• Assessment of the genetic and clinical determinants of hip fracture risk: Genome-wide association and Mendelian randomization study 

      Nethander, Maria; Coward, Eivind; Reimann, Ene; Grahnemo, Louise; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Wibom, Carl; Nelis, Mari; Milani, Lili; Esko, Tõnu; Metspalu, Andres; Mägi, Reedik; Funck-Brentano, Thomas; Hoff, Mari; Langhammer, Arnulf; Pettersson-Kymmer, Ulrika; Hveem, Kristian; Ohlsson, Claes (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Hip fracture is the clinically most important fracture, but the genetic architecture of hip fracture is unclear. Here, we perform a large-scale hip fracture genome-wide association study meta-analysis and Mendelian ...
    • Caspase-8 inhibition improves the outcome of bacterial infections in mice by promoting neutrophil activation 

      Lentini, Germana; Famà, Agata; De Gaetano, Giuseppe Valerio; Coppolino, Francesco; Mahjoub, Ahlem Khachroub; Ryan, Liv; Lien, Egil; Espevik, Terje; Beninati, Concetta; Teti, Giuseppe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      During differentiation, neutrophils undergo a spontaneous pro-inflammatory program that is hypothesized here to be under caspase-8 control. In mice, intraperitoneal administration of the caspase-8 inhibitor z-IETD-fmk is ...
    • Epitope-resolved profiling of the SARS-CoV-2 antibody response identifies cross-reactivity with endemic human coronaviruses 

      Ladner, Jason T.; Henson, Sierra N.; Boyle, Annalee S.; Engelbrektson, Anna L.; Fink, Zane W.; Rahee, Fatima; D'ambrozio, Jonathan; Schaecher, Kurt E.; Stone, Mars; Dong, Wenjuan; Dadwal, Sanjeet; Yu, Jianhua; Caligiuri, Michael A.; Cieplak, Piotr; Bjørås, Magnar; Fenstad, Mona H.; Nordbø, Svein Arne; Kainov, Denis; Muranaka, Norihito; Chee, Mark S.; Shiryaev, Sergey A.; Altin, John A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The SARS-CoV-2 proteome shares regions of conservation with endemic human coronaviruses (CoVs), but it remains unknown to what extent these may be cross-recognized by the antibody response. Here, we study cross-reactivity ...
    • Increased p53 signaling impairs neural differentiation in HUWE1-promoted intellectual disabilities 

      Aprigliano, Rossana; Aksu, Merdane Ezgi; Bradamante, Stefano; Mihaljevic, Boris; Wang, Wei; Rian, Kristin; Montaldo, Nicola Pietro; Grooms, Kayla; Martin, Sarah; Bordin, Diana Lilian; Bosshard, Matthias; Peng, Yunhui; Alexov, Emil; Skinner, Cindy; Liabakk, Nina-Beate; Sullivan, Gareth; Bjørås, Magnar; Schwartz, Charles; van Loon, Barbara (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Essential E3 ubiquitin ligase HUWE1 (HECT, UBA, and WWE domain containing 1) regulates key factors, such as p53. Although mutations in HUWE1 cause heterogenous neurodevelopmental X-linked intellectual disabilities (XLIDs), ...