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ey0019.10-4 | Mechanisms | ESPEYB19

10.4. Childhood body size directly increases type 1 diabetes risk based on a lifecourse Mendelian randomization approach

TG Richardson , DJM Crouch , GM Power , F Morales-Berstein , E Hazelwood , S Fang , Y Cho , JRJ Inshaw , CC Robertson , C Sidore , F Cucca , SS Rich , JA Todd , Smith G Davey

Nat Commun. 2022 Apr 28;13(1):2337. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35484151/Brief Summary: This Mendelian randomization study analysed genetic data from 454,023 individuals from the UK Biobank and 15,573 type 1 diabetes (T1D) cases from other cohorts and provides strong evidence that larger childhood body size increases T1D risk, independently from body size at birth and during adulthood.<...

ey0021.8-13 | New Hope | ESPEYB21

8.13. The role of interferon-[gamma] in autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome Type 1

V Oikonomou , G Smith , GM Constantine , MM Schmitt , EMN Ferre , JC Alejo , D Riley , D Kumar , Dias L Dos Santos , J Pechacek , Y Hadjiyannis , T Webb , BA Seifert , R Ghosh , M Walkiewicz , D Martin , M Besnard , BD Snarr , S Deljookorani , CR Lee , T DiMaggio , P Barber , LB Rosen , A Cheng , A Rastegar , AA de Jesus , J Stoddard , HS Kuehn , TJ Break , HH Kong , L Castelo-Soccio , B Colton , BM Warner , DE Kleiner , MM Quezado , JL Davis , KP Fennelly , KN Olivier , SD Rosenzweig , AF Suffredini , MS Anderson , M Swidergall , C Guillonneau , LD Notarangelo , R Goldbach-Mansky , O Neth , MT Monserrat-Garcia , J Valverde-Fernandez , JM Lucena , AL Gomez-Gila , A Garcia Rojas , MRJ Seppanen , J Lohi , M Hero , S Laakso , P Klemetti , V Lundberg , O Ekwall , P Olbrich , KK Winer , B Afzali , NM Moutsopoulos , SM Holland , T Heller , S Pittaluga , MS Lionakis

Brief Summary: This study suggests that excessive interferon-γ–mediated responses have a pathogenic role in APS-1 and provides the foundation for therapies that affect interferon-γ–mediated disease.Commentary: Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS-1), also known as autoimmune polyendocrinopathy, candidiasis, and ectodermal dystrophy (APECED), is an autosomal recessive multiorgan syndrome caused by loss-of-function variants in ...