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Gregoire E, Barquinero JF, Gruel G, Benadjaoud M, Martinez JS, Beinke C, Balajee A, Beukes P, Blakely WF, Dominguez I, Duy PN, Gil OM, Güçlü I, Guogyte K, Hadjidekova SP, Hadjidekova V, Hande P, Jang S, Lumniczky K, Meschini R, Milic M, Montoro A, Moquet J, Moreno M, Norton FN, Oestreicher U, Pajic J, Sabatier L, Sommer S, Testa A, Terzoudi G, Valente M, Venkatachalam P, Vral A, Wilkins RC, Wojcik A, Zafiropoulos D, Kulka U. RENEB Inter-Laboratory comparison 2017: limits and pitfalls of ILCs. Int J Radiat Biol 2021; 97:888-905. [PMID: 33970757 DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2021.1928782] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
PURPOSE In case of a mass-casualty radiological event, there would be a need for networking to overcome surge limitations and to quickly obtain homogeneous results (reported aberration frequencies or estimated doses) among biodosimetry laboratories. These results must be consistent within such network. Inter-laboratory comparisons (ILCs) are widely accepted to achieve this homogeneity. At the European level, a great effort has been made to harmonize biological dosimetry laboratories, notably during the MULTIBIODOSE and RENEB projects. In order to continue the harmonization efforts, the RENEB consortium launched this intercomparison which is larger than the RENEB network, as it involves 38 laboratories from 21 countries. In this ILC all steps of the process were monitored, from blood shipment to dose estimation. This exercise also aimed to evaluate the statistical tools used to compare laboratory performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS Blood samples were irradiated at three different doses, 1.8, 0.4 and 0 Gy (samples A, C and B) with 4-MV X-rays at 0.5 Gy min-1, and sent to the participant laboratories. Each laboratory was requested to blindly analyze 500 cells per sample and to report the observed frequency of dicentric chromosomes per metaphase and the corresponding estimated dose. RESULTS This ILC demonstrates that blood samples can be successfully distributed among laboratories worldwide to perform biological dosimetry in case of a mass casualty event. Having achieved a substantial harmonization in multiple areas among the RENEB laboratories issues were identified with the available statistical tools, which are not capable to advantageously exploit the richness of results of a large ILCs. Even though Z- and U-tests are accepted methods for biodosimetry ILCs, setting the number of analyzed metaphases to 500 and establishing a tests' common threshold for all studied doses is inappropriate for evaluating laboratory performance. Another problem highlighted by this ILC is the issue of the dose-effect curve diversity. It clearly appears that, despite the initial advantage of including the scoring specificities of each laboratory, the lack of defined criteria for assessing the robustness of each laboratory's curve is a disadvantage for the 'one curve per laboratory' model. CONCLUSIONS Based on our study, it seems relevant to develop tools better adapted to the collection and processing of results produced by the participant laboratories. We are confident that, after an initial harmonization phase reached by the RENEB laboratories, a new step toward a better optimization of the laboratory networks in biological dosimetry and associated ILC is on the way.
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Affiliation(s)
- Eric Gregoire
- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- Bundeswehr Institute of Radiobiology affiliated to the University of Ulm, Munich, Germany
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- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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- Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, Uniformed Service University of the Health, Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Center of Biotechnology, Nuclear Research Institute, Dalat city, Vietnam
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- Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Bobadela-LRS, Portugal
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- Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, Cekmece Nuclear Research and Training Center, Radiobiology Unit Yarımburgaz, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- National Research Institute for Radiobiology & Radiohygiene, Budapest, Hungary
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- Fundación para la Investigación del Hospital Universitario LA FE de la Comunidad Valenciana, Valencia, Spain
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- Public Health England, Centre for Radiation Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, UK
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- Servicio Madrileño de Salud - Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
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- Radiobiology & Health, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Chalk River, Canada
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- Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), Oberschleissheim, Germany
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- Serbian Institute of Occupational Health, Radiation Protection Center, Belgrade, Serbia
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- PROCyTOX, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Fontenay aux-Roses, France and Université Paris-Saclay, France
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- Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology (INCT), Warsaw, Poland
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- Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, L´Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile, Rome, Italy
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- National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", NCSR"D", Athens, Greece
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- Radiobiology Research Unit, Gent University, Gent, Belgium
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- Institute Molecular Biosciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), Oberschleissheim, Germany
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Avdjieva-Tzavella DM, Todorov TP, Todorova AP, Kirov AV, Hadjidekova SP, Rukova BB, Litvinenko IO, Hristova-Naydenova DN, Tincheva RS, Toncheva DI. Analysis of the genes encoding neuroligins NLGN3 and NLGN4 in Bulgarian patients with autism. Genet Couns 2012; 23:505-511. [PMID: 23431752] [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: 06/01/2023]
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Many studies have supported a genetic aetiology for autism. Neuroligins are postsynaptically located cell-adhesion molecules. Mutations in two X-linked neuroligin genes, NLGN3 and NLGN4, have been implicated in pathogenesis of autism. In order to confirm these causative mutations in our autistic population and to determine their frequency we screened 20 individuals affected with autism. We identified one patient with a point mutation in NLGN4 gene that substituted a Met for Thr 787 - c.2360C > T, p.(Thr787Met) and three patients with identical polymorphisms in the same gene: c.933C > T, p.(Thr311Thr) in combination with c.[1777C > T+1779C > G, p.(Leu593Leu)]. All patients tested for NLGN3 mutations were negative. These results indicate that mutations in these genes are responsible for at most a small fraction of autism cases.
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- D M Avdjieva-Tzavella
- Department of Clinical Genetics, University Pediatric Hospital, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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