Identification of Common Genetic Risk Variants for Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Gene Ontology Functional Annotations and Pleiotropy
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Cytogenetic and Molecular Characterization of the Macro- And
University of Ulm Department of Human Genetics Prof. Dr. med. Walther Vogel Cytogenetic and Molecular Characterization of the Macro- and Micro-inversions, which Distinguish the Human and the Chimpanzee Karyotypes - from Speciation to Polymorphism Thesis Applying for the Degree of Doctor of Human Biology (Dr. hum. biol.) Faculty of Medicine University of Ulm Presented by Justyna Monika Szamalek from Wrze śnia in Poland 2006 Amtierender Dekan: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Michael Debatin 1. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. med. Horst Hameister 2. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. med. Konstanze Döhner Tag der Promotion: 28.07.2006 Content Content 1. Introduction ...................................................................................................................7 1.1. Primate phylogeny........................................................................................................7 1.2. Africa as the place of human origin and the living area of the present-day chimpanzee populations .................................................................9 1.3. Cytogenetic and molecular differences between human and chimpanzee genomes.............................................................................................10 1.4. Cytogenetic and molecular differences between common chimpanzee and bonobo genomes................................................................................17 1.5. Theory of speciation .....................................................................................................18 1.6. Theory of selection -
Biomedical Robots. Application to Translational Medicine
Biomedical robots. Application to translational medicine. Enrique J. deAndrés-Galiana Supervisors: Prof. Juan Luis Fernández-Martínez & Prof. Oscar Luaces This dissertation is submitted under the PhD program of Mathematics and Statistics May 2016 RESUMEN DEL CONTENIDO DE TESIS DOCTORAL 1.- Título de la Tesis Español/Otro Idioma: Inglés: Diseño de robots biomédicos. Aplicaciones en Biomedical robots. Application to translational medicina traslacional. medicine. 2.- Autor Nombre: Enrique Juan de Andrés Galiana DNI/Pasaporte/NIE: Programa de Doctorado: Matemáticas y Estadística. Órgano responsable: Departamento de Matemáticas. RESUMEN (en español) Esta tesis trata sobre el análisis y diseño de robots biomédicos y su aplicación a la medicina traslacional. Se define un robot biomédico como el conjunto de técnicas provenientes de la matemática aplicada, estadística y ciencias de la computación capaces de analizar datos biomédicos de alta dimensionalidad, aprender dinámicamente de dichos datos, extraer nuevo BIS - conocimiento e hipótesis de trabajo, y finalmente realizar predicciones con su incertidumbre asociada, cara a la toma de decisiones biomédicas. Se diseñan y analizan diferentes algorit- 010 - mos de aprendizaje, de reducción de la dimensión y selección de atributos, así como técnicas de optimización global, técnicas de agrupamiento no supervisado, clasificación y análisis de VOA incertidumbre. Dichas metodologías se aplican a datos a pie de hospital y de expresión génica - en predicción de fenotipos para optimización del diagnóstico, pronóstico, tratamiento y análisis de toxicidades. MAT - Se muestra que es posible establecer de modo sencillo el poder discriminatorio de las variables FOR pronóstico, y que dichos problemas de clasificación se aproximan a un comportamiento linealmente separable cuando se reduce la dimensión al conjunto de variables principales que definen el alfabeto del problema biomédico y están por tanto relacionadas con su génesis. -
The Changing Chromatome As a Driver of Disease: a Panoramic View from Different Methodologies
The changing chromatome as a driver of disease: A panoramic view from different methodologies Isabel Espejo1, Luciano Di Croce,1,2,3 and Sergi Aranda1 1. Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, Barcelona 08003, Spain 2. Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain 3. ICREA, Pg. Lluis Companys 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain *Corresponding authors: Luciano Di Croce ([email protected]) Sergi Aranda ([email protected]) 1 GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT Chromatin-bound proteins regulate gene expression, replicate and repair DNA, and transmit epigenetic information. Several human diseases are highly influenced by alterations in the chromatin- bound proteome. Thus, biochemical approaches for the systematic characterization of the chromatome could contribute to identifying new regulators of cellular functionality, including those that are relevant to human disorders. 2 SUMMARY Chromatin-bound proteins underlie several fundamental cellular functions, such as control of gene expression and the faithful transmission of genetic and epigenetic information. Components of the chromatin proteome (the “chromatome”) are essential in human life, and mutations in chromatin-bound proteins are frequently drivers of human diseases, such as cancer. Proteomic characterization of chromatin and de novo identification of chromatin interactors could thus reveal important and perhaps unexpected players implicated in human physiology and disease. Recently, intensive research efforts have focused on developing strategies to characterize the chromatome composition. In this review, we provide an overview of the dynamic composition of the chromatome, highlight the importance of its alterations as a driving force in human disease (and particularly in cancer), and discuss the different approaches to systematically characterize the chromatin-bound proteome in a global manner. -
DNA Methylation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
DNA Methylation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Charlie Samantha Appleby-Mallinder BSc Department of Neuroscience (SITraN) Supervisors: Dr Robin Highley and Dr Paul Heath Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Submitted September 2019 Acknowledgements I would first like to thank my supervisors Robin and Paul for their unwavering support at both an academic and personal level. Paul – without you taking a chance on me when I was a blue haired undergraduate, and setting me loose in the lab, I would not be submitting this PhD. Your guidance, wisdom and advice have kept both the project and myself moving forward, while still understanding the importance of having a life outside the lab. Robin – our meetings that turned into talking about rubbish helped me keep what is left of my sanity! Thank you for teaching me everything I know about neuropathology, and mentoring me through what has been a tough three years. A nod also to Dr Julie Simpson and Dr Janine Kirby who have offered fantastic moral support throughout. Thanks also go to our wonderful tech team. In particular, Matt Wyles, Catherine Gelsthorpe, Lynne Baxter and Dan Fillingham. It has been a delight to be in the lab with you all, be that to figure out why something on my project isn’t working (this happened on many occasions), or just generally putting the world to rights. Without you all, my project would not have come to fruition. Thanks also go to my fellow PhD students and Dr Rachel Waller for taking me on regular coffee trips during the write up phase. -
1000 Genomes-Based Meta-Analysis Identifies 10 Novel Loci for Kidney
1000 Genomes-based meta-analysis identifies 10 novel loci for kidney function Supplementary Material Mathias Gorski 1,2,* , Peter van der Most 3,* , Alexander Teumer 4,* , Audrey Chu 5,6,* , Mandy Li 7,8 , Vladan Mijatovic 9, Inga Nolte 3, Massimiliano Cocca 10,11 , Daniel Taliun 12 , Felicia Gomez 13 , Yong Li 14 , Bamidele Tayo 15 , Adrienne Tin 7, Mary F Feitosa 13 , Thor Aspelund 16,17 , John Attia 18,19 , Reiner Biffar 20 , Murielle Bochud 21 , Eric Boerwinkle 22 , Ingrid Borecki 23 , Erwin P Bottinger 24 , Ming-Huei Chen 5, Vincent Chouraki 25 , Marina Ciullo 26,27 , Josef Coresh 7, Marilyn C Cornelis 28 , Gary C Curhan 29,30 , Adamo P d'Adamo 31 , Abbas Dehghan 32 , Laura Dengler 2, Jingzhong Ding 33 , Gudny Eiriksdottir 16 , Karlhans Endlich 34 , Stefan Enroth 35 , Tõnu Esko 36 , Oscar H Franco 32 , Paolo Gasparini 37,38 , Christian Gieger 39,40,41 , Giorgia Girotto 37,38 , Omri Gottesman 24 , Vilmundur Gudnason 16,42 , Ulf Gyllensten 35 , Stephen J Hancock 18,43 , Tamara B Harris 44 , Catherine Helmer 45,46 , Simon Höllerer 1, Edith Hofer 47,48 , Albert Hofman 32 , Elizabeth G Holliday 19 , Georg Homuth 49 , Frank B Hu 50 , Cornelia Huth 41,51 , Nina Hutri-Kähönen 52 , Shih-Jen Hwang 5, Medea Imboden 53,54 , Åsa Johansson 35 , Mika Kähönen 55,56 , Wolfgang König 57,58,59 , Holly Kramer 15 , Bernhard K Krämer 60 , Ashish Kumar 53,54,61 , Zoltan Kutalik 21 , Jean-Charles Lambert 25 , Lenore J Launer 44 , Terho Lehtimäki 62,63 , Martin de Borst 64 , Gerjan Navis 64 , Morris Swertz 64 , Yongmei Liu 33 , Kurt Lohman 33 , Ruth JF Loos -
Neuron, Volume 62 Supplemental Data Functional and Evolutionary
Neuron, Volume 62 Supplemental Data Functional and Evolutionary Insights into Human Brain Development Through Global Transcriptome Analysis Matthew B. Johnson, Yuka Imamura Kawasawa, Christopher E. Mason, Željka Krsnik, Giovanni Coppola, Darko Bogdanović, Daniel H. Geschwind, Shrikant M. Mane, Matthew W. State, and Nenad Šestan Supplemental Material: Supplemental Figures Supplemental Experimental Procedures Supplemental References Supplemental Tables Supplemental Figures Supplemental Figure 1. Normal Cytoarchitecture of Brain Specimens Used for Exon Array Analysis Nissl staining of the tissue remaining after microdissection from all four brains used for microarray analysis (specimens 1-4), confirming normal cytoarchitecture and the absence of microscopic neuropathological defects such as periventricular lesions commonly present at this developmental stage. MZ, marginal zone; CP, cortical plate; SP, subplate; SVZ, subventricular zone; VZ, ventricular zone. Scale bar, 250 µm. 2 Supplemental Figure 2. Normal Laminar Position of Cortical Neurons in Brain Specimens Used for Exon Array Analysis Various immunohistochemical markers were used to confirm the presence of all major neuronal and glial cell types present at this developmental age in all four brains. Shown here are selected examples of immunohistochemical staining for markers of layer selective of projection neurons (FOXP2, SOX5, BCL11B, and POU3F3), MZ Cajal-Retzius neurons (RELN) and interneurons (GABA) in the neocortex of the 19 wg brain. The normal laminar position of these neurons indicates absence of obvious defects in neuronal specification and migration. Scale bar, 250 µm. 3 Supplemental Figure 3. Predicted Rates of Copy Number Variation in Brain Specimens Used for Exon Array Analysis Illumina genotyping microarray data were analyzed for putative copy number variations (CNVs) using the PennCNV algorithm (Wang et al., 2007). -
November 22, 2017 Contents
Supplementary information for Common risk variants identified in autism spectrum disorder November 22, 2017 Contents List of Supplementary Tables 2 List of Supplementary Figures 3 1 Sample description and data processing7 1.1 The iPSYCH ASD sample............................................7 1.1.1 The iPSYCH sample..........................................7 1.1.2 The iPSYCH ASD GWAS sample...................................7 1.1.3 Genotyping and calling........................................8 1.1.4 QC and Imputation...........................................8 1.1.5 PCA...................................................9 1.2 The PGC ASD sample.............................................9 1.3 The follow-up samples............................................. 10 1.3.1 deCODE................................................. 10 1.3.2 Finnish autism case-control study.................................. 10 1.3.3 PAGES.................................................. 10 1.3.4 BUPGEN................................................. 11 1.3.5 Follow-up sample summary...................................... 12 2 Methods 13 2.1 GWAS....................................................... 13 2.1.1 SNP-wise analysis........................................... 13 2.1.2 Gene-based association and gene-set analyses........................... 13 2.1.3 MTAG analyses............................................. 13 2.1.4 Mini-reviews.............................................. 14 2.2 SNP heritability................................................. 14 2.3