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Jakwerth CA, Weckmann M, Illi S, Charles H, Zissler UM, Oelsner M, Guerth F, Omony J, Nemani SSP, Grychtol R, Dittrich AM, Skevaki C, Foth S, Weber S, Alejandre Alcazar MA, van Koningsbruggen-Rietschel S, Brock R, Blau S, Hansen G, Bahmer T, Rabe KF, Brinkmann F, Kopp MV, Chaker AM, Schaub B, von Mutius E, Schmidt-Weber CB. 17q21 Variants Disturb Mucosal Host Defense in Childhood Asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2024; 209:947-959. [PMID: 38064241 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.202305-0934oc] [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: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 03/13/2024] Open
Abstract
Rationale: The strongest genetic risk factor for childhood-onset asthma, the 17q21 locus, is associated with increased viral susceptibility and disease-promoting processes.Objectives: To identify biological targets underlying the escalated viral susceptibility associated with the clinical phenotype mediated by the 17q21 locus.Methods: Genome-wide transcriptome analysis of nasal brush samples from 261 children (78 healthy, 79 with wheezing at preschool age, 104 asthmatic) within the ALLIANCE (All-Age-Asthma) cohort, with a median age of 10.0 (range, 1.0-20.0) years, was conducted to explore the impact of their 17q21 genotype (SNP rs72163891). Concurrently, nasal secretions from the same patients and visits were collected, and high-sensitivity mesoscale technology was employed to measure IFN protein levels.Measurements and Main Results: This study revealed that the 17q21 risk allele induces a genotype- and asthma/wheeze phenotype-dependent enhancement of mucosal GSDMB expression as the only relevant 17q21-encoded gene in children with preschool wheeze. Increased GSDMB expression correlated with the activation of a type-1 proinflammatory, cell-lytic immune, and natural killer signature, encompassing key genes linked to an IFN type-2-signature (IFNG, CXCL9, CXCL10, KLRC1, CD8A, GZMA). Conversely, there was a reduction in IFN type 1 and type 3 expression signatures at the mRNA and protein levels.Conclusions: This study demonstrates a novel disease-driving mechanism induced by the 17q21 risk allele. Increased mucosal GSDMB expression is associated with a cell-lytic immune response coupled with compromised airway immunocompetence. These findings suggest that GSDMB-related airway cell death and perturbations in the mucosal IFN signature account for the increased vulnerability of 17q21 risk allele carriers to respiratory viral infections during early life, opening new options for future biological interventions.The All-Age-Asthma (ALLIANCE) cohort is registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov (pediatric arm, NCT02496468).
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Affiliation(s)
- Constanze A Jakwerth
- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University and Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany
- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Division of Epigenetics in Chronic Lung Disease, Priority Area Chronic Lung Diseases, Research Center Borstel-Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany
- Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Allergology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany
- Airway Research Center North, Borstel, Lübeck, Kiel, Grosshansdorf, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Institute for Asthma and Allergy Prevention, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany
- Comprehensive Pneumology Center-Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University and Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany
- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University and Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany
- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University and Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany
- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University and Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany
- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Institute for Asthma and Allergy Prevention, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany
- Comprehensive Pneumology Center-Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Allergology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany
- Airway Research Center North, Borstel, Lübeck, Kiel, Grosshansdorf, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
- Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover, Hanover, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
- Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover, Hanover, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiochemistry, Molecular Diagnostics and
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Philipps University Marburg and University Children's Hospital Marburg, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Philipps University Marburg and University Children's Hospital Marburg, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Institute for Lung Health and Cardio-Pulmonary Institute, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen, Germany
- Translational Experimental Pediatrics, Experimental Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics
- Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne and Cologne Excellence Cluster on Stress Responses in Aging-associated Diseases, and
- Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne and University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Department of Pediatric Pneumology, Allergology and Neonatology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
- Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover, Hanover, Germany
- Cluster of Excellence 2115 (RESIST), Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Airway Research Center North, Borstel, Lübeck, Kiel, Grosshansdorf, Germany
- Internal Medicine Department I, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein-Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Airway Research Center North, Borstel, Lübeck, Kiel, Grosshansdorf, Germany
- LungenClinic Grosshansdorf GmbH and Medical Clinics, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Division of Epigenetics in Chronic Lung Disease, Priority Area Chronic Lung Diseases, Research Center Borstel-Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany
- Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Allergology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany
- Airway Research Center North, Borstel, Lübeck, Kiel, Grosshansdorf, Germany
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- Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Allergology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany
- Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Airway Research Center North, Borstel, Lübeck, Kiel, Grosshansdorf, Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University and Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Medical School, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
- Comprehensive Pneumology Center-Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
- Institute for Asthma and Allergy Prevention, Helmholtz Center Munich, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany
- Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
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- Center of Allergy and Environment (ZAUM), Technical University and Helmholtz Center Munich, Munich, Germany
- Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany
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Balz K, Kaushik A, Cemic F, Sampath V, Heger V, Renz H, Nadeau K, Skevaki C. Cross-reactive MHC class I T cell epitopes may dictate heterologous immune responses between respiratory viruses and food allergens. Sci Rep 2023; 13:14874. [PMID: 37684288 PMCID: PMC10491592 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-41187-1] [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: 03/06/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Respiratory virus infections play a major role in asthma, while there is a close correlation between asthma and food allergy. We hypothesized that T cell-mediated heterologous immunity may induce asthma symptoms among sensitized individuals and used two independent in silico pipelines for the identification of cross-reactive virus- and food allergen- derived T cell epitopes, considering individual peptide sequence similarity, MHC binding affinity and immunogenicity. We assessed the proteomes of human rhinovirus (RV1b), respiratory syncytial virus (RSVA2) and influenza-strains contained in the seasonal quadrivalent influenza vaccine 2019/2020 (QIV 2019/2020), as well as SARS-CoV-2 for human HLA alleles, in addition to more than 200 most common food allergen protein sequences. All resulting allergen-derived peptide candidates were subjected to an elaborate scoring system considering multiple criteria, including clinical relevance. In both bioinformatics approaches, we found that shortlisted peptide pairs that are potentially binding to MHC class II molecules scored up to 10 × lower compared to MHC class I candidate epitopes. For MHC class I food allergen epitopes, several potentially cross-reactive peptides from shrimp, kiwi, apple, soybean and chicken were identified. The shortlisted set of peptide pairs may be implicated in heterologous immune responses and translated to peptide immunization strategies with immunomodulatory properties.
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- Kathrin Balz
- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Philipps University Marburg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94040, USA
- Departmental of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, TH Mittelhessen, University of Applied Sciences Gießen, 35390, Giessen, Germany
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94040, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, TH Mittelhessen, University of Applied Sciences Gießen, 35390, Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Philipps University Marburg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 35043, Marburg, Germany
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- Departmental of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Philipps University Marburg, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), 35043, Marburg, Germany.
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Busch S, Talamini M, Brenner S, Abdulazim A, Hänggi D, Neumaier M, Seiz-Rosenhagen M, Fuchs T. Circulating monocytes and tumor-associated macrophages express recombined immunoglobulins in glioblastoma patients. Clin Transl Med 2019; 8:18. [PMID: 31155685 PMCID: PMC6545295 DOI: 10.1186/s40169-019-0235-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2018] [Accepted: 04/17/2019] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Glioblastoma is the most common and malignant brain tumor in adults. Glioblastoma is usually fatal 12-15 months after diagnosis and the current possibilities in therapy are mostly only palliative. Therefore, new forms of diagnosis and therapy are urgently needed. Since tumor-associated macrophages are key players in tumor progression and survival there is large potential in investigating their immunological characteristics in glioblastoma patients. Recent evidence shows the expression of variable immunoglobulins and TCRαβ in subpopulations of monocytes, in vitro polarized macrophages and macrophages in the tumor microenvironment. We set out to investigate the immunoglobulin sequences of circulating monocytes and tumor-associated macrophages from glioblastoma patients to evaluate their potential as novel diagnostic or therapeutic targets. RESULTS We routinely find consistent expression of immunoglobulins in tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) and circulating monocytes from all glioblastoma patients analyzed in this study. However, the immunoglobulin repertoires of circulating monocytes and TAM are generally more restricted compared to B cells. Furthermore, the immunoglobulin expression in the macrophage populations negatively correlates with the tumor volume. Interestingly, the comparison of somatic mutations, V-chain usage, CDR3-length and the distribution of used heavy chain genes on the locus of chromosome 14 of the immunoglobulins from myeloid to B cells revealed virtually no differences. CONCLUSIONS The investigation of the immunoglobulin repertoires from TAM and circulating monocytes in glioblastoma-patients revealed a negative correlation to the tumor volume, which could not be detected in the immunoglobulin repertoires of the patients' B lymphocytes. Furthermore, the immunoglobulin repertoires of monocytes were more diverse than the repertoires of the macrophages in the tumor microenvironment from the same patients suggesting a tumor-specific immune response which could be advantageous for the use as diagnostic or therapeutic target.
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- Svenja Busch
- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim of Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
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Fuchs T, Hahn M, Ries L, Giesler S, Busch S, Wang C, Han J, Schulze TJ, Puellmann K, Beham AW, Kaminski WE, Neumaier M. Expression of combinatorial immunoglobulins in macrophages in the tumor microenvironment. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0204108. [PMID: 30240437 PMCID: PMC6150476 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2017] [Accepted: 09/04/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Recent evidence indicates the presence of macrophage subpopulations that express the TCRαβ in chronic inflammatory diseases such as tuberculosis and atherosclerosis and in the tumor microenvironment. Here, we demonstrate that a second subpopulation of macrophages expresses rearranged heavy and light chain immunoglobulins. We identify immunoglobulin expression in human and murine monocytes, in ex vivo differentiated macrophages and macrophages from the tumor microenvironment of five randomly selected distinct human tumor entities. The immunoglobulin heavy and light chains are expressed in a small macrophage subfraction (~3-5%) as combinatorial and individual-specific immune receptors. Using Sanger sequencing and deep sequencing, we routinely find markedly restricted Ig repertoires in monocytes/macrophages compared to normal B cells. Furthermore, we report the complete Ig heavy and light chain sequences of a fully functional immunoglobulin from a single tumor-associated macrophage. These results demonstrate that Ig expression is a defining feature of monocytes and also macrophages in the tumor microenvironment and thus reveal an as yet unrecognized modus operandi of host defense in professional phagocytes.
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- Tina Fuchs
- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- iRepertoire inc. Huntsville, AL, United States of America
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- iRepertoire inc. Huntsville, AL, United States of America
- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL, United States of America
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- Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
- Bioscientia Institute for Medical Diagnostics, Ingelheim, Germany
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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