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Sex hormones have been implicated in neurite outgrowth, synaptogenesis, dendritic branching, myelination and other important mechanisms of neural plasticity. Here we review the evidence from animal experiments and human studies reporting interactions between sex hormones and the dominant neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, dopamine, GABA and glutamate. We provide an overview of accumulating data during physiological and pathological conditions and discuss currently conceptualized theories on how sex hormones potentially trigger neuroplasticity changes through these four neurochemical systems. Many brain regions have been demonstrated to express high densities for estrogen- and progesterone receptors, such as the amygdala, the hypothalamus, and the hippocampus. As the hippocampus is of particular relevance in the context of mediating structural plasticity in the adult brain, we put particular emphasis on what evidence could be gathered thus far that links differences in behavior, neurochemical patterns and hippocampal structure to a changing hormonal environment. Finally, we discuss how physiologically occurring hormonal transition periods in humans can be used to model how changes in sex hormones influence functional connectivity, neurotransmission and brain structure in vivo.

Authors: C. Barth, A. Villringer, J. Sacher

Date Published: 10th Mar 2015

Publication Type: Not specified

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The pathogenesis of diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL) is only partly understood. We analyzed 148 DLBCL by single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-chips to characterize genomic imbalances. Seventy-nine cases were of the germinal center B-cell like (GCB) type of DLBCL, 49 of the activated B-cell like (ABC) subtype and 20 were unclassified DLBCL. Twenty-four regions of recurrent genomic gains and 38 regions of recurrent genomic losses were identified over the whole cohort, with a median of 25 imbalances per case for ABC-DLBCL and 19 per case for GCB-DLBCL. Several recurrent copy number changes showed differential frequencies in the GCB- and ABC-DLBCL subgroups, including gains of HDAC7A predominantly in GCB-DLBCL (38% of cases) and losses of BACH2 and CASP8AP2 predominantly in ABC-DLBCL (35%), hinting at disparate pathogenetic mechanisms in these entities. Correlating gene expression and copy number revealed a strong gene dosage effect in all tumors, with 34% of probesets showing a concordant expression change in affected regions. Two new potential tumor suppressor genes emerging from the analysis, CASP3 and IL5RA, were sequenced in ten and 16 candidate cases, respectively. However, no mutations were found, pointing to a potential haploinsufficiency effect of these genes, considering their reduced expression in cases with deletions. Our study thus describes differences and similarities in the landscape of genomic aberrations in the DLBCL subgroups in a large collection of cases, confirming already known targets, but also discovering novel copy number changes with possible pathogenetic relevance.

Authors: R. Scholtysik, M. Kreuz, M. Hummel, M. Rosolowski, M. Szczepanowski, W. Klapper, M. Loeffler, L. Trumper, R. Siebert, R. Kuppers

Date Published: 1st Mar 2015

Publication Type: Not specified

Human Diseases: diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

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The specific contribution of risk or candidate gene variants to the complex phenotype of schizophrenia is largely unknown. Studying the effects of such variants on brain function can provide insight into disease-associated mechanisms on a neural systems level. Previous studies found common variants in the complexin2 (CPLX2) gene to be highly associated with cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia patients. Similarly, cognitive functioning was found to be impaired in Cplx2 gene-deficient mice if they were subjected to maternal deprivation or mild brain trauma during puberty. Here, we aimed to study seven common CPLX2 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and their neurogenetic risk mechanisms by investigating their relationship to a schizophrenia-related functional neuroimaging intermediate phenotype. We examined functional MRI and genotype data collected from 104 patients with DSM-IV-diagnosed schizophrenia and 122 healthy controls who participated in the Mind Clinical Imaging Consortium study of schizophrenia. Seven SNPs distributed over the whole CPLX2 gene were tested for association with working memory-elicited neural activity in a frontoparietal neural network. Three CPLX2 SNPs were significantly associated with increased neural activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and intraparietal sulcus in the schizophrenia sample, but showed no association in healthy controls. Since increased working memory-related neural activity in individuals with or at risk for schizophrenia has been interpreted as ’neural inefficiency,’ these findings suggest that certain variants of CPLX2 may contribute to impaired brain function in schizophrenia, possibly combined with other deleterious genetic variants, adverse environmental events, or developmental insults.   The specific contribution of risk or candidate gene variants to the complex phenotype of schizophrenia is largely unknown. Studying the effects of such variants on brain function can provide insight into disease-associated mechanisms on a neural systems level. Previous studies found common variants in the complexin2 (CPLX2) gene to be highly associated with cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia patients. Similarly, cognitive functioning was found to be impaired in Cplx2 gene-deficient mice if they were subjected to maternal deprivation or mild brain trauma during puberty. Here, we aimed to study seven common CPLX2 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and their neurogenetic risk mechanisms by investigating their relationship to a schizophrenia-related functional neuroimaging intermediate phenotype. We examined functional MRI and genotype data collected from 104 patients with DSM-IV-diagnosed schizophrenia and 122 healthy controls who participated in the Mind Clinical Imaging Consortium study of schizophrenia. Seven SNPs distributed over the whole CPLX2 gene were tested for association with working memory-elicited neural activity in a frontoparietal neural network. Three CPLX2 SNPs were significantly associated with increased neural activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and intraparietal sulcus in the schizophrenia sample, but showed no association in healthy controls. Since increased working memory-related neural activity in individuals with or at risk for schizophrenia has been interpreted as ’neural inefficiency,’ these findings suggest that certain variants of CPLX2 may contribute to impaired brain function in schizophrenia, possibly combined with other deleterious genetic variants, adverse environmental events, or developmental insults.   The specific contribution of risk or candidate gene variants to the complex phenotype of schizophrenia is largely unknown. Studying the effects of such variants on brain function can provide insight into disease-associated mechanisms on a neural systems level. Previous studies found common variants in the complexin2 (CPLX2) gene to be highly associated with cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia patients. Similarly, cognitive functioning was found to be impaired in Cplx2 gene-deficient mice if they were subjected to maternal deprivation or mild brain trauma during puberty. Here, we aimed to study seven common CPLX2 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and their neurogenetic risk mechanisms by investigating their relationship to a schizophrenia-related functional neuroimaging intermediate phenotype. We examined functional MRI and genotype data collected from 104 patients with DSM-IV-diagnosed schizophrenia and 122 healthy controls who participated in the Mind Clinical Imaging Consortium study of schizophrenia. Seven SNPs distributed over the whole CPLX2 gene were tested for association with working memory-elicited neural activity in a frontoparietal neural network. Three CPLX2 SNPs were significantly associated with increased neural activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and intraparietal sulcus in the schizophrenia sample, but showed no association in healthy controls. Since increased working memory-related neural activity in individuals with or at risk for schizophrenia has been interpreted as ’neural inefficiency,’ these findings suggest that certain variants of CPLX2 may contribute to impaired brain function in schizophrenia, possibly combined with other deleterious genetic variants, adverse environmental events, or developmental insults. //  The specific contribution of risk or candidate gene variants to the complex phenotype of schizophrenia is largely unknown. Studying the effects of such variants on brain function can provide insight into disease-associated mechanisms on a neural systems level. Previous studies found common variants in the complexin2 (CPLX2) gene to be highly associated with cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia patients. Similarly, cognitive functioning was found to be impaired in Cplx2 gene-deficient mice if they were subjected to maternal deprivation or mild brain trauma during puberty. Here, we aimed to study seven common CPLX2 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and their neurogenetic risk mechanisms by investigating their relationship to a schizophrenia-related functional neuroimaging intermediate phenotype. We examined functional MRI and genotype data collected from 104 patients with DSM-IV-diagnosed schizophrenia and 122 healthy controls who participated in the Mind Clinical Imaging Consortium study of schizophrenia. Seven SNPs distributed over the whole CPLX2 gene were tested for association with working memory-elicited neural activity in a frontoparietal neural network. Three CPLX2 SNPs were significantly associated with increased neural activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and intraparietal sulcus in the schizophrenia sample, but showed no association in healthy controls. Since increased working memory-related neural activity in individuals with or at risk for schizophrenia has been interpreted as ’neural inefficiency,’ these findings suggest that certain variants of CPLX2 may contribute to impaired brain function in schizophrenia, possibly combined with other deleterious genetic variants, adverse environmental events, or developmental insults.

Authors: Johanna Hass, Esther Walton, Holger Kirsten, Jessica Turner, Rick Wolthusen, Veit Roessner, Scott R. Sponheim, Daphne Holt, Randy Gollub, Vince D. Calhoun, Stefan Ehrlich

Date Published: 1st Mar 2015

Publication Type: Journal article

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BACKGROUND: Reference intervals for leukocyte subsets from peripheral blood are helpful for the understanding of disease states and therapy effects. METHODS: We performed in-depth immunophenotyping for 608 healthy German adults from the Leipzig region from 40 to 79 years by 10-color flow cytometry (FCM) to gain reference information for various leukocyte subsets including subsets of granulocytes, monocytes and lymphocytes. RESULTS: First, we derived gender- and age-specific reference intervals for males and females from 40 to 59 and from 60 to 79 years, respectively. Second, we further investigated the influence of gender and age on leukocyte counts. We found significantly higher cell counts for monocytes (P < 0.001) and NK cells (P < 0.001) in men, whereas women had higher counts for B cells (P < 0.001), Th cells (P < 0.001) and regulatory T cells (P = 0.008). Furthermore, with increasing age, a decrease in Tc cells (about 8% within 5 years) and an increase in NK cells (<4% within 5 years) were observed. CONCLUSION: In future research, it should be investigated whether these are real ageing effects that can be confirmed in longitudinal studies. Furthermore, it is important to understand if the Tc cell count drop is functionally compensated by the increase of NK cells.

Authors: S. Melzer, S. Zachariae, J. Bocsi, C. Engel, M. Loffler, A. Tarnok

Date Published: 24th Feb 2015

Publication Type: Not specified

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Prognostically relevant risk factors in patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) have predominantly been evaluated in elderly populations. We tested whether previously described risk factors are also valid in younger, poor-prognosis DLBCL patients. Paraffin-embedded samples from 112 patients with de novo DLBCL, enrolled in the R-MegaCHOEP trial of the German High Grade Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Study Group (DSHNHL) were investigated using immunohistochemistry (MYC, FOXP1, LMO2, GCET1, CD5, CD10, BCL2, BCL6, IRF4/MUM1) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (MYC, BCL2, BCL6). MYC, BCL2 and BCL6 breaks occurred in 14, 21 and 31%, respectively. In the majority of cases, MYC was simultaneously rearranged with BCL2 and/or BCL6. The adverse impact of MYC rearrangements was confirmed, but the sole presence of BCL2 breaks emerged as a novel prognostic marker associated with inferior overall survival (OS) (P=0.002). Combined overexpression of MYC and BCL2 showed only limited association with inferior OS. All immunohistochemical cell of origin classifiers applied failed to predict survival time. DLBCL tumors with significant proportion of immunoblastic and/or immunoblastic-plasmacytoid cells had inferior OS, independently from from BCL2 break. Younger, poor-prognosis DLBCL patients, therefore, display different biological risk factors compared with an elderly population, with BCL2 translocations emerging as a powerful negative prognostic marker.

Authors: H. Horn, M. Ziepert, M. Wartenberg, A. M. Staiger, T. F. Barth, H. W. Bernd, A. C. Feller, W. Klapper, C. Stuhlmann-Laeisz, M. Hummel, H. Stein, D. Lenze, S. Hartmann, M. L. Hansmann, P. Moller, S. Cogliatti, M. Pfreundschuh, L. Trumper, M. Loeffler, B. Glass, N. Schmitz, G. Ott, A. Rosenwald

Date Published: 18th Feb 2015

Publication Type: Not specified

Human Diseases: diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

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Metadata Repositories sind Datenbanken für Datenelemente, die sowohl in der Forschung, z.B. in klinischen Studien oder epidemiologischen Kohorten, wie auch in der Versorgung, z.B. in Informationssystemen des Krankenhauses genutzt werden (können). Bei diesen Datenelementen handelt es sich nicht um die eigentlichen Patientendaten (Fakten), sondern um eine vollständige Definition der verwendeten Variablen bzw. Merkmale inklusive der Kodierung, der Maßeinheit, des Datentyps und anderer Aspekte. In einem BMBF-geförderten und TMF-koordinierten Projekt wurde neben konzeptionellen Grundlagen ein Softwareprototyp für den Aufbau eines Nationalen Metadata Repositories für die klinische und epidemiologische Forschung in Deutschland (MDR) erarbeitet. Der Prototyp implementiert ein Datenmodell nach der aktualisierten Version 3 der ISO/IEC-Norm 11179/3 und steht unter einer Open-Source-Lizenz zur Verfügung . Basis für die realisierten Funktionalitäten des MDRs waren die in einem TMF-Vorprojekt analysierten funktionalen Anforderungen (TMF V063-01 Arbeitspaket 2), welche aber aufgrund der begrenzten Projektmittel nicht vollumfänglich umgesetzt werden konnten. Wesentliche Funktionen wie das Erstellen/Modifizieren/Importieren/Klassifizieren von Datenelementen und Formularen sowie einige der avisierten Community-Funktionen stehen jedoch zur Verfügung. Ziel des hier beschriebenen Projekts MDR-Evaluation war eine Evaluation der möglichen Anwendungsszenarien für Metadata Repositories durch eine größere Gruppe von Fachexperten. Dabei stand nicht eine konkrete Software im Vordergrund, sondern die prinzipielle Erwartung der Community an eine webbasierte Datenbank von Datenelementen. Zur Erreichung des Ziels wurde ein Fragebogen entworfen, der sowohl Fragen zu generellen Aspekten des Aufbaus einer zentralen Bibliothek für Datenelemente der biomedizinischen Forschung wie auch konkretere Punkte im Hinblick auf notwendige Funktionalitäten, gewünschte Inhalte, Werkzeuge zur Communityarbeit und zur Güte von Datenelementen enthielt. Der Fragebogen wurde im Rahmen einer Web-Umfrage einer breiten Community präsentiert. Aus den Antworten lassen sich strategische Erfolgskriterien für die Implementierung eines communityorientierten Metadata Repositories gewinnen.

Author: Matthias Löbe

Date Published: 1st Feb 2015

Publication Type: Not specified

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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified 12 epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) susceptibility alleles. The pattern of association at these loci is consistent in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers who are at high risk of EOC. After imputation to 1000 Genomes Project data, we assessed associations of 11 million genetic variants with EOC risk from 15,437 cases unselected for family history and 30,845 controls and from 15,252 BRCA1 mutation carriers and 8,211 BRCA2 mutation carriers (3,096 with ovarian cancer), and we combined the results in a meta-analysis. This new study design yielded increased statistical power, leading to the discovery of six new EOC susceptibility loci. Variants at 1p36 (nearest gene, WNT4), 4q26 (SYNPO2), 9q34.2 (ABO) and 17q11.2 (ATAD5) were associated with EOC risk, and at 1p34.3 (RSPO1) and 6p22.1 (GPX6) variants were specifically associated with the serous EOC subtype, all with P \textless 5 \times 10(-8). Incorporating these variants into risk assessment tools will improve clinical risk predictions for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.

Authors: Karoline B. Kuchenbaecker, Susan J. Ramus, Jonathan Tyrer, Andrew Lee, Howard C. Shen, Jonathan Beesley, Kate Lawrenson, Lesley McGuffog, Sue Healey, Janet M. Lee, Tassja J. Spindler, Yvonne G. Lin, Tanja Pejovic, Yukie Bean, Qiyuan Li, Simon Coetzee, Dennis Hazelett, Alexander Miron, Melissa Southey, Mary Beth Terry, David E. Goldgar, Saundra S. Buys, Ramunas Janavicius, Cecilia M. Dorfling, Elizabeth J. van Rensburg, Susan L. Neuhausen, Yuan Chun Ding, Thomas v. O. Hansen, Lars Jønson, Anne-Marie Gerdes, Bent Ejlertsen, Daniel Barrowdale, Joe Dennis, Javier Benitez, Ana Osorio, Maria Jose Garcia, Ian Komenaka, Jeffrey N. Weitzel, Pamela Ganschow, Paolo Peterlongo, Loris Bernard, Alessandra Viel, Bernardo Bonanni, Bernard Peissel, Siranoush Manoukian, Paolo Radice, Laura Papi, Laura Ottini, Florentia Fostira, Irene Konstantopoulou, Judy Garber, Debra Frost, Jo Perkins, Radka Platte, Steve Ellis, Andrew K. Godwin, Rita Katharina Schmutzler, Alfons Meindl, Christoph Engel, Christian Sutter, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Francesca Damiola, Sylvie Mazoyer, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Kathleen Claes, Kim de Leeneer, Judy Kirk, Gustavo C. Rodriguez, Marion Piedmonte, David M. O’Malley, Miguel de La Hoya, Trinidad Caldes, Kristiina Aittomäki, Heli Nevanlinna, J. Margriet Collée, Matti A. Rookus, Jan C. Oosterwijk, Laima Tihomirova, Nadine Tung, Ute Hamann, Claudine Isaccs, Marc Tischkowitz, Evgeny N. Imyanitov, Maria A. Caligo, Ian G. Campbell, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Edith Olah, Orland Diez, Ignacio Blanco, Joan Brunet, Conxi Lazaro, Miquel Angel Pujana, Anna Jakubowska, Jacek Gronwald, Jan Lubinski, Grzegorz Sukiennicki, Rosa B. Barkardottir, Marie Plante, Jacques Simard, Penny Soucy, Marco Montagna, Silvia Tognazzo, Manuel R. Teixeira, Vernon S. Pankratz, Xianshu Wang, Noralane Lindor, Csilla I. Szabo, Noah Kauff, Joseph Vijai, Carol A. Aghajanian, Georg Pfeiler, Andreas Berger, Christian F. Singer, Muy-Kheng Tea, Catherine M. Phelan, Mark H. Greene, Phuong L. Mai, Gad Rennert, Anna Marie Mulligan, Sandrine Tchatchou, Irene L. Andrulis, Gord Glendon, Amanda Ewart Toland, Uffe Birk Jensen, Torben A. Kruse, Mads Thomassen, Anders Bojesen, Jamal Zidan, Eitan Friedman, Yael Laitman, Maria Soller, Annelie Liljegren, Brita Arver, Zakaria Einbeigi, Marie Stenmark-Askmalm, Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, Robert L. Nussbaum, Timothy R. Rebbeck, Katherine L. Nathanson, Susan M. Domchek, Karen H. Lu, Beth Y. Karlan, Christine Walsh, Jenny Lester, Alexander Hein, Arif B. Ekici, Matthias W. Beckmann, Peter A. Fasching, Diether Lambrechts, Els van Nieuwenhuysen, Ignace Vergote, Sandrina Lambrechts, Ed Dicks, Jennifer A. Doherty, Kristine G. Wicklund, Mary Anne Rossing, Anja Rudolph, Jenny Chang-Claude, Shan Wang-Gohrke, Ursula Eilber, Kirsten B. Moysich, Kunle Odunsi, Lara Sucheston, Shashi Lele, Lynne R. Wilkens, Marc T. Goodman, Pamela J. Thompson, Yurii B. Shvetsov, Ingo B. Runnebaum, Matthias Dürst, Peter Hillemanns, Thilo Dörk, Natalia Antonenkova, Natalia Bogdanova, Arto Leminen, Liisa M. Pelttari, Ralf Butzow, Francesmary Modugno, Joseph L. Kelley, Robert P. Edwards, Roberta B. Ness, Andreas Du Bois, Florian Heitz, Ira Schwaab, Philipp Harter, Keitaro Matsuo, Satoyo Hosono, Sandra Orsulic, Allan Jensen, Susanne Kruger Kjaer, Estrid Hogdall, Hanis Nazihah Hasmad, Mat Adenan Noor Azmi, Soo-Hwang Teo, Yin-Ling Woo, Brooke L. Fridley, Ellen L. Goode, Julie M. Cunningham, Robert A. Vierkant, Fiona Bruinsma, Graham G. Giles, Dong Liang, Michelle A. T. Hildebrandt, Xifeng Wu, Douglas A. Levine, Maria Bisogna, Andrew Berchuck, Edwin S. Iversen, Joellen M. Schildkraut, Patrick Concannon, Rachel Palmieri Weber, Daniel W. Cramer, Kathryn L. Terry, Elizabeth M. Poole, Shelley S. Tworoger, Elisa V. Bandera, Irene Orlow, Sara H. Olson, Camilla Krakstad, Helga B. Salvesen, Ingvild L. Tangen, Line Bjorge, Anne M. van Altena, Katja K. H. Aben, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Leon F. A. G. Massuger, Melissa Kellar, Angela Brooks-Wilson, Linda E. Kelemen, Linda S. Cook, Nhu D. Le, Cezary Cybulski, Hannah Yang, Jolanta Lissowska, Louise A. Brinton, Nicolas Wentzensen, Claus Hogdall, Lene Lundvall, Lotte Nedergaard, Helen Baker, Honglin Song, Diana Eccles, Ian McNeish, James Paul, Karen Carty, Nadeem Siddiqui, Rosalind Glasspool, Alice S. Whittemore, Joseph H. Rothstein, Valerie McGuire, Weiva Sieh, Bu-Tian Ji, Wei Zheng, Xiao-Ou Shu, Yu-Tang Gao, Barry Rosen, Harvey A. Risch, John R. McLaughlin, Steven A. Narod, Alvaro N. Monteiro, Ann Chen, Hui-Yi Lin, Jenny Permuth-Wey, Thomas A. Sellers, Ya-Yu Tsai, Zhihua Chen, Argyrios Ziogas, Hoda Anton-Culver, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Usha Menon, Patricia Harrington, Alice W. Lee, Anna H. Wu, Celeste L. Pearce, Gerry Coetzee, Malcolm C. Pike, Agnieszka Dansonka-Mieszkowska, Agnieszka Timorek, Iwona K. Rzepecka, Jolanta Kupryjanczyk, Matt Freedman, Houtan Noushmehr, Douglas F. Easton, Kenneth Offit, Fergus J. Couch, Simon Gayther, Paul P. Pharoah, Antonis C. Antoniou, Georgia Chenevix-Trench

Date Published: 1st Feb 2015

Publication Type: Journal article

Human Diseases: hereditary breast ovarian cancer syndrome

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