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A genome-wide association study for celiac disease identifies risk variants in the region harboring IL2 and IL21 总被引:14,自引:0,他引:14
van Heel DA Franke L Hunt KA Gwilliam R Zhernakova A Inouye M Wapenaar MC Barnardo MC Bethel G Holmes GK Feighery C Jewell D Kelleher D Kumar P Travis S Walters JR Sanders DS Howdle P Swift J Playford RJ McLaren WM Mearin ML Mulder CJ McManus R McGinnis R Cardon LR Deloukas P Wijmenga C 《Nature genetics》2007,39(7):827-829
We tested 310,605 SNPs for association in 778 individuals with celiac disease and 1,422 controls. Outside the HLA region, the most significant finding (rs13119723; P = 2.0 x 10(-7)) was in the KIAA1109-TENR-IL2-IL21 linkage disequilibrium block. We independently confirmed association in two further collections (strongest association at rs6822844, 24 kb 5' of IL21; meta-analysis P = 1.3 x 10(-14), odds ratio = 0.63), suggesting that genetic variation in this region predisposes to celiac disease. 相似文献
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Enhancement of the high-magnetic-field critical current density of superconducting MgB2 by proton irradiation 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Bugoslavsky Y Cohen LF Perkins GK Polichetti M Tate TJ Gwilliam R Caplin AD 《Nature》2001,411(6837):561-563
Magnesium diboride, MgB2, has a relatively high superconducting transition temperature, placing it between the families of low- and high-temperature (copper oxide based) superconductors. Supercurrent flow in MgB2 is unhindered by grain boundaries, making it potentially attractive for technological applications in the temperature range 20-30 K. But in the bulk material, the critical current density (Jc) drops rapidly with increasing magnetic field strength. The magnitude and field dependence of the critical current are related to the presence of structural defects that can 'pin' the quantized magnetic vortices that permeate the material, and a lack of natural defects in MgB2 may be responsible for the rapid decline of Jc with increasing field strength. Here we show that modest levels of atomic disorder induced by proton irradiation enhance the pinning of vortices, thereby significantly increasing Jc at high field strengths. We anticipate that either chemical doping or mechanical processing should generate similar levels of disorder, and so achieve performance that is technologically attractive in an economically viable way. 相似文献
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Bentley DR Deloukas P Dunham A French L Gregory SG Humphray SJ Mungall AJ Ross MT Carter NP Dunham I Scott CE Ashcroft KJ Atkinson AL Aubin K Beare DM Bethel G Brady N Brook JC Burford DC Burrill WD Burrows C Butler AP Carder C Catanese JJ Clee CM Clegg SM Cobley V Coffey AJ Cole CG Collins JE Conquer JS Cooper RA Culley KM Dawson E Dearden FL Durbin RM de Jong PJ Dhami PD Earthrowl ME Edwards CA Evans RS Gillson CJ Ghori J Green L Gwilliam R Halls KS Hammond S Harper GL Heathcott RW Holden JL 《Nature》2001,409(6822):942-943
We constructed maps for eight chromosomes (1, 6, 9, 10, 13, 20, X and (previously) 22), representing one-third of the genome, by building landmark maps, isolating bacterial clones and assembling contigs. By this approach, we could establish the long-range organization of the maps early in the project, and all contig extension, gap closure and problem-solving was simplified by containment within local regions. The maps currently represent more than 94% of the euchromatic (gene-containing) regions of these chromosomes in 176 contigs, and contain 96% of the chromosome-specific markers in the human gene map. By measuring the remaining gaps, we can assess chromosome length and coverage in sequenced clones. 相似文献
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Genetic determinants of ulcerative colitis include the ECM1 locus and five loci implicated in Crohn's disease 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Fisher SA Tremelling M Anderson CA Gwilliam R Bumpstead S Prescott NJ Nimmo ER Massey D Berzuini C Johnson C Barrett JC Cummings FR Drummond H Lees CW Onnie CM Hanson CE Blaszczyk K Inouye M Ewels P Ravindrarajah R Keniry A Hunt S Carter M Watkins N Ouwehand W Lewis CM Cardon L;Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium Lobo A Forbes A Sanderson J Jewell DP Mansfield JC Deloukas P Mathew CG Parkes M Satsangi J 《Nature genetics》2008,40(6):710-712
We report results of a nonsynonymous SNP scan for ulcerative colitis and identify a previously unknown susceptibility locus at ECM1. We also show that several risk loci are common to ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease (IL23R, IL12B, HLA, NKX2-3 and MST1), whereas autophagy genes ATG16L1 and IRGM, along with NOD2 (also known as CARD15), are specific for Crohn's disease. These data provide the first detailed illustration of the genetic relationship between these common inflammatory bowel diseases. 相似文献
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Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Nierman WC Pain A Anderson MJ Wortman JR Kim HS Arroyo J Berriman M Abe K Archer DB Bermejo C Bennett J Bowyer P Chen D Collins M Coulsen R Davies R Dyer PS Farman M Fedorova N Fedorova N Feldblyum TV Fischer R Fosker N Fraser A García JL García MJ Goble A Goldman GH Gomi K Griffith-Jones S Gwilliam R Haas B Haas H Harris D Horiuchi H Huang J Humphray S Jiménez J Keller N Khouri H Kitamoto K Kobayashi T Konzack S Kulkarni R Kumagai T Lafon A Lafton A Latgé JP Li W Lord A Lu C Majoros WH May GS 《Nature》2005,438(7071):1151-1156
Aspergillus fumigatus is exceptional among microorganisms in being both a primary and opportunistic pathogen as well as a major allergen. Its conidia production is prolific, and so human respiratory tract exposure is almost constant. A. fumigatus is isolated from human habitats and vegetable compost heaps. In immunocompromised individuals, the incidence of invasive infection can be as high as 50% and the mortality rate is often about 50% (ref. 2). The interaction of A. fumigatus and other airborne fungi with the immune system is increasingly linked to severe asthma and sinusitis. Although the burden of invasive disease caused by A. fumigatus is substantial, the basic biology of the organism is mostly obscure. Here we show the complete 29.4-megabase genome sequence of the clinical isolate Af293, which consists of eight chromosomes containing 9,926 predicted genes. Microarray analysis revealed temperature-dependent expression of distinct sets of genes, as well as 700 A. fumigatus genes not present or significantly diverged in the closely related sexual species Neosartorya fischeri, many of which may have roles in the pathogenicity phenotype. The Af293 genome sequence provides an unparalleled resource for the future understanding of this remarkable fungus. 相似文献
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Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
International Multiple Sclerosis Genetics Consortium;Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium Sawcer S Hellenthal G Pirinen M Spencer CC Patsopoulos NA Moutsianas L Dilthey A Su Z Freeman C Hunt SE Edkins S Gray E Booth DR Potter SC Goris A Band G Oturai AB Strange A Saarela J Bellenguez C Fontaine B Gillman M Hemmer B Gwilliam R Zipp F Jayakumar A Martin R Leslie S Hawkins S Giannoulatou E D'alfonso S Blackburn H Martinelli Boneschi F Liddle J Harbo HF Perez ML Spurkland A Waller MJ Mycko MP 《Nature》2011,476(7359):214-219
Multiple sclerosis is a common disease of the central nervous system in which the interplay between inflammatory and neurodegenerative processes typically results in intermittent neurological disturbance followed by progressive accumulation of disability. Epidemiological studies have shown that genetic factors are primarily responsible for the substantially increased frequency of the disease seen in the relatives of affected individuals, and systematic attempts to identify linkage in multiplex families have confirmed that variation within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) exerts the greatest individual effect on risk. Modestly powered genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have enabled more than 20 additional risk loci to be identified and have shown that multiple variants exerting modest individual effects have a key role in disease susceptibility. Most of the genetic architecture underlying susceptibility to the disease remains to be defined and is anticipated to require the analysis of sample sizes that are beyond the numbers currently available to individual research groups. In a collaborative GWAS involving 9,772 cases of European descent collected by 23 research groups working in 15 different countries, we have replicated almost all of the previously suggested associations and identified at least a further 29 novel susceptibility loci. Within the MHC we have refined the identity of the HLA-DRB1 risk alleles and confirmed that variation in the HLA-A gene underlies the independent protective effect attributable to the class I region. Immunologically relevant genes are significantly overrepresented among those mapping close to the identified loci and particularly implicate T-helper-cell differentiation in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis. 相似文献
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An efficient room-temperature silicon-based light-emitting diode 总被引:20,自引:0,他引:20
There is an urgent requirement for an optical emitter that is compatible with standard, silicon-based ultra-large-scale integration (ULSI) technology. Bulk silicon has an indirect energy bandgap and is therefore highly inefficient as a light source, necessitating the use of other materials for the optical emitters. However, the introduction of these materials is usually incompatible with the strict processing requirements of existing ULSI technologies. Moreover, as the length scale of the devices decreases, electrons will spend increasingly more of their time in the connections between components; this interconnectivity problem could restrict further increases in computer chip processing power and speed in as little as five years. Many efforts have therefore been directed, with varying degrees of success, to engineering silicon-based materials that are efficient light emitters. Here, we describe the fabrication, using standard silicon processing techniques, of a silicon light-emitting diode (LED) that operates efficiently at room temperature. Boron is implanted into silicon both as a dopant to form a p-n junction, as well as a means of introducing dislocation loops. The dislocation loops introduce a local strain field, which modifies the band structure and provides spatial confinement of the charge carriers. It is this spatial confinement which allows room-temperature electroluminescence at the band-edge. This device strategy is highly compatible with ULSI technology, as boron ion implantation is already used as a standard method for the fabrication of silicon devices. 相似文献
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S Bowman D Lawson D Basham D Brown T Chillingworth C M Churcher A Craig R M Davies K Devlin T Feltwell S Gentles R Gwilliam N Hamlin D Harris S Holroyd T Hornsby P Horrocks K Jagels B Jassal S Kyes J McLean S Moule K Mungall L Murphy K Oliver M A Quail M A Rajandream S Rutter J Skelton R Squares S Squares J E Sulston S Whitehead J R Woodward C Newbold B G Barrell 《Nature》1999,400(6744):532-538
Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum chromosome 3, and comparison with chromosome 2, highlights novel features of chromosome organization and gene structure. The sub-telomeric regions of chromosome 3 show a conserved order of features, including repetitive DNA sequences, members of multigene families involved in pathogenesis and antigenic variation, a number of conserved pseudogenes, and several genes of unknown function. A putative centromere has been identified that has a core region of about 2 kilobases with an extremely high (adenine + thymidine) composition and arrays of tandem repeats. We have predicted 215 protein-coding genes and two transfer RNA genes in the 1,060,106-base-pair chromosome sequence. The predicted protein-coding genes can be divided into three main classes: 52.6% are not spliced, 45.1% have a large exon with short additional 5' or 3' exons, and 2.3% have a multiple exon structure more typical of higher eukaryotes. 相似文献
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Hall N Pain A Berriman M Churcher C Harris B Harris D Mungall K Bowman S Atkin R Baker S Barron A Brooks K Buckee CO Burrows C Cherevach I Chillingworth C Chillingworth T Christodoulou Z Clark L Clark R Corton C Cronin A Davies R Davis P Dear P Dearden F Doggett J Feltwell T Goble A Goodhead I Gwilliam R Hamlin N Hance Z Harper D Hauser H Hornsby T Holroyd S Horrocks P Humphray S Jagels K James KD Johnson D Kerhornou A Knights A Konfortov B Kyes S Larke N Lawson D Lennard N Line A Maddison M 《Nature》2002,419(6906):527-531
Since the sequencing of the first two chromosomes of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, there has been a concerted effort to sequence and assemble the entire genome of this organism. Here we report the sequence of chromosomes 1, 3-9 and 13 of P. falciparum clone 3D7--these chromosomes account for approximately 55% of the total genome. We describe the methods used to map, sequence and annotate these chromosomes. By comparing our assemblies with the optical map, we indicate the completeness of the resulting sequence. During annotation, we assign Gene Ontology terms to the predicted gene products, and observe clustering of some malaria-specific terms to specific chromosomes. We identify a highly conserved sequence element found in the intergenic region of internal var genes that is not associated with their telomeric counterparts. 相似文献
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Hunt KA Zhernakova A Turner G Heap GA Franke L Bruinenberg M Romanos J Dinesen LC Ryan AW Panesar D Gwilliam R Takeuchi F McLaren WM Holmes GK Howdle PD Walters JR Sanders DS Playford RJ Trynka G Mulder CJ Mearin ML Verbeek WH Trimble V Stevens FM O'Morain C Kennedy NP Kelleher D Pennington DJ Strachan DP McArdle WL Mein CA Wapenaar MC Deloukas P McGinnis R McManus R Wijmenga C van Heel DA 《Nature genetics》2008,40(4):395-402
Our genome-wide association study of celiac disease previously identified risk variants in the IL2-IL21 region. To identify additional risk variants, we genotyped 1,020 of the most strongly associated non-HLA markers in an additional 1,643 cases and 3,406 controls. Through joint analysis including the genome-wide association study data (767 cases, 1,422 controls), we identified seven previously unknown risk regions (P < 5 x 10(-7)). Six regions harbor genes controlling immune responses, including CCR3, IL12A, IL18RAP, RGS1, SH2B3 (nsSNP rs3184504) and TAGAP. Whole-blood IL18RAP mRNA expression correlated with IL18RAP genotype. Type 1 diabetes and celiac disease share HLA-DQ, IL2-IL21, CCR3 and SH2B3 risk regions. Thus, this extensive genome-wide association follow-up study has identified additional celiac disease risk variants in relevant biological pathways. 相似文献