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Se Hee Lee, Jang Ho Lee, Sei Won Lee
The application of microbiome-based therapies in various areas of human disease has recently increased. In chronic respiratory disease, microbiome-based clinical applications are considered compelling options due to the limitations of current treatments. The lung microbiome is ecologically dynamic and affected by various conditions, and dysbiosis is associated with disease severity, exacerbation, and phenotype as well as with chronic respiratory disease endotype. However, it is not easy to directly modulate the lung microbiome...
April 18, 2024: Journal of Microbiology / the Microbiological Society of Korea
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Felicia Jennysdotter Olofsgård, Caroline Ran, Yuyan Qin, Carmen Fourier, Elisabet Waldenlind, Anna Steinberg, Christina Sjöstrand, Andrea Carmine Belin
Up to 25% of individuals who live with cluster headache (CH), an extremely painful primary headache disorder, do not adequately respond to the first-line treatment, triptans. Studies have indicated that genetic variants can play a role in treatment response. Likewise, differences in clinical characteristics can give clues to mechanisms underlying triptan non-response. Our aim was to investigate five genetic variants previously implicated in triptan response and their relation to triptan usage in our Swedish CH cohort and to investigate potential distinctions in clinical characteristics...
April 18, 2024: Journal of Molecular Neuroscience: MN
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REVIEW
Jasper F Nies, Martin Krusche
Fever is a frequent and important symptom in patients with rheumatological diseases and can be an expression of activity of the underlying rheumatological disease. There is great variability in the incidence of fever as a symptom of the disease between individual diseases. The growing understanding of the molecular signatures of the diseases can help to explain these discrepancies: A genetic overactivation of potently pyrogenic cytokines is the reason why fever is nearly always present in autoinflammatory syndromes...
April 18, 2024: Zeitschrift Für Rheumatologie
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Kaitlin Morrison, Hitoshi Koshiya, Robert Safier, Amanda Brown, Carol May, Jerry Vockley, Lina Ghaloul-Gonzalez
TANGO2 deficiency disorder (TDD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a broad and variable spectrum of clinical manifestations, even among individuals sharing the same pathogenic variants. Here, we report a severely affected individual with TDD presenting with intractable paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity (PSH). While progressive brain atrophy has been observed in TDD, PSH has not been reported. Despite comprehensive workup for an acute trigger, no definite cause was identified, and pharmacological interventions were ineffective to treat PSH...
April 18, 2024: American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A
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Yingying Yang, Shiyu Xie, Fangjing He, Yindi Xu, Zhifang Wang, Awais Ihsan, Xu Wang
SUMMARYLincosamides constitute an important class of antibiotics used against a wide range of pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus . However, due to the misuse of lincosamide and co-selection pressure, the resistance to lincosamide has become a serious concern. It is urgently needed to carefully understand the phenomenon and mechanism of lincosamide resistance to effectively prevent and control lincosamide resistance. To date, six mobile lincosamide resistance classes, including lnu , cfr , erm , vga , lsa , and sal, have been identified...
April 18, 2024: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dilek Uludağ Alkaya, Hasan Emir Taner, Timur Yıldırım, Evren Akpınar, Beyhan Tüysüz
Mucopolysaccharidosis type 10 is caused by biallelic variants in ARSK, which encodes for a lysosomal sulfatase. To date, seven patients with a mild phenotype resembling spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia or multiple epiphyseal dysplasia have been described. In this report, we present two novel ARSK variants and report clinical and radiological findings of three patients. The patients' initial complaints were hip or knee pain and a waddling gait. All patients showed normal intelligence, normal hearing and eye examinations, and none had organomegaly...
April 18, 2024: American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ru-Ai Liu, Bo-Yong Wang, Xin Chen, Yuan-Qian Pu, Jia-Ji Zi, Wen Mei, Ye-Pin Zhang, Lu Qiu, Wei Xiong
Background: In Dayao County, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, Southwest China, 5% of the surface is scattered with blue asbestos, which has a high incidence of pleural mesothelioma (PMe). Simian virus 40 (SV40) is a small circular double-stranded DNA polyomavirus that can cause malignant transformation of normal cells of various human and animal tissue types and promote tumor growth. In this study, we investigate whether oncogenic SV40 is associated with the occurrence of PMe in the crocidolite-contaminated area of Dayao County, Yunnan Province, Southwest China...
April 18, 2024: Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Julian Macoveanu, Lydia Fortea, Hanne Lie Kjærstad, Klara Coello, Maria Faurholt-Jepsen, Patrick M Fisher, Gitte Moos Knudsen, Joaquim Radua, Eduard Vieta, Sophia Frangou, Maj Vinberg, Lars Vedel Kessing, Kamilla Woznica Miskowiak
BACKGROUND: There is a significant contribution of genetic factors to the etiology of bipolar disorder (BD). Unaffected first-degree relatives of patients (UR) with BD are at increased risk of developing mental disorders and may manifest cognitive impairments and alterations in brain functional and connective dynamics, akin to their affected relatives. METHODS: In this prospective longitudinal study, resting-state functional connectivity was used to explore stable and progressive markers of vulnerability i...
April 18, 2024: Psychological Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cecilia Vecoli, Ilenia Foffa, Simona Vittorini, Nicoletta Botto, Augusto Esposito, Sabrina Costa, Valeria Piagneri, Pierluigi Festa, Lamia Ait-Ali
We report the clinical presentation and genetic screening of a 31-year-old man with dilatation of the aortic root and ascending aorta and a positive family history for aortic dissection and sudden death. A novel heterozygous variant in a splice acceptor site (c.1600-1G>T) of TGFβR2 gene was identified by using a targeted multi-gene panel analysis. Bioinformatics tools predicted that the c.1600-1G>T variant is pathogenic by altering acceptor splice site at - 1 position affecting pre-mRNA splicing...
April 18, 2024: Personalized Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kuntal Sen, Rima Izem, Yuelin Long, Jiji Jiang, Laura L Konczal, Robert J McCarter, Andrea L Gropman, Jirair K Bedoyan
BACKGROUND: Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency (OTCD) due to an X-linked OTC mutation, is responsible for moderate to severe hyperammonemia (HA) with substantial morbidity and mortality. About 80% of females with OTCD remain apparently "asymptomatic" with limited studies of their clinical characteristics and long-term health vulnerabilities. Multimodal neuroimaging studies and executive function testing have shown that asymptomatic females exhibit limitations when stressed to perform at higher cognitive load and had reduced activation of the prefrontal cortex...
April 2024: Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lin-Lin Wang, Ping-Shan Pan, Hui Ma, Chun He, Zai-Long Qin, Wei He, Jing Huang, Shu-Yin Tan, Da-Hua Meng, Hong-Wei Wei, Ai-Hua Yin
BACKGROUND: Malformations of cortical development (MCD) are a group of congenital disorders characterized by structural abnormalities in the brain cortex. The clinical manifestations include refractory epilepsy, mental retardation, and cognitive impairment. Genetic factors play a key role in the etiology of MCD. Currently, there is no curative treatment for MCD. Phenotypes such as epilepsy and cerebral palsy cannot be observed in the fetus. Therefore, the diagnosis of MCD is typically based on fetal brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, or genetic testing...
April 2024: Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
J Sebastian Garcia-Medina, Karolina Sienkiewicz, S Anand Narayanan, Eliah G Overbey, Kirill Grigorev, Krista A Ryon, Marissa Burke, Jacqueline Proszynski, Braden Tierney, Caleb M Schmidt, Nuria Mencia-Trinchant, Remi Klotz, Veronica Ortiz, Jonathan Foox, Christopher Chin, Deena Najjar, Irina Matei, Irenaeus Chan, Carlos Cruchaga, Ashley Kleinman, JangKeun Kim, Alexander Lucaci, Conor Loy, Omary Mzava, Iwijn De Vlaminck, Anvita Singaraju, Lynn E Taylor, Julian C Schmidt, Michael A Schmidt, Kelly Blease, Juan Moreno, Andrew Boddicker, Junhua Zhao, Bryan Lajoie, Andrew Altomare, Semyon Kruglyak, Shawn Levy, Min Yu, Duane C Hassane, Susan M Bailey, Kelly Bolton, Jaime Mateus, Christopher E Mason
BACKGROUND: The Inspiration4 (I4) mission, the first all-civilian orbital flight mission, investigated the physiological effects of short-duration spaceflight through a multi-omic approach. Despite advances, there remains much to learn about human adaptation to spaceflight's unique challenges, including microgravity, immune system perturbations, and radiation exposure. METHODS: To provide a detailed genetics analysis of the mission, we collected dried blood spots pre-, during, and post-flight for DNA extraction...
March 2024: Precision Clinical Medicine
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Polina Kostova, Guergana Petrova, Martin Shahid, Vera Papochieva, Dimitrinka Miteva, Ivelina Yordanova, Kossara Drenovska, Irena Bradinova, Camila K Janniger, Robert A Schwartz, Snejina Vassileva
KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: High-dose intravenous immunoglobulin exhibits great potential in the treatment of Netherton syndrome. ABSTRACT: Netherton syndrome (NS) is a rare autosomal recessive genodermatosis (OMIM #256500) characterized by superficial scaling, atopic manifestations, and multisystemic complications. It is caused by loss-of-function mutations in the SPINK5 gene, which encode a key kallikrein protease inhibitor. There are two subtypes of the syndrome that differ in clinical presentation and immune profile: ichthyosiform erythroderma and ichthyosis linearis circumflexa...
April 2024: Clinical Case Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joaquin Garcia-Solorio, Juan Carlos Núñez-Enriquez, Marco Jiménez-Olivares, Janet Flores-Lujano, Fernanda Flores-Espino, Carolina Molina-Garay, Alejandra Cervera, Diana Casique-Aguirre, José Gabriel Peñaloza-Gonzalez, Ma Del Rocío Baños-Lara, Ángel García-Soto, César Alejandro Galván-Díaz, Alberto Olaya-Vargas, Hilario Flores Aguilar, Minerva Mata-Rocha, Miguel Ángel Garrido-Hernández, Juan Carlos Solís-Poblano, Nuria Citlalli Luna-Silva, Lena Sarahi Cano-Cuapio, Pierre Mitchel Aristil-Chery, Fernando Herrera-Quezada, Karol Carrillo-Sanchez, Anallely Muñoz-Rivas, Luis Leonardo Flores-Lagunes, Elvia Cristina Mendoza-Caamal, Beatriz Eugenia Villegas-Torres, Vincent González-Osnaya, Elva Jiménez-Hernández, José Refugio Torres-Nava, Jorge Alfonso Martín-Trejo, María de Lourdes Gutiérrez-Rivera, Rosa Martha Espinosa-Elizondo, Laura Elizabeth Merino-Pasaye, María Luisa Pérez-Saldívar, Silvia Jiménez-Morales, Everardo Curiel-Quesada, Haydeé Rosas-Vargas, Juan Manuel Mejía-Arangure, Carmen Alaez-Verson
BACKGROUND: Recurrent genetic alterations contributing to leukemogenesis have been identified in pediatric B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL), and some are useful for refining classification, prognosis, and treatment selection. IKZF1plus is a complex biomarker associated with a poor prognosis. It is characterized by IKZF1 deletion coexisting with PAX5 , CDKN2A/2B , or PAR1 region deletions. The mutational spectrum and clinical impact of these alterations have scarcely been explored in Mexican pediatric patients with B-ALL...
2024: Frontiers in Oncology
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REVIEW
Changlin Wen, Dan Chen, Rao Zhong, Xi Peng
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) research often relies on animal models to study the etiology, pathophysiology, and management of IBD. Among these models, rats and mice are frequently employed due to their practicality and genetic manipulability. However, for studies aiming to closely mimic human pathology, non-human primates such as monkeys and dogs offer valuable physiological parallels. Guinea pigs, while less commonly used, present unique advantages for investigating the intricate interplay between neurological and immunological factors in IBD...
2024: Gastroenterology Report
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Ekaterina Baron, Chih Ching Wu, Kanchan Gupta, Jessica A Wernberg, Michael T Sheehan, Rohit Sharma
Autosomal dominant hereditary paraganglioma-pheochromocytoma syndrome (HPPS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by neuroendocrine tumor development associated with pathogenic variants in succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) enzyme complex genes. Particularly, HPPS linked to SDHB mutation poses a significant clinical challenge due to its association with aggressive tumor features and a high risk of malignancy. Our report underscores the diversity in the presentation of patients with SDHB-mutated paraganglioma and the feasibility of managing it with a minimally invasive surgical approach...
March 2024: Curēus
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Nishal N Patel, Adam Kurnick, Inna Bukharovich
A 60-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension presents to the ED with one day of throbbing left knee pain with associated numbness that worsened with ambulation. EKG shows lateral T-wave inversions with no prior for comparison. The patient had bloodwork drawn and a chest x-ray ordered. Her pain was improving with acetaminophen, and during further workup, she went into cardiac arrest. The advanced cardiac life support protocol was initiated, the patient was intubated, and point-of-care ultrasound revealed pericardial effusion...
March 2024: Curēus
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Aysheh Alrfooh, Lucas G Casten, Jenny Gringer Richards, John A Wemmie, Vincent A Magnotta, Jess G Fiedorowicz, Jacob Michaelson, Aislinn J Williams, Marie E Gaine
Individuals with bipolar disorder are at increased risk for suicide, and this can be influenced by a range of biological, clinical, and environmental risk factors. Biological components associated with suicide include DNA modifications that lead to changes in gene expression. Common genetic variation and DNA methylation changes are some of the most frequent types of DNA findings associated with an increased risk for suicidal behavior. Importantly, the interplay between genetic predisposition and DNA methylation patterns is becoming more prevalent in genetic studies...
April 3, 2024: medRxiv
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Marijne Vandebergh, Eliana Marisa Ramos, Nick Corriveau-Lecavalier, Vijay K Ramanan, John Kornak, Carly Mester, Tyler Kolander, Danielle Brushaber, Adam M Staffaroni, Daniel Geschwind, Amy Wolf, Kejal Kantarci, Tania F Gendron, Leonard Petrucelli, Marleen Van den Broeck, Sarah Wynants, Matthew C Baker, Sergi Borrego-Écija, Brian Appleby, Sami Barmada, Andrea Bozoki, David Clark, R Ryan Darby, Bradford C Dickerson, Kimiko Domoto-Reilly, Julie A Fields, Douglas R Galasko, Nupur Ghoshal, Neill Graff-Radford, Ian M Grant, Lawrence S Honig, Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung, Edward D Huey, David Irwin, David S Knopman, Justin Y Kwan, Gabriel C Léger, Irene Litvan, Joseph C Masdeu, Mario F Mendez, Chiadi Onyike, Belen Pascual, Peter Pressman, Aaron Ritter, Erik D Roberson, Allison Snyder, Anna Campbell Sullivan, M Carmela Tartaglia, Dylan Wint, Hilary W Heuer, Leah K Forsberg, Adam L Boxer, Howard J Rosen, Bradley F Boeve, Rosa Rademakers
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: TMEM106B has been proposed as a modifier of disease risk in FTLD-TDP, particularly in GRN mutation carriers. Furthermore, TMEM106B has been investigated as a disease modifier in the context of healthy aging and across multiple neurodegenerative diseases. The objective of this study is to evaluate and compare the effect of TMEM106B on gray matter volume and cognition in each of the common genetic FTD groups and in sporadic FTD patients. METHODS: Participants were enrolled through the ARTFL/LEFFTDS Longitudinal Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (ALLFTD) study, which includes symptomatic and presymptomatic individuals with a pathogenic mutation in C9orf72, GRN, MAPT, VCP, TBK1, TARDBP, symptomatic non-mutation carriers, and non-carrier family controls...
April 5, 2024: medRxiv
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Marie C Sadler, Alexander Apostolov, Caterina Cevallos, Diogo M Ribeiro, Russ B Altman, Zoltán Kutalik
Electronic health records (EHRs) coupled with large-scale biobanks offer great promises to unravel the genetic underpinnings of treatment efficacy. However, medication-induced biomarker trajectories stemming from such records remain poorly studied. Here, we extract clinical and medication prescription data from EHRs and conduct GWAS and rare variant burden tests in the UK Biobank (discovery) and the All of Us program (replication) on ten cardiometabolic drug response outcomes including lipid response to statins, HbA1c response to metformin and blood pressure response to antihypertensives (N = 740-26,669)...
April 7, 2024: medRxiv
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