ISSN 1662-4009 (online)

ey0015.15-7 | New treatments | ESPEYB15

15.7 NGM282 for treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial

SA Harrison , ME Rinella , MF Abdelmalek , JF Trotter , AH Paredes , HL Arnold , M Kugelmas , MR Bashir , MJ Jaros , L Ling , SJ Rossi , AM DePaoli , R Loomba

To read the full abstract: Lancet 2018;391:1174-1185Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is highly prevalent in overweight and obese children and adults. It progresses to steatohepatitis (with raised liver transaminase levels) and fibrosis, and eventually to cirrhosis. Detecting this, excluding other causes of liver disease, and monitoring its progress t...

ey0018.5-11 | Translational highlights | ESPEYB18

5.11. Crtap and p3h1 knock out zebrafish support defective collagen chaperoning as the cause of their osteogenesis imperfecta phenotype

Tonelli F , Cotti S , Leoni L , Besio R , Gioia R , Marchese L , Giorgetti S , Villani S , Gistelinck C , Wagener R , Kobbe B , Fiedler I A K , Larionova D , Busse B , Eyre D , Rossi A , Witten P E , Forlino A

Matrix Biol. 2020 Aug;90:40–60 Abstract: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32173581/In brief: Mutations in 3-hydroxylation complex genes CRTAP and P3H1 cause osteogenesis imperfecta type VII and VIII, respectively. However, the pathogenic mechanism by which these mutations cause disease remains unclear. This study points to a defective chaperone role of the 3-h...

ey0019.3-6 | Congenital hypothyroidism | ESPEYB19

3.6. Cognitive and white matter microstructure development in congenital hypothyroidism and familial thyroid disorders

K Perri , Mori L De , D Tortora , MG Calevo , AEM Allegri , F Napoli , G Patti , D Fava , M Crocco , M Schiavone , E Casalini , M Severino , A Rossi , Iorgi N Di , R Gastaldi , M Maghnie

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 Sep 27;106(10):e3990-e4006. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgab412. PMID: 34105732Brief Summary: This observational monocenter study analyzed cognitive scores of children with permanent (n=28, with athyreosis, ectopy or hypoplasia) vs. transient (n=11, with thyroid gland in situ) congenital hypothyroidism (CH) compared to healthy children (‘controls&#1...

ey0017.4-4 | Important for clinical practice | ESPEYB17

4.4. Cognitive profiles and brain volume are affected in patients with Silver-Russell syndrome

G Patti , L De Mori , D Tortora , M Severino , M Calevo , S Russo , F Napoli , L Confalonieri , M Schiavone , HF Thiabat , E Casalini , G Morana , A Rossi , LA Ramenghi , M Maghnie , N Di Iorgi

To read the full abstract: J Clin Endocrinol Metab, April 2020, 105(4):e1478–e1488Silver–Russell syndrome (SRS) is a rare condition associated with pre and postnatal growth retardation. The most common causes of SRS are 11p15 ICR1 loss of methylation (LOM) and maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 7 (mUPD7). Almost all patients with SRS have a history of intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) and may be born small for gestational a...

ey0019.9-7 | Fertility issues and reproductive outcomes in childhood cancer survivors | ESPEYB19

9.7. Fertility status among long-term childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia survivors enrolled between 1971 and 1998 in EORTC CLG studies: results of the 58 late adverse effects study

Rossi G. , Kicinski M. , Suciu S. , Vandecruys E. , Plat G. , Uyttebroeck A. , Paillard C. , Barbati M. , Dresse M.F. , Simon P. , Minckes O. , Pluchart C. , Ferster A. , Freycon C. , Millot F. , van der Werfften Bosch J. , Chantrain C. , Paulus R. , de Rojas T. , de Schaetzen G. , Rohrlich P. , Benoit Y. , Piette C.

On behalf of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Children’s Leukemia Group (CLG)caroline.piette@chuliege.be Human Reproduction, 2022; 37: 44–53. PMID: 34788455.Brief Summary: This case-control study evaluated fertility status in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) survivors enrolled in the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Ca...

ey0020.6-11 | New Genes | ESPEYB20

6.11. Identification of risk loci for primary aldosteronism in genome-wide association studies

E Le Floch , T Cosentino , CK Larsen , F Beuschlein , M Reincke , L Amar , GP Rossi , K De Sousa , S Baron , S Chantalat , B Saintpierre , L Lenzini , A Frouin , I Giscos-Douriez , M Ferey , AB Abdellatif , T Meatchi , JP Empana , X Jouven , C Gieger , M Waldenberger , A Peters , D Cusi , E Salvi , P Meneton , M Touvier , M Deschasaux , N Druesne-Pecollo , S Boulkroun , FL Fernandes-Rosa , JF Deleuze , X Jeunemaitre , MC Zennaro

Brief summary: This genome-wide association study (GWAS) reports the first genetic loci for risk of primary aldosteronism. New candidate genes and their potential mechanisms for the development of aldosterone excess are described.Primary aldosteronism (PA) is the most frequent form of secondary hypertension (5% of patients with hypertension in primary care and 10–20% of patients with hypertension referred to specialist care). PA is associated with c...

ey0021.14-15 | Bone | ESPEYB21

14.15. Dominant negative variants in KIF5B cause osteogenesis imperfecta via down regulation of mTOR signaling

Marom Ronit , Zhang Bo , Washington Megan E. , Song I-Wen , Burrage Lindsay C. , Rossi Vittoria C. , Berrier Ava S. , Lindsey Anika , Lesinski Jacob , Nonet Michael L. , Chen Jian , Baldridge Dustin , Silverman Gary A. , Sutton V. Reid , Rosenfeld Jill A. , Tran Alyssa A. , Hicks M. John , Murdock David R. , Dai Hongzheng , Weis MaryAnn , Jhangiani Shalini N. , Muzny Donna M. , Gibbs Richard A. , Caswell Richard , Pottinger Carrie , Cilliers Deirdre , Stals Karen , Undiagnosed Diseases Network , Eyre David , Krakow Deborah , Schedl Tim , Pak Stephen C. , Lee Brendan H.

Brief Summary:Heterozygous, de novo variants in KIF5B are identified in 4 individuals with osteogenesis imperfecta. Studies of these KIF5B variants in C. elegans and cell models reveal the disease-causing mechanism. KIF5B seems important for intracellular trafficking and mTOR signaling to maintain skeletal homeostasis.Several years after the description of the last new osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)-related gene, the authors repo...