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Nat Genet ; 54(8): 1103-1116, 2022 08.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35835913

RESUMO

The chr12q24.13 locus encoding OAS1-OAS3 antiviral proteins has been associated with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) susceptibility. Here, we report genetic, functional and clinical insights into this locus in relation to COVID-19 severity. In our analysis of patients of European (n = 2,249) and African (n = 835) ancestries with hospitalized versus nonhospitalized COVID-19, the risk of hospitalized disease was associated with a common OAS1 haplotype, which was also associated with reduced severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) clearance in a clinical trial with pegIFN-λ1. Bioinformatic analyses and in vitro studies reveal the functional contribution of two associated OAS1 exonic variants comprising the risk haplotype. Derived human-specific alleles rs10774671-A and rs1131454 -A decrease OAS1 protein abundance through allele-specific regulation of splicing and nonsense-mediated decay (NMD). We conclude that decreased OAS1 expression due to a common haplotype contributes to COVID-19 severity. Our results provide insight into molecular mechanisms through which early treatment with interferons could accelerate SARS-CoV-2 clearance and mitigate against severe COVID-19.


Assuntos
COVID-19 , 2',5'-Oligoadenilato Sintetase/genética , 2',5'-Oligoadenilato Sintetase/metabolismo , Alelos , COVID-19/genética , Hospitalização , Humanos , SARS-CoV-2/genética
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J Pers Med ; 12(3)2022 Mar 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35330405

RESUMO

To meet current and expected future demand for genome sequencing in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), adjustments to traditional service delivery models are necessary. Effective programs for the training of non-genetics providers (NGPs) may address the known barriers to providing genetic services including limited genetics knowledge and lack of confidence. The SouthSeq project aims to use genome sequencing to make genomic diagnoses in the neonatal period and evaluate a scalable approach to delivering genome sequencing results to populations with limited access to genetics professionals. Thirty-three SouthSeq NGPs participated in a live, interactive training intervention and completed surveys before and after participation. Here, we describe the protocol for the provider training intervention utilized in the SouthSeq study and the associated impact on NGP knowledge and confidence in reviewing, interpreting, and using genome sequencing results. Participation in the live training intervention led to an increased level of confidence in critical skills needed for real-world implementation of genome sequencing. Providers reported a significant increase in confidence level in their ability to review, understand, and use genome sequencing result reports to guide patient care. Reported barriers to implementation of genome sequencing in a NICU setting included test cost, lack of insurance coverage, and turn around time. As implementation of genome sequencing in this setting progresses, effective education of NGPs is critical to provide access to high-quality and timely genomic medicine care.

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medRxiv ; 2021 Jul 13.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34282422

RESUMO

Genomic regions have been associated with COVID-19 susceptibility and outcomes, including the chr12q24.13 locus encoding antiviral proteins OAS1-3. Here, we report genetic, functional, and clinical insights into genetic associations within this locus. In Europeans, the risk of hospitalized vs. non-hospitalized COVID-19 was associated with a single 19Kb-haplotype comprised of 76 OAS1 variants included in a 95% credible set within a large genomic fragment introgressed from Neandertals. The risk haplotype was also associated with impaired spontaneous but not treatment-induced SARS-CoV-2 clearance in a clinical trial with pegIFN-λ1. We demonstrate that two exonic variants, rs10774671 and rs1131454, affect splicing and nonsense-mediated decay of OAS1 . We suggest that genetically-regulated loss of OAS1 expression contributes to impaired spontaneous clearance of SARS-CoV-2 and elevated risk of hospitalization for COVID-19. Our results provide the rationale for further clinical studies using interferons to compensate for impaired spontaneous SARS-CoV-2 clearance, particularly in carriers of the OAS1 risk haplotypes.

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Hum Mutat ; 42(1): 3-7, 2021 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33252176

RESUMO

Documenting variation in our genomes is important for research and clinical care. Accuracy in the description of DNA variants is therefore essential. To address this issue, the Human Variome Project convened a committee to evaluate the feasibility of requiring authors to verify that all variants submitted for publication complied with a widely accepted standard for description. After a pilot study of two journals, the committee agreed that requiring authors to verify that variants complied with Human Genome Variation Society nomenclature is a reasonable step toward standardizing the worldwide inventory of human variation.


Assuntos
DNA , Genoma Humano , Publicações Periódicas como Assunto , Terminologia como Assunto , DNA/genética , Variação Genética , Projeto Genoma Humano , Humanos , Publicações Periódicas como Assunto/normas , Projetos Piloto , Publicações/normas
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Genet Med ; 19(3): 337-344, 2017 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27561086

RESUMO

PURPOSE: Eliciting and understanding patient and research participant preferences regarding return of secondary test results are key aspects of genomic medicine. A valid instrument should be easily understood without extensive pretest counseling while still faithfully eliciting patients' preferences. METHODS: We conducted focus groups with 110 adults to understand patient perspectives on secondary genomic findings and the role that preferences should play. We then developed and refined a draft instrument and used it to elicit preferences from parents participating in a genomic sequencing study in children with intellectual disabilities. RESULTS: Patients preferred filtering of secondary genomic results to avoid information overload and to avoid learning what the future holds, among other reasons. Patients preferred to make autonomous choices about which categories of results to receive and to have their choices applied automatically before results are returned to them and their clinicians. The Preferences Instrument for Genomic Secondary Results (PIGSR) is designed to be completed by patients or research participants without assistance and to guide bioinformatic analysis of genomic raw data. Most participants wanted to receive all secondary results, but a significant minority indicated other preferences. CONCLUSIONS: Our novel instrument-PIGSR-should be useful in a wide variety of clinical and research settings.Genet Med 19 3, 337-344.


Assuntos
Testes Genéticos/métodos , Adulto , Idoso , Comportamento de Escolha , Compreensão , Feminino , Grupos Focais , Testes Genéticos/ética , Testes Genéticos/instrumentação , Genoma/ética , Genoma/genética , Genômica/ética , Genômica/métodos , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Humanos , Achados Incidentais , Deficiência Intelectual/genética , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Pais/psicologia , Preferência do Paciente/psicologia , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Inquéritos e Questionários
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J Neurosci ; 32(9): 3009-21, 2012 Feb 29.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22378874

RESUMO

Synchronous activation of neural networks is an important physiological mechanism, and dysregulation of synchrony forms the basis of epilepsy. We analyzed the propagation of synchronous activity through chronically epileptic neural networks. Electrocorticographic recordings from epileptic patients demonstrate remarkable variance in the pathways of propagation between sequential interictal spikes (IISs). Calcium imaging in chronically epileptic slice cultures demonstrates that pathway variance depends on the presence of GABAergic inhibition and that spike propagation becomes stereotyped following GABA receptor blockade. Computer modeling suggests that GABAergic quenching of local network activations leaves behind regions of refractory neurons, whose late recruitment forms the anatomical basis of variability during subsequent network activation. Targeted path scanning of slice cultures confirmed local activations, while ex vivo recordings of human epileptic tissue confirmed the dependence of interspike variance on GABA-mediated inhibition. These data support the hypothesis that the paths by which synchronous activity spreads through an epileptic network change with each activation, based on the recent history of localized activity that has been successfully inhibited.


Assuntos
Potenciais de Ação/fisiologia , Eletroencefalografia , Epilepsia/fisiopatologia , Hipocampo/fisiologia , Adulto , Animais , Eletroencefalografia/métodos , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Técnicas de Cultura de Órgãos , Distribuição Aleatória , Ratos
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Am J Med Genet A ; 140(14): 1567-72, 2006 Jul 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16761293

RESUMO

Genitopatellar syndrome is a newly described disorder characterized by absent/hypoplastic patellae, lower extremity contractures, urogenital anomalies, dysmorphic features, skeletal anomalies, and agenesis of the corpus callosum. More recently, cardiac anomalies and ectodermal dysplasia have been suggested as additional features of this syndrome. We report on two additional patients with genitopatellar syndrome and expand the spectrum of anomalies to include radio-ulnar synostosis. Since there exists significant overlap in the skeletal phenotype between genitopatellar syndrome and both the nail-patella and short patella syndromes, mutation screening of their causative genes, LMX1B and TBX4, was performed. Although there still does not appear to be an identifiable molecular etiology in genitopatellar syndrome, mutations in these two candidate genes have been excluded in our patients. Since both LMX1B and TBX4 are involved in a common molecular pathway, it is likely that the causative gene of genitopatellar syndrome functions within the same developmental process.


Assuntos
Genitália/anormalidades , Proteínas de Homeodomínio/genética , Patela/anormalidades , Proteínas com Domínio T/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Encéfalo/anormalidades , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Proteínas com Homeodomínio LIM , Masculino , Microcefalia/genética , Mutação , Fenótipo , Rádio (Anatomia)/anormalidades , Síndrome , Ulna/anormalidades
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J Biol Chem ; 278(20): 18063-8, 2003 May 16.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12621037

RESUMO

Insulin action in target tissues involved precise regulation of gene expression. To define the set of insulin-regulated genes in human skeletal muscle, we analyzed the global changes in mRNA levels during a 3-h hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp in vastus lateralis muscle of six healthy subjects. Using 29,308 cDNA element microarrays, we found that the mRNA expression of 762 genes, including 353 expressed sequence tags, was significantly modified during insulin infusion. 478 were up-regulated and 284 down-regulated. Most of the genes with known function are novel targets of insulin. They are involved in the transcriptional and translational regulation (29%), intermediary and energy metabolisms (14%), intracellular signaling (12%), and cytoskeleton and vesicle traffic (9%). Other categories consisted of genes coding for receptors, carriers, and transporters (8%), components of the ubiquitin/proteasome pathways (7%) and elements of the immune response (5.5%). These results thus define a transcriptional signature of insulin action in human skeletal muscle. They will help to better define the mechanisms involved in the reduction of insulin effectiveness in pathologies such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, a disease characterized by defective regulation of gene expression in response to insulin.


Assuntos
Regulação da Expressão Gênica , Insulina/metabolismo , Músculo Esquelético/metabolismo , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos , Adulto , Transporte Biológico , Cisteína Endopeptidases/metabolismo , DNA Complementar/metabolismo , Regulação para Baixo , Feminino , Humanos , Hiperinsulinismo , Masculino , Modelos Biológicos , Complexos Multienzimáticos/metabolismo , Hibridização de Ácido Nucleico , Complexo de Endopeptidases do Proteassoma , Biossíntese de Proteínas , RNA/metabolismo , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Transdução de Sinais , Transcrição Gênica , Ubiquitina/metabolismo , Regulação para Cima
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Dev Biol ; 249(1): 16-29, 2002 Sep 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12217315

RESUMO

Molecular components of the glomerular filtration mechanism play critical roles in renal diseases. Many of these components are produced during the final stages of differentiation of glomerular visceral epithelial cells, also known as podocytes. While basic domain leucine zipper (bZip) transcription factors of the Maf subfamily have been implicated in cellular differentiation processes, Kreisler (Krml1/MafB), the gene affected in the mouse kreisler (kr) mutation, is known for its role in hindbrain patterning. Here we show that mice homozygous for the kr(enu) mutation develop renal disease and that Kreisler is essential for cellular differentiation of podocytes. Consistent with abnormal podocyte differentiation, kr(enu) homozygotes show proteinuria, and fusion and effacement of podocyte foot processes, which are also observed in the nephrotic syndrome. Kreisler acts during the final stages of glomerular development-the transition between the capillary loop and mature stages-and downstream of the Pod1 basic domain helix-loop-helix transcription factor. The levels of Podocin, the gene mutated in autosomal recessive steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome (NPHS2), and Nephrin, the gene mutated in congenital nephrotic syndrome of the Finnish type (NPHS1), are slightly reduced in kr(enu)/kr(enu) podocytes. However, these observations alone are unlikely to account for the aberrant podocyte foot process formation. Thus, Kreisler must regulate other unknown genes required for podocyte function and with possible roles in kidney disease.


Assuntos
Proteínas Aviárias , Diferenciação Celular/genética , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/genética , Glomérulos Renais/citologia , Fatores de Transcrição/genética , Animais , Animais Recém-Nascidos , Fatores de Transcrição Hélice-Alça-Hélice Básicos , Proteínas de Ligação a DNA/metabolismo , Células Epiteliais/patologia , Células Epiteliais/fisiologia , Feminino , Homozigoto , Humanos , Peptídeos e Proteínas de Sinalização Intracelular , Rim/anormalidades , Rim/patologia , Rim/fisiologia , Nefropatias/genética , Nefropatias/patologia , Glomérulos Renais/patologia , Glomérulos Renais/fisiologia , Fator de Transcrição MafB , Masculino , Proteínas de Membrana/genética , Camundongos , Camundongos Mutantes , Mutação , Proteínas Oncogênicas/genética , Proteínas/genética , Proteinúria/genética , Taxa de Sobrevida , Transativadores/genética , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo
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Genome Res ; 12(2): 281-91, 2002 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11827947

RESUMO

Thyroid hormones are key regulators of metabolism that modulate transcription via nuclear receptors. Hyperthyroidism is associated with increased metabolic rate, protein breakdown, and weight loss. Although the molecular actions of thyroid hormones have been studied thoroughly, their pleiotropic effects are mediated by complex changes in expression of an unknown number of target genes. Here, we measured patterns of skeletal muscle gene expression in five healthy men treated for 14 days with 75 microg of triiodothyronine, using 24,000 cDNA element microarrays. To analyze the data, we used a new statistical method that identifies significant changes in expression and estimates the false discovery rate. The 381 up-regulated genes were involved in a wide range of cellular functions including transcriptional control, mRNA maturation, protein turnover, signal transduction, cellular trafficking, and energy metabolism. Only two genes were down-regulated. Most of the genes are novel targets of thyroid hormone. Cluster analysis of triiodothyronine-regulated gene expression among 19 different human tissues or cell lines revealed sets of coregulated genes that serve similar biologic functions. These results define molecular signatures that help to understand the physiology and pathophysiology of thyroid hormone action.


Assuntos
Regulação da Expressão Gênica/fisiologia , Músculo Esquelético/metabolismo , Tri-Iodotironina/administração & dosagem , Tri-Iodotironina/fisiologia , Administração Oral , Adulto , Proteínas do Citoesqueleto/biossíntese , Proteínas do Citoesqueleto/genética , Regulação para Baixo/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação para Baixo/genética , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica/métodos , Regulação da Expressão Gênica/efeitos dos fármacos , Humanos , Masculino , Músculo Esquelético/efeitos dos fármacos , Análise de Sequência com Séries de Oligonucleotídeos/métodos , RNA Mensageiro/metabolismo , Fatores de Transcrição/metabolismo , Regulação para Cima/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação para Cima/genética
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