Garris, Maria -- Wang, Qun -- Glaberson, Wendy -- Chiavacci, Rosetta -- Nguyen, Le -- Jagannathan, Jayanti -- Saeki, Norihisa -- Sasaki, Hiroki -- Grant, Struan F A -- Iolascon, Achille -- Mosse, Yael P -- Cole, Kristina A -- Li, Hongzhe -- Devoto, Marcella -- McGrady, Patrick W -- London, Wendy B -- Capasso, Mario -- Rahman, Nazneen -- Hakonarson, Hakon -- Maris, John M -- 9024/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom -- R00 CA151869/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA124709/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01 CA124709-05/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- R01-CA124709/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- U10-CA98413/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- U10-CA98543/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- UL1-RR024134-03/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jan 13;469(7329):216-20. doi: 10.1038/nature09609. Epub 2010 Dec 1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Center for Applied Genomics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21124317" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Alleles ; Cell Line, Tumor ; Cell Proliferation ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 11/genetics ; DNA Copy Number Variations/genetics ; DNA-Binding Proteins/*genetics ; Disease Progression ; Europe/ethnology ; Gene Duplication/genetics ; Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/genetics ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease/*genetics ; Genome, Human/genetics ; *Genome-Wide Association Study ; Genomics ; Genotype ; Humans ; LIM Domain Proteins ; Neuroblastoma/*genetics/pathology ; Odds Ratio ; Oncogenes/*genetics ; Phenotype ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/genetics ; Survival Rate ; Transcription Factors/*genetics
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