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van de Laar IM Oldenburg RA Pals G Roos-Hesselink JW de Graaf BM Verhagen JM Hoedemaekers YM Willemsen R Severijnen LA Venselaar H Vriend G Pattynama PM Collée M Majoor-Krakauer D Poldermans D Frohn-Mulder IM Micha D Timmermans J Hilhorst-Hofstee Y Bierma-Zeinstra SM Willems PJ Kros JM Oei EH Oostra BA Wessels MW Bertoli-Avella AM 《Nature genetics》2011,43(2):121-126
Thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections are a main feature of connective tissue disorders, such as Marfan syndrome and Loeys-Dietz syndrome. We delineated a new syndrome presenting with aneurysms, dissections and tortuosity throughout the arterial tree in association with mild craniofacial features and skeletal and cutaneous anomalies. In contrast with other aneurysm syndromes, most of these affected individuals presented with early-onset osteoarthritis. We mapped the genetic locus to chromosome 15q22.2-24.2 and show that the disease is caused by mutations in SMAD3. This gene encodes a member of the TGF-β pathway that is essential for TGF-β signal transmission. SMAD3 mutations lead to increased aortic expression of several key players in the TGF-β pathway, including SMAD3. Molecular diagnosis will allow early and reliable identification of cases and relatives at risk for major cardiovascular complications. Our findings endorse the TGF-β pathway as the primary pharmacological target for the development of new treatments for aortic aneurysms and osteoarthritis. 相似文献
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The use of microring resonators to assist in the evanescent field coupling between dissimilar waveguides is proposed and analyzed. Theoretical analysis based on the coupled mode theory and nu-merical example show that complete cross power transfers can be obtained near the microring resonances. Applications of the device include power dividers, low-power thermo-optic or electro-optic switches, and modulators. 相似文献
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Genetic variation near IRS1 associates with reduced adiposity and an impaired metabolic profile 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Kilpeläinen TO Zillikens MC Stančákova A Finucane FM Ried JS Langenberg C Zhang W Beckmann JS Luan J Vandenput L Styrkarsdottir U Zhou Y Smith AV Zhao JH Amin N Vedantam S Shin SY Haritunians T Fu M Feitosa MF Kumari M Halldorsson BV Tikkanen E Mangino M Hayward C Song C Arnold AM Aulchenko YS Oostra BA Campbell H Cupples LA Davis KE Döring A Eiriksdottir G Estrada K Fernández-Real JM Garcia M Gieger C Glazer NL Guiducci C Hofman A Humphries SE Isomaa B Jacobs LC Jula A Karasik D Karlsson MK 《Nature genetics》2011,43(8):753-760
Genome-wide association studies have identified 32 loci influencing body mass index, but this measure does not distinguish lean from fat mass. To identify adiposity loci, we meta-analyzed associations between ~2.5 million SNPs and body fat percentage from 36,626 individuals and followed up the 14 most significant (P < 10(-6)) independent loci in 39,576 individuals. We confirmed a previously established adiposity locus in FTO (P = 3 × 10(-26)) and identified two new loci associated with body fat percentage, one near IRS1 (P = 4 × 10(-11)) and one near SPRY2 (P = 3 × 10(-8)). Both loci contain genes with potential links to adipocyte physiology. Notably, the body-fat-decreasing allele near IRS1 is associated with decreased IRS1 expression and with an impaired metabolic profile, including an increased visceral to subcutaneous fat ratio, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, risk of diabetes and coronary artery disease and decreased adiponectin levels. Our findings provide new insights into adiposity and insulin resistance. 相似文献
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Stoepker C Hain K Schuster B Hilhorst-Hofstee Y Rooimans MA Steltenpool J Oostra AB Eirich K Korthof ET Nieuwint AW Jaspers NG Bettecken T Joenje H Schindler D Rouse J de Winter JP 《Nature genetics》2011,43(2):138-141
DNA interstrand crosslink repair requires several classes of proteins, including structure-specific endonucleases and Fanconi anemia proteins. SLX4, which coordinates three separate endonucleases, was recently recognized as an important regulator of DNA repair. Here we report the first human individuals found to have biallelic mutations in SLX4. These individuals, who were previously diagnosed as having Fanconi anemia, add SLX4 as an essential component to the FA-BRCA genome maintenance pathway. 相似文献
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Unraveling the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease – the contribution of
monogenic forms 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
The field of Parkinsons disease pathogenesis is rapidly evolving from the one of a monolithic and obscure entity into the one of a complex scenario with several known molecular players. The ongoing systematic exploration of the genome holds great promise for the identification of the genetic factors conferring susceptibility to the common non-Mendelian forms of this disease. However, most of the progress of the last 5 years has come from the successful mapping and cloning of genes responsible for rare Mendelian variants of Parkinsons disease. These discoveries are providing tremendous help in understanding the molecular mechanisms of this devastating disease. Here we review the genetics of the monogenic forms of Parkinsons disease. Moreover, we focus on the mechanisms of disease caused by -synuclein and parkin mutations, and the implications of this growing body of knowledge for understanding the pathogenesis of the common forms of the disease.
Received 10 March 2004; received after revision 26 April 2004; accepted 29 April 2004 相似文献
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Bis JC Kavousi M Franceschini N Isaacs A Abecasis GR Schminke U Post WS Smith AV Cupples LA Markus HS Schmidt R Huffman JE Lehtimäki T Baumert J Münzel T Heckbert SR Dehghan A North K Oostra B Bevan S Stoegerer EM Hayward C Raitakari O Meisinger C Schillert A Sanna S Völzke H Cheng YC Thorsson B Fox CS Rice K Rivadeneira F Nambi V Halperin E Petrovic KE Peltonen L Wichmann HE Schnabel RB Dörr M Parsa A Aspelund T Demissie S Kathiresan S Reilly MP Taylor K Uitterlinden A Couper DJ Sitzer M 《Nature genetics》2011,43(10):940-947
Carotid intima media thickness (cIMT) and plaque determined by ultrasonography are established measures of subclinical atherosclerosis that each predicts future cardiovascular disease events. We conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association data in 31,211 participants of European ancestry from nine large studies in the setting of the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium. We then sought additional evidence to support our findings among 11,273 individuals using data from seven additional studies. In the combined meta-analysis, we identified three genomic regions associated with common carotid intima media thickness and two different regions associated with the presence of carotid plaque (P < 5 × 10(-8)). The associated SNPs mapped in or near genes related to cellular signaling, lipid metabolism and blood pressure homeostasis, and two of the regions were associated with coronary artery disease (P < 0.006) in the Coronary Artery Disease Genome-Wide Replication and Meta-Analysis (CARDIoGRAM) consortium. Our findings may provide new insight into pathways leading to subclinical atherosclerosis and subsequent cardiovascular events. 相似文献
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Service S DeYoung J Karayiorgou M Roos JL Pretorious H Bedoya G Ospina J Ruiz-Linares A Macedo A Palha JA Heutink P Aulchenko Y Oostra B van Duijn C Jarvelin MR Varilo T Peddle L Rahman P Piras G Monne M Murray S Galver L Peltonen L Sabatti C Collins A Freimer N 《Nature genetics》2006,38(5):556-560
The genome-wide distribution of linkage disequilibrium (LD) determines the strategy for selecting markers for association studies, but it varies between populations. We assayed LD in large samples (200 individuals) from each of 11 well-described population isolates and an outbred European-derived sample, using SNP markers spaced across chromosome 22. Most isolates show substantially higher levels of LD than the outbred sample and many fewer regions of very low LD (termed 'holes'). Young isolates known to have had relatively few founders show particularly extensive LD with very few holes; these populations offer substantial advantages for genome-wide association mapping. 相似文献
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Aulchenko YS Hoppenbrouwers IA Ramagopalan SV Broer L Jafari N Hillert J Link J Lundström W Greiner E Dessa Sadovnick A Goossens D Van Broeckhoven C Del-Favero J Ebers GC Oostra BA van Duijn CM Hintzen RQ 《Nature genetics》2008,40(12):1402-1403
The few loci associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) are all related to immune function. We report a GWA study identifying a new locus replicated in 2,679 cases and 3,125 controls. An rs10492972[C] variant located in the KIF1B gene was associated with MS with an odds ratio of 1.35 (P = 2.5 x 10(-10)). KIF1B is a neuronally expressed gene plausibly implicated in the irreversible axonal loss characterizing MS in the long term. 相似文献
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A novel ubiquitin ligase is deficient in Fanconi anemia 总被引:25,自引:0,他引:25
Meetei AR de Winter JP Medhurst AL Wallisch M Waisfisz Q van de Vrugt HJ Oostra AB Yan Z Ling C Bishop CE Hoatlin ME Joenje H Wang W 《Nature genetics》2003,35(2):165-170
Fanconi anemia is a recessively inherited disease characterized by congenital defects, bone marrow failure and cancer susceptibility. Cells from individuals with Fanconi anemia are highly sensitive to DNA-crosslinking drugs, such as mitomycin C (MMC). Fanconi anemia proteins function in a DNA damage response pathway involving breast cancer susceptibility gene products, BRCA1 and BRCA2 (refs. 1,2). A key step in this pathway is monoubiquitination of FANCD2, resulting in the redistribution of FANCD2 to nuclear foci containing BRCA1 (ref. 3). The underlying mechanism is unclear because the five Fanconi anemia proteins known to be required for this ubiquitination have no recognizable ubiquitin ligase motifs. Here we report a new component of a Fanconi anemia protein complex, called PHF9, which possesses E3 ubiquitin ligase activity in vitro and is essential for FANCD2 monoubiquitination in vivo. Because PHF9 is defective in a cell line derived from an individual with Fanconi anemia, we conclude that PHF9 (also called FANCL) represents a novel Fanconi anemia complementation group (FA-L). Our data suggest that PHF9 has a crucial role in the Fanconi anemia pathway as the likely catalytic subunit required for monoubiquitination of FANCD2. 相似文献