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BMC Oral Health ; 12: 7, 2012 Mar 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22405185

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: Dental caries is the result of a complex interplay among environmental, behavioral, and genetic factors, with distinct patterns of decay likely due to specific etiologies. Therefore, global measures of decay, such as the DMFS index, may not be optimal for identifying risk factors that manifest as specific decay patterns, especially if the risk factors such as genetic susceptibility loci have small individual effects. We used two methods to extract patterns of decay from surface-level caries data in order to generate novel phenotypes with which to explore the genetic regulation of caries. METHODS: The 128 tooth surfaces of the permanent dentition were scored as carious or not by intra-oral examination for 1,068 participants aged 18 to 75 years from 664 biological families. Principal components analysis (PCA) and factor analysis (FA), two methods of identifying underlying patterns without a priori surface classifications, were applied to our data. RESULTS: The three strongest caries patterns identified by PCA recaptured variation represented by DMFS index (correlation, r = 0.97), pit and fissure surface caries (r = 0.95), and smooth surface caries (r = 0.89). However, together, these three patterns explained only 37% of the variability in the data, indicating that a priori caries measures are insufficient for fully quantifying caries variation. In comparison, the first pattern identified by FA was strongly correlated with pit and fissure surface caries (r = 0.81), but other identified patterns, including a second pattern representing caries of the maxillary incisors, were not representative of any previously defined caries indices. Some patterns identified by PCA and FA were heritable (h(2) = 30-65%, p = 0.043-0.006), whereas other patterns were not, indicating both genetic and non-genetic etiologies of individual decay patterns. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates the use of decay patterns as novel phenotypes to assist in understanding the multifactorial nature of dental caries.


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Suscetibilidade à Cárie Dentária/genética , Cárie Dentária/genética , Cárie Dentária/patologia , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Herança Multifatorial , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Região dos Apalaches/epidemiologia , Índice CPO , Cárie Dentária/epidemiologia , Fissuras Dentárias/genética , Fissuras Dentárias/patologia , Dentição Permanente , Análise Fatorial , Variação Genética , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Fenótipo , Prevalência , Análise de Componente Principal , Adulto Jovem
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Mol Ther ; 6(1): 19-29, 2002 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12095299

RESUMO

Lentiviral vectors can confer high levels of gene transfer and transgene expression in a variety of cell types. However, the biodistribution and toxicity after intravenous administration have not been reported. To address these issues of biodistribution and toxicity, an HIV-1-based vector, HR'cmvGFP, was administered to normal BALB/c mice by tail-vein injection. Nine different organs and bone marrow were evaluated by real-time quantitative PCR (QPCR) assay capable of a broad range of quantitation (5-log fold) to detect as few as one copy of the green fluorescent protein gene (GFP) per 10(5) cells. Four days after vector administration, high levels of transgene and gene expression were observed in liver, spleen, and bone marrow in all animals. By 40 days after injection, GFP levels had decreased in liver and spleen, but bone marrow exhibited a consistently high level of transgene. This finding was consistent with the increase in both GFP frequency and expression levels observed in peripheral blood by fluorescence-activated cell-sorting (FACS) analysis. Between 0 and 1% transgene was detected in all other organs. No significant pathologic lesions were found attributable to vector in any of the tissues examined. The observation of bone marrow transduction after intravenous vector administration suggests the possibility of an in vivo approach to stem cell gene therapy.


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Medula Óssea/metabolismo , Vetores Genéticos/metabolismo , Lentivirus/metabolismo , Animais , Apolipoproteínas B/genética , Apolipoproteínas B/metabolismo , Sistema Digestório/efeitos dos fármacos , Sistema Digestório/patologia , Vetores Genéticos/administração & dosagem , Vetores Genéticos/toxicidade , Proteínas de Fluorescência Verde , Imunoquímica , Leucócitos/metabolismo , Proteínas Luminescentes/genética , Proteínas Luminescentes/metabolismo , Glicoproteínas de Membrana/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Especificidade de Órgãos , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Transdução Genética , Transgenes , Proteínas do Envelope Viral/metabolismo
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