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UC Davis Researchers Find Likely Genetic Basis of Premature Skull Closure in Infants

Genetic differences identified in children with sagittal craniosynostosis.

Sacramento, Calif. (PRWEB) November 18, 2012

"We have discovered two genetic factors that are strongly associated with the most common form of premature closure of the skull," said Simeon Boyadjiev, professor of pediatrics and genetics, principal investigator for the study and leader of the International Craniosynostosis Consortium.

"These findings may one day lead to prenatal screening and diagnostic tests for this condition or early interventions to prevent it," said Boyadjiev, who is a researcher affiliated with the UC Davis MIND Institute.

The study, "A genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for non-syndromic sagittal craniosynostosis near BMP2 and within BBS9," is published online today in the journal, Nature Genetics.

During fetal and early child development, the skull is made of separate bony plates that allow for growth of the head. The borders between the plates do not normally fuse completely until a child is about 2 years old, leaving temporary "soft spots" at the intersection of the seams.

If the bones fuse too early the condition called craniosynostosis a child will develop an abnormally shaped head. Left untreated, the disorder causes complications due to brain compression, such as neurologic and visual problems and learning disabilities. Typically, craniosynostosis requires extensive neurosurgical correction.

About 20 percent of cases of craniosynostosis have previously been linked to a number of different genetic syndromes, but the vast majority of cases (not associated with a syndrome involving other birth defects) arise without any known family history or cause. The most common form of non-syndromic craniosynostosis affecting about 1 in 5,000 newborns involves the sagittal suture, the main seam that runs down the center of the top of the skull. These cases were the subject of the investigation.

Although the condition has long been thought to be partially determined by genes it is three times more common in boys than in girls, and identical twins are much more likely to both be affected than non-identical twins the exact basis was unclear.

To help determine the cause, the investigators conducted the first genome-wide association study for the disorder, which involves scanning the entire genome of a group of people with craniosynostosis and comparing it to a control group of people without the condition. The study searched for single nucleotide polymorphisms (abbreviated as SNPs and called "snips") that are associated with craniosynostosis. SNPs are DNA changes in which a single nucleotide differs from the usual one at that position. There are some three billion nucleotides, the basic building blocks of DNA, in the human genome.

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Common Cranial Birth Defect: Mount Sinai Researchers Validate Genetic Links

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have validated new genetic links for sagittal craniosynostosis, a common birth defect in which the bones that form the sides and top of the skull, fuse prematurely.

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 18, 2012

Craniosynostosis is one of the ten most common birth defects, occurring in about 1 out of every 2,500 live births. The sagittal form of craniosynostosis, which impedes growth of the skull so that the shape becomes elongated, occurs in about half the cases, or 1 in 5,000 live births. Unless it is treated surgically to release pressure on the brain within the first year of life, it interferes with brain growth causing neurologic deficits. Non-syndromic sagittal craniosynostosis is not associated with other abnormalities.

Until now, efforts to improve the health outcomes of infants born with sagittal craniosynostosis have been limited to surgery performed by neurosurgical and plastic surgery teams. But researchers have been focusing on the contribution of genetics, as well as environmental triggers.

To investigate the genetic associations, the International Craniosynostosis Consortium studied 130 trios (the affected child and both parents). Very strong associations for genetic markers near the BMP2 [bone morphogenetic protein] gene on chromosome 7 and also within the BBS9 [Bardet-Biedel syndrome 9] gene on chromosome 20 were found, and we replicated it with 172 cases and 548 controls said Ethylin Wang Jabs, MD, PhD, Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, and Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. This association suggests that individuals carrying these genetic markers may have more than a four-fold risk of having sagittal craniosynostosis, added Inga Peter, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences. To find so much power, this is a big breakthrough.

The findings open the door to more genetic research. Investigators will pursue sequencing studies, perhaps finding other loci and genes of interest, Dr. Jabs added.

Other Mount Sinai coauthors include Monica Erazo, Xiaoqian Ye, Edmond Ainehsazan, Lisong Shi, and Peter J. Taub.

The National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention supported this research. Genotyping was performed at the Center for Inherited Disease Research at the National Institutes of Health. Participants were recruited and evaluated through the collaborative effort of the International Craniosynostosis Consortium.

One of the first of its kind in the New York area, Mount Sinais Congenital Anomalies and Craniofacial Program led by Dr. Jabs has been at the forefront of genetics and clinical research in congenital abnormalities, especially those of the head, neck, and limbs. Patients are seen by clinical geneticists that are experts in dysmorphology as well as by the Craniofacial and Cleft Clinic with a multidisciplinary team of geneticists, pediatricians, speech therapists, dentists, otolaryngologists, plastic surgery, maxillofacial surgeons, neurosurgery, and ophthalmologists, co-directed by Drs. Lester Silver and Peter Taub. The research focus of Dr. Jabs' laboratory at Mount Sinai has been to increase our understanding of the molecular basis of human malformation disorders and to develop new preventive and therapeutic interventions.

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Skin cells reveal DNA's genetic mosaic

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Contact: Karen N. Peart karen.peart@yale.edu 203-432-1326 Yale University

The prevailing wisdom has been that every cell in the body contains identical DNA. However, a new study of stem cells derived from the skin has found that genetic variations are widespread in the body's tissues, a finding with profound implications for genetic screening, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers.

Published in the Nov. 18 issue of Nature, the study paves the way for assessing the extent of gene variation, and for better understanding human development and disease.

"We found that humans are made up of a mosaic of cells with different genomes," said lead author Flora Vaccarino, M.D., the Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center. "We saw that 30 percent of skin cells harbor copy number variations (CNV), which are segments of DNA that are deleted or duplicated. Previously it was assumed that these variations only occurred in cases of disease, such as cancer. The mosaic that we've seen in the skin could also be found in the blood, in the brain, and in other parts of the human body."

The longstanding belief has been that our cells have the same DNA sequence and this blueprint governs the body's functions. The Yale team's research challenges this dogma. Some scientists have hypothesized that during development, when DNA is copied from mother to daughter cells, there could be deletions, duplications and changes in the sequence of the DNA, and an entire group of genes could be affected. This premise has been incredibly difficult to test, but Vaccarino and colleagues have done so in this new study.

The team used whole genome sequencing to study induced pluripotent stem cells lines (iPS), which are stem cells developed from a mature-differentiated cell. The team grew cells taken from the inner upper arms of two families. The team spent two years characterizing these iPS cell lines and comparing them to the original skin cells.

While observing that the genome of iPS cells closely resembles the genome of skin cells from which they originated, the team could identify several deletions or duplications involving thousands of base pairs of DNA. The team then performed additional experiments to understand the origin of those differences, and showed that at least half of them pre-existed in small fractions of skin cells. These differences were revealed in iPS cells because each iPS line is derived from one, or very few, skin cells. Vaccarino said these iPS lines could act as a magnifying glass to see the mosaic of genomic differences in the body's cells.

"In the skin, this mosaicism is extensive and at least 30 percent of skin cells harbor different deletion or duplication of DNA, each found in a small percentage of cells," said Vaccarino. "The observation of somatic mosaicism has far-reaching consequences for genetic analyses, which currently use only blood samples. When we look at the blood DNA, it's not exactly reflecting the DNA of other tissues such as the brain. There could be mutations that we're missing."

"These findings are shaping our future studies, and we're doing more studies of the developing brains of animals and humans to see if this variation exists there as well," Vaccarino added.

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Study Reveals Genetic Variations Occur At The Cellular Level

November 19, 2012

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A new study of stem cells derived from skin tissue has challenged the commonly held notion that a persons cells all share the same DNA sequence, arguing instead that genetic variation may occur to a greater extent than experts had previously believed.

Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine set out to challenge the theory that human cells are comprised of identical genetic material, and that a bodys functions are governed by that blueprint. They set out to test a competing hypothesis that as DNA is copied from mother to daughter cells, deletions, duplications, and alternations to the sequence of the DNA could occur, and could affect entire groups of genes.

According to the university, that notion has been incredibly difficult to test, but Dr. Flora Vaccarino, a professor of child psychology at Yale, and colleagues did so by using whole genome sequencing to analyze induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) taken from the upper, inner arms of a pair of different families.

They spent 24 months characterizing those iPS cell lines and comparing them to the skin cells from which they originated, and while the genomes of each cell group were similar, Dr. Vaccarinos team was able to pinpoint multiple deletions or duplications that involved thousands of base pairs of DNA, the university explained.

Additional research showed that at least half of the variations they observed pre-existed in a small percentage of skin cells. Those differences were noticeable in the iPS cells because each line of those stem cells originated from either a single or an extremely limited number of skin cells.

We found that humans are made up of a mosaic of cells with different genomes, Dr Vaccarino said in a statement. We saw that 30 percent of skin cells harbor copy number variations (CNV), which are segments of DNA that are deleted or duplicated. Previously it was assumed that these variations only occurred in cases of disease, such as cancer. The mosaic that weve seen in the skin could also be found in the blood, in the brain, and in other parts of the human body.

In the skin, this mosaicism is extensive and at least 30 percent of skin cells harbor different deletion or duplication of DNA, each found in a small percentage of cells, she added. The observation of somatic mosaicism has far-reaching consequences for genetic analyses, which currently use only blood samples. When we look at the blood DNA, its not exactly reflecting the DNA of other tissues such as the brain. There could be mutations that were missing.

Vaccarinos team, which also included fellow researchers Mark Gerstein, Sherman Weissman, Alexander Eckehart Urban, Alexej Abyzov, Jessica Mariani, Dean Palejev, Ying Zhang, Michael Seamus Haney, Livia Tomasini, Anthony Ferrandino, Lior A. Rosenberg Belmaker, Anna Szekely, Michael Wilson, Arif Kocabas, Nathaniel E. Calixto, Elena L. Grigorenko, Anita Huttner, and Katarzyna Chawarska, published their findings in Sundays edition of the journal Nature.

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Lure of riches leads to suicide in Seattle Genetics stock case

NEWARK, N.J. On April 14, 2011, James Fan stood on a parking-garage landing at Newark Liberty International Airport, a cheer-you-up letter from his young son in his pants pocket, the prospect of a four-story leap facing him.

Fan, 39, had been charged a day earlier with insider trading based on his knowledge of Seattle Genetics, a health-care company where he was manager of clinical programming. Also charged: his younger brother, Zishen, who was scheduled to take the oath of U.S. citizenship a month later.

The total take, a judge later determined, was about $200,000. James Fan was trying to help his brother, who had found himself deep under water after the California real-estate market collapsed in 2008, prosecutors said later.

The Fan case is such a cautionary tale, said Jenny Durkan, the U.S. attorney in Seattle. Both brothers were promising.

The markets are awash in insider trading, and the health-care industry has been particularly hard-hit. Health-care businesses offer illegal traders more opportunities to profit than the finance and technology sectors that have traditionally been prime victims of insiders who leaked confidential data about earnings or deals.

Health companies can live or die on the results of drug trials, which stretch for years before regulators make decisions that can trigger hundreds of millions of dollars in profits or losses. And the industry has undergone significant consolidation, leading to several multibillion-dollar mergers.

The lineup of accused health-industry insider traders illustrates how widespread the illegal practice has become: chief executive officers, hedge-fund traders, bankers, lawyers, doctors, accountants, a retired Delta Air Lines pilot, a film producer and a member of Major League Baseballs Hall of Fame have been charged or sued by regulators.

Health care is particularly attractive to criminals because so much turns on the government regulatory approval, said Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. attorney for Maryland, whose office helped prosecute the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) case. If you have a pending application for a new drug, the difference between yes and no on approvals can be tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Fans are among at least 75 people sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or charged since 2008 with passing or receiving insider-trading tips involving pharmaceutical, biotechnology or other health care stocks.

One health-care inside trader turned informant told the FBI he was once on a golf course with three doctors whose beepers all went off at the same moment with the same inside tip.

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