Trajectories of cardiovascular risk predict pregnancy outcomes: The Bogalusa Heart Study and the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study

Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2023 Jul 11. doi: 10.1111/ppe.12995. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Life course patterns of change in risk-trajectories-affect health. OBJECTIVES: To examine how trajectories of cardiovascular risk factors are associated with pregnancy and birth outcomes. METHODS: Data from two cohort studies participating in the International Childhood Cardiovascular…

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Plasma calprotectin is extremely high in patients with lysinuric protein intolerance

JIMD Rep. 2023 Jun 20;64(4):293-299. doi: 10.1002/jmd2.12377. eCollection 2023 Jul. ABSTRACT Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder affecting the transport of cationic amino acids. Elevated plasma zinc concentrations have been described in patients with LPI. Calprotectin is a calcium- and zinc-binding protein, produced by polymorphonuclear leukocytes…

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Childhood family environment predicting psychotic disorders over a 37-year follow-up – A general population cohort study

Schizophr Res. 2023 Jun 29;258:9-17. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2023.06.008. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Childhood adverse effects and traumatic experiences increase the risk for several psychiatric disorders. We now investigated whether prospectively assessed childhood family environment per se contributes to increased risk for psychotic disorders in adulthood, and whether these family…

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Plasma protein biomarkers predict the development of persistent autoantibodies and type 1 diabetes 6 months prior to the onset of autoimmunity

Cell Rep Med. 2023 Jun 23:101093. doi: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101093. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from autoimmune destruction of β cells. Insufficient availability of biomarkers represents a significant gap in understanding the disease cause and progression. We conduct blinded, two-phase case-control plasma proteomics on the TEDDY study…

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Associations of breastfeeding duration with serum lipid values from infancy until age 20 years – the STRIP study

Scand J Public Health. 2023 Jun 30:14034948231183030. doi: 10.1177/14034948231183030. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The effect of breastfeeding duration on childhood lipid levels has remained controversial. In this study, we aimed to establish the long-term associations of breastfeeding duration with future levels of total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein…

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Longitudinal patterns of alcohol use and psychological symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic and role of alexithymia: A latent transition analysis in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study

J Affect Disord. 2023 Jun 27:S0165-0327(23)00822-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.06.056. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has been posing widespread influence on mental well-being. However, research on the dynamic relations between alcohol use and psychological symptoms in the context of the pandemic and the role of alexithymic traits in…

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SMG6 localizes to the chromatoid body and shapes the male germ cell transcriptome to drive spermatogenesis

Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 Nov 11;50(20):11470-11491. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac900. ABSTRACT Nonsense-mediated RNA decay (NMD) is a highly conserved and selective RNA turnover pathway that depends on the endonuclease SMG6. Here, we show that SMG6 is essential for male germ cell differentiation in mice. Germ-cell conditional knockout (cKO) of Smg6 induces extensive…

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Gene set analysis of transcriptomics data identifies new biological processes associated with early markers of atherosclerosis but not with those of osteoporosis: Atherosclerosis-osteoporosis co/multimorbidity study in the Young Finns Study

Atherosclerosis. 2022 Nov;361:1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2022.10.005. Epub 2022 Oct 8. ABSTRACT AIM: We aimed at identifying the shared biological processes underlying atherosclerosis-osteoporosis co/multimorbidity. METHODS: We performed gene set analysis (GSA) of whole-blood transcriptomic data to identify biological processes shared by the early markers of these two diseases. Early markers of diseases,…

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