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Haukeland University Hospital
Healthcare•Bergen, Norway•
About: Haukeland University Hospital is a healthcare organization based out in Bergen, Norway. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Cancer. The organization has 3833 authors who have published 11617 publications receiving 396135 citations. The organization is also known as: Haukeland universitetssykehus.
Topics: Population, Cancer, Medicine, Breast cancer, Pregnancy
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TL;DR: Exposure to pre- and postnatal smoking carries a substantial risk for developing adult asthma and respiratory symptoms and was examined in an 11-year community cohort study in Western Norway.
Abstract: The effects of pre- or postnatal passive smoking on the adult incidence of asthma have not been reported previously. Between 1985 and 1996/1997, we conducted an 11-year community cohort study on the incidence of asthma and respiratory symptoms in Western Norway. The cohort included 3,786 subjects aged 15 to 70 years, of which 2,819 were responders at both baseline and follow-up. The incidence of asthma and five respiratory symptoms by self-reported exposure to maternal smoking in utero and in childhood, as well as smoking by other household members in childhood, was examined. After adjustment for sex, age, education, hay fever, personal smoking, and occupational exposure, maternal smoking was associated with asthma, phlegm cough, chronic cough, dyspnea grade 2, attacks of dyspnea, and wheezing, with odds ratios (95% confidence intervals [CI]) of 3.0 (1.6, 5.6), 1.7 (1.1, 2.6), 1.9 (1.2, 3.0), 1.9 (1.2, 3.0), 2.0 (1.3, 3.0), and 1.4 (0.9, 2.2), respectively. The adjusted attributable fractions (95% CI) of the adult incidence of asthma were 17.3% (5.2, 27.9) caused by maternal smoking and 9.3% (95% CI, -23.2, 33.2) caused by smoking by other household members. Exposure to pre- and postnatal smoking carries a substantial risk for developing adult asthma and respiratory symptoms.
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TL;DR: Linkage results from a study in Iceland of migraine without aura (MO) indicate that the linkage evidence improves for affected females and, especially, with a slightly relaxed definition of MO, and indicates that the gene mapped may contribute to both MA and MO.
Abstract: Migraine is a common form of headache and has a significant genetic component. Here, we report linkage results from a study in Iceland of migraine without aura (MO). The study group comprised patients with migraine recruited by neurologists and from the registry of the Icelandic Migraine Society, as well as through the use of a questionnaire sent to a random sample of 20,000 Icelanders. Migraine diagnoses were made and confirmed using diagnostic criteria established by the International Headache Society. A genomewide scan with multipoint allele-sharing methods was performed on 289 patients suffering from MO. Linkage was observed to a locus on chromosome 4q21 ( LOD = 2.05 ; P =.001). The locus reported here overlaps a locus (MGR1) reported elsewhere for patients with migraine with aura (MA) in the Finnish population. This replication of the MGR1 locus in families with MO indicates that the gene we have mapped may contribute to both MA and MO. Further analysis indicates that the linkage evidence improves for affected females and, especially, with a slightly relaxed definition of MO ( LOD = 4.08 ; P =7.2×10 −6 ).
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Maria Teresa Landi1, D. Timothy Bishop2, Stuart MacGregor3, Mitchell J. Machiela1 +180 more•Institutions (57)
TL;DR: Analysis of risk estimates across geographical regions and host factors suggests the acral melanoma subtype is uniquely unrelated to pigmentation, and analysis combining nevus count and hair color GWAS results provide insights into the genetic architecture of melanoma.
Abstract: Most genetic susceptibility to cutaneous melanoma remains to be discovered. Meta-analysis genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 36,760 cases of melanoma (67% newly genotyped) and 375,188 controls identified 54 significant (P < 5 × 10-8) loci with 68 independent single nucleotide polymorphisms. Analysis of risk estimates across geographical regions and host factors suggests the acral melanoma subtype is uniquely unrelated to pigmentation. Combining this meta-analysis with GWAS of nevus count and hair color, and transcriptome association approaches, uncovered 31 potential secondary loci for a total of 85 cutaneous melanoma susceptibility loci. These findings provide insights into cutaneous melanoma genetic architecture, reinforcing the importance of nevogenesis, pigmentation and telomere maintenance, together with identifying potential new pathways for cutaneous melanoma pathogenesis.
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TL;DR: A novel PCDH10-Wnt/β-catenin-MALAT1 regulatory axis that contributes to EEC development is established and is established as a novel Wnt pathway regulatory element in endometrioid endometrial carcinoma (EEC).
Abstract: The Protocadherin 10 (PCDH10) is inactivated often by promoter hypermethylation in various human tumors, but its possible functional role as a tumor suppressor gene is not established. In this study, we identify PCDH10 as a novel Wnt pathway regulatory element in endometrioid endometrial carcinoma (EEC). PCDH10 was downregulated in EEC tumor cells by aberrant methylation of its promoter. Restoring PCDH10 levels suppressed cell growth and triggered apoptosis in EEC cells and tumor xenografts. Gene expression profiling revealed as part of the transcriptomic changes induced by PCDH10 a reduction in levels of MALAT1, a long noncoding RNA, that mediated tumor suppression functions of PCDH10 in EEC cells. We found that MALAT1 transcription was regulated by Wnt/β-catenin signaling via TCF promoter binding and PCDH10 decreased MALAT1 by modulating this pathway. Clinically, MALAT1 expression was associated with multiple parameters in patients with EEC. Taken together, our findings establish a novel PCDH10-Wnt/β-catenin-MALAT1 regulatory axis that contributes to EEC development. Cancer Res; 74(18); 5103-17. ©2014 AACR.
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Radboud University Nijmegen1, Leiden University Medical Center2, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics3, University of Würzburg4, University of Bonn5, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre6, University of Melbourne7, Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje8, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust9, Ohio State University10, Norwegian University of Science and Technology11, Haukeland University Hospital12, University Medical Center Groningen13, Dresden University of Technology14, Pomeranian Medical University15, McGill University16, University of Leeds17
TL;DR: NTHL1 is revealed as a multi-tumor predisposition gene with a high lifetime risk for extracolonic cancers and a typical mutational signature observed across tumor types, which can assist in the recognition of this syndrome.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Rasmus Nielsen | 135 | 556 | 84898 |
Henrik Zetterberg | 125 | 1736 | 72452 |
Ole A. Andreassen | 115 | 1130 | 71451 |
Michael Horowitz | 112 | 982 | 46952 |
Massimo Zeviani | 104 | 478 | 39743 |
Tore K Kvien | 103 | 533 | 62556 |
Dieter Røhrich | 102 | 637 | 35942 |
Per Magne Ueland | 102 | 618 | 50437 |
Peter R. Shewry | 97 | 845 | 40265 |
Jian Chen | 96 | 1718 | 52917 |
Terry L. Jernigan | 93 | 266 | 31690 |
Helga Refsum | 90 | 316 | 37463 |
Jose C. Florez | 87 | 357 | 50750 |
Kenneth Hugdahl | 86 | 510 | 24646 |
Jan Petter Larsen | 84 | 254 | 24834 |