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BACKGROUND: CAP (Community acquired pneumonia) is frequent, with a high mortality rate and a high burden on health care systems. Development of predictive biomarkers, new therapeutic concepts, and epidemiologic research require a valid, reproducible, and quantitative measure describing CAP severity. METHODS: Using time series data of 1532 patients enrolled in the PROGRESS study, we compared putative measures of CAP severity for their utility as an operationalization. Comparison was based on ability to correctly identify patients with an objectively severe state of disease (death or need for intensive care with at least one of the following: substantial respiratory support, treatment with catecholamines, or dialysis). We considered IDSA/ATS minor criteria, CRB-65, CURB-65, Halm criteria, qSOFA, PSI, SCAP, SIRS-Score, SMART-COP, and SOFA. RESULTS: SOFA significantly outperformed other scores in correctly identifying a severe state of disease at the day of enrollment (AUC = 0.948), mainly caused by higher discriminative power at higher score values. Runners-up were the sum of IDSA/ATS minor criteria (AUC = 0.916) and SCAP (AUC = 0.868). SOFA performed similarly well on subsequent study days (all AUC > 0.9) and across age groups. In univariate and multivariate analysis, age, sex, and pack-years significantly contributed to higher SOFA values whereas antibiosis before hospitalization predicted lower SOFA. CONCLUSIONS: SOFA score can serve as an excellent operationalization of CAP severity and is proposed as endpoint for biomarker and therapeutic studies. TRIAL REGISTRATION: clinicaltrials.gov NCT02782013 , May 25, 2016, retrospectively registered.

Authors: P. Ahnert, P. Creutz, K. Horn, F. Schwarzenberger, M. Kiehntopf, H. Hossain, M. Bauer, F. M. Brunkhorst, K. Reinhart, U. Volker, T. Chakraborty, M. Witzenrath, M. Loffler, N. Suttorp, M. Scholz

Date Published: 4th Apr 2019

Publication Type: Journal article

Human Diseases: pneumonia

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Background BRCA1/2 mutations confer high lifetime risk of breast cancer, although other factors may modify this risk. Whether height or body mass index (BMI) modifies breast cancer risk in BRCA1/22 mutation carriers remains unclear. Methods We used Mendelian randomization approaches to evaluate the association of height and BMI on breast cancer risk, using data from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 with 14 676 BRCA1 and 7912 BRCA2 mutation carriers, including 11 451 cases of breast cancer. We created a height genetic score using 586 height-associated variants and a BMI genetic score using 93 BMI-associated variants. We examined both observed and genetically determined height and BMI with breast cancer risk using weighted Cox models. All statistical tests were two-sided. Results Observed height was positively associated with breast cancer risk (HR = 1.09 per 10 cm increase, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.0 to 1.17; P = 1.17). Height genetic score was positively associated with breast cancer, although this was not statistically significant (per 10 cm increase in genetically predicted height, HR = 1.04, 95% CI = 0.93 to 1.17; P = .47). Observed BMI was inversely associated with breast cancer risk (per 5 kg/m2 increase, HR = 0.94, 95% CI = 0.90 to 0.98; P = .007). BMI genetic score was also inversely associated with breast cancer risk (per 5 kg/m2 increase in genetically predicted BMI, HR = 0.87, 95% CI = 0.76 to 0.98; P = .02). BMI was primarily associated with premenopausal breast cancer. Conclusion Height is associated with overall breast cancer and BMI is associated with premenopausal breast cancer in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. Incorporating height and BMI, particularly genetic score, into risk assessment may improve cancer management.

Authors: Frank Qian, Shengfeng Wang, Jonathan Mitchell, Lesley McGuffog, Daniel Barrowdale, Goska Leslie, Jan C. Oosterwijk, Wendy K. Chung, D. Gareth Evans, Christoph Engel, Karin Kast, Cora M. Aalfs, Muriel A. Adank, Julian Adlard, Bjarni A. Agnarsson, Kristiina Aittomäki, Elisa Alducci, Irene L. Andrulis, Banu K. Arun, Margreet G. E. M. Ausems, Jacopo Azzollini, Emmanuelle Barouk-Simonet, Julian Barwell, Muriel Belotti, Javier Benitez, Andreas Berger, Ake Borg, Angela R. Bradbury, Joan Brunet, Saundra S. Buys, Trinidad Caldes, Maria A. Caligo, Ian Campbell, Sandrine M. Caputo, Jocelyne Chiquette, Kathleen B. M. Claes, J. Margriet Collée, Fergus J. Couch, Isabelle Coupier, Mary B. Daly, Rosemarie Davidson, Orland Diez, Susan M. Domchek, Alan Donaldson, Cecilia M. Dorfling, Ros Eeles, Lidia Feliubadaló, Lenka Foretova, Jeffrey Fowler, Eitan Friedman, Debra Frost, Patricia A. Ganz, Judy Garber, Vanesa Garcia-Barberan, Gord Glendon, Andrew K. Godwin, Encarna B. Gómez Garcia, Jacek Gronwald, Eric Hahnen, Ute Hamann, Alex Henderson, Carolyn B. Hendricks, John L. Hopper, Peter J. Hulick, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Claudine Isaacs, Louise Izatt, Ángel Izquierdo, Anna Jakubowska, Katarzyna Kaczmarek, Eunyoung Kang, Beth Y. Karlan, Carolien M. Kets, Sung-Won Kim, Zisun Kim, Ava Kwong, Yael Laitman, Christine Lasset, Min Hyuk Lee, Jong Won Lee, Jihyoun Lee, Jenny Lester, Fabienne Lesueur, Jennifer T. Loud, Jan Lubinski, Noura Mebirouk, Hanne E. J. Meijers-Heijboer, Alfons Meindl, Austin Miller, Marco Montagna, Thea M. Mooij, Patrick J. Morrison, Emmanuelle Mouret-Fourme, Katherine L. Nathanson, Susan L. Neuhausen, Heli Nevanlinna, Dieter Niederacher, Finn C. Nielsen, Robert L. Nussbaum, Kenneth Offit, Edith Olah, Kai-Ren Ong, Laura Ottini, Sue K. Park, Paolo Peterlongo, Georg Pfeiler, Catherine M. Phelan, Bruce Poppe, Nisha Pradhan, Paolo Radice, Susan J. Ramus, Johanna Rantala, Mark Robson, Gustavo C. Rodriguez, Rita K. Schmutzler, Christina G. Hutten Selkirk, Payal D. Shah, Jacques Simard, Christian F. Singer, Johanna Sokolowska, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Christian Sutter, Yen Yen Tan, R. Manuel Teixeira, Soo H. Teo, Mary Beth Terry, Mads Thomassen, Marc Tischkowitz, Amanda E. Toland, Katherine M. Tucker, Nadine Tung, Christi J. van Asperen, Klaartje van Engelen, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Barbara Wappenschmidt, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Drakoulis Yannoukakos, Mark H. Greene, Matti A. Rookus, Douglas F. Easton, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Antonis C. Antoniou, David E. Goldgar, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Dezheng Huo

Date Published: 1st Apr 2019

Publication Type: Journal article

Human Diseases: hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome

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BACKGROUND Genetic variation at chromosome 9p21 is a recognized risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). However, its effect on disease progression and subsequent events is unclear, raising questionss about its value for stratification of residual risk. METHODS A variant at chromosome 9p21 (rs1333049) was tested for association with subsequent events during follow-up in 103,357 Europeans with established CHD at baseline from the GENIUS-CHD Consortium (73.1% male, mean age 62.9 years). The primary outcome, subsequent CHD death or myocardial infarction (CHD death/MI), occurred in 13,040 of the 93,115 participants with available outcome data. Effect estimates were compared to case/control risk obtained from CARDIoGRAMPlusC4D including 47,222 CHD cases and 122,264 controls free of CHD. RESULTS Meta-analyses revealed no significant association between chromosome 9p21 and the primary outcome of CHD death/MI among those with established CHD at baseline (GENIUS-CHD OR 1.02; 95% CI 0.99-1.05). This contrasted with a strong association in CARDIoGRAMPlusC4D OR 1.20; 95% CI 1.18-1.22; p for interaction Conclusions: In contrast to studies comparing individuals with CHD to disease free controls, we found no clear association between genetic variation at chromosome 9p21 and risk of subsequent acute CHD events when all individuals had CHD at baseline. However, the association with subsequent revascularization may support the postulated mechanism of chromosome 9p21 for promoting atheroma development.

Authors: Riyaz S. Patel, Amand F. Schmidt, Vinicius Tragante, Raymond O. McCubrey, Michael V. Holmes, Laurence J. Howe, Kenan Direk, Axel Åkerblom, Karin Leander, Salim S. Virani, Karol A. Kaminski, Jochen D. Muehlschlegel, Marie-Pierre Dubé, Hooman Allayee, Peter Almgren, Maris Alver, Ekaterina V. Baranova, Hassan Behlouli, Bram Boeckx, Peter S. Braund, Lutz P. Breitling, Graciela Delgado, Nubia E. Duarte, Line Dufresne, Niclas Eriksson, Luisa Foco, Crystel M. Gijsberts, Yan Gong, Jaana Hartiala, Mahyar Heydarpour, Jaroslav A. Hubacek, Marcus Kleber, Daniel Kofink, Pekka Kuukasjärvi, Vei-Vei Lee, Andreas Leiherer, Petra A. Lenzini, Daniel Levin, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Nicola Martinelli, Ute Mons, Christopher P. Nelson, Kjell Nikus, Anna P. Pilbrow, Rafal Ploski, Yan V. Sun, Michael W. T. Tanck, W. H. Wilson Tang, Stella Trompet, Sander W. van der Laan, Jessica van Setten, Ragnar O. Vilmundarson, Chiara Viviani Anselmi, Efthymia Vlachopoulou, Eric Boerwinkle, Carlo Briguori, John F. Carlquist, Kathryn F. Carruthers, Gavino Casu, John Deanfield, Panos Deloukas, Frank Dudbridge, Natalie Fitzpatrick, Bruna Gigante, Stefan James, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Paulo A. Lotufo, Nicola Marziliano, Ify R. Mordi, Joseph B. Muhlestein, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Jan Pitha, Christoph H. Saely, Ayman Samman-Tahhan, Pratik B. Sandesara, Andrej Teren, Adam Timmis, Frans van de Werf, Els Wauters, Arthur A. M. Wilde, Ian Ford, David J. Stott, Ale Algra, Maria G. Andreassi, Diego Ardissino, Benoit J. Arsenault, Christie M. Ballantyne, Thomas O. Bergmeijer, Connie R. Bezzina, Simon C. Body, Peter Bogaty, Gert J. de Borst, Hermann Brenner, Ralph Burkhardt, Clara Carpeggiani, Gianluigi Condorelli, Rhonda M. Cooper-DeHoff, Sharon Cresci, Ulf de Faire, Robert N. Doughty, Heinz Drexel, James C. Engert, Keith A. A. Fox, Domenico Girelli, Emil Hagström, Stanley L. Hazen, Claes Held, Harry Hemingway, Imo E. Hoefer, G. Kees Hovingh, Julie A. Johnson, Pim A. de Jong, J. Wouter Jukema, Marcin P. Kaczor, Mika Kähönen, Jiri Kettner, Marek Kiliszek, Olaf H. Klungel, Bo Lagerqvist, Diether Lambrechts, Jari O. Laurikka, Terho Lehtimäki, Daniel Lindholm, B. K. Mahmoodi, Anke H. Maitland-van der Zee, Ruth McPherson, Olle Melander, Andres Metspalu, Witold Pepinski, Oliviero Olivieri, Grzegorz Opolski, Colin N. Palmer, Gerard Pasterkamp, Carl J. Pepine, Alexandre C. Pereira, Louise Pilote, Arshed A. Quyyumi, A. Mark Richards, Marek Sanak, Markus Scholz, Agneta Siegbahn, Juha Sinisalo, J. Gustav Smith, John A. Spertus, Alexandre F. R. Stewart, Wojciech Szczeklik, Anna Szpakowicz, Jurriën M. ten Berg, George Thanassoulis, Joachim Thiery, Yolanda van der Graaf, Frank L. J. Visseren, Johannes Waltenberger, Pim van der Harst, Jean-Claude Tardif, Naveed Sattar, Chim C. Lang, Guillaume Paré, James M. Brophy, Jeffrey L. Anderson, Winfried März, Lars Wallentin, Vicky A. Cameron, Benjamin D. Horne, Nilesh J. Samani, Aroon D. Hingorani, Folkert W. Asselbergs

Date Published: 1st Apr 2019

Publication Type: Journal article

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BACKGROUND The \textquotedblGENetIcs of sUbSequent Coronary Heart Disease\textquotedbl (GENIUS-CHD) consortium was established to facilitate discovery and validation of genetic variants and biomarkerss for risk of subsequent CHD events, in individuals with established CHD. METHODS The consortium currently includes 57 studies from 18 countries, recruiting 185,614 participants with either acute coronary syndrome, stable CHD or a mixture of both at baseline. All studies collected biological samples and followed-up study participants prospectively for subsequent events. RESULTS Enrollment into the individual studies took place between 1985 to present day with duration of follow up ranging from 9 months to 15 years. Within each study, participants with CHD are predominantly of self-reported European descent (38%-100%), mostly male (44%-91%) with mean ages at recruitment ranging from 40 to 75 years. Initial feasibility analyses, using a federated analysis approach, yielded expected associations between age (HR 1.15 95% CI 1.14-1.16) per 5-year increase, male sex (HR 1.17, 95% CI 1.13-1.21) and smoking (HR 1.43, 95% CI 1.35-1.51) with risk of subsequent CHD death or myocardial infarction, and differing associations with other individual and composite cardiovascular endpoints. CONCLUSIONS GENIUS-CHD is a global collaboration seeking to elucidate genetic and non-genetic determinants of subsequent event risk in individuals with established CHD, in order to improve residual risk prediction and identify novel drug targets for secondary prevention. Initial analyses demonstrate the feasibility and reliability of a federated analysis approach. The consortium now plans to initiate and test novel hypotheses as well as supporting replication and validation analyses for other investigators.

Authors: Riyaz Patel, Vinicius Tragante, Amand F. Schmidt, Raymond O. McCubrey, Michael V. Holmes, Laurence J. Howe, Kenan Direk, Axel Åkerblom, Karin Leander, Salim S. Virani, Karol A. Kaminski, Jochen D. Muehlschlegel, Hooman Allayee, Peter Almgren, Maris Alver, Ekaterina V. Baranova, Hassan Behlouli, Bram Boeckx, Peter S. Braund, Lutz P. Breitling, Graciela Delgado, Nubia E. Duarte, Marie-Pierre Dubé, Line Dufresne, Niclas Eriksson, Luisa Foco, Markus Scholz, Crystel M. Gijsberts, Charlotte Glinge, Yan Gong, Jaana Hartiala, Mahyar Heydarpour, Jaroslav A. Hubacek, Marcus Kleber, Daniel Kofink, Salma Kotti, Pekka Kuukasjärvi, Vei-Vei Lee, Andreas Leiherer, Petra A. Lenzini, Daniel Levin, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Nicola Martinelli, Ute Mons, Christopher P. Nelson, Kjell Nikus, Anna P. Pilbrow, Rafal Ploski, Yan V. Sun, Michael W. T. Tanck, W. H. Wilson Tang, Stella Trompet, Sander W. van der Laan, Jessica van Setten, Ragnar O. Vilmundarson, Chiara Viviani Anselmi, Efthymia Vlachopoulou, Lawien Al Ali, Eric Boerwinkle, Carlo Briguori, John F. Carlquist, Kathryn F. Carruthers, Gavino Casu, John Deanfield, Panos Deloukas, Frank Dudbridge, Thomas Engström, Natalie Fitzpatrick, Kim Fox, Bruna Gigante, Stefan James, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Paulo A. Lotufo, Nicola Marziliano, Ify R. Mordi, Joseph B. Muhlestein, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Jan Pitha, Christoph H. Saely, Ayman Samman-Tahhan, Pratik B. Sandesara, Andrej Teren, Adam Timmis, Frans van de Werf, Els Wauters, Arthur A. M. Wilde, Ian Ford, David J. Stott, Ale Algra, Maria G. Andreassi, Diego Ardissino, Benoit J. Arsenault, Christie M. Ballantyne, Thomas O. Bergmeijer, Connie R. Bezzina, Simon C. Body, Eric H. Boersma, Peter Bogaty, Michiel Bots, Hermann Brenner, Jasper J. Brugts, Ralph Burkhardt, Clara Carpeggiani, Gianluigi Condorelli, Rhonda M. Cooper-DeHoff, Sharon Cresci, Nicolas Danchin, Ulf de Faire, Robert N. Doughty, Heinz Drexel, James C. Engert, Keith A. A. Fox, Domenico Girelli, Diederick E. Grobbee, Emil Hagström, Stanley L. Hazen, Claes Held, Harry Hemingway, Imo E. Hoefer, G. Kees Hovingh, Reza Jabbari, Julie A. Johnson, J. Wouter Jukema, Marcin P. Kaczor, Mika Kähönen, Jiri Kettner, Marek Kiliszek, Olaf H. Klungel, Bo Lagerqvist, Diether Lambrechts, Jari O. Laurikka, Terho Lehtimäki, Daniel Lindholm, B. K. Mahmoodi, Anke H. Maitland-van der Zee, Ruth McPherson, Olle Melander, Andres Metspalu, Anna Niemcunowicz-Janica, Oliviero Olivieri, Grzegorz Opolski, Colin N. Palmer, Gerard Pasterkamp, Carl J. Pepine, Alexandre C. Pereira, Louise Pilote, Arshed A. Quyyumi, A. Mark Richards, Marek Sanak, Agneta Siegbahn, Tabassome Simon, Juha Sinisalo, J. Gustav Smith, John A. Spertus, Steen Stender, Alexandre F. R. Stewart, Wojciech Szczeklik, Anna Szpakowicz, Jean-Claude Tardif, Jurriën M. ten Berg, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, George Thanassoulis, Joachim Thiery, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Yolanda van der Graaf, Frank L. J. Visseren, Johannes Waltenberger, Peter E. Weeke, Pim van der Harst, Chim C. Lang, Naveed Sattar, Vicky A. Cameron, Jeffrey L. Anderson, James M. Brophy, Guillaume Paré, Benjamin D. Horne, Winfried März, Lars Wallentin, Nilesh J. Samani, Aroon D. Hingorani, Folkert W. Asselbergs

Date Published: 1st Apr 2019

Publication Type: Journal article

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Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is the most common B-cell lymphoma in children. Within the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC), we performed whole genome and transcriptome sequencing of 39 sporadic BL. Here, we unravel interaction of structural, mutational, and transcriptional changes, which contribute to MYC oncogene dysregulation together with the pathognomonic IG-MYC translocation. Moreover, by mapping IGH translocation breakpoints, we provide evidence that the precursor of at least a subset of BL is a B-cell poised to express IGHA. We describe the landscape of mutations, structural variants, and mutational processes, and identified a series of driver genes in the pathogenesis of BL, which can be targeted by various mechanisms, including IG-non MYC translocations, germline and somatic mutations, fusion transcripts, and alternative splicing.

Authors: C. Lopez, K. Kleinheinz, S. M. Aukema, M. Rohde, S. H. Bernhart, D. Hubschmann, R. Wagener, U. H. Toprak, F. Raimondi, M. Kreuz, S. M. Waszak, Z. Huang, L. Sieverling, N. Paramasivam, J. Seufert, S. Sungalee, R. B. Russell, J. Bausinger, H. Kretzmer, O. Ammerpohl, A. K. Bergmann, H. Binder, A. Borkhardt, B. Brors, A. Claviez, G. Doose, L. Feuerbach, A. Haake, M. L. Hansmann, J. Hoell, M. Hummel, J. O. Korbel, C. Lawerenz, D. Lenze, B. Radlwimmer, J. Richter, P. Rosenstiel, A. Rosenwald, M. B. Schilhabel, H. Stein, S. Stilgenbauer, P. F. Stadler, M. Szczepanowski, M. A. Weniger, M. Zapatka, R. Eils, P. Lichter, M. Loeffler, P. Moller, L. Trumper, W. Klapper, S. Hoffmann, R. Kuppers, B. Burkhardt, M. Schlesner, R. Siebert

Date Published: 29th Mar 2019

Publication Type: Not specified

Human Diseases: lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma

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Authors: Alexander Martin Heberle, Patricia Razquin Navas, Miriam Langelaar-Makkinje, Katharina Kasack, Ahmed Sadik, Erik Faessler, Udo Hahn, Philip Marx-Stoelting, Christiane A Opitz, Christine Sers, Ines Heiland, Sascha Schäuble, Kathrin Thedieck

Date Published: 28th Mar 2019

Publication Type: Journal article

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VASPIN, visceral adipose tissue-derived serpin, is an adipokine ameliorating insulin resistance in obesity. Here, we investigated the role of VASPIN and its genetic variants in lipid metabolism. We measured serum VASPIN concentrations by ELISA in 823 metabolically well-characterized Caucasian subjects (Sorbs from Germany). Furthermore, we genotyped 30 representative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in two independent cohorts with metabolic phenotyping, the Sorbs (N = 823) and Leipzig (N = 919), and conducted genotype-phenotype association analyses. Circulating VASPIN strongly correlated with triacylglycerol levels (TAG; p = 1.079 \times 10-11 ), and moderately with apolipoprotein A1 and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (p = 0.026). Genetic variants in VASPIN were nominally associated with cholesterol, high-density and low-density lipoprotein (HDL-chol, LDL-chol), lipoprotein A, and apolipoprotein B as well as with TAG and free fatty acids (all p \textless 0.05 adjusted for age, sex, and body mass index [BMI]). Mendelian randomization analysis using VASPIN SNP as an instrumental variable showed borderline influence of VASPIN on LDL-chol levels (p = 0.05). Associations of VASPIN and its genetic variation with metabolic traits suggest a role of VASPIN in human lipid metabolism.

Authors: Jana Breitfeld, Norman Wiele, Beate Gutsmann, Michael Stumvoll, Matthias Blüher, Markus Scholz, Peter Kovacs, Anke Tönjes

Date Published: 18th Mar 2019

Publication Type: Journal article

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