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Mejia-Garcia A, Bonilla DA, Ramirez CM, Escobar-Díaz FA, Combita AL, Forero DA, Orozco C. Genes and Pathways Involved in the Progression of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: A Meta-analysis of Genome-Wide Expression Studies. Biochem Genet 2024; 62:352-370. [PMID: 37347449 DOI: 10.1007/s10528-023-10426-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
Abstract
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare and aggressive neoplasm of the pleural tissue that lines the lungs and is mainly associated with long latency from asbestos exposure. This tumor has no effective therapeutic opportunities nowadays and has a very low five-year survival rate. In this sense, identifying molecular events that trigger the development and progression of this tumor is highly important to establish new and potentially effective treatments. We conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide expression studies publicly available at the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and ArrayExpress databases. The differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified, and we performed functional enrichment analysis and protein-protein interaction networks (PPINs) to gain insight into the biological mechanisms underlying these genes. Additionally, we constructed survival prediction models for selected DEGs and predicted the minimum drug inhibition concentration of anticancer drugs for MPM. In total, 115 MPM tumor transcriptomes and 26 pleural tissue controls were analyzed. We identified 1046 upregulated DEGs in the MPM samples. Cellular signaling categories in tumor samples were associated with the TNF, PI3K-Akt, and AMPK pathways. The inflammatory response, regulation of cell migration, and regulation of angiogenesis were overrepresented biological processes. Expression of SOX17 and TACC1 were associated with reduced survival rates. This meta-analysis identified a list of DEGs in MPM tumors, cancer-related signaling pathways, and biological processes that were overrepresented in MPM samples. Some therapeutic targets to treat MPM are suggested, and the prognostic potential of key genes is shown.
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- Alejandro Mejia-Garcia
- Molecular Genetics Research Group (GENMOL), Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society - DBSS International SAS, Bogotá, Colombia
- Research Group in Physical Activity, Sports and Health Sciences (GICAFS), Universidad de Córdoba, Montería, Colombia
- Sport Genomics Research Group, Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48940, Leioa, Spain
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- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Public Health and Epidemiology Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Cancer Biology Research Group, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Bogotá, Colombia
- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia
- Professional Program in Respiratory Therapy, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Professional Program in Surgical Instrumentation, Professional Program in Optometry and Technical Program in Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Crowley JJ, Cappi C, Ochoa-Panaifo ME, Frederick RM, Kook M, Wiese AD, Rancourt D, Atkinson EG, Giusti-Rodriguez P, Anderberg JL, Abramowitz JS, Adorno VR, Aguirre C, Alves GS, Alves GS, Ancalade N, Arellano Espinosa AA, Arnold PD, Ayton DM, Barbosa IG, Castano LMB, Barrera CN, Berardo MC, Berrones D, Best JR, Bigdeli TB, Burton CL, Buxbaum JD, Callahan JL, Carneiro MCB, Cepeda SL, Chazelle E, Chire JM, Munoz MC, Quiroz PC, Cobite J, Comer JS, Costa DL, Crosbie J, Cruz VO, Dager G, Daza LF, de la Rosa-Gómez A, Del Río D, Delage FZ, Dreher CB, Fay L, Fazio T, Ferrão YA, Ferreira GM, Figueroa EG, Fontenelle LF, Forero DA, Fragoso DTH, Gadad BS, Garrison SR, González A, Gonzalez LD, González MA, Gonzalez-Barrios P, Goodman WK, Grice DE, Guintivano J, Guttfreund DG, Guzick AG, Halvorsen MW, Hovey JD, Huang H, Irreño-Sotomonte J, Janssen-Aguilar R, Jensen M, Jimenez Reynolds AZ, Lujambio JAJ, Khalfe N, Knutsen MA, Lack C, Lanzagorta N, Lima MO, Longhurst MO, Lozada Martinez DA, Luna ES, Marques AH, Martinez MS, de Los Angeles Matos M, Maye CE, McGuire JF, Menezes G, Minaya C, Miño T, Mithani SM, de Oca CM, Morales-Rivero A, Moreira-de-Oliveira ME, Morris OJ, Muñoz SI, Naqqash Z, Núñez Bracho AA, Núñez Bracho BE, Rojas MCO, Olavarria Castaman LA, Balmaceda TO, Ortega I, Patel DI, Patrick AK, Paz Y Mino M, Perales Orellana JL, Stumpf BP, Peregrina T, Duarte TP, Piacsek KL, Placencia M, Prieto MB, Quarantini LC, Quarantini-Alvim Y, Ramos RT, Ramos IC, Ramos VR, Ramsey KA, Ray EV, Richter MA, Riemann BC, Rivas JC, Rosario MC, Ruggero CJ, Ruiz-Chow AA, Ruiz-Velasco A, Sagarnaga MN, Sampaio AS, Saraiva LC, Schachar RJ, Schneider SC, Schweissing EJ, Seligman LD, Shavitt RG, Soileau KJ, Stewart SE, Storch SB, Strouphauer ER, Cuevas VT, Timpano KR, la Garza BTD, Vallejo-Silva A, Vargas-Medrano J, Vásquez MI, Martinez GV, Weinzimmer SA, Yanez MA, Zai G, Zapata-Restrepo LM, Zappa LM, Zepeda-Burgos RM, Zoghbi AW, Miguel EC, Rodriguez CI, Martinez Mallen MC, Moya PR, Borda T, Moyano MB, Mattheisen M, Pereira S, Lázaro-Muñoz G, Martinez-Gonzalez KG, Pato MT, Nicolini H, Storch EA. Latin American Trans-ancestry INitiative for OCD genomics (LATINO): Study protocol. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2023:e32962. [PMID: 37946624 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2023] [Revised: 09/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
Abstract
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder. Worldwide, its prevalence is ~2% and its etiology is mostly unknown. Identifying biological factors contributing to OCD will elucidate underlying mechanisms and might contribute to improved treatment outcomes. Genomic studies of OCD are beginning to reveal long-sought risk loci, but >95% of the cases currently in analysis are of homogenous European ancestry. If not addressed, this Eurocentric bias will result in OCD genomic findings being more accurate for individuals of European ancestry than other ancestries, thereby contributing to health disparities in potential future applications of genomics. In this study protocol paper, we describe the Latin American Trans-ancestry INitiative for OCD genomics (LATINO, https://www.latinostudy.org). LATINO is a new network of investigators from across Latin America, the United States, and Canada who have begun to collect DNA and clinical data from 5000 richly phenotyped OCD cases of Latin American ancestry in a culturally sensitive and ethical manner. In this project, we will utilize trans-ancestry genomic analyses to accelerate the identification of OCD risk loci, fine-map putative causal variants, and improve the performance of polygenic risk scores in diverse populations. We will also capitalize on rich clinical data to examine the genetics of treatment response, biologically plausible OCD subtypes, and symptom dimensions. Additionally, LATINO will help elucidate the diversity of the clinical presentations of OCD across cultures through various trainings developed and offered in collaboration with Latin American investigators. We believe this study will advance the important goal of global mental health discovery and equity.
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- James J Crowley
- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Hospital Psiquiátrico de Asunción, Direccion General, Asuncion, Central, Paraguay
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- Departamento de Psiquiatría, Hospital Psiquiátrico de Asunción, Asuncion, Central, Paraguay
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- Hospital Nina Rodrigues/Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), Sao Luis do Maranhao, Maranhao, Brazil
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- Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Serviço de Psiquiatria, Laboratório de Neuropsicofarmacologia-LANP, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Pós-Graduação em Medicina e Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- The Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Departamento de Saúde Mental da Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria e Medicina Legal, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental "Honorio Delgado-Hideyo Noguchi", Dirección de Niños y Adolescentes Lima, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental "Honorio Delgado-Hideyo Noguchi", Oficina Ejecutiva de Investigación, Lima, Lima, Peru
- School of Medicine, Universidad San Martin de Porres, Lima, Lima, Peru
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- Corporación Universitaria Rafael Nuñez, Cartagena, Bolivar, Colombia
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- Hospital Psiquiátrico Universitario Del Valle, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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- Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
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- Departamento de Medicina Forense e Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Clínica Médica, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Departamento de Medicina Forense e Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
- Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
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- Departamento de Psiquiatría de Adultos, Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental "Honorio Delgado-Hideyo Noguchi", Lima, Lima, Peru
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria e Medicina Legal, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Escuela de Salud y Ciencias del Deporte, Bogota, Bogota, Colombia
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- Departamento de Medicina Forense e Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
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- Departamento de Psiquiatría, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
- Universidad de Puerto Rico Campus de Ciências Médicas, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Psychological Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas, USA
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- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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- Center for Mental Health-Cersame, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, District of Colombia, Colombia
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- Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suarez, Subdirección de Psiquiatría, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
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- Centro de Neurociencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaiso, Chile
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- Baylor College of Medicine, School of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
- Department of Psychology, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma, USA
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- Departamento de Investigación Clínica, Grupo Médico Carracci, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental "Honorio Delgado-Hideyo Noguchi", Oficina Ejecutiva de Investigación, Lima, Lima, Peru
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- National Institute of Mental Heatlh (NIMH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- DFW OCD Treatment Specialists, Richardson, Texas, USA
- Specialists in OCD and Anxiety Recovery (SOAR), Richardson, Texas, USA
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Programa de Ansiedade, Obsessões e Compulsões, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, Fordham University, New York, New York, USA
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- Centro de Neurociencias, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaiso, Chile
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- School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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- Programa de Ansiedade, Obsessões e Compulsões, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
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- The Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- School of Nursing, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Clínica de Salud Mental USFQ, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
- Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Universidad Tegnológica Privada de Santa Cruz (UTEPSA), Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Andres Ibañez, Bolivia
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- Departamento de Saúde Mental da Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Departamento Académico de Ciencias Dinámicas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Lima, Peru
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Serviço de Psiquiatria, Laboratório de Neuropsicofarmacologia-LANP, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Departamento de Neurociências e Saúde Mental, Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Serviço de Psiquiatria, Laboratório de Neuropsicofarmacologia-LANP, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Faculdade Santa Casa, Faculdade de Psicologia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Frederick Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Hospital Psiquiátrico Universitario Del Valle, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Departamento de Psiquiatría, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria da, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
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- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Serviço de Psiquiatria, Laboratório de Neuropsicofarmacologia-LANP, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Pós-Graduação em Medicina e Saúde, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
- Departamento de Neurociências e Saúde Mental, Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychological Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas, USA
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso, Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
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- Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
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- Center for Mental Health-Cersame, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, District of Colombia, Colombia
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- Department of Psychiatry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
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- Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza, Servicio de Salud Mental, Lima, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Psychiatry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Molecular Brain Sciences, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Neurogenetics Section, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Valle, Colombia
- Department of Neurology, Global Brain Health Institute-University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Departamento de Salud Mental, Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutierrez, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Hospital Universitario Austral, Materno Infantil, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigación en Ciencias y Humanidades, Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado, Santa Tecla, La Libertad, El Salvador
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Universidad de Valparaíso, Instituto de Fisiología Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaiso (CINV), Valparaiso, Chile
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- Instituto Realize, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Catolica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Asociación de Psiquiatras Argentinos (APSA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Asociación de Psiquiatras Argentinos (APSA), Presidente del Capítulo de Investigacion en Psiquiatria, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Community Health and Epidemiology & Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- LMU Munich, Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG), Munich, Germany
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Center for Bioethics, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers University-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
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- Departamento de Psiquiatría, Ciudad de México, Grupo Médico Carracci, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
- Laboratorio de Genómica de Enfermedades Psiquiátricas y Neurodegenerativas, Ciudad de México, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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Baez S, Tangarife MA, Davila-Mejia G, Trujillo-Güiza M, Forero DA. Performance in emotion recognition and theory of mind tasks in social anxiety and generalized anxiety disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Front Psychiatry 2023; 14:1192683. [PMID: 37275989 PMCID: PMC10235477 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1192683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023] Open
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Social cognition impairments may be associated with poor functional outcomes, symptoms, and disability in social anxiety disorder (SAD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). This meta-analysis aims to determine if emotion recognition and theory of mind (ToM) are impaired in SAD or GAD compared to healthy controls. A systematic review was conducted in electronic databases (PubMed, PsycNet, and Web of Science) to retrieve studies assessing emotion recognition and/or ToM in patients with SAD or GAD, compared to healthy controls, up to March 2022. Meta-analyses using random-effects models were conducted. We identified 21 eligible studies: 13 reported emotion recognition and 10 ToM outcomes, with 585 SAD patients, 178 GAD patients, and 753 controls. Compared to controls, patients with SAD exhibited impairments in emotion recognition (SMD = -0.32, CI = -0.47 - -0.16, z = -3.97, p < 0.0001) and ToM (SMD = -0.44, CI = -0.83 -0.04, z = -2.18, p < 0.01). Results for GAD were inconclusive due to the limited number of studies meeting the inclusion criteria (two for each domain). Relevant demographic and clinical variables (age, sex, education level, and anxiety scores) were not significantly correlated with emotion recognition or ToM impairments in SAD and GAD. Further studies employing ecological measures with larger and homogenous samples are needed to better delineate the factors influencing social cognition outcomes in both SAD and GAD.
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- School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia
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Forero DA. Genomics of psychiatric disorders: Regional challenges and opportunities. Biomedica 2023; 43:5-7. [PMID: 37167458 PMCID: PMC10462422 DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.6996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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- Diego A Forero
- Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y del Deporte, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.
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Forero DA, Chand V. Methods in molecular biology and genetics: looking to the future. BMC Res Notes 2023; 16:26. [PMID: 36864454 PMCID: PMC9980850 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-023-06298-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 03/04/2023] Open
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In recent decades, advances in methods in molecular biology and genetics have revolutionized multiple areas of the life and health sciences. However, there remains a global need for the development of more refined and effective methods across these fields of research. In this current Collection, we aim to showcase articles presenting novel molecular biology and genetics techniques developed by scientists from around the world.
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- Diego A. Forero
- grid.442076.30000 0000 9574 5136School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA.
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Crowley JJ, Cappi C, Ochoa-Panaifo ME, Frederick RM, Kook M, Wiese AD, Rancourt D, Atkinson EG, Giusti-Rodriguez P, Anderberg JL, Abramowitz JS, Adorno VR, Aguirre C, Alves GS, Alves GS, Ancalade N, Espinosa AAA, Arnold PD, Ayton DM, Barbosa IG, Castano LMB, Barrera CN, Prieto MB, Berardo MC, Berrones D, Best JR, Bigdeli TB, Burton CL, Callahan JL, Carneiro MCB, Cepeda SL, Chazelle E, Chire JM, Munoz MC, Quiroz PC, Cobite J, Comer JS, Costa DL, Crosbie J, Cruz VO, Dager G, Daza LF, de la Rosa-Gómez A, Del Río D, Delage FZ, Dreher CB, Fay L, Fazio T, Ferrão YA, Ferreira GM, Figueroa EG, Fontenelle LF, Forero DA, Fragoso DT, Gadad BS, Garrison SR, González A, Gonzalez LD, González MA, Gonzalez-Barrios P, Goodman W, Guintivano J, Guttfreund DG, Guzick AG, Halvorsen MW, Hovey JD, Janssen-Aguilar R, Jensen M, Reynolds AZJ, Lujambio JAJ, Khalfe N, Knutsen MA, Lack C, Lanzagorta N, Lima MO, Longhurst MO, Martinez DAL, Luna ES, Marques AH, Martinez M, de Los Angeles Matos M, Maye CE, McGuire JF, Menezes G, Minaya C, Miño T, Mithani SM, de Oca CM, Morales-Rivero A, Moreira-de-Oliveira ME, Morris OJ, Muñoz SI, Naqqash Z, Bracho AAN, Bracho BEN, Rojas MCO, Castaman LAO, Ortega I, Patel DI, Patrick AK, Mino MPY, Orellana JLP, Stumpf BP, Peregrina T, Duarte TP, Piacsek KL, Placencia M, Quarantini LC, Quarantini-Alvim Y, Ramos RT, Ramos IC, Ramos VR, Ramsey KA, Ray EV, Richter MA, Riemann BC, Rivas JC, Rosario MC, Ruggero CJ, Ruiz-Chow AA, Ruiz-Velasco A, Sampaio AS, Saraiva LC, Schachar RJ, Schneider SC, Schweissing EJ, Seligman LD, Shavitt RG, Soileau KJ, Stewart SE, Storch SB, Strouphauer ER, Timpano KR, Treviño-de la Garza B, Vargas-Medrano J, Vásquez MI, Martinez GV, Weinzimmer SA, Yanez MA, Zai G, Zapata-Restrepo LM, Zappa LM, Zepeda-Burgos RM, Zoghbi AW, Miguel EC, Rodriguez CI, Mallen MCM, Moya PR, Borda T, Moyano MB, Mattheisen M, Pereira S, Lázaro-Muñoz G, Martinez-Gonzalez KG, Pato MT, Nicolini H, Storch EA. Latin American Trans-ancestry INitiative for OCD genomics (LATINO): Study Protocol. medRxiv 2023:2023.02.23.23286373. [PMID: 37131804 PMCID: PMC10153323 DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.23.23286373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder. Worldwide, its prevalence is ~2% and its etiology is mostly unknown. Identifying biological factors contributing to OCD will elucidate underlying mechanisms and might contribute to improved treatment outcomes. Genomic studies of OCD are beginning to reveal long-sought risk loci, but >95% of the cases currently in analysis are of homogenous European ancestry. If not addressed, this Eurocentric bias will result in OCD genomic findings being more accurate for individuals of European ancestry than other ancestries, thereby contributing to health disparities in potential future applications of genomics. In this study protocol paper, we describe the Latin American Trans-ancestry INitiative for OCD genomics (LATINO, www.latinostudy.org). LATINO is a new network of investigators from across Latin America, the United States, and Canada who have begun to collect DNA and clinical data from 5,000 richly-phenotyped OCD cases of Latin American ancestry in a culturally sensitive and ethical manner. In this project, we will utilize trans-ancestry genomic analyses to accelerate the identification of OCD risk loci, fine-map putative causal variants, and improve the performance of polygenic risk scores in diverse populations. We will also capitalize on rich clinical data to examine the genetics of treatment response, biologically plausible OCD subtypes, and symptom dimensions. Additionally, LATINO will help elucidate the diversity of the clinical presentations of OCD across cultures through various trainings developed and offered in collaboration with Latin American investigators. We believe this study will advance the important goal of global mental health discovery and equity.
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- James J Crowley
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Genetics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Psychiatry, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Psychiatry, New York City, New York, United States of America
- Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Psiquiatria, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- University of South Florida, Department of Psychology, Tampa, Florida, United States of America
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- University of Florida College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Hospital Psiquiátrico de Asunción, Direccion General, Asunción, Central, Paraguay
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- Hospital Psiquiátrico de Asunción, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Asunción, Central, Paraguay
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- Universidade Federal da Bahia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Serviço de Psiquiatria, Laboratório de Neuropsicofarmacologia - LANP, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
- Universidade Federal da Bahia, Pós-Graduação em Medicina e Saúde, Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
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- Hospital Nina Rodrigues/Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA), Sao Luis do Maranhão, Maranhão, Brasil
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Genetics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- University of Calgary, The Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Saúde Mental da Faculdade de Medicina, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Rice University, Department of Psychology, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- University of British Columbia, Department of Psychiatry, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
- VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
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- Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- University of North Texas, Department of Psychology, Denton, Texas, United States of America
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- Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Psiquiatria e Medicina Legal, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
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- University of Miami, Department of Psychology, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental ""Honorio Delgado-Hideyo Noguchi"", Dirección de Niños y Adolescentes, Lima, Lima, Perú
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- University of Houston, Department of Counseling Psychology, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Florida International University, Department of Psychology, Miami, Florida, United States of America
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Psiquiatria, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental ""Honorio Delgado-Hideyo Noguchi"", Oficina Ejecutiva de Investigación, Lima, Lima, Perú
- Universidad San Martin de Porres, School of Medicine, Lima, Lima, Perú
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- Corporación Universitaria Rafael Nuñez, Cartagena, Bolivar, Colombia
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- Hospital Psiquiátrico Universitario Del Valle, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Ciudad de México, México
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- Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Medicina Forense e Psiquiatria, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Departamento de Psiquiatria, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
- Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Departamento de Psiquiatria - Clínica Médica, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidade Federal do Paraná de Porto Alegre, Departamento de Psiquiatria, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Medicina Forense e Psiquiatria, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
- Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Parana, Brasil
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- Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental ""Honorio Delgado-Hideyo Noguchi"", Departamento de Psiquiatría de Adultos, Lima, Lima, Perú
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Psiquiatria e Medicina Legal, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino, Departamento de Psiquiatria, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Escuela de Salud y Ciencias del Deporte, Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Medicina Forense e Psiquiatria, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
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- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, Department of Psychiatry, El Paso, Texas, United States of America
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- Rogers Behavioral Health, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Ciudad de México, México
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- Universidad de Puerto Rico, Departamento de Psiquiatría, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Los Estados Unidos
- Universidad de Puerto Rico Campus de Ciências Médicas, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Los Estados Unidos
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Psychiatry, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Genetics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Department of Psychological Science, Edinburg, Texas, United States of America
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- Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suarez, Subdirección de Psiquiatría, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, México
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- Universidad de Valparaíso, Centro de Neurociencias, Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Baylor College of Medicine, School of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Augustana College, Department of Psychology, Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- University of Central Oklahoma, Department of Psychology, Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America
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- Grupo Médico Carracci, Departamento de Investigación Clínica, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, México
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Psiquiatria, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, Department of Psychiatry, El Paso, Texas, United States of America
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- Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental ""Honorio Delgado-Hideyo Noguchi"", Oficina Ejecutiva de Investigación, Lima, Lima, Perú
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- National Institute of Mental Heatlh (NIMH), Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- DFW OCD Treatment Specialists, Richardson, Texas, United States of America
- Specialists in OCD and Anxiety Recovery (SOAR), Richardson, Texas, United States of America
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Programa de Ansiedade, Obsessões e Compulsões, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Fordham University, Department of Psychology, New York City, New York, United States of America
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- Universidad de Valparaíso, Centro de Neurociencias, Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
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- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, School of Nursing, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Programa de Ansiedade, Obsessões e Compulsões, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Ciudad de México, México
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- University of British Columbia, Department of Psychiatry, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- University of Calgary, The Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, School of Nursing, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Clínica de Salud Mental USFQ, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
- Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Universidad Tegnológica Privada de Santa Cruz (UTEPSA), Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Andres Ibañez, Bolivia
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- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Saúde Mental da Faculdade de Medicina, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil
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- Rogers Behavioral Health, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Departamento Académico de Ciencias Dinámicas, Lima, Lima, Perú
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- Universidade Federal da Bahia, Departamento de Neurociências e Saúde Mental, Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
- Universidade Federal da Bahia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Serviço de Psiquiatria, Laboratório de Neuropsicofarmacologia - LANP, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
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- Universidade Federal da Bahia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Serviço de Psiquiatria, Laboratório de Neuropsicofarmacologia - LANP, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
- Faculdade Santa Casa, Faculdade de Psicologia, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
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- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Frederick Thompson Anxiety Disorders Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Psiquiatria, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Genetics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Rogers Behavioral Health, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Hospital Psiquiátrico Universitario Del Valle, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Universidad del Valle, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Universidad ICESI, Departamento de Psiquiatria, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
- Fundación Valle del Lili, Departamento de Psiquiatria, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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- Departamento de Psiquiatria da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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- University of North Texas, Department of Psychology, Denton, Texas, United States of America
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- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, Department of Psychiatry, El Paso, Texas, United States of America
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- Universidade Federal da Bahia, Departamento de Neurociências e Saúde Mental, Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
- Universidade Federal da Bahia, Pós-Graduação em Medicina e Saúde, Faculdade de Medicina da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
- Universidade Federal da Bahia, Hospital Universitário Professor Edgard Santos, Serviço de Psiquiatria, Laboratório de Neuropsicofarmacologia - LANP, Salvador, Bahia, Brasil
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Psiquiatria, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Neurosciences and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Department of Psychological Science, Edinburg, Texas, United States of America
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Psiquiatria, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- University of British Columbia, Department of Psychiatry, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Baylor College of Medicine, School of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- University of Miami, Department of Psychology, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America
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- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, Department of Psychiatry, El Paso, Texas, United States of America
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- Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza, Servicio de Salud Mental, Lima, Lima, Perú
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- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, Department of Psychiatry, El Paso, Texas, United States of America
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Neurogenetics Section, Molecular Brain Sciences Department, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Fundación Valle del Lili, Departamento de Psiquiatria, Cali, Valle, Colombia
- Universidad ICESI, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Cali, Valle, Colombia
- Global Brain Health Institute - University of California San Francisco, Department of Neurology, San Francisco, California, United States of America
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Hospital de Niños Ricardo Gutierrez, Departamento de Salud Mental, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Hospital Universitario Austral, Materno Infantil, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado, Centro de Investigación en Ciencias y Humanidades, Santa Tecla, La Libertad, El Salvador
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, New York City, New York, United States of America
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- Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Psiquiatria, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America
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- Universidad de Valparaíso, Instituto de Fisiología, Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
- Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaiso (CINV), Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile
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- Instituto Realize, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Universidad Catolica Argentina, Facultad de Psicologia, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Tourette, TOC, TDAH y Trastornos Asociados (CITA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Asociacion de Psiquiatras Argentinos (APSA), Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Asociacion de Psiquiatras Argentinos (APSA), Presidente del Capitulo de Investigacion en Psiquiatria, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Dalhousie University, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology & Faculty of Computer Science, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- LMU Munich, Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG), Munich, Germany
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Harvard University School of Medicine, Center for Bioethics, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Rutgers University- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Grupo Médico Carracci, Departamento de Psiquiatría, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, México
- Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica, Laboratorio de Genómica de Enfermedades Psiquiátricas y Neurodegenerativas, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, México
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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Núñez-Rios DL, Martínez-Magaña JJ, Nagamatsu ST, Andrade-Brito DE, Forero DA, Orozco-Castaño CA, Montalvo-Ortiz JL. Central and Peripheral Immune Dysregulation in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Convergent Multi-Omics Evidence. Biomedicines 2022; 10:biomedicines10051107. [PMID: 35625844 PMCID: PMC9138536 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10051107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2022] [Revised: 04/29/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic and multifactorial disorder with a prevalence ranging between 6–10% in the general population and ~35% in individuals with high lifetime trauma exposure. Growing evidence indicates that the immune system may contribute to the etiology of PTSD, suggesting the inflammatory dysregulation as a hallmark feature of PTSD. However, the potential interplay between the central and peripheral immune system, as well as the biological mechanisms underlying this dysregulation remain poorly understood. The activation of the HPA axis after trauma exposure and the subsequent activation of the inflammatory system mediated by glucocorticoids is the most common mechanism that orchestrates an exacerbated immunological response in PTSD. Recent high-throughput analyses in peripheral and brain tissue from both humans with and animal models of PTSD have found that changes in gene regulation via epigenetic alterations may participate in the impaired inflammatory signaling in PTSD. The goal of this review is to assess the role of the inflammatory system in PTSD across tissue and species, with a particular focus on the genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, and proteomics domains. We conducted an integrative multi-omics approach identifying TNF (Tumor Necrosis Factor) signaling, interleukins, chemokines, Toll-like receptors and glucocorticoids among the common dysregulated pathways in both central and peripheral immune systems in PTSD and propose potential novel drug targets for PTSD treatment.
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- Diana L. Núñez-Rios
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; (D.L.N.-R.); (J.J.M.-M.); (S.T.N.); (D.E.A.-B.)
- VA CT Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; (D.L.N.-R.); (J.J.M.-M.); (S.T.N.); (D.E.A.-B.)
- VA CT Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; (D.L.N.-R.); (J.J.M.-M.); (S.T.N.); (D.E.A.-B.)
- VA CT Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; (D.L.N.-R.); (J.J.M.-M.); (S.T.N.); (D.E.A.-B.)
- VA CT Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
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- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá 110231, Colombia; (D.A.F.); (C.A.O.-C.)
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- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá 110231, Colombia; (D.A.F.); (C.A.O.-C.)
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- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; (D.L.N.-R.); (J.J.M.-M.); (S.T.N.); (D.E.A.-B.)
- VA CT Healthcare Center, West Haven, CT 06516, USA
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-(203)-9325711 (ext. 7491)
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Bonilla DA, Moreno Y, Petro JL, Forero DA, Vargas-Molina S, Odriozola-Martínez A, Orozco CA, Stout JR, Rawson ES, Kreider RB. A Bioinformatics-Assisted Review on Iron Metabolism and Immune System to Identify Potential Biomarkers of Exercise Stress-Induced Immunosuppression. Biomedicines 2022; 10:biomedicines10030724. [PMID: 35327526 PMCID: PMC8945881 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines10030724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2021] [Revised: 03/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
Abstract
The immune function is closely related to iron (Fe) homeostasis and allostasis. The aim of this bioinformatics-assisted review was twofold; (i) to update the current knowledge of Fe metabolism and its relationship to the immune system, and (ii) to perform a prediction analysis of regulatory network hubs that might serve as potential biomarkers during stress-induced immunosuppression. Several literature and bioinformatics databases/repositories were utilized to review Fe metabolism and complement the molecular description of prioritized proteins. The Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting Genes (STRING) was used to build a protein-protein interactions network for subsequent network topology analysis. Importantly, Fe is a sensitive double-edged sword where two extremes of its nutritional status may have harmful effects on innate and adaptive immunity. We identified clearly connected important hubs that belong to two clusters: (i) presentation of peptide antigens to the immune system with the involvement of redox reactions of Fe, heme, and Fe trafficking/transport; and (ii) ubiquitination, endocytosis, and degradation processes of proteins related to Fe metabolism in immune cells (e.g., macrophages). The identified potential biomarkers were in agreement with the current experimental evidence, are included in several immunological/biomarkers databases, and/or are emerging genetic markers for different stressful conditions. Although further validation is warranted, this hybrid method (human-machine collaboration) to extract meaningful biological applications using available data in literature and bioinformatics tools should be highlighted.
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- Diego A. Bonilla
- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society—DBSS International SAS, Bogota 110311, Colombia; (Y.M.); (J.L.P.)
- Research Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science and Education, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogota 110311, Colombia
- Research Group in Physical Activity, Sports and Health Sciences (GICAFS), Universidad de Córdoba, Montería 230002, Colombia
- Sport Genomics Research Group, Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48940 Leioa, Spain;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +57-320-335-2050
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- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society—DBSS International SAS, Bogota 110311, Colombia; (Y.M.); (J.L.P.)
- Research Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science and Education, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogota 110311, Colombia
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- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society—DBSS International SAS, Bogota 110311, Colombia; (Y.M.); (J.L.P.)
- Research Group in Physical Activity, Sports and Health Sciences (GICAFS), Universidad de Córdoba, Montería 230002, Colombia
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- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá 111221, Colombia; (D.A.F.); (C.A.O.)
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- Faculty of Sport Sciences, EADE-University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 29018 Málaga, Spain;
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- Sport Genomics Research Group, Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48940 Leioa, Spain;
- kDNA Genomics, Joxe Mari Korta Research Center, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 20018 Donostia, Spain
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- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá 111221, Colombia; (D.A.F.); (C.A.O.)
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- Physiology of Work and Exercise Response (POWER) Laboratory, Institute of Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA;
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- Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Science, Messiah University, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, USA;
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- Exercise & Sport Nutrition Laboratory, Human Clinical Research Facility, Department of Health & Kinesiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA;
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Orozco CA, González-Giraldo Y, Bonilla DA, Forero DA. An in silico analysis of genome-wide expression profiles of the effects of exhaustive exercise identifies heat shock proteins as the key players. Meta Gene 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mgene.2022.101012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Forero DA, Curioso WH, Patrinos GP. The importance of adherence to international standards for depositing open data in public repositories. BMC Res Notes 2021; 14:405. [PMID: 34727971 PMCID: PMC8561348 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-021-05817-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
There has been an important global interest in Open Science, which include open data and methods, in addition to open access publications. It has been proposed that public availability of raw data increases the value and the possibility of confirmation of scientific findings, in addition to the potential of reducing research waste. Availability of raw data in open repositories facilitates the adequate development of meta-analysis and the cumulative evaluation of evidence for specific topics. In this commentary, we discuss key elements about data sharing in open repositories and we invite researchers around the world to deposit their data in them.
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- Diego A Forero
- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia. .,Professional Program in Respiratory Therapy, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Universidad Continental, Lima, Peru
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- Department of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.,Department of Pathology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE.,Zayed Center for Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE
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Cannataro R, Carbone L, Petro JL, Cione E, Vargas S, Angulo H, Forero DA, Odriozola-Martínez A, Kreider RB, Bonilla DA. Sarcopenia: Etiology, Nutritional Approaches, and miRNAs. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:9724. [PMID: 34575884 PMCID: PMC8466275 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22189724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2021] [Revised: 09/03/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Sarcopenia, an age-related decline in skeletal muscle mass and function, dramatically affects the quality of life. Although there is a consensus that sarcopenia is a multifactorial syndrome, the etiology and underlying mechanisms are not yet delineated. Moreover, research about nutritional interventions to prevent the development of sarcopenia is mainly focused on the amount and quality of protein intake. The impact of several nutrition strategies that consider timing of food intake, anti-inflammatory nutrients, metabolic control, and the role of mitochondrial function on the progression of sarcopenia is not fully understood. This narrative review summarizes the metabolic background of this phenomenon and proposes an integral nutritional approach (including dietary supplements such as creatine monohydrate) to target potential molecular pathways that may affect reduce or ameliorate the adverse effects of sarcopenia. Lastly, miRNAs, in particular those produced by skeletal muscle (MyomiR), might represent a valid tool to evaluate sarcopenia progression as a potential rapid and early biomarker for diagnosis and characterization.
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- Roberto Cannataro
- Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy;
- Galascreen Laboratories, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society, DBSS International SAS, Bogotá 110311, Colombia; (J.L.P.); (S.V.); (D.A.B.)
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- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society, DBSS International SAS, Bogotá 110311, Colombia; (J.L.P.); (S.V.); (D.A.B.)
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Salvador, Buenos Aires 1020, Argentina
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- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society, DBSS International SAS, Bogotá 110311, Colombia; (J.L.P.); (S.V.); (D.A.B.)
- Research Group in Physical Activity, Sports and Health Sciences (GICAFS), Universidad de Córdoba, Montería 230002, Colombia
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- Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy;
- Galascreen Laboratories, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
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- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society, DBSS International SAS, Bogotá 110311, Colombia; (J.L.P.); (S.V.); (D.A.B.)
- Faculty of Sport Sciences, EADE-University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 29018 Málaga, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación Programa de Medicina (GINUMED), Corporación Universitaria Rafael Núñez, Cartagena 130001, Colombia;
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- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá 111221, Colombia;
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- Sport Genomics Research Group, Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 48940 Leioa, Spain;
- kDNA Genomics, Joxe Mari Korta Research Center, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- Exercise & Sport Nutrition Lab, Human Clinical Research Facility, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA;
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- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society, DBSS International SAS, Bogotá 110311, Colombia; (J.L.P.); (S.V.); (D.A.B.)
- Research Group in Physical Activity, Sports and Health Sciences (GICAFS), Universidad de Córdoba, Montería 230002, Colombia
- kDNA Genomics, Joxe Mari Korta Research Center, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Research Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá 110311, Colombia
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Bonilla DA, Moreno Y, Rawson ES, Forero DA, Stout JR, Kerksick CM, Roberts MD, Kreider RB. A Convergent Functional Genomics Analysis to Identify Biological Regulators Mediating Effects of Creatine Supplementation. Nutrients 2021; 13:2521. [PMID: 34444681 PMCID: PMC8397972 DOI: 10.3390/nu13082521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Accepted: 07/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Creatine (Cr) and phosphocreatine (PCr) are physiologically essential molecules for life, given they serve as rapid and localized support of energy- and mechanical-dependent processes. This evolutionary advantage is based on the action of creatine kinase (CK) isozymes that connect places of ATP synthesis with sites of ATP consumption (the CK/PCr system). Supplementation with creatine monohydrate (CrM) can enhance this system, resulting in well-known ergogenic effects and potential health or therapeutic benefits. In spite of our vast knowledge about these molecules, no integrative analysis of molecular mechanisms under a systems biology approach has been performed to date; thus, we aimed to perform for the first time a convergent functional genomics analysis to identify biological regulators mediating the effects of Cr supplementation in health and disease. A total of 35 differentially expressed genes were analyzed. We identified top-ranked pathways and biological processes mediating the effects of Cr supplementation. The impact of CrM on miRNAs merits more research. We also cautiously suggest two dose-response functional pathways (kinase- and ubiquitin-driven) for the regulation of the Cr uptake. Our functional enrichment analysis, the knowledge-based pathway reconstruction, and the identification of hub nodes provide meaningful information for future studies. This work contributes to a better understanding of the well-reported benefits of Cr in sports and its potential in health and disease conditions, although further clinical research is needed to validate the proposed mechanisms.
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- Diego A. Bonilla
- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society—DBSS International SAS, Bogotá 110861, Colombia;
- Research Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá 110311, Colombia
- Research Group in Physical Activity, Sports and Health Sciences (GICAFS), Universidad de Córdoba, Montería 230002, Colombia
- kDNA Genomics, Joxe Mari Korta Research Center, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society—DBSS International SAS, Bogotá 110861, Colombia;
- Research Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá 110311, Colombia
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- Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Science, Messiah University, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, USA;
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- Professional Program in Sport Training, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá 111221, Colombia;
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- Physiology of Work and Exercise Response (POWER) Laboratory, Institute of Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA;
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- Exercise and Performance Nutrition Laboratory, School of Health Sciences, Lindenwood University, Saint Charles, MO 63301, USA;
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- School of Kinesiology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA;
- Edward via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
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- Exercise & Sport Nutrition Laboratory, Human Clinical Research Facility, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA;
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Bonilla DA, Kreider RB, Stout JR, Forero DA, Kerksick CM, Roberts MD, Rawson ES. Metabolic Basis of Creatine in Health and Disease: A Bioinformatics-Assisted Review. Nutrients 2021; 13:nu13041238. [PMID: 33918657 PMCID: PMC8070484 DOI: 10.3390/nu13041238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2021] [Revised: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Creatine (Cr) is a ubiquitous molecule that is synthesized mainly in the liver, kidneys, and pancreas. Most of the Cr pool is found in tissues with high-energy demands. Cr enters target cells through a specific symporter called Na+/Cl−-dependent Cr transporter (CRT). Once within cells, creatine kinase (CK) catalyzes the reversible transphosphorylation reaction between [Mg2+:ATP4−]2− and Cr to produce phosphocreatine (PCr) and [Mg2+:ADP3−]−. We aimed to perform a comprehensive and bioinformatics-assisted review of the most recent research findings regarding Cr metabolism. Specifically, several public databases, repositories, and bioinformatics tools were utilized for this endeavor. Topics of biological complexity ranging from structural biology to cellular dynamics were addressed herein. In this sense, we sought to address certain pre-specified questions including: (i) What happens when creatine is transported into cells? (ii) How is the CK/PCr system involved in cellular bioenergetics? (iii) How is the CK/PCr system compartmentalized throughout the cell? (iv) What is the role of creatine amongst different tissues? and (v) What is the basis of creatine transport? Under the cellular allostasis paradigm, the CK/PCr system is physiologically essential for life (cell survival, growth, proliferation, differentiation, and migration/motility) by providing an evolutionary advantage for rapid, local, and temporal support of energy- and mechanical-dependent processes. Thus, we suggest the CK/PCr system acts as a dynamic biosensor based on chemo-mechanical energy transduction, which might explain why dysregulation in Cr metabolism contributes to a wide range of diseases besides the mitigating effect that Cr supplementation may have in some of these disease states.
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- Diego A. Bonilla
- Research Division, Dynamical Business & Science Society–DBSS International SAS, Bogotá 110861, Colombia
- Research Group in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogotá 110311, Colombia
- Research Group in Physical Activity, Sports and Health Sciences (GICAFS), Universidad de Córdoba, Montería 230002, Colombia
- kDNA Genomics, Joxe Mari Korta Research Center, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +57-320-335-2050
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- Exercise & Sport Nutrition Laboratory, Human Clinical Research Facility, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA;
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- Physiology of Work and Exercise Response (POWER) Laboratory, Institute of Exercise Physiology and Rehabilitation Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA;
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- Professional Program in Sport Training, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá 111221, Colombia;
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- Exercise and Performance Nutrition Laboratory, School of Health Sciences, Lindenwood University, Saint Charles, MO 63301, USA;
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- School of Kinesiology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA;
- Edward via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
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- Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Science, Messiah University, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055, USA;
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Cormand B, Cabana-Domínguez J, Forero DA, Fernàndez-Castillo N. Genomics and epigenomics of substance use disorders: An introduction. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2021; 186:125-127. [PMID: 33973715 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 05/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Bru Cormand
- Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Spain.,Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB), Catalonia, Spain.,Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IR-SJD), Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Spain.,Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB), Catalonia, Spain.,Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IR-SJD), Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Spain.,Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB), Catalonia, Spain.,Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Déu (IR-SJD), Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Lopez-Leon S, González-Giraldo Y, Wegman-Ostrosky T, Forero DA. Molecular genetics of substance use disorders: An umbrella review. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2021; 124:358-369. [PMID: 33556390 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Revised: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Substance use disorders (SUD) are a category of psychiatric disorders with a large epidemiological and societal impact around the world. In the last decades, a large number of genetic studies have been published for SUDs. METHODS With the objective of having an overview and summarizing the evidence published up to date, we carried out an umbrella review of all the meta-analyses of genetic studies for the following substances: alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, cocaine, opioids, heroin and methamphetamines. Meta-analyses for candidate gene studies and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were included. RESULTS Alcohol and tobacco were the substances with the largest number of meta-analyses, and cannabis, opioids and cocaine the least studied. The following genes were associated with two or more SUDs: OPRM1, DRD2, DRD4, BDNF and SL6A4. The only genes that had an OR higher than two were the SLC6A4 for all addictions, the ADH1B for alcohol dependence, and BDNF for methamphetamine dependence. GWAS confirmed the possible role of CHRNA5 gene in nicotine dependence and identified novel candidate genes in other SUDs, such as FOXP2, PEX and, AUTS2, which need further functional analyses. CONCLUSIONS This umbrella review summarizes the evidence of 16 years of research on the genetics of SUDs and provides a broad and detailed overview of results from more than 150 meta-analyses for SUD. The results of this umbrella review will guide the need for future genetic studies geared toward understanding, preventing and treating SUDs.
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- Sandra Lopez-Leon
- Drug Development, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover NJ, USA.
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Basic Research Subdirection, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INCan), Mexico City, Mexico
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- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia; MSc Program in Epidemiology, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia
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Publishing articles in international scientific journals is the primary method for the communication of validated research findings and ideas. Journal articles are commonly used as a major input for evaluations of researchers and institutions. Few articles have been published previously about the different aspects needed for writing high-quality articles. In this manuscript, we provide an updated and brief guide for the multiple dimensions needed for writing manuscripts in the health and biological sciences, from current, international and interdisciplinary perspectives and from our expertise as authors, peer reviewers and editors. We provide key suggestions for writing major sections of the manuscript (e.g. title, abstract, introduction, methods, results and discussion), for submitting the manuscript and bring an overview of the peer review process and of the post-publication impact of the articles.
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- Diego A Forero
- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia.
- MSc Program in Epidemiology, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Global Drug Development, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, USA.
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- Department of Biology and Neurosciences Institute, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA
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González-Giraldo Y, Forero DA. Association between resilience and a functional polymorphism in the serotonin transporter (SLC6A4) gene: A meta-analysis. EXCLI J 2020; 19:1174-1183. [PMID: 33088257 PMCID: PMC7573178 DOI: 10.17179/excli2020-2660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/15/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Resilience is a mechanism used by humans to adapt to adverse situations. It is a protective factor against mental health problems. This process can be influenced by environmental and genetic factors. Several genes have been associated with interindividual differences in resilience levels, but the results are inconclusive. Therefore, the aim of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the effect of a functional polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) in the SLC6A4 gene on resilience levels. A search in PubMed, HugeNavigator and Google Scholar databases was carried out and 16 studies about the association of 5-HTTLPR polymorphism and resilience in humans were identified. The OpenMeta[Analyst] program was employed to perform statistical analysis using a random-effects model. The final analysis included 9 studies, for a total of 4,080 subjects. Significant results were found when the standardized mean differences (SMD) of LL and SL carriers were compared, (SMD: -0.087 (confidence interval: -0.166 to -0.008; I2: 0 %); P value: 0.031). A significant result was also found in an analysis comparing SS/SL versus LL genotypes (SMD: -0.231; confidence interval: -0.400 to -0.061, P value: 0.008; I2: 0 %). This is the first meta-analysis performed to identify the pooled association of a functional polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene and resilience. The current results suggest that the L/L genotype is associated with resilience. Further studies are necessary to elucidate the role of genetics on the resilience mechanisms.
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- Yeimy González-Giraldo
- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.,Center for Psychosocial Studies for Latin America and the Caribbean, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- School of Health and Sports Sciences, Fundación Universitaria de Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia
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BACKGROUND There is a growing trend around the globe for having more people working from home, particularly in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Although it is widely implemented in a number of countries and types of companies, it has shown to have multiple challenges. METHODS In this article, we provide several recommendations on how to work from home, incorporating information from several publications. RESULTS The suggestions are: create routines, be organized, have an adequate home office, enhance your productivity, be responsible, avoid extreme multitasking, facilitate communication and networking, be balanced, use available computer programs and platforms, be creative with remote teaching, explore options for remote research and learn from the challenges. CONCLUSIONS These recommendations would help students, professors and researchers around the globe during the current COVID-19 pandemic, and beyond.
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- Sandra Lopez-Leon
- Global Drug Development, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, USA
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- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia.,MSc Program in Epidemiology, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Health and Sport Sciences Research Group, School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia
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Forero DA, Adan A, Lopez-Leon S. Association Between a Functional Polymorphism in the Monoamine Oxidase A (MAOA) Gene and Both Emotional Coping Style and Neuroticism. Open Neurol J 2020. [DOI: 10.2174/1874205x02014010010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background:
Identification of novel genetic factors for Depressive Disorders (DD) represents a major challenge around the world. Molecular studies of endophenotypes associated with DD, such as personality traits and coping, are powerful strategies for finding genetic markers.
Objective:
The main objective of this work was to confirm the potential relationship between a functional polymorphism in the monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) gene and scores in coping and neuroticism in young adults.
Methods:
A Colombian sample of two hundred fifty-one young participants was evaluated with the short forms of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS-SF) and the Big Five Inventory (BFI-S). Genotypes for MAOA-VNTR polymorphism were obtained by PCR.
Results: A significant relationship between the functional MAOA-VNTR polymorphism and scores in both emotion-oriented coping and neuroticism was found. Individuals carrying the 4 allele (3/4 or 4/4 genotypes) had higher scores for both emotion-oriented coping and neuroticism than individuals with a 3/3 genotype.
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Our current findings are novel in terms of being the first report of a relationship between a functional polymorphism in the MAOA gene and coping and add evidence to the association of this gene with neuroticism. Our results expand the associations between MAOA gene and multiple dimensions of human emotion and personality.
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Forero DA, González-Giraldo Y. Integrative In Silico Analysis of Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Profiles in Schizophrenia. J Mol Neurosci 2020; 70:1887-1893. [PMID: 32451840 DOI: 10.1007/s12031-020-01585-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex and severe psychiatric disorder, which has a global lifetime prevalence of 0.4% and a heritability of around 0.81. A number of epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) have been carried out for SZ, with discordant results. The main aim of this study was to carry out an integrative in silico analysis of available genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in schizophrenia. In this work, an integration of multiple lines of evidence (top candidate genes from several EWAS and genome-wide expression and association data) was carried out, in order to identify top differentially methylated (DM) genes for SZ. In addition, functional enrichment and protein-protein interaction analyses were carried out. Several top differentially methylated genes, such as APC, CACNB2, and PRKN, were found, and an enrichment of binding sites for brain-expressed transcription factors, such as FOXO1, MYB, and ZIC3, was also observed. Moreover, a protein-protein interaction network showed a central role for DISC1 and ZNF688 genes, and experimentally validated targets of MIR-137, such as and KCNB2, NRXN1, and SYN2, were identified among DM genes. This is the first integrative in silico analysis of available genome-wide DNA methylation profiles in schizophrenia. This work identified novel candidate genes and pathways for SZ and provides the basis to explore their role in the pathogenesis of SZ in future studies.
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- Diego A Forero
- School of Health and Sport Sciences, Fundación Universitaria del Área Andina, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Center for Psychosocial Studies for Latin America and the Caribbean, School of Psychosocial Therapies, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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González-Giraldo Y, Forero DA. A functional SNP in the synaptic SNAP25 gene is associated with impulsivity in a Colombian sample. 3 Biotech 2020; 10:134. [PMID: 32154047 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-020-2110-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2019] [Accepted: 02/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The aim of the current study was to test the hypothesis that a functional polymorphism in the synaptosome associated protein 25 (SNAP25) gene could be associated with impulsivity scores in a sample of young Colombian subjects. Impulsivity has been postulated as an endophenotype for several psychiatric disorders of high epidemiological relevance. There is a need for the study of additional candidate genes for impulsivity. One hundred seventy-five young Colombian subjects completed the Spanish version of the short form of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-15S). A TaqMan assay was used to genotype a functional polymorphism (rs3746544) in the SNAP25 gene. A significant association was found between the functional polymorphism in the SNAP25 gene and impulsivity in the Colombian sample, with subjects carrying T/T and G/G genotypes showing lower mean scores in the non-planning subfactor (p = 0.02). This is the first report of an association of a functional polymorphism in the SNAP25 gene and a subfactor of the BIS-15S scale of impulsivity. In addition, this the first genetic study of impulsivity scores in a Latin American sample. Future studies should explore additional variants in brain-expressed miRNAs and in their binding sites as candidates for impulsivity in different populations.
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Colombia is the second largest country in South America. In this article, we provide an overview of medical education in Colombia, including a description of existing public and private medical schools and available undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Medical education in Colombia has evolved through time, following international trends. In addition to 61 undergraduate medical programs, there are 529 postgraduate clinical, 30 PhD, and 131 Master programs in health sciences in Colombia. We identify current challenges and highlight future perspectives for medical education in Colombia.
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- Diego A Forero
- PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Academic Unit for Education Sciences, Universidad Piloto de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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Advances in transcriptomic methods have led to a large number of published Genome-Wide Expression Studies (GWES), in humans and model organisms. For several years, GWES involved the use of microarray platforms to compare genome-expression data for two or more groups of samples of interest. Meta-analysis of GWES is a powerful approach for the identification of differentially expressed genes in biological topics or diseases of interest, combining information from multiple primary studies. In this article, the main features of available software for carrying out meta-analysis of GWES have been reviewed and seven packages from the Bioconductor platform and five packages from the CRAN platform have been described. In addition, nine previously described programs and four online programs are reviewed. Finally, advantages and disadvantages of these available programs and proposed key points for future developments have been discussed.
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- Diego A Forero
- PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia.,Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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Forero DA, Trujillo ML, González-Giraldo Y, Barreto GE. Scientific productivity in neurosciences in Latin America: a scientometrics perspective. Int J Neurosci 2019; 130:398-406. [DOI: 10.1080/00207454.2019.1692837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Diego A. Forero
- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
- PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Center for Psychosocial Studies for Latin America and the Caribbean, School of Psychosocial Therapies, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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Several approaches for miRNA expression analysis have been developed in recent years. In this article, we provide an updated and comprehensive review of available qPCR-based methods for miRNA expression analysis and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. Existing techniques involve the use of stem-loop reverse transcriptase-PCR, polyadenylation of RNAs, ligation of adapters or RT with complex primers, using universal or miRNA-specific qPCR primers and/or probes. Many of these methods are oriented towards the expression analysis of mature miRNAs and few are designed for the study of pre-miRNAs and pri-miRNAs. We also discuss findings from articles that compare results from existing methods. Finally, we suggest key points for the improvement of available techniques and for the future development of additional methods.
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- Diego A Forero
- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia.,PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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- INSERM, UMR970, Paris-Cardiovascular Research Center, Equipe Labellisée par la Ligue contre le Cancer, Paris, France.,Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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Forero DA, González-Giraldo Y. Convergent functional genomics of cocaine misuse in humans and animal models. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 2019; 46:22-30. [DOI: 10.1080/00952990.2019.1636384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Diego A. Forero
- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
- Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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González-Giraldo Y, Garzón-Benitez AV, Forero DA, Barreto GE. TERT inhibition leads to reduction of IL-6 expression induced by palmitic acid and interferes with the protective effects of tibolone in an astrocytic cell model. J Neuroendocrinol 2019; 31:e12768. [PMID: 31278797 DOI: 10.1111/jne.12768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2019] [Revised: 07/02/2019] [Accepted: 07/03/2019] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Although it has been shown that telomerase has neuroprotective effects, mainly as a result of its non-canonical functions in neuronal cells, its role with respect to glial cells remains unknown. There is growing evidence indicating that telomerase plays an important role with respect to inflammation, especially in the regulation of pro-inflammatory cytokine gene expression. The present study aimed to evaluate the role of telomerase in an astrocyte cell model treated with palmitic acid (PA) and tibolone. Cell death, reactive oxygen species production and interleukin-6 expression were evaluated under telomerase inhibition with the BIBR1532 compound in T98G cells treated with tibolone and PA, using fluorometry, flow cytometry, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and the quantitative polymerase chain reaction. The results obtained showed that telomerase protein was increased by PA after 36 hours, alone or in combination with tibolone, and that its activity was affected by PA. Telomerase inhibition reduced interleukin-6 expression and it interfered with the protective effects of tibolone on cell death. Moreover, tibolone increased Tyr707 phosphorylation in PA-treated cells. In the present study, we provide novel findings about the regulation of telomerase by PA and tibolone. Telomerase was involved in inflammation by PA and in protective effects of tibolone. Therefore, we conclude that telomerase could play a dual role in these cells.
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- Yeimy González-Giraldo
- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá DC, Colombia
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá DC, Colombia
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá DC, Colombia
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Jiménez KM, Pereira-Morales AJ, Adan A, Lopez-Leon S, Forero DA. Anxiety-related Endophenotypes and Hazardous Alcohol Use in Young Adults are Associated with a Functional Polymorphism in the SLC6A4 Gene. Open Neurol J 2019. [DOI: 10.2174/1874205x01913010083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
Background:
A functional polymorphism (5-HTTLPR, rs4795541) in the serotonin transporter (SLC6A4) gene has been shown as an important candidate for several psychiatric and behavioral traits.
Objective:
The objective of this study was to examine the possible interaction of this polymorphism with physical neglect in childhood on the presentation of anxiety traits and hazardous alcohol consumption in young Colombian subjects.
Methods:
272 young adults (mean age: 21.3 years) were evaluated with the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, the Zung Self-rating Anxiety Scale, the Big Five Inventory, the Cohen’s Perceived Stress Scale, the Alcohol, Smoking, Substance Involvement Screening Test and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. Genotyping for the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism was carried out using conventional PCR. A linear regression model, corrected by age and gender, was used.
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We found that individuals with the L/L genotype showed higher scores on physical neglect (p=0.0047), anxiety symptoms (p=0.028), neuroticism (p=0.019) and perceived stress (p=0.035). L/L genotype was a risk factor for hazardous alcohol use in young adults (OR=3.06, p=0.0003). No GxE interactions were observed in our data.
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Our results provide novel evidence for the role of a functional polymorphism in the SLC6A4 gene on the relationship of childhood trauma, anxiety-related traits and risky consumption of alcohol.
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Objective: Given that often the quality of journals is based on its editors, the objective of this study was to describe quantitatively the profiles of members of editorial boards (MEBs) of presumed predatory journals. Methods: The following information was retrieved from 1015 editors taken from journals listed in Beall's list: country, university, position, and degree. The Scopus website was used to identify the number of citations, documents, and h-index. Results: Presumed open access predatory journals are including all types of profiles as their MEBs, which include fake and unqualified editors, but mostly very high-qualified scientists who are professors, medical doctors and/or had a PhD. MEBs were located in 74 different countries, most had an affiliation in the United States of America (USA) (44.4%). The median of publications per editor was 43, number of citations 664 and h-index 14. Conclusions: The results dispute the common belief that it is possible to identify predatory journals by checking their editorial boards. Scientists should not rely on the editors to determine if a journal is predatory. If an author has doubt, the editors should be contacted.
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- b One Health Plaza , Drug Development Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation , East Hanover , NJ , USA
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- c Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine , Universidad Antonio Nariño , Bogotá , Colombia
- d PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine , Universidad Antonio Nariño , Bogotá , Colombia
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González-Giraldo Y, Forero DA, Echeverria V, Garcia-Segura LM, Barreto GE. Tibolone attenuates inflammatory response by palmitic acid and preserves mitochondrial membrane potential in astrocytic cells through estrogen receptor beta. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2019; 486:65-78. [PMID: 30822454 DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2019.02.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 02/17/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
Abstract
Palmitic acid (PA) induces several metabolic and molecular changes in astrocytes, and, it is involved in pathological conditions related to neurodegenerative diseases. Previously, we demonstrated that tibolone, a synthetic steroid with estrogenic, progestogenic and androgenic actions, protects cells from mitochondrial damage and morphological changes induced by PA. Here, we have evaluated which estrogen receptor is involved in protective actions of tibolone and analyzed whether tibolone reverses gene expression changes induced by PA. Tibolone actions on astrocytic cells were mimicked by agonists of estrogen receptor α (ERα) and β (ERβ), but the blockade of both ERs suggested a predominance of ERβ on mitochondria membrane potential. Expression analysis showed a significant effect of tibolone on genes associated with inflammation such as IL6, IL1B and miR155-3p. It is noteworthy that tibolone attenuated the increased expression of TERT, TERC and DNMT3B genes induced by palmitic acid. Our results suggest that tibolone has anti-inflammatory effects and can modulate pathways associated with DNA methylation and telomeric complex. However, future studies are needed to elucidate the role of epigenetic mechanisms and telomere-associated proteins on tibolone actions.
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- Yeimy González-Giraldo
- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá D.C, Colombia
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Sebastian, Lientur 1457, 4080871, Concepción, Chile; Research & Development Service, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, Bay Pines, FL, 33744, USA
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- Instituto Cajal, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 28002, Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable (CIBERFES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá D.C, Colombia.
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Franco-Restrepo JE, Forero DA, Vargas RA. A Review of Freely Available, Open-Source Software for the Automated Analysis of the Behavior of Adult Zebrafish. Zebrafish 2019; 16:223-232. [PMID: 30625048 DOI: 10.1089/zeb.2018.1662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The analysis of behavior in animal models is an important objective in many research fields, including neuroscience, psychology, toxicology, and neuropsychopharmacology. Animal models have been used for many years, and several behavioral paradigms, such as locomotor activity, social interactions, and cognitive behavior, have been studied in animal models to correlate the behaviors with pharmacological or environmental interventions and with molecular, biochemical, and physiological findings. We reviewed the literature looking for open-source, freely available software to analyze animal behavior and found 12 freely available programs: ToxTrack, EthoWatcher, Mouse Behavior Tracker, Mouse Move, JAABA, wrMTrck, AnimalTracker, idTracker, Ctrax, Mousetracker, VideoHacking, and Cowlog, which were developed with different programs, work on different platforms, and have particular types of inputs and outputs and analysis capabilities. We reviewed some examples of their use, tested some of them, and provided several recommendations for the future development of programs for the automated analysis of behavior in animal models. In conclusion, we show freely available software for the automated analysis of behavior in animal models such as adult zebrafish and provide information for researchers and students looking for quick, easy-to-implement, and inexpensive behavior analysis alternatives.
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- Juan E Franco-Restrepo
- 1 Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia.,2 PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- 1 Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia.,2 PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- 1 Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia.,2 PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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Moshontz H, Campbell L, Ebersole CR, IJzerman H, Urry HL, Forscher PS, Grahe JE, McCarthy RJ, Musser ED, Antfolk J, Castille CM, Evans TR, Fiedler S, Flake JK, Forero DA, Janssen SMJ, Keene JR, Protzko J, Aczel B, Solas SÁ, Ansari D, Awlia D, Baskin E, Batres C, Borras-Guevara ML, Brick C, Chandel P, Chatard A, Chopik WJ, Clarance D, Coles NA, Corker KS, Dixson BJW, Dranseika V, Dunham Y, Fox NW, Gardiner G, Garrison SM, Gill T, Hahn AC, Jaeger B, Kačmár P, Kaminski G, Kanske P, Kekecs Z, Kline M, Koehn MA, Kujur P, Levitan CA, Miller JK, Okan C, Olsen J, Oviedo-Trespalacios O, Özdoğru AA, Pande B, Parganiha A, Parveen N, Pfuhl G, Pradhan S, Ropovik I, Rule NO, Saunders B, Schei V, Schmidt K, Singh MM, Sirota M, Steltenpohl CN, Stieger S, Storage D, Sullivan GB, Szabelska A, Tamnes CK, Vadillo MA, Valentova JV, Vanpaemel W, Varella MAC, Vergauwe E, Verschoor M, Vianello M, Voracek M, Williams GP, Wilson JP, Zickfeld JH, Arnal JD, Aydin B, Chen SC, DeBruine LM, Fernandez AM, Horstmann KT, Isager PM, Jones B, Kapucu A, Lin H, Mensink MC, Navarrete G, Silan MA, Chartier CR. The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology through a Distributed Collaborative Network. Adv Methods Pract Psychol Sci 2018; 1:501-515. [PMID: 31886452 PMCID: PMC6934079 DOI: 10.1177/2515245918797607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Concerns have been growing about the veracity of psychological research. Many findings in psychological science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings or populations. Crowdsourced research, a type of large-scale collaboration in which one or more research projects are conducted across multiple lab sites, offers a pragmatic solution to these and other current methodological challenges. The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) is a distributed network of laboratories designed to enable and support crowdsourced research projects. These projects can focus on novel research questions, or attempt to replicate prior research, in large, diverse samples. The PSA's mission is to accelerate the accumulation of reliable and generalizable evidence in psychological science. Here, we describe the background, structure, principles, procedures, benefits, and challenges of the PSA. In contrast to other crowdsourced research networks, the PSA is ongoing (as opposed to time-limited), efficient (in terms of re-using structures and principles for different projects), decentralized, diverse (in terms of participants and researchers), and inclusive (of proposals, contributions, and other relevant input from anyone inside or outside of the network). The PSA and other approaches to crowdsourced psychological science will advance our understanding of mental processes and behaviors by enabling rigorous research and systematically examining its generalizability.
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Forero DA, Oermann MH, Manca A, Deriu F, Mendieta-Zerón H, Dadkhah M, Bhad R, Deshpande SN, Wang W, Cifuentes MP. Negative Effects of "Predatory" Journals on Global Health Research. Ann Glob Health 2018; 84:584-589. [PMID: 30779504 DOI: 10.9204/aogh.2389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Predatory journals (PJ) exploit the open-access model promising high acceptance rate and fast track publishing without proper peer review. At minimum, PJ are eroding the credibility of the scientific literature in the health sciences as they actually boost the propagation of errors. In this article, we identify issues with PJ and provide several responses, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives in health sciences. Authors, particularly researchers with limited previous experience with international publications, need to be careful when considering potential journals for submission, due to the current existence of large numbers of PJ. Universities around the world, particularly in developing countries, might develop strategies to discourage their researchers from submitting manuscripts to PJ or serving as members of their editorial committees.
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- Diego A Forero
- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Narino.,PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Narino, CO
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- Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing, Duke University School of Nursing, US
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, IT
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, IT
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- Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, IR
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- Department of Psychiatry, De-addiction Services and Resource Center for Tobacco Control, Centre of Excellence in Mental Health PGIMER-Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, IN
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- School of Medical Sciences, Edith Cowan University, AU.,Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Capital Medical University, CN
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Forero DA, Oermann MH, Manca A, Deriu F, Mendieta-Zerón H, Dadkhah M, Bhad R, Deshpande SN, Wang W, Cifuentes MP. Negative Effects of "Predatory" Journals on Global Health Research. Ann Glob Health 2018. [PMID: 30779504 PMCID: PMC6748305 DOI: 10.29024/aogh.2389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Predatory journals (PJ) exploit the open-access model promising high acceptance rate and fast track publishing without proper peer review. At minimum, PJ are eroding the credibility of the scientific literature in the health sciences as they actually boost the propagation of errors. In this article, we identify issues with PJ and provide several responses, from international and interdisciplinary perspectives in health sciences. Authors, particularly researchers with limited previous experience with international publications, need to be careful when considering potential journals for submission, due to the current existence of large numbers of PJ. Universities around the world, particularly in developing countries, might develop strategies to discourage their researchers from submitting manuscripts to PJ or serving as members of their editorial committees.
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- Diego A Forero
- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Narino.,PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Narino, CO
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- Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing, Duke University School of Nursing, US
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, IT
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, IT
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- Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, IR
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- Department of Psychiatry, De-addiction Services and Resource Center for Tobacco Control, Centre of Excellence in Mental Health PGIMER-Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, IN
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- School of Medical Sciences, Edith Cowan University, AU.,Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Capital Medical University, CN
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Jiménez KM, Pereira-Morales AJ, Adan A, Forero DA. Telomere length and childhood trauma in Colombians with depressive symptoms. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018; 41:194-198. [PMID: 30328966 PMCID: PMC6794130 DOI: 10.1590/1516-4446-2018-0027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2018] [Accepted: 04/02/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Childhood trauma and telomere length (TL) are important risk factors for major depressive disorder. We examined whether there was an association between childhood trauma and TL in a sample of Colombians who were assessed for depressive symptoms. METHODS We applied the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire to 92 Colombian subjects (mean age = 21). TL was measured with quantitative PCR. Spearman's correlation coefficient (rs) was used to analyze the relationship between childhood trauma scores and TL. RESULTS We found a significant correlation between TL and sexual abuse scores (rs = 0.428, p = 0.002) in individuals with higher depressive symptom scores. CONCLUSION This is the first report of a significant association between TL and sexual abuse in a Latin American sample and provides additional evidence about the role of childhood trauma and TL in neuropsychiatric disorders.
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- Karen M Jiménez
- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, School of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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Obesity is becoming an epidemic in Latin American countries. Genetic analyses of endophenotypes for obesity, such as body mass index (BMI), are quite useful for research. In this study, we analysed two functional polymorphisms in the dopamine receptor 4 (DRD4) and dopamine transporter (SLC6A3) genes. A sample of 232 Colombian young subjects were recruited and evaluated for BMI. Two functional polymorphisms in the DRD4 and SLC6A3 and genes were genotyped by PCR and electrophoresis. A significant association was found between BMI and the polymorphisms in DRD4 and SLC6A3 genes. DRD4 4/4 genotype was associated with a lower mean BMI and SLC6A3 10/10 genotype was associated with a higher mean BMI. Our work provides additional novel findings about the association of dopaminergic genes with BMI in healthy young adults. In addition, our study is one the first analyses of candidate genes for BMI in Latin American samples.
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- Yeimy González-Giraldo
- a Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group , School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño , Bogotá , Colombia
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- a Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group , School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño , Bogotá , Colombia
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- a Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group , School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño , Bogotá , Colombia
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Jiménez KM, Pereira-Morales AJ, Adan A, Lopez-Leon S, Forero DA. Depressive symptoms are associated with a functional polymorphism in a miR-433 binding site in the FGF20 gene. Mol Brain 2018; 11:53. [PMID: 30241547 PMCID: PMC6151041 DOI: 10.1186/s13041-018-0397-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2018] [Accepted: 09/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Genetic studies of major depressive disorder and its associated endophenotypes are useful for the identification of candidate genes. In recent years, variations in non-coding RNA genes, such as miRNAs, have been explored as novel candidates for psychiatric disorders and related endophenotypes. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the possible association between a functional polymorphism (rs12720208) in the FGF20 gene, which regulates its modulation by miR-433, and depressive symptoms in young adults. A sample of 270 participants from Colombia were evaluated with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale - Depression Subscale (HADS-D) and genotyped for the rs12720208 polymorphism using a TaqMan assay. A lineal regression analysis was used. A statistically significant association of the functional polymorphism in the FGF20 gene (rs12720208) with depressive symptoms was found. It was observed that individuals with the G/A genotype had higher scores for the HADS-D subscale. Our results are the first description in the scientific literature about a significant association between a functional polymorphism in the FGF20 gene, which regulates its modulation by miR-433, and depressive symptoms.
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- Karen M Jiménez
- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, 110231, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, 110231, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, School of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, One Health Plaza, East Hanover, NJ, 07936-1080, USA.
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, 110231, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Moreno-Ramírez CE, Gutiérrez-Garzón E, Barreto GE, Forero DA. Genome-Wide Expression Profiles for Ischemic Stroke: A Meta-Analysis. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2018; 27:3336-3341. [PMID: 30166211 DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2018.07.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2017] [Revised: 07/07/2018] [Accepted: 07/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Genome-wide expression studies (GWES), using microarray platforms, have allowed a deeper understanding of the molecular factors involved in the pathophysiology of ischemic stroke (IS), one of the main global causes of mortality and disability. METHODS In the current work, we carried out a meta-analysis of available GWES for IS. Bioinformatics and computational biology analyses were applied to identify enriched functional categories and convergence with other genomic datasets for IS. RESULTS Three primary datasets were included and in the meta-analyses for GWES and IS, 41 differentially expressed (DE) genes were identified using a random effects model. Thirteen of these genes were downregulated and 28 were upregulated. An analysis of functional categories found a significant enrichment for the Gene Ontology Term "Inflammatory Response" and for binding sites for the PAX2 transcription factor. CONCLUSIONS The list of DE genes identified in this meta-analysis of GWES for IS is useful for future genetic and molecular studies, which would allow the identification of novel mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of IS. Several of the DE genes found in this meta-analysis have known functional roles related to mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of IS. It is recognized the role of the inflammatory response in the pathophysiology of IS.
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- Carlos E Moreno-Ramírez
- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia.
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Barreto GE, Gomez RM, Bustos RH, Forero DA, Aliev G, Tarasov VV, Yarla NS, Echeverria V, Gonzalez J. Approaches of the Transcriptomic Analysis in Astrocytes: Potential Pharmacological Targets. Curr Pharm Des 2018; 23:4189-4197. [PMID: 28393699 DOI: 10.2174/1381612823666170406113501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2016] [Revised: 09/12/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Astrocytes are important glial cells involved in the ionic regulation of the extracellular fluid in the Central Nervous System (CNS), the formation of the blood brain barrier (BBB) and the support to neurons for the maintenance of the Krebs cycle intermediaries. Even though these cells are known to be important for the brain functioning, several of their functions and their development have not been fully elucidated. In this context, identifying the algorithms used for their analysis plays a pivotal role in the development of new strategies in the study of astrocytes. The main objective of this review is to summarize the techniques that have helped to obtain transcriptomic data in astrocytes and the new algorithms that were used to perform the analysis of experimental data, elucidating new studies in which these had been used. We also highlight the current transcriptomics approaches targeting astrocytes function as a possible target for pharmacological interventions.
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- George E Barreto
- Departamento de Nutricion y Bioquimica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota D.C. Colombia
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- Fundacion NeuroRegeneracion en Colombia, Bogota. Colombia
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- Institute of Pharmacy and Translational Medicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 19991 Moscow. Russian Federation
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- Department of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics, Institute of Science, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam-530 045, Andhra Pradesh. India
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- Fac. Cs de la Salud, Universidad San Sebastiasn, Lientur 1457, Concepcion, 4080871. Chile
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- Departamento de Nutricion y Bioquimica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota D.C. Colombia
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Jiménez KM, Pereira-Morales AJ, Forero DA. A Functional Polymorphism in the DRD1 Gene, That Modulates Its Regulation by miR-504, Is Associated with Depressive Symptoms. Psychiatry Investig 2018; 15:402-406. [PMID: 29614853 PMCID: PMC5912498 DOI: 10.30773/pi.2017.10.16.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2017] [Revised: 09/28/2017] [Accepted: 10/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine a possible association between depressive symptoms and a functional polymorphism (rs686) that modulates the regulation of DRD1 gene by miR-504. METHODS A total of 239 young Colombian subjects were evaluated with the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scale and genotyped for the rs686 polymorphism. A linear regression model, corrected by age and gender, was used. RESULTS A significant association between the rs686 polymorphism and PHQ-9 scores was found, under a dominant genetic model (p=0.0094). CONCLUSION These results provide novel evidence about the growing role of inherited variants in binding sites for brain-expressed miRNAs on depressive symptomatology.
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- Karen M Jiménez
- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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Forero DA, López-León S, González-Giraldo Y, Dries DR, Pereira-Morales AJ, Jiménez KM, Franco-Restrepo JE. APOE gene and neuropsychiatric disorders and endophenotypes: A comprehensive review. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2018; 177:126-142. [PMID: 27943569 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2016] [Accepted: 11/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene is one of the main candidates in neuropsychiatric genetics, with hundreds of studies carried out in order to explore the possible role of polymorphisms in the APOE gene in a large number of neurological diseases, psychiatric disorders, and related endophenotypes. In the current article, we provide a comprehensive review of the structural and functional aspects of the APOE gene and its relationship with brain disorders. Evidence from genome-wide association studies and meta-analyses shows that the APOE gene has been significantly associated with several neurodegenerative disorders. Cellular and animal models show growing evidence of the key role of APOE in mechanisms of brain plasticity and behavior. Future analyses of the APOE gene might find a possible role in other neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders and related endophenotypes. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Diego A Forero
- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia.,PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Chemistry Department, Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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Forero DA, López-León S, González-Giraldo Y, Dries DR, Pereira-Morales AJ, Jiménez KM, Franco-Restrepo JE. Cover Image, Volume 177B, Number 2, March 2018. Am J Med Genet 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.32621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Diego A. Forero
- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics; Biomedical Sciences Research Group; School of Medicine; Universidad Antonio Nariño; Bogotá Colombia
- PhD Program in Health Sciences; School of Medicine; Universidad Antonio Nariño; Bogotá Colombia
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica; Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Bogotá Colombia
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- Chemistry Department; Juniata College; Huntingdon Pennsylvania
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics; Biomedical Sciences Research Group; School of Medicine; Universidad Antonio Nariño; Bogotá Colombia
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics; Biomedical Sciences Research Group; School of Medicine; Universidad Antonio Nariño; Bogotá Colombia
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- PhD Program in Health Sciences; School of Medicine; Universidad Antonio Nariño; Bogotá Colombia
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González-Giraldo Y, González-Reyes RE, Mueller ST, Piper BJ, Adan A, Forero DA. Situation Awareness Performance in Healthy Young Adults Is Associated With a Serotonin Transporter Gene Polymorphism. Psychol Rep 2018; 121:877-891. [PMID: 29298559 DOI: 10.1177/0033294117740136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background Situation awareness (SA) is defined in three levels: SA1 is the perception of the elements in a specific context, SA2 is the comprehension of their meaning, and SA3 is the projection of their status. Purpose To analyze the possible association of a genetic polymorphism in the serotonin transporter ( SLC6A4) gene and performance on the Situational Awareness test (SAtest). Methods SAtest was applied to a sample of 230 healthy Colombian subjects, using the Psychology Experiment Building Language platform and a functional polymorphism in the SLC6A4 gene was genotyped by polymerase chain reaction. Results In the SA1 level, s/s genotype carriers had worse accuracy, in comparison with s/l and l/l genotypes. At SA2 level, l/l genotype carriers had better accuracy than s/s and s/l individuals and that in the SA3 level, l/l carriers also had better accuracy. These associations were significant after correction for multiple testing. Conclusions It is possible that l/l carriers have a better ability to perceive and focus their attention on the elements of their environment and to have the capacity to understand and predict what will happen with those elements. This is the first genetic study of SA performance in healthy participants. Additional investigations of other genes could contribute to the understanding of the molecular correlates of SA in healthy subjects and in neuropsychiatric patients.
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- Yeimy González-Giraldo
- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychobiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior (IR3C), Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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Pereira-Morales AJ, Adan A, Lopez-Leon S, Forero DA. Personality traits and health-related quality of life: the mediator role of coping strategies and psychological distress. Ann Gen Psychiatry 2018; 17:25. [PMID: 29930692 PMCID: PMC5991445 DOI: 10.1186/s12991-018-0196-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2017] [Accepted: 05/29/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The study of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important topic in mental health around the globe. However, there is the need for more evidence about the cumulative influence of psychological variables on HRQOL. The main aim of the study was to evaluate how specific personality traits might explain scores in HRQOL and to explore how this relationship might be mediated by coping styles and psychological distress. METHODS Young Colombian subjects (N = 274) were included (mean age: 21.3; SD = 3.8). The Short-Form Health Survey was used to measure HRQOL. For assessment of psychological variables, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations and the short version of Big Five Inventory were used. RESULTS The personality trait that was the best predictor of HRQOL was openness to experience, forming an explanatory model for HRQOL, along with emotional coping style and depressive and anxious symptoms. Emotional coping style and psychological distress were significant mediators of the relationship between openness and HRQOL. CONCLUSIONS Our findings provide additional data about the cumulative influence of specific psychological variables on HRQOL, in a mostly young female Latin American sample.
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- Angela J Pereira-Morales
- 1Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, 110231 Colombia
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- 2Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, School of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,3Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- 4Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, One Health Plaza, East Hanover, NJ 07936-1080 USA
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- 1Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, 110231 Colombia
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BACKGROUND A considerable proportion of young adults are affected by psychological distress at any time and an important fraction of them may develop mental disorders. Use of novel approaches for the analysis of data from multiple psychological scales might facilitate the identification of key indicators of mental health. AIMS The aim of current study was to examine the relationship between multiple risk factors for mental illness, using a network analysis perspective. METHODS A sample of 334 young Colombian adults (mean age = 21.7) were evaluated with validated scales measuring several psychosocial factors previously associated with mental health (e.g. worry, sleep problems, suicidal ideation, childhood abuse, alcohol related-problems and personality traits). A total of 24 nodes were included in the network analysis and topology, centrality, and stability of the networks were studied. RESULTS Specific nodes that occupied critical positions in the network were identified, with worry, perceived distress and low energy being the most central nodes. CONCLUSIONS Our explorative findings suggest that a network analysis might identify risk factors that have a central role in the multiple dimensions of emotional health in young adults. These novel analyses could have important applications for the understanding of the psychological functioning affecting mental health.
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- Angela J Pereira-Morales
- a Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño , Bogotá , Colombia
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- b Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology , School of Psychology, University of Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain , and.,c Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain
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- a Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño , Bogotá , Colombia
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- Diego A. Forero
- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
- PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Global Drug Development, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras School of Health Sciences, Patras, Greece
- Department of Pathology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
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Forero DA, Guio-Vega GP, González-Giraldo Y. A comprehensive regional analysis of genome-wide expression profiles for major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord 2017; 218:86-92. [PMID: 28460316 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2017.04.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2016] [Revised: 03/30/2017] [Accepted: 04/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a global health challenge. In recent years, a large number of genome-wide expression studies (GWES) have been carried out to identify the transcriptomic profiles for MDD. The objective of this work was to carry out a comprehensive meta-analysis of available GWES for MDD. METHODS GWES for MDD with available raw data were searched in NCBI GEO, Array Express and Stanley databases. Raw GWES data were preprocessed and normalized and meta-analytical procedures were carried out with the Network Analyst program. 743 samples from 24 primary studies were included in our meta-analyses for blood (Blo), amygdala (Amy), cerebellum (Cer), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) regions. A functional enrichment analysis was carried out. RESULTS We identified 35, 793, 231, 668 and 252 differentially expressed (DE) genes for Blo, Amy, Cer, ACC and PFC regions. A region-dependent significant enrichment for several functional categories, such as gene ontologies, signaling pathways and topographic parameters, was identified. There was convergence with other available genome-wide studies, such as GWAS, DNA methylation analyses and miRNA expression studies. LIMITATIONS Raw data were not available for several primary studies that have been published previously. CONCLUSIONS This is the largest meta-analysis for GWES in MDD. The examination of convergence of genome-wide evidence and of the functional enrichment analysis provides a global overview of potential neural signaling mechanisms dysregulated in MDD. Our comprehensive analysis of several brain regions identified lists of DE genes for MDD that are interesting candidates for further studies.
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- Diego A Forero
- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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Pereira-Morales AJ, Adan A, Camargo A, Forero DA. Substance use and suicide risk in a sample of young Colombian adults: An exploration of psychosocial factors. Am J Addict 2017; 26:388-394. [PMID: 28456010 DOI: 10.1111/ajad.12552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2016] [Revised: 02/26/2017] [Accepted: 03/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Young adults might engage in many risk behaviors, including alcohol and drug use, which could lead to mental health problems, such as suicide. The aim of this study was to examine specific psychosocial and clinical factors that could influence the possible relationship between polysubstance use (PSU) and suicide risk in a sample of young Colombian participants. METHODS A sample of 274 young participants (mean age = 21.3 years) was evaluated with two substance use screening tests (ASSIST and AUDIT) and five scales for clinical and psychosocial factors and suicide risk: The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale, Zung Self-Rating Anxiety scale, Family APGAR, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, and the Plutchik Suicide Risk scale. Correlation and multiple regression analyses were conducted. RESULTS Use of cannabis and tobacco was significantly correlated with suicide risk in the total sample (p < .05). Depressive and anxiety symptoms, family functioning, and emotional abuse during childhood were significantly associated with suicide risk (p < .001), while alcohol use, anxiety symptoms, and family functioning were variables significantly related to PSU. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS Our findings are consistent with previous evidence suggesting a relationship between substance use, several psychosocial factors, and suicide risk in young participants. SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE Our study is one of the first reports the relationship between substance use and suicide risk in a Latin American population. (Am J Addict 2017;26:388-394).
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- Angela J Pereira-Morales
- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, School of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.,Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- School of Nursing, Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales. U.D.C.A, Bogotá, Colombia.,PhD Program in Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Universidad Antonio Nariño, Bogotá, Colombia
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Jiménez KM, Pereira-Morales AJ, Forero DA. Val158Met polymorphism in the COMT gene is associated with hypersomnia and mental health-related quality of life in a Colombian sample. Neurosci Lett 2017; 644:43-47. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.02.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2016] [Revised: 02/17/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Adan A, Arredondo AY, Capella MDM, Prat G, Forero DA, Navarro JF. Neurobiological underpinnings and modulating factors in schizophrenia spectrum disorders with a comorbid substance use disorder: A systematic review. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2017; 75:361-377. [PMID: 28188887 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.01.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2016] [Revised: 01/01/2017] [Accepted: 01/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Recently there is a growing interest in the interaction of schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) and substance use disorders (SUD), a condition named dual schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD+). While previous research has focused on clinical and cognitive aspects, little is known about the impact of comorbidity in the brain structure and functions. Evidence suggests that dual diagnosis patients, including SSD+, show a better neurocognitive functioning during the first years of illness, followed by a serious long-term decline. The initial search retrieved 94 articles, 12 were excluded for being redundant and 49 for not fulfilling the selection criteria. Thirty-three structural and functional neuroimaging studies that compare SSD and SSD+ patients were included. Both groups exhibited more brain alterations, in comparison to only SUD patients and healthy controls. SSD+ patients are less cognitively and emotionally impaired than non-dual SSD, but worse than healthy controls. The neurobiological alterations are prominent in SSD+ after five years of illness or longer. Moreover, SUD characteristics are important modulating factors, contrary to clinical severity or specific SSD diagnosis.
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- Ana Adan
- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, School of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171, 08035 Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171, 08035 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, School of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, School of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, School of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Passeig de la Vall d'Hebron, 171, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
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- Laboratory of NeuroPsychiatric Genetics, Biomedical Sciences Research Group, School of Medicine, Sede Circunvalar, Universidad Antonio Nariño, 110231 Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Psychobiology, School of Psychology, University of Málaga, Campus Teatinos s/n, 29071 Málaga, Spain
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