Search Results - "KAUFMAN, Kenneth M"
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Whole‐Exome Sequencing Reveals Overlap Between Macrophage Activation Syndrome in Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Familial Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
Published in Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) (01-12-2014)“…Objective Macrophage activation syndrome (MAS), a life‐threatening complication of systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), resembles familial…”
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Genetic susceptibility to SLE: new insights from fine mapping and genome-wide association studies
Published in Nature reviews. Genetics (01-05-2009)“…Recent advances in genotyping technology have identified or confirmed more than 20 loci that are associated with susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus…”
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A High Prevalence of Anti-EBNA1 Heteroantibodies in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Supports Anti-EBNA1 as an Origin for SLE Autoantibodies
Published in Frontiers in immunology (17-02-2022)“…That Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is established. The challenge is to explain mechanistic roles EBV…”
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Lupus enhancer risk variant causes dysregulation of IRF8 through cooperative lncRNA and DNA methylation machinery
Published in Nature communications (06-04-2022)“…Despite strong evidence that human genetic variants affect the expression of many key transcription factors involved in autoimmune diseases, establishing…”
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Profound loss of esophageal tissue differentiation in patients with eosinophilic esophagitis
Published in Journal of allergy and clinical immunology (01-09-2017)“…Background A key question in the allergy field is to understand how tissue-specific disease is manifested. Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an emerging…”
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Desmoplakin and periplakin genetically and functionally contribute to eosinophilic esophagitis
Published in Nature communications (23-11-2021)“…Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic allergic inflammatory disease with a complex underlying genetic etiology. Herein, we conduct whole-exome sequencing…”
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Lupus-associated causal mutation in neutrophil cytosolic factor 2 (NCF2) brings unique insights to the structure and function of NADPH oxidase
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-01-2012)“…Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the prototypic systemic autoimmune disease, is a debilitating multisystem autoimmune disorder characterized by chronic…”
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Shared and distinct interactions of type 1 and type 2 Epstein-Barr Nuclear Antigen 2 with the human genome
Published in BMC genomics (12-03-2024)“…There are two major genetic types of Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV): type 1 (EBV-1) and type 2 (EBV-2). EBV functions by manipulating gene expression in host B…”
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Genome-wide association study of African and European Americans implicates multiple shared and ethnic specific loci in sarcoidosis susceptibility
Published in PloS one (27-08-2012)“…Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of granulomas in affected organs. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of this…”
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Clinical Impact and Cost-Effectiveness of Whole Exome Sequencing as a Diagnostic Tool: A Pediatric Center's Experience
Published in Frontiers in pediatrics (03-08-2015)“…There are limited reports of the use of whole exome sequencing (WES) as a clinical diagnostic tool. Moreover, there are no reports addressing the cost burden…”
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Common variants within MECP2 confer risk of systemic lupus erythematosus
Published in PloS one (05-03-2008)“…Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a predominantly female autoimmune disease that affects multiple organ systems. Herein, we report on an X-chromosome gene…”
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Osteopontin and systemic lupus erythematosus association: a probable gene-gender interaction
Published in PloS one (12-03-2008)“…Osteopontin (SPP1) is an important bone matrix mediator found to have key roles in inflammation and immunity. SPP1 genetic polymorphisms and increased…”
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Copb2 is essential for embryogenesis and hypomorphic mutations cause human microcephaly
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Transcription factors operate across disease loci, with EBNA2 implicated in autoimmunity
Published in Nature genetics (01-05-2018)“…Explaining the genetics of many diseases is challenging because most associations localize to incompletely characterized regulatory regions. Using new…”
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IRF5 gene polymorphisms in melanoma
Published in Journal of translational medicine (21-08-2012)“…Interferon regulatory factor (IRF)-5 is a transcription factor involved in type I interferon signaling whose germ line variants have been associated with…”
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Focused transcription from the human CR2/CD21 core promoter is regulated by synergistic activity of TATA and Initiator elements in mature B cells
Published in Cellular & molecular immunology (01-01-2016)“…Complement receptor 2 (CR2/CD21) is predominantly expressed on the surface of mature B cells where it forms part of a coreceptor complex that functions, in…”
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Genome-Wide Association Scan of Dupuytren's Disease
Published in The Journal of hand surgery (American ed.) (01-12-2010)“…Purpose Dupuytren's disease (DD) has a strong genetic component that is suggested by population studies and family clustering. Genetic studies have yet to…”
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High-density genotyping of immune-related loci identifies new SLE risk variants in individuals with Asian ancestry
Published in Nature genetics (01-03-2016)“…Swapan Nath, Sang-Cheol Bae and colleagues report the results of a large-scale association study of systemic lupus erythematosus in individuals of Asian…”
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Copb2 is essential for embryogenesis and hypomorphic mutations cause human microcephaly
Published in Human molecular genetics (15-12-2017)“…Primary microcephaly is a congenital brain malformation characterized by a head circumference less than three standard deviations below the mean for age and…”
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Validation of low‐coverage whole‐genome sequencing for mitochondrial DNA variants suggests mitochondrial DNA as a genetic cause of preterm birth
Published in Human mutation (01-12-2021)“…Preterm birth (PTB), or birth that occurs earlier than 37 weeks of gestational age, is a major contributor to infant mortality and neonatal hospitalization…”
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