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Summer G, Kelder T, Radonjic M, van Bilsen M, Wopereis S, Heymans S. The Network Library: a framework to rapidly integrate network biology resources. Bioinformatics 2017; 32:i473-i478. [PMID: 27587664 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION Much of the biological knowledge accumulated over the last decades is stored in different databases governed by various organizations and institutes. Integrating and connecting these vast knowledge repositories is an extremely useful method to support life sciences research and help formulate novel hypotheses. RESULTS We developed the Network Library (NL), a framework and toolset to rapidly integrate different knowledge sources to build a network biology resource that matches a specific research question. As a use-case we explore the interactions of genes related to heart failure with miRNAs and diseases through the integration of 6 databases. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The NL is open-source, developed in Java and available on Github (https://github.com/gsummer). CONTACT georg.summer@gmail.com.
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- Georg Summer
- CARIM, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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Pinet F, Cuvelliez M, Kelder T, Amouyel P, Radonjic M, Bauters C. Integrative network analysis reveals time-dependent molecular events underlying left ventricular remodeling in post-myocardial infarction patients. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2017; 1863:1445-1453. [PMID: 28167232 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2017.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [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: 10/04/2016] [Revised: 01/04/2017] [Accepted: 02/02/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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To elucidate the time-resolved molecular events underlying the LV remodeling (LVR) process, we developed a large-scale network model that integrates the 24 molecular variables (plasma proteins and non-coding RNAs) collected in the REVE-2 study at four time points (baseline, 1month, 3months and 1year) after MI. The REVE-2 network model was built by extending the set of REVE-2 variables with their mechanistic context based on known molecular interactions (1310 nodes and 8639 edges). Changes in the molecular variables between the group of patients with high LVR (>20%) and low LVR (<20%) were used to identify active network modules within the clusters associated with progression of LVR, enabling assessment of time-resolved molecular changes. Although the majority of molecular changes occur at the baseline, two network modules specifically show an increasing number of active molecules throughout the post-MI follow up: one involved in muscle filament sliding, containing the major troponin forms and tropomyosin proteins, and the other associated with extracellular matrix disassembly, including matrix metalloproteinases, tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases and laminin proteins. For the first time, integrative network analysis of molecular variables collected in REVE-2 patients with known molecular interactions allows insight into time-dependent mechanisms associated with LVR following MI, linking specific processes with LV structure alteration. In addition, the REVE-2 network model provides a shortlist of prioritized putative novel biomarker candidates for detection of LVR after MI event associated with a high risk of heart failure and is a valuable resource for further hypothesis generation.
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- Florence Pinet
- Inserm, U1167, Univ. Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, FHU-REMOD-VHF, F-59000, Lille, France.
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- Inserm, U1167, Univ. Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, FHU-REMOD-VHF, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, U1167, CHRU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, F-59000, Lille, France
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- Univ. Lille, Inserm, U1167, CHRU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, F-59000, Lille, France
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Kaput J, Perozzi G, Radonjic M, Virgili F. Propelling the paradigm shift from reductionism to systems nutrition. Genes Nutr 2017; 12:3. [PMID: 28138347 PMCID: PMC5264346 DOI: 10.1186/s12263-016-0549-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2016] [Accepted: 12/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The complex physiology of living organisms represents a challenge for mechanistic understanding of the action of dietary bioactives in the human body and of their possible role in health and disease. Animal, cell, and microbial models have been extensively used to address questions that could not be pursued experimentally in humans, posing an additional level of complexity in translation of the results to healthy and diseased metabolism. The past few decades have witnessed a surge in development of increasingly sensitive molecular techniques and bioinformatic tools for storing, managing, and analyzing increasingly large datasets. Application of such powerful means to molecular nutrition research led to a major leap in study designs and experimental approaches yielding experimental data connecting dietary components to human health. Scientific journals bear major responsibilities in the advancement of science. As primary actors of dissemination to the scientific community, journals can impose rigid criteria for publishing only sound, reliable, and reproducible data. Journal policies are meant to guide potential authors to adopt the most updated standardization guidelines and shared best practices. Such policies evolve in parallel with the evolution of novel approaches and emerging challenges and therefore require constant updating. We highlight in this manuscript the major scientific issues that led to formulating new, updated journal policies for Genes & Nutrition, a journal which targets the growing field of nutritional systems biology interfacing personalized nutrition and preventive medicine, with the ultimate goal of promoting health and preventing or treating disease. We focus here on relevant issues requiring standardization in nutrition research. We also introduce new sections on human genetic variation and nutritional bioinformatics which follow the evolution of nutritional science into the twenty-first century.
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- Jim Kaput
- Nestle Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- CREA-NUT, Food & Nutrition Research Centre, Rome, Italy
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Matualatupauw JC, Radonjic M, van de Rest O, de Groot LCPGM, Geleijnse JM, Müller M, Afman LA. Apolipoprotein E genotype status affects habitual human blood mononuclear cell gene expression and its response to fish oil intervention. Mol Nutr Food Res 2016; 60:1649-60. [PMID: 27005961 DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201500941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [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: 11/20/2015] [Revised: 03/02/2016] [Accepted: 03/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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SCOPE People who carry the apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) single nucleotide polymorphism have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Fish-oil supplementation may help in the prevention of CVD, though interindividual differences in the response to n-3 PUFAs have been observed. We aimed to assess the impact of APOE genotype on peripheral blood mononuclear cell whole genome gene expression at baseline and following a fish-oil intervention. METHODS AND RESULTS Participants received 6 months of fish-oil supplementation containing 1800 mg of eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid per day. APOE genotype and peripheral blood mononuclear cell whole genome gene expression before and after supplementation were measured. We characterized the differences in gene expression profiles in carriers of APOE4 (N = 8) compared to noncarriers (N = 15). At baseline, 1320 genes were differentially expressed and the fish-oil supplementation differentially regulated 866 genes between APOE4 carriers and noncarriers. Gene set enrichment analysis showed that carriers had a higher gene expression of cholesterol biosynthesis and IFN signaling pathways. Fish-oil supplementation reduced expression of IFN-related genes in carriers only. CONCLUSION The increased expression of IFN signaling and cholesterol biosynthesis pathways might explain part of the association between APOE4 and CVD. Fish-oil supplementation may particularly benefit APOE4 carriers by decreasing expression of IFN-related genes.
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- Juri C Matualatupauw
- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.,TNO, Department of Microbiology and Systems Biology, The Hague, The Netherlands
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- TNO, Department of Microbiology and Systems Biology, The Hague, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Wagner A, Cohen N, Kelder T, Amit U, Liebman E, Steinberg DM, Radonjic M, Ruppin E. Drugs that reverse disease transcriptomic signatures are more effective in a mouse model of dyslipidemia. Mol Syst Biol 2016; 11:791. [PMID: 26148350 PMCID: PMC4380926 DOI: 10.15252/msb.20145486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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High-throughput omics have proven invaluable in studying human disease, and yet day-to-day clinical practice still relies on physiological, non-omic markers. The metabolic syndrome, for example, is diagnosed and monitored by blood and urine indices such as blood cholesterol levels. Nevertheless, the association between the molecular and the physiological manifestations of the disease, especially in response to treatment, has not been investigated in a systematic manner. To this end, we studied a mouse model of diet-induced dyslipidemia and atherosclerosis that was subject to various drug treatments relevant to the disease in question. Both physiological data and gene expression data (from the liver and white adipose) were analyzed and compared. We find that treatments that restore gene expression patterns to their norm are associated with the successful restoration of physiological markers to their baselines. This holds in a tissue-specific manner—treatments that reverse the transcriptomic signatures of the disease in a particular tissue are associated with positive physiological effects in that tissue. Further, treatments that introduce large non-restorative gene expression alterations are associated with unfavorable physiological outcomes. These results provide a sound basis to in silico methods that rely on omic metrics for drug repurposing and drug discovery by searching for compounds that reverse a disease's omic signatures. Moreover, they highlight the need to develop drugs that restore the global cellular state to its healthy norm rather than rectify particular disease phenotypes.
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- Allon Wagner
- The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of CaliforniaBerkeley, CA, USA
- * Corresponding author. Tel. +972 3 640 5378; E-mail:
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- The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
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- Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNOZeist, the Netherlands
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- Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
- Regenerative Medicine Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering Center, Sheba Medical CenterTel Hashomer, Israel
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at AustinAustin, TX, USA
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- Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
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- The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
- The Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv UniversityTel Aviv, Israel
- Department of Computer Science, Institute of Advanced Computer Sciences (UMIACS) & the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of MarylandCollege Park, MD, USA
- ** Corresponding author. Tel. +972 3 640 6528; E-mail:
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- Jim Kaput
- Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland,
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Summary: We developed cyNeo4j, a Cytoscape App to link Cytoscape and Neo4j databases to utilize the performance and storage capacities Neo4j offers. We implemented a Neo4j NetworkAnalyzer, ForceAtlas2 layout and Cypher component to demonstrate the possibilities a distributed setup of Cytoscape and Neo4j have. Availability and implementation: The app is available from the Cytoscape App Store at http://apps.cytoscape.org/apps/cyneo4j, the Neo4j plugins at www.github.com/gsummer/cyneo4j-parent and the community and commercial editions of Neo4j can be found at http://www.neo4j.com. Contact:georg.summer@gmail.com
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- Georg Summer
- Center for Heart Failure Research, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Center for Heart Failure Research, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Eijssen LMT, Goelela VS, Kelder T, Adriaens ME, Evelo CT, Radonjic M. A user-friendly workflow for analysis of Illumina gene expression bead array data available at the arrayanalysis.org portal. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:482. [PMID: 26122086 PMCID: PMC4486126 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1689-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [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] [Received: 01/05/2015] [Accepted: 06/05/2015] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Illumina whole-genome expression bead arrays are a widely used platform for transcriptomics. Most of the tools available for the analysis of the resulting data are not easily applicable by less experienced users. ArrayAnalysis.org provides researchers with an easy-to-use and comprehensive interface to the functionality of R and Bioconductor packages for microarray data analysis. As a modular open source project, it allows developers to contribute modules that provide support for additional types of data or extend workflows. RESULTS To enable data analysis of Illumina bead arrays for a broad user community, we have developed a module for ArrayAnalysis.org that provides a free and user-friendly web interface for quality control and pre-processing for these arrays. This module can be used together with existing modules for statistical and pathway analysis to provide a full workflow for Illumina gene expression data analysis. The module accepts data exported from Illumina's GenomeStudio, and provides the user with quality control plots and normalized data. The outputs are directly linked to the existing statistics module of ArrayAnalysis.org, but can also be downloaded for further downstream analysis in third-party tools. CONCLUSIONS The Illumina bead arrays analysis module is available at http://www.arrayanalysis.org . A user guide, a tutorial demonstrating the analysis of an example dataset, and R scripts are available. The module can be used as a starting point for statistical evaluation and pathway analysis provided on the website or to generate processed input data for a broad range of applications in life sciences research.
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- Lars M T Eijssen
- Department of Bioinformatics-BiGCaT, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- TNO, Research Group Microbiology & Systems Biology, Utrechtseweg 48, 3704 HE, Zeist, The Netherlands. .,Current address: Charles River Laboratories, BioFocus, Discovery Services, Darwinweg 24, 2333 CR, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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- TNO, Research Group Microbiology & Systems Biology, Utrechtseweg 48, 3704 HE, Zeist, The Netherlands. .,EdgeLeap B.V., Hooghiemstraplein 15, 3514 AX, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Bioinformatics-BiGCaT, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER, Maastricht, The Netherlands. .,Department of Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, 1100 DD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Bioinformatics-BiGCaT, Maastricht University, Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- TNO, Research Group Microbiology & Systems Biology, Utrechtseweg 48, 3704 HE, Zeist, The Netherlands. .,EdgeLeap B.V., Hooghiemstraplein 15, 3514 AX, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Kelder T, Summer G, Caspers M, van Schothorst EM, Keijer J, Duivenvoorde L, Klaus S, Voigt A, Bohnert L, Pico C, Palou A, Bonet ML, Dembinska-Kiec A, Malczewska-Malec M, Kieć-Wilk B, Del Bas JM, Caimari A, Arola L, van Erk M, van Ommen B, Radonjic M. White adipose tissue reference network: a knowledge resource for exploring health-relevant relations. Genes Nutr 2014; 10:439. [PMID: 25466819 PMCID: PMC4252261 DOI: 10.1007/s12263-014-0439-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2014] [Accepted: 10/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Optimal health is maintained by interaction of multiple intrinsic and environmental factors at different levels of complexity—from molecular, to physiological, to social. Understanding and quantification of these interactions will aid design of successful health interventions. We introduce the reference network concept as a platform for multi-level exploration of biological relations relevant for metabolic health, by integration and mining of biological interactions derived from public resources and context-specific experimental data. A White Adipose Tissue Health Reference Network (WATRefNet) was constructed as a resource for discovery and prioritization of mechanism-based biomarkers for white adipose tissue (WAT) health status and the effect of food and drug compounds on WAT health status. The WATRefNet (6,797 nodes and 32,171 edges) is based on (1) experimental data obtained from 10 studies addressing different adiposity states, (2) seven public knowledge bases of molecular interactions, (3) expert’s definitions of five physiologically relevant processes key to WAT health, namely WAT expandability, Oxidative capacity, Metabolic state, Oxidative stress and Tissue inflammation, and (4) a collection of relevant biomarkers of these processes identified by BIOCLAIMS (http://bioclaims.uib.es). The WATRefNet comprehends multiple layers of biological complexity as it contains various types of nodes and edges that represent different biological levels and interactions. We have validated the reference network by showing overrepresentation with anti-obesity drug targets, pathology-associated genes and differentially expressed genes from an external disease model dataset. The resulting network has been used to extract subnetworks specific to the above-mentioned expert-defined physiological processes. Each of these process-specific signatures represents a mechanistically supported composite biomarker for assessing and quantifying the effect of interventions on a physiological aspect that determines WAT health status. Following this principle, five anti-diabetic drug interventions and one diet intervention were scored for the match of their expression signature to the five biomarker signatures derived from the WATRefNet. This confirmed previous observations of successful intervention by dietary lifestyle and revealed WAT-specific effects of drug interventions. The WATRefNet represents a sustainable knowledge resource for extraction of relevant relationships such as mechanisms of action, nutrient intervention targets and biomarkers and for assessment of health effects for support of health claims made on food products.
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- Thomas Kelder
- Microbiology & Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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Kelder T, Verschuren L, van Ommen B, van Gool AJ, Radonjic M. Network signatures link hepatic effects of anti-diabetic interventions with systemic disease parameters. BMC Syst Biol 2014; 8:108. [PMID: 25204982 PMCID: PMC4363943 DOI: 10.1186/s12918-014-0108-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2014] [Accepted: 08/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Abstract
Background Multifactorial diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), are driven by a complex network of interconnected mechanisms that translate to a diverse range of complications at the physiological level. To optimally treat T2DM, pharmacological interventions should, ideally, target key nodes in this network that act as determinants of disease progression. Results We set out to discover key nodes in molecular networks based on the hepatic transcriptome dataset from a preclinical study in obese LDLR-/- mice recently published by Radonjic et al. Here, we focus on comparing efficacy of anti-diabetic dietary (DLI) and two drug treatments, namely PPARA agonist fenofibrate and LXR agonist T0901317. By combining knowledge-based and data-driven networks with a random walks based algorithm, we extracted network signatures that link the DLI and two drug interventions to dyslipidemia-related disease parameters. Conclusions This study identified specific and prioritized sets of key nodes in hepatic molecular networks underlying T2DM, uncovering pathways that are to be modulated by targeted T2DM drug interventions in order to modulate the complex disease phenotype.
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- Thomas Kelder
- TNO, Research Group Microbiology & Systems Biology, Zeist, The Netherlands. .,Current address: EdgeLeap B.V, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- TNO, Research Group Microbiology & Systems Biology, Zeist, The Netherlands.
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- TNO, Research Group Microbiology & Systems Biology, Zeist, The Netherlands.
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- TNO, Research Group Microbiology & Systems Biology, Zeist, The Netherlands. .,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. .,Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Informatics, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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- TNO, Research Group Microbiology & Systems Biology, Zeist, The Netherlands. .,Current address: EdgeLeap B.V, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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de Groot DM, Linders L, Kayser R, Nederlof R, Jeroen de Groot V, Bogaart M, Frieke Kuper C, Wolterbeek A, Radonjic M, de Vries E, Veltien A, Heerschap A. Perinatal exposure to DOTC (di-n-octyltin dichloride) affects brain development. A study in rats using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), [18F]FDG brain PET and genome wide gene expression profiling. Reprod Toxicol 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2014.07.003] [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: 10/24/2022]
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Kelder T, Stroeve JHM, Bijlsma S, Radonjic M, Roeselers G. Correlation network analysis reveals relationships between diet-induced changes in human gut microbiota and metabolic health. Nutr Diabetes 2014; 4:e122. [PMID: 24979151 PMCID: PMC4079927 DOI: 10.1038/nutd.2014.18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2013] [Revised: 05/20/2014] [Accepted: 05/30/2014] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Background: Recent evidence suggests that the gut microbiota plays an important role in human metabolism and energy homeostasis and is therefore a relevant factor in the assessment of metabolic health and flexibility. Understanding of these host–microbiome interactions aids the design of nutritional strategies that act via modulation of the microbiota. Nevertheless, relating gut microbiota composition to host health states remains challenging because of the sheer complexity of these ecosystems and the large degrees of interindividual variation in human microbiota composition. Methods: We assessed fecal microbiota composition and host response patterns of metabolic and inflammatory markers in 10 apparently healthy men subjected to a high-fat high-caloric diet (HFHC, 1300 kcal/day extra) for 4 weeks. DNA was isolated from stool and barcoded 16S rRNA gene amplicons were sequenced. Metabolic health parameters, including anthropomorphic and blood parameters, where determined at t=0 and t=4 weeks. Results: A correlation network approach revealed diet-induced changes in Bacteroides levels related to changes in carbohydrate oxidation rates, whereas the change in Firmicutes correlates with changes in fat oxidation. These results were confirmed by multivariate models. We identified correlations between microbial diversity indices and several inflammation-related host parameters that suggest a relation between diet-induced changes in gut microbiota diversity and inflammatory processes. Conclusions: This approach allowed us to identify significant correlations between abundances of microbial taxa and diet-induced shifts in several metabolic health parameters. Constructed correlation networks provide an overview of these relations, revealing groups of correlations that are of particular interest for explaining host health aspects through changes in the gut microbiota.
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- T Kelder
- Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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- Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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- Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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- Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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- Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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Verschuren L, Wielinga PY, Kelder T, Radonjic M, Salic K, Kleemann R, van Ommen B, Kooistra T. A systems biology approach to understand the pathophysiological mechanisms of cardiac pathological hypertrophy associated with rosiglitazone. BMC Med Genomics 2014; 7:35. [PMID: 24938300 PMCID: PMC4072889 DOI: 10.1186/1755-8794-7-35] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [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] [Received: 11/05/2013] [Accepted: 05/16/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Cardiac pathological hypertrophy is associated with a significantly increased risk of coronary heart disease and has been observed in diabetic patients treated with rosiglitazone whereas most published studies do not suggest a similar increase in risk of cardiovascular events in pioglitazone-treated diabetic subjects. This study sought to understand the pathophysiological and molecular mechanisms underlying the disparate cardiovascular effects of rosiglitazone and pioglitazone and yield knowledge as to the causative nature of rosiglitazone-associated cardiac hypertrophy. Methods We used a high-fat diet-induced pre-diabetic mouse model to allow bioinformatics analysis of the transcriptome of the heart of mice treated with rosiglitazone or pioglitazone. Results Our data show that rosiglitazone and pioglitazone both markedly improved systemic markers for glucose homeostasis, fasting plasma glucose and insulin, and the urinary excretion of albumin. Only rosiglitazone, but not pioglitazone, tended to increase atherosclerosis and induced pathological cardiac hypertrophy, based on a significant increase in heart weight and increased expression of the validated markers, ANP and BNP. Functional enrichment analysis of the rosiglitazone-specific cardiac gene expression suggests that a shift in cardiac energy metabolism, in particular decreased fatty acid oxidation toward increased glucose utilization as indicated by down regulation of relevant PPARα and PGC1α target genes. This underlies the rosiglitazone-associated pathological hypertrophic cardiac phenotype in the current study. Conclusion Application of a systems biology approach uncovered a shift in energy metabolism by rosiglitazone that may impact cardiac pathological hypertrophy.
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- Lars Verschuren
- TNO, Department Microbiology and Systems Biology, P,O, Box 360, 3704 AJ Zeist, The Netherlands.
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Kaput J, van Ommen B, Kremer B, Priami C, Monteiro JP, Morine M, Pepping F, Diaz Z, Fenech M, He Y, Albers R, Drevon CA, Evelo CT, Hancock REW, Ijsselmuiden C, Lumey LH, Minihane AM, Muller M, Murgia C, Radonjic M, Sobral B, West KP. Consensus statement understanding health and malnutrition through a systems approach: the ENOUGH program for early life. Genes Nutr 2014; 9:378. [PMID: 24363221 PMCID: PMC3896628 DOI: 10.1007/s12263-013-0378-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2013] [Accepted: 12/02/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Nutrition research, like most biomedical disciplines, adopted and often uses experimental approaches based on Beadle and Tatum's one gene-one polypeptide hypothesis, thereby reducing biological processes to single reactions or pathways. Systems thinking is needed to understand the complexity of health and disease processes requiring measurements of physiological processes, as well as environmental and social factors, which may alter the expression of genetic information. Analysis of physiological processes with omics technologies to assess systems' responses has only become available over the past decade and remains costly. Studies of environmental and social conditions known to alter health are often not connected to biomedical research. While these facts are widely accepted, developing and conducting comprehensive research programs for health are often beyond financial and human resources of single research groups. We propose a new research program on essential nutrients for optimal underpinning of growth and health (ENOUGH) that will use systems approaches with more comprehensive measurements and biostatistical analysis of the many biological and environmental factors that influence undernutrition. Creating a knowledge base for nutrition and health is a necessary first step toward developing solutions targeted to different populations in diverse social and physical environments for the two billion undernourished people in developed and developing economies.
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- Jim Kaput
- Clinical Translation Unit, Nestle Institute of Health Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland,
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Radonjic M, Cappaert NLM, de Vries EFJ, de Esch CEF, Kuper FC, van Waarde A, Dierckx RAJO, Wadman WJ, Wolterbeek APM, Stierum RH, de Groot DMG. Delay and Impairment in Brain Development and Function in Rat Offspring After Maternal Exposure to Methylmercury. Toxicol Sci 2013; 133:112-24. [DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kft024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Radonjic M, Wielinga PY, Wopereis S, Kelder T, Goelela VS, Verschuren L, Toet K, van Duyvenvoorde W, van der Werff van der Vat B, Stroeve JHM, Cnubben N, Kooistra T, van Ommen B, Kleemann R. Differential effects of drug interventions and dietary lifestyle in developing type 2 diabetes and complications: a systems biology analysis in LDLr-/- mice. PLoS One 2013; 8:e56122. [PMID: 23457508 PMCID: PMC3574110 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2012] [Accepted: 01/04/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Excess caloric intake leads to metabolic overload and is associated with development of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Current disease management concentrates on risk factors of the disease such as blood glucose, however with limited success. We hypothesize that normalizing blood glucose levels by itself is insufficient to reduce the development of T2DM and complications, and that removal of the metabolic overload with dietary interventions may be more efficacious. We explored the efficacy and systems effects of pharmaceutical interventions versus dietary lifestyle intervention (DLI) in developing T2DM and complications. To mimic the situation in humans, high fat diet (HFD)-fed LDLr-/- mice with already established disease phenotype were treated with ten different drugs mixed into HFD or subjected to DLI (switch to low-fat chow), for 7 weeks. Interventions were compared to untreated reference mice kept on HFD or chow only. Although most of the drugs improved HFD-induced hyperglycemia, drugs only partially affected other risk factors and also had limited effect on disease progression towards microalbuminuria, hepatosteatosis and atherosclerosis. By contrast, DLI normalized T2DM risk factors, fully reversed hepatosteatosis and microalbuminuria, and tended to attenuate atherogenesis. The comprehensive beneficial effect of DLI was reflected by normalized metabolite profiles in plasma and liver. Analysis of disease pathways in liver confirmed reversion of the metabolic distortions with DLI. This study demonstrates that the pathogenesis of T2DM towards complications is reversible with DLI and highlights the differential effects of current pharmacotherapies and their limitation to resolve the disease.
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- Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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- Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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- Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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- Metabolic Health Research, TNO, Leiden, The Netherlands
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- Pharmacokinetics and Human Studies, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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- Microbiology and Systems Biology, TNO, Zeist, The Netherlands
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de Groot DM, Radonjic M, Stierum R, Frieke Kuper C, Wolterbeek AP, de Vries EF, van Waarde A, Dierkx RA, Wadman WJ, Cappaert NL. Mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental defects associated with exposure to methylmercury. A rat model. Reprod Toxicol 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2012.05.055] [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: 10/28/2022]
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Tapp HS, Radonjic M, Kate Kemsley E, Thissen U. Evaluation of multiple variate selection methods from a biological perspective: a nutrigenomics case study. Genes Nutr 2012; 7:387-397. [PMID: 22382778 PMCID: PMC3380194 DOI: 10.1007/s12263-012-0288-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2011] [Accepted: 02/08/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Genomics-based technologies produce large amounts of data. To interpret the results and identify the most important variates related to phenotypes of interest, various multivariate regression and variate selection methods are used. Although inspected for statistical performance, the relevance of multivariate models in interpreting biological data sets often remains elusive. We compare various multivariate regression and variate selection methods applied to a nutrigenomics data set in terms of performance, utility and biological interpretability. The studied data set comprised hepatic transcriptome (10,072 predictor variates) and plasma protein concentrations [2 dependent variates: Leptin (LEP) and Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 1 (TIMP-1)] collected during a high-fat diet study in ApoE3Leiden mice. The multivariate regression methods used were: partial least squares "PLS"; a genetic algorithm-based multiple linear regression, "GA-MLR"; two least-angle shrinkage methods, "LASSO" and "ELASTIC NET"; and a variant of PLS that uses covariance-based variate selection, "CovProc." Two methods of ranking the genes for Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) were also investigated: either by their correlation with the protein data or by the stability of the PLS regression coefficients. The regression methods performed similarly, with CovProc and GA performing the best and worst, respectively (R-squared values based on "double cross-validation" predictions of 0.762 and 0.451 for LEP; and 0.701 and 0.482 for TIMP-1). CovProc, LASSO and ELASTIC NET all produced parsimonious regression models and consistently identified small subsets of variates, with high commonality between the methods. Comparison of the gene ranking approaches found a high degree of agreement, with PLS-based ranking finding fewer significant gene sets. We recommend the use of CovProc for variate selection, in tandem with univariate methods, and the use of correlation-based ranking for GSEA-like pathway analysis methods.
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- Henri S. Tapp
- Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UA UK
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- TNO, Microbiology and Systems Biology, P.O. Box 360, 3700 AJ Zeist, The Netherlands
- Nutrigenomics Consortium, Top Institute Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 557, 6700 AN Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich, NR4 7UA UK
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- Nutrigenomics Consortium, Top Institute Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 557, 6700 AN Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Present Address: Keygene N.V., P.O. Box 216, 6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands
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De Groot D, De Groot D, Kuper F, Radonjic M, Stierum R, Heerschap A, Veltien A, Dierckx R, De Vries E. Imaging and omics in developing and juvenile rats after exposure to TBTO. Toxicol Lett 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2012.03.563] [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: 10/28/2022]
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Wopereis S, Radonjic M, Rubingh C, Erk MV, Smilde A, Duyvenvoorde WV, Cnubben N, Kooistra T, Ommen BV, Kleemann R. Identification of prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers of glucose intolerance in ApoE3Leiden mice. Physiol Genomics 2012; 44:293-304. [PMID: 22234995 DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00072.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The prevalence of diabetes mellitus Type 2 could be significantly reduced by early identification of subjects at risk, allowing for better prevention and earlier treatment. Glucose intolerance (GI) is a hallmark of the prediabetic stage. This study aims at identifying 1) prognostic biomarkers predicting the risk of developing GI later in life and 2) diagnostic biomarkers reflecting the degree of already manifest GI. To this end, disease development was followed over time in mice, and biomarkers were identified using lipidomics and transcriptomics. Young adult ApoE3Leiden mice were treated a high-fat diet for 12 wk to induce GI. Blood was collected before and during disease development. The individual extent of GI was determined with a glucose tolerance test and the area under the curve (AUC) was calculated for each animal. Subject-specific AUC values were correlated to the plasma lipidome (t = 0) and the white blood cell (WBC) transcriptome (t = 0, 6, and 12 wk) to identify prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers, respectively. The plasma ratio of specific free fatty acids prior to high-fat feeding (C16:1/C16:0, C18:1/C18:0 and C18:2/C22:6) was significantly correlated with the AUC and predictive for future GI. Subsequently, the expression level of specific WBC genes (Acss2, Arfgap1, Tfrc, Cox6b2, Barhl2, Abcb4, Cyp4b1, Sars2, Fgf16, and Tceal8) reflected the individual degree of GI during disease progression. Specific plasma free fatty acids as well as their ratio can be used to predict future GI. The expression levels of specific WBC genes can serve as easy accessible markers to diagnose and monitor already existing GI.
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- Suzan Wopereis
- TNO, Research Group Microbiology and Systems Biology, P.O. Box 360, 3700 AJ Zeist, the Netherlands.
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van Ommen B, Bouwman J, Dragsted LO, Drevon CA, Elliott R, de Groot P, Kaput J, Mathers JC, Müller M, Pepping F, Saito J, Scalbert A, Radonjic M, Rocca-Serra P, Travis A, Wopereis S, Evelo CT. Challenges of molecular nutrition research 6: the nutritional phenotype database to store, share and evaluate nutritional systems biology studies. Genes Nutr 2010; 5:189-203. [PMID: 21052526 PMCID: PMC2935528 DOI: 10.1007/s12263-010-0167-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2009] [Accepted: 01/03/2010] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The challenge of modern nutrition and health research is to identify food-based strategies promoting life-long optimal health and well-being. This research is complex because it exploits a multitude of bioactive compounds acting on an extensive network of interacting processes. Whereas nutrition research can profit enormously from the revolution in ‘omics’ technologies, it has discipline-specific requirements for analytical and bioinformatic procedures. In addition to measurements of the parameters of interest (measures of health), extensive description of the subjects of study and foods or diets consumed is central for describing the nutritional phenotype. We propose and pursue an infrastructural activity of constructing the “Nutritional Phenotype database” (dbNP). When fully developed, dbNP will be a research and collaboration tool and a publicly available data and knowledge repository. Creation and implementation of the dbNP will maximize benefits to the research community by enabling integration and interrogation of data from multiple studies, from different research groups, different countries and different—omics levels. The dbNP is designed to facilitate storage of biologically relevant, pre-processed—omics data, as well as study descriptive and study participant phenotype data. It is also important to enable the combination of this information at different levels (e.g. to facilitate linkage of data describing participant phenotype, genotype and food intake with information on study design and—omics measurements, and to combine all of this with existing knowledge). The biological information stored in the database (i.e. genetics, transcriptomics, proteomics, biomarkers, metabolomics, functional assays, food intake and food composition) is tailored to nutrition research and embedded in an environment of standard procedures and protocols, annotations, modular data-basing, networking and integrated bioinformatics. The dbNP is an evolving enterprise, which is only sustainable if it is accepted and adopted by the wider nutrition and health research community as an open source, pre-competitive and publicly available resource where many partners both can contribute and profit from its developments. We introduce the Nutrigenomics Organisation (NuGO, http://www.nugo.org) as a membership association responsible for establishing and curating the dbNP. Within NuGO, all efforts related to dbNP (i.e. usage, coordination, integration, facilitation and maintenance) will be directed towards a sustainable and federated infrastructure.
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- Ben van Ommen
- TNO Quality of Life, PO Box 360, 6700 AJ Zeist, The Netherlands
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- TNO Quality of Life, PO Box 360, 6700 AJ Zeist, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Human Nutrition, University of Copenhagen, 30 Rolighedsvej, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7UA UK
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- Nutrigenomics Consortium, TI Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 557, 6700AN Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, PO Box 8129, 6700 EV Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Personalized Nutrition and Medicine, Food and Drug Administration/National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR USA
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- Human Nutrition Research Centre, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, William Leech Building, Framlington Place, Newcastle, NE44 6HE UK
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- Nutrigenomics Consortium, TI Food and Nutrition, P.O. Box 557, 6700AN Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, PO Box 8129, 6700 EV Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, PO Box 8129, 6700 EV Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics (BiGCaT) and Department of Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- INRA, UMR 1019, Unite´ de Nutrition Humaine, Centre de Recherche de Clermont-Ferrand/Theix, 63122 Saint-Genes-Champanelle, France
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- The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn Aberdeen, Scotland, AB21 9SB UK
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- TNO Quality of Life, PO Box 360, 6700 AJ Zeist, The Netherlands
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- Department of Bioinformatics (BiGCaT), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Cavalieri D, Calura E, Romualdi C, Marchi E, Radonjic M, Van Ommen B, Müller M. Filling gaps in PPAR-alpha signaling through comparative nutrigenomics analysis. BMC Genomics 2009; 10:596. [PMID: 20003344 PMCID: PMC2801700 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [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] [Received: 07/24/2009] [Accepted: 12/11/2009] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Background The application of high-throughput genomic tools in nutrition research is a widespread practice. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that the outcome of individual expression studies is insufficient for the comprehensive understanding of such a complex field. Currently, the availability of the large amounts of expression data in public repositories has opened up new challenges on microarray data analyses. We have focused on PPARα, a ligand-activated transcription factor functioning as fatty acid sensor controlling the gene expression regulation of a large set of genes in various metabolic organs such as liver, small intestine or heart. The function of PPARα is strictly connected to the function of its target genes and, although many of these have already been identified, major elements of its physiological function remain to be uncovered. To further investigate the function of PPARα, we have applied a cross-species meta-analysis approach to integrate sixteen microarray datasets studying high fat diet and PPARα signal perturbations in different organisms. Results We identified 164 genes (MDEGs) that were differentially expressed in a constant way in response to a high fat diet or to perturbations in PPARs signalling. In particular, we found five genes in yeast which were highly conserved and homologous of PPARα targets in mammals, potential candidates to be used as models for the equivalent mammalian genes. Moreover, a screening of the MDEGs for all known transcription factor binding sites and the comparison with a human genome-wide screening of Peroxisome Proliferating Response Elements (PPRE), enabled us to identify, 20 new potential candidate genes that show, both binding site, both change in expression in the condition studied. Lastly, we found a non random localization of the differentially expressed genes in the genome. Conclusion The results presented are potentially of great interest to resume the currently available expression data, exploiting the power of in silico analysis filtered by evolutionary conservation. The analysis enabled us to indicate potential gene candidates that could fill in the gaps with regards to the signalling of PPARα and, moreover, the non-random localization of the differentially expressed genes in the genome, suggest that epigenetic mechanisms are of importance in the regulation of the transcription operated by PPARα.
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- Duccio Cavalieri
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy.
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Radonjic M, de Haan JR, van Erk MJ, van Dijk KW, van den Berg SAA, de Groot PJ, Müller M, van Ommen B. Genome-wide mRNA expression analysis of hepatic adaptation to high-fat diets reveals switch from an inflammatory to steatotic transcriptional program. PLoS One 2009; 4:e6646. [PMID: 19680557 PMCID: PMC2722023 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2009] [Accepted: 07/15/2009] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Excessive exposure to dietary fats is an important factor in the initiation of obesity and metabolic syndrome associated pathologies. The cellular processes associated with the onset and progression of diet-induced metabolic syndrome are insufficiently understood. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS To identify the mechanisms underlying the pathological changes associated with short and long-term exposure to excess dietary fat, hepatic gene expression of ApoE3Leiden mice fed chow and two types of high-fat (HF) diets was monitored using microarrays during a 16-week period. A functional characterization of 1663 HF-responsive genes reveals perturbations in lipid, cholesterol and oxidative metabolism, immune and inflammatory responses and stress-related pathways. The major changes in gene expression take place during the early (day 3) and late (week 12) phases of HF feeding. This is also associated with characteristic opposite regulation of many HF-affected pathways between these two phases. The most prominent switch occurs in the expression of inflammatory/immune pathways (early activation, late repression) and lipogenic/adipogenic pathways (early repression, late activation). Transcriptional network analysis identifies NF-kappaB, NEMO, Akt, PPARgamma and SREBP1 as the key controllers of these processes and suggests that direct regulatory interactions between these factors may govern the transition from early (stressed, inflammatory) to late (pathological, steatotic) hepatic adaptation to HF feeding. This transition observed by hepatic gene expression analysis is confirmed by expression of inflammatory proteins in plasma and the late increase in hepatic triglyceride content. In addition, the genes most predictive of fat accumulation in liver during 16-week high-fat feeding period are uncovered by regression analysis of hepatic gene expression and triglyceride levels. CONCLUSIONS The transition from an inflammatory to a steatotic transcriptional program, possibly driven by the reciprocal activation of NF-kappaB and PPARgamma regulators, emerges as the principal signature of the hepatic adaptation to excess dietary fat. These findings may be of essential interest for devising new strategies aiming to prevent the progression of high-fat diet induced pathologies.
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- Marijana Radonjic
- Nutrigenomics Consortium, Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Radonjic M, van Erk MJ, Pasman WJ, Wortelboer HM, Hendriks HFJ, van Ommen B. Effect of body fat distribution on the transcription response to dietary fat interventions. Genes Nutr 2009; 4:143-9. [PMID: 19404697 PMCID: PMC2690730 DOI: 10.1007/s12263-009-0122-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2009] [Accepted: 04/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Combination of decreased energy expenditure and increased food intake results in fat accumulation either in the abdominal site (upper body obesity, UBO) or on the hips (lower body obesity, LBO). In this study, we used microarray gene expression profiling of adipose tissue biopsies to investigate the effect of body fat distribution on the physiological response to two dietary fat interventions. Mildly obese UBO and LBO male subjects (n = 12, waist-to-hip ratio range 0.93–1.12) were subjected to consumption of diets containing predominantly either long-chain fatty acids (PUFA) or medium-chain fatty acids (MCT). The results revealed (1) a large variation in transcription response to MCT and PUFA diets between UBO and LBO subjects, (2) higher sensitivity of UBO subjects to MCT/PUFA dietary intervention and (3) the upregulation of immune and apoptotic pathways and downregulation of metabolic pathways (oxidative, lipid, carbohydrate and amino acid metabolism) in UBO subjects when consuming MCT compared with PUFA diet. In conclusion, we report that despite the recommendation of MCT-based diet for improving obesity phenotype, this diet may have adverse effect on inflammatory and metabolic status of UBO subjects. The body fat distribution is, therefore, an important parameter to consider when providing personalized dietary recommendation.
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- Marijana Radonjic
- TNO Quality of Life, Business Unit Biosciences, P.O. Box 360, 3700 AJ, Zeist, The Netherlands,
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kuper CF, Heijne WHM, Dansen M, Verhoeckx KCM, Boorsma A, Radonjic M, Bruijntjes J, Stierum R, Muijser H, Arts JHE. Molecular Characterization of Trimellitic Anhydride–induced Respiratory Allergy in Brown Norway Rats. Toxicol Pathol 2008; 36:985-98. [DOI: 10.1177/0192623308327410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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To contribute to the hazard identification of low molecular weight (LMW) respiratory allergens, respiratory allergy induced by trimellitic anhydride (TMA) was characterized by whole genome analysis of lung tissue and blood proteomics in Brown Norway rats. Dermal sensitization (50% and 25% w/v) with TMA and an inhalation challenge of 15 mg/m3 TMA-induced apneas, laryngeal inflammation, increased numbers of eosinophils, neutrophils and macrophages in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), and increased immunoglobulin E levels in serum and lung tissue. Whole genome analysis of lung, sampled 24 hours after challenge, showed expression changes of not only genes belonging to several Gene Ontology groups with up-regulation of inflammatory-associated genes and those associated with lung remodeling but also genes involved in downsizing these processes. Blood proteomics reflected activation of inflammation-inhibiting pathways. Unsensitized animals challenged with TMA exhibited also an increased number of macrophages in BAL, but gene expression in the above-mentioned gene pathways was unchanged or down-regulated. The authors conclude that parameters for lung remodeling can be a valuable tool in hazard identification of LMW respiratory allergens.
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- TNO Quality of Life, Zeist, the Netherlands
- DSM Food Specialties, R&D Genetics, Delft, the Netherlands
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- TNO Quality of Life, Zeist, the Netherlands
- Akzo Nobel, Technology & Engineering, Arnhem, the Netherlands
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van Bakel H, van Werven FJ, Radonjic M, Brok MO, van Leenen D, Holstege FCP, Timmers HTM. Improved genome-wide localization by ChIP-chip using double-round T7 RNA polymerase-based amplification. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:e21. [PMID: 18180247 PMCID: PMC2275083 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm1144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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Chromatin immunoprecipitation combined with DNA microarrays (ChIP-chip) is a powerful technique to detect in vivo protein–DNA interactions. Due to low yields, ChIP assays of transcription factors generally require amplification of immunoprecipitated genomic DNA. Here, we present an adapted linear amplification method that involves two rounds of T7 RNA polymerase amplification (double-T7). Using this we could successfully amplify as little as 0.4 ng of ChIP DNA to sufficient amounts for microarray analysis. In addition, we compared the double-T7 method to the ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction (LM-PCR) method in a ChIP-chip of the yeast transcription factor Gsm1p. The double-T7 protocol showed lower noise levels and stronger binding signals compared to LM-PCR. Both LM-PCR and double-T7 identified strongly bound genomic regions, but the double-T7 method increased sensitivity and specificity to allow detection of weaker binding sites.
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- Harm van Bakel
- Department of Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Radonjic M, Schoen E, Lake B, Groten J, Stierum R. Toxicogenomics analysis of the hepatic effects of mixtures of butylated hydroxytoluene, curcumin, propyl gallate and thiabendazole in Sprague–Dawley rats. Toxicol Lett 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2007.05.504] [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: 11/16/2022]
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Plesinac Karapandzic V, Zoranovic S, Tomasevic A, Rakovic B, Saric M, Radonjic M, Cihoric N. 1311 POSTER Adjuvant radiotherapy of the cervical carcinoma in elderly patients. EJC Suppl 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6349(07)70737-1] [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: 11/30/2022] Open
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Plesinac-Karapandzic V, Zoranovic S, Tomasevic A, Radonjic M, Rakovic B, Nikitivic M, Cikaric S. Development of paraaortic lymph nodes metastases in carcinoma of the cervix: analysis of treatment outcome. J BUON 2006; 11:299-303. [PMID: 17309153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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PURPOSE To evaluate treatment outcomes in patients with cervical cancer and paraaortic lymph nodes metastases using radiotherapy (RT), chemotherapy (CT), or chemo/radiotherapy (CT/RT). PATIENTS AND METHODS From 184 stage IIB-IVA patients with cervical cancer who were randomly treated with RT or CT/RT, 15 relapsed after the initial therapy only in the paraaortic lymph nodes. The median age of these 15 patients was 53 years (range 30-69). Fourteen patients had squamous cell carcinoma and one adenocarcinoma. The initial stage was IIB (n=3), and IIIB (n=12). The treatment consisted of RT to the paraaortic region (3 patients), CT (4 patients 4-6 cycles) and CT/RT sequentially (8 patients 1-2 cycles of CT before RT and 4 cycles after RT). RT was delivered as external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), total dose 45 Gy, 24 fractions, antero-posterior (AP)/postero-anterior (PA) field technique. RESULTS With median follow up of 7 months (range 4-24), the 2-year overall survival (OS) was 17%. There was no difference in OS between therapy groups. CT/RT had not significant impact on OS. There were 7 (46.6%) objective responses (complete response-CR-5/15 and partial response-PR-2/15 patients; the best response was seen in the CT/RT group (5/8 patients). Treatments were well tolerated, while 40% of the 15 patients experienced late complications. There was no significant correlation between the initial patient therapy (RT vs. concurrent CT/RT) and the development of metastases in the paraaortic region (median time to relapse 5 vs. 6 months, respectively). CONCLUSION Development of metastatic disease of cervical carcinoma to the paraaortic lymph nodes is associated with poor prognosis and the treatment has palliative aim. The use of different therapy approaches didn't improve the therapeutic ratio. The sequential use of CT/RT might improve results but further studies are needed.
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- V Plesinac-Karapandzic
- Department of Radiation Oncology, Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.
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Radonjic M, Andrau JC, Lijnzaad P, Kemmeren P, Kockelkorn TTJP, van Leenen D, van Berkum NL, Holstege FCP. Genome-wide analyses reveal RNA polymerase II located upstream of genes poised for rapid response upon S. cerevisiae stationary phase exit. Mol Cell 2005; 18:171-83. [PMID: 15837421 DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2005.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2004] [Revised: 03/03/2005] [Accepted: 03/15/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The resting state of eukaryotic cells (G0) is relatively uncharacterized. We have applied DNA microarray expression profiling of S. cerevisiae to reveal multiple transitions during a complete 9-day growth cycle between stationary phase (SP) exit and entry. The findings include distinct waves of transcription after the diauxic shift (DS), identification of genes active in SP, and upregulation of over 2500 genes during the first minutes of lag phase. This provides a framework for analyzing large-scale reprogramming of gene expression. Despite global repression, the general transcription machinery is found to be present in quiescent cells but is largely inactive. Genome-wide location analysis by chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP on chip) reveals that RNA polymerase II is more predominantly bound at intergenic regions in SP, upstream of hundreds of genes immediately induced upon exit. In contrast to current models of activation-coupled recruitment, the results show that RNA polymerase II is located and maintained upstream of many inactive genes in quiescence.
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- Marijana Radonjic
- Department of Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Universiteitsweg 100, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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van de Peppel J, Kemmeren P, van Bakel H, Radonjic M, van Leenen D, Holstege FCP. Monitoring global messenger RNA changes in externally controlled microarray experiments. EMBO Rep 2003; 4:387-93. [PMID: 12671682 PMCID: PMC1319154 DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2002] [Revised: 01/20/2003] [Accepted: 01/21/2003] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Expression profiling is a universal tool, with a range of applications that benefit from the accurate determination of differential gene expression. To allow normalization using endogenous transcript levels, current microarray analyses assume that relatively few transcripts vary, or that any changes that occur are balanced. When normalization using endogenous genes is carried out, changes in expression levels are calculated relative to the behaviour of most of the transcripts. This does not reflect absolute changes if global shifts in messenger RNA populations occur. Using external RNA controls, we have set up microarray experiments to monitor global changes. The levels of most mRNAs were found to change during yeast stationary phase and human heat shock when external controls were included. Even small global changes had a significant effect on the number of genes reported as being differentially expressed. This suggests that global mRNA changes occur more frequently than is assumed at present, and shows that monitoring such effects may be important for the accurate determination of changes in gene expression.
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- Jeroen van de Peppel
- Genomics Laboratory, Department of Physiological Chemistry, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Postbus, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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