In fairness, I had a fairly unexciting 23andMe profile, absent of hidden Mendelian
disease alleles or high - penetrance variants for late onset disease.
Performing genetic studies in multiple human populations can identify disease risk alleles that are common in one population but rare in others, with the potential to illuminate pathophysiology, health disparities, and the population genetic origins of
disease alleles.
The identification of a single
disease allele in 3 related myeloid diseases suggests that the JAK2V617F mutation may be important in the pathogenesis of additional hematopoietic malignancies.
We did not identify the JAK2V617F
disease allele in B - lineage ALL (n = 83), T - cell ALL (n = 93), or CLL (n = 45).
However, it took whole - genome sequencing to identify the second
disease allele, a heterozygous ~ 55 kb deletion spanning at least three other exons in the gene.
The identification of a single
disease allele in 3 different MPDs prompted us to search for JAK2V617F mutations in CMML / aCML, AML, and MDS.
Combining this with recent advances in genome editing techniques such as the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) system has provided an ability to repair putative causative alleles in patient lines, or introduce
disease alleles into a healthy «WT» cell line.
Variation in genetic background may alter expression of
the disease allele in affected animals, thus accounting for variation in phenotypic expression of the disease.
Some disorders appear linked to common ancestors providing insight into
disease allele origin whereas others may be due to selection for common structural morphology.
Not exact matches
Individuals were classified as high risk for Alzheimer's if a DNA test identified the presence of a genetic marker — having one or both of the apolipoprotein E-epsilon 4
allele (APOE - e4
allele) on chromosome 19 — which increases the risk of developing the
disease.
The process then evaluates the frequency of these
alleles, using the results to chart
disease progression and assess the effectiveness of treatment.
Within three weeks, they had collected the data that would fuel a series of landmark papers showing that the APOE4
allele is associated with a greatly increased risk of Alzheimer's
disease.
The obvious step, Roses realized, was to find out whether individual APOE
alleles influence the risk of developing Alzheimer's
disease.
Additional analysis of UK Biobank data from 112,338 people of European ancestry revealed that a specific form of rs9349379 known as the G
allele, which was present in 36 % of these individuals, was associated with an increased risk of coronary artery
disease.
Several variants, such as the HLA B * 5701
allele, have been associated with the pace of HIV
disease progression in both controllers and «normals.»
Reviewing thousands of genome wide associate studies (GWAS) to identify genetic variants in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), investigators at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center found that some
alleles (one of a pair of genes located on a specific chromosome) are more frequently risk - associated with
disease than protective.
«With respect to
disease,
alleles can be categorized into being risk or protective ones.
«Our findings show that a specific genetic marker (known as
allele * 2 of the HS1, 2 A enhancer region) influences not just
disease activity in RA patients, but also response to therapy in the early stages of their
disease,» said lead investigator Dr Gabriele Di Sante of the Institute of Rheumatology and Related Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
Genotyping of a population of 329 patients with early RA revealed just over one - quarter had the
allele * 2 HS1, 2 A enhancer, and one in 10 the
allele * 1 HS1, 2 A enhancer, which is comparable with previously published data.7 Patients with the
allele * 2 genotype had more active
disease at the start of treatment and were significantly less likely to achieve a good response and / or remission after three months treatment than those patients with the
allele * 1 genotype.
Valeriya Lyssenko of Lund University in Malmö, Sweden, and her colleagues set out to determine whether detecting common forms, or
alleles, of nine diabetes - linked genes could predict who would develop the
disease among a large population.
Around the world, innovative genomic - medicine programs capitalize on singular capabilities arising from local health care systems, cultural or political milieus, and unusual selected risk
alleles or
disease burdens.
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allele, which is known to increase risk of Alzheimer's
disease, influenced the link between sleep - disordered breathing and cognition.
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allele, are at increased risk of Alzheimer's
disease.
Because
diseases can be endemic to specific regions of the world, these genes exist in thousands of versions, known as
alleles.
Even more interesting, the
allele is a variant of a gene that might actually be part of the
disease process.
The
alleles for lactose intolerance and lactose tolerance represent time - tested genes of the human race, just the opposite of the
alleles of the Finnish
Disease Heritage, which are native born and recent.
With patented DNA chips and corporate backers, he is looking for
alleles that distinguish healthy Finns from patients with a family history of heart
disease.
According to the «common
disease / common variant» theory, it's not necessary that the
diseases themselves be old, just that the
alleles, the predisposing variants, are old.
Pickrell also reported that the frequency of the ApoE4
allele, which is associated with Alzheimer's
disease, drops in older people because carriers died early.
Carriers of the apolipoprotein (ApoE) ɛ4
allele are at greater risk for developing late - onset Alzheimer's
disease (AD), develop AD at an earlier age, and experience a more severe cognitive decline and shorter survival times.
The ɛ2
allele is thought to exert protection against the
disease.
In addition, in two of the datasets where researchers had age - of - onset data for age - related
diseases, they found that certain longevity
alleles also were significantly associated with reduced risks for cardiovascular
disease and hypertension.
It also contains some of the most variable human genes: hundreds of versions — or
alleles — exist of each gene in the population, allowing our bodies to react to a huge number of
disease - causing agents and adapt to new ones.
A new study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry suggests that even when controlling for the risk for Alzheimer's
disease, the APOE ε4
allele also conveys an increased risk for late - life depression.
A naturally occurring variant in a different gene, the so - called APOE2
allele, has been previously shown to protect against Alzheimer's
disease, but Stefansson says the new variant, while rarer, confers much greater protection.
«Careful analysis of the total number of repeats, the number of interruptions in the repeat tract, and the methylation status of the FMR1 gene is important for a proper understanding of an individual's risk of transmission of larger
alleles to their offspring and to their personal risk of
disease pathology.
The research also demonstrated how these non-random outcomes can be harnessed to produce a desired effect, such as a gene knockout or the reading frame restoration of a
disease - causing
allele.
Our data suggest that certain presumed null
alleles, although unable on their own to support basal transcription, may in fact have a substantial impact on
disease outcome in compound heterozygous humans, as they do in mouse models.
Despite reduced levels of mRNA expression, the homozygous lethal Xpd † XPCS
allele ameliorated multiple XpdTTD - associated
disease symptoms in compound heterozygous XpdTTD / † XPCS animals including the hallmark brittle hair and cutaneous features fully penetrant in homo - and hemizygous TTD mice (Figure 2A — 2C).
Genome - wide association studies (GWAS) have demonstrated a significant polygenic contribution to bipolar disorder (BD) where
disease risk is determined by the summation of many
alleles of small
Obviously there's considerable power to detect variants contributing to
disease in a family with segregating
alleles (rather than unrelated individuals).
This classification of
alleles as either causative or null currently defines what we refer to as a «monoallelic» paradigm of XPD
disease.
We report a variety of biallelic effects on organismal phenotype attributable to combinations of recessive Xpd
alleles, including the following: (i) the ability of homozygous lethal Xpd
alleles to ameliorate a variety of
disease symptoms when their essential basal transcription function is supplied by a different
disease - causing
allele, (ii) differential developmental and tissue - specific functions of distinct Xpd
allele products, and (iii) interallelic complementation, a phenomenon rarely reported at clinically relevant loci in mammals.
In contrast to two hemizygous XPDXPCS patients carrying the XPDG47R - or XPDR666W - encoding
alleles who died of the
disease before 2 y of age, two compound heterozygous XPDXPCS patients carrying the same XPDG47R - or XPDR666W - encoding
alleles in addition to the presumed null XPDL461V + del716 − 730 both had considerably milder
disease symptoms and survived more than ten times longer (A. Lehmann, personal communication)(Figure 5).
Although interallelic complementation between two endogenous mutant
alleles has been described in cells from a compound heterozygous patient with methylmalonic acidaemia, no observable effects on
disease outcome were noted in the patient [28].
Mostly, I was interested in two things: BRCA1 / 2 mutations and APOE4
alleles, well - established risk variants for cancer and Alzheimer's
disease, respectively.
Examples of compound heterozygous patients in which a second, presumed null
allele is likely to contribute to
disease outcome are provided above in comparison to corresponding homo - or hemizygous patients with the same causative
allele.
We further found that in about 15 % of patients with FLT3 - ITD mutations, loss of the wt - FLT3
allele can be observed, and these patients have a particularly poor outcome, with a median
disease free survival between 4 and 6 months.
However, prevailing GWA data analysis methods are focusing on the association of individual SNP
alleles with a complex
disease, although multiple
alleles are involved by definition.
DONG ET AL.The
allele apolipoprotein E ε4 (APOE ε4) is the greatest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's
disease (AD), but the role of the ApoE4 protein in AD has long been elusive.