A shift towards a more plant-based diet is promoted as healthy as well as sustainable. Whether this also applies to older adults is however less clear: On one hand plant-based diets may lead to energy deficits among vulnerable older adults and therefore negatively impact well-being. On the other hand, plant-based diets have been found [...]
Hassouneh F, Goldeck D, Pera A, van Heemst D, Slagboom PE, Pawelec G, Solana R. | September 15th 2021 | Int J Mol Sci. 2021 Sep 15;22(18):9973. doi: 10.3390/ijms22189973. Abstract Cytomegalovirus (CMV) latent infection and aging contribute to alterations in the function and phenotype of the T-cell pool. We have demonstrated that CMV-seropositivity is [...]
Improved selection of participants in genetic longevity studies: family scores revisited | BMC Medicine | January 2021 Rodriguez-Girondo, M.; Berg, N. van den; Hof, M.H.; Beekman, M.; Slagboom, E. Background: Although human longevity tends to cluster within families, genetic studies on longevity have had limited success in identifying longevity loci. One of the main causes of this limited [...]
Long RNA Sequencing and Ribosome Profiling of Inflamed β-Cells Reveal an Extensive Translatome Landscape | Diebetes | October 2021 Sofia Thomaidou, Roderick C Slieker, Arno R van der Slik, Jasper Boom, Flip Mulder, Amadeo Munoz-Garcia, Leen M 't Hart, Bobby Koeleman, Françoise Carlotti, Rob C Hoeben, Bart O Roep, Hailiang Mei, Arnaud Zaldumbide Abstract Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease characterized by autoreactive T cell-mediated [...]
Distinct molecular signatures of clinical clusters in people with type 2 diabetes: an IMI-RHAPSODY study | Diabetes| August 2021 | Roderick C Slieker, Louise A Donnelly, Hugo Fitipaldi, Gerard A Bouland, Giuseppe N Giordano, Mikael Åkerlund, Mathias J Gerl, Emma Ahlqvist, Ashfaq Ali, Iulian Dragan, Petra Elders, Andreas Festa, Michael K Hansen, Amber A van der Heijden, Dina Mansour Aly, Min Kim, Dmitry Kuznetsov, Florence Mehl, Christian Klose, Kai Simons, Imre Pavo, Timothy J Pullen, Tommi [...]
Peripheral blood transcriptome profiling enables monitoring disease progression in dystrophic mice and patients | EMBO Mol Med | April 2021 Mirko Signorelli, Mitra Ebrahimpoor, Olga Veth, Kristina Hettne, Nisha Verwey, Raquel García-Rodríguez, Christa L Tanganyika-deWinter, Luz B Lopez Hernandez, Rosa Escobar Cedillo, Benjamín Gómez Díaz, Olafur T Magnusson, Hailiang Mei, Roula Tsonaka, Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, Pietro Spitali Abstract DMD is a rare disorder characterized by progressive muscle degeneration and [...]
Maxime M. Bos, Neil J. Goulding, Matthew A. Lee, Amy Hofman, Mariska Bot, René Pool, Lisanne S. Vijfhuizen, Xiang Zhang, Chihua Li, Rima Mustafa, Matt J. Neville, Ruifang Li-Gao, Stella Trompet, Marian Beekman, Nienke R. Biermasz, Dorret I. Boomsma, Irene de Boer, Constantinos Christodoulides, Abbas Dehghan, Ko Willems van Dijk, Ian Ford, Mohsen Ghanbari, [...]
Comprehensive diagnostics of acute myeloid leukemia by whole transcriptome RNA sequencing | January 2021 | Leukemia. 2021 Jan;35(1):47-61. doi: 10.1038/s41375-020-0762-8. Epub 2020 Mar 3. PMID: 32127641. Arindrarto W, Borràs DM, de Groen RAL, van den Berg RR, Locher IJ, van Diessen SAME, van der Holst R, van der Meijden ED, Honders MW, de Leeuw [...]
The Transcriptome in Transition: Global Gene Expression Profiles of Young Adult Fruit Flies Depend More Strongly on Developmental Than Adult Diet | March 2021 | Front. Ecol. Evol. May CM, van den Akker EB, Zwaan BJ Abstract Developmental diet is known to exert long-term effects on adult phenotypes in many animal species as well [...]
The trans-ancestral genomic architecture of glycemic traits | Nat Genet | June 2021 Chen J, Spracklen CN, Marenne G, Varshney A, Corbin LJ, Luan J, Willems SM, …, Erik van den Akker, …, Campbell A, Campbell H, Chang YC, de Geus EJC, Dehghan A. Abstract Glycemic traits are used to diagnose and monitor type [...]
