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• Dental Caries: Whole Genome Association and Gene x Environment Studies

  Dental caries (also known as tooth decay) remains the most common chronic disease of childhood, five times more common than asthma and seven times more common than environmental allergies, with more than 40% of children exhibiting caries when they enter kindergarten. In 2005, it was estimated that dental health care costs were approximately $84 billion, of which 60% or about $50 billion were related to treatment of dental caries. Although overall caries prevalence has declined over the last 40 years, dental caries in the primary dentition and mean caries rates in children ages 2-11 has increased markedly over the past 12 years. Childhood caries is a serious public health issue because of associated health problems and because disparities in oral health have led to substantially higher average disease prevalence among children in poverty and in under-served racial and ethnic groups. These issues are of such concern that in 2005, the American Academy of Pediatrics made children's oral health one of their top areas of focus, as it is for the majority of the NIDCR "Disparities Centers". The etiology of dental caries has been studied for many years. Multiple factors contribute to a person's risk for caries, including: 1) environmental factors such as diet, oral hygiene, fluoride exposure and the level of colonization of cariogenic bacteria and 2) host factors such as salivary flow, salivary buffering capacity, position of teeth relative to each other, surface characteristics of tooth enamel and depth of occlusal fissures on posterior teeth. In spite of all that is known about this disease, there are still individuals who appear to be more susceptible to caries and those who are extremely resistant, regardless of the environmental risk factors to which they are exposed, implying that genetic factors also play an important role in caries etiology. This conclusion is supported by studies in both humans and animals, with the most compelling evidence coming from studies of twins reared apart in which investigators found significant resemblance within monozygotic (MZ) but not dizygotic (DZ) twin pairs for percentage of teeth and surfaces restored or carious and estimated the genetic contribution to caries as 40%. Other recent studies of twins reared together estimated the heritability for caries, adjusted for age and gender, as ranging from 45-64%. Despite the strong evidence of a genetic component to risk for dental caries, there have been only a few studies of candidate genes in caries, and no published genome-wide scans. A comprehensive genome wide search is the only approach that will allow us to identify those genetic regions likely to harbor genes increasing the risk for dental caries, and eventually to identify the etiologic genes and to explore the interaction of those genes with microbiological, dietary, fluoride, and behavioral factors that are known to be associated with caries risk and progression. Therefore, the goal of this study is to perform genome-wide association (GWA) studies of dental caries with a large panel of SNP's (610,000) in families and individuals ascertained through multiple US sites (University of Pittsburgh and University of Iowa). The v2 release of this study includes 96 additional individuals who were genotyped with the CCDG: Dental Caries and CL/P in Guatemala project (dbGaP accession number phs000440) to augment the data initially presented here. These subjects were genotyped on the Illumina 610 platform to make their data comparable. This study is part of the Gene Environment Association Studies initiative (GENEVA, http://www.genevastudy.org), which was developed through the trans-NIH Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative (GEI). The overarching goal is to identify novel genetic factors that contribute to dental caries through large-scale genome-wide association studies of well-characterized families and individuals at multiple sites in the U.S. Genotyping was performed at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR). The study was supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR, U01-DE018903). Data cleaning and harmonization were done at the GEI-funded GENEVA Coordinating Center at the University of Washington. Samples of some participants in this study were selected for further genomic analysis. These results will be available in the dbGaP CIDR study: Center for Oral Health Research in Appalachia (COHRA) Genomic Studies of Oral Health and Disease (phs001591).

  Study phs000095

• Reconstructed VDJ sequences from Smart-seq2 data

  The dataset contains reconstructed VDJ sequences (fasta files) and accompanying metadata for each cell (csv file) from scRNA-seq data generated with the Smart-seq2 protocol. The VDJ sequences were reconstructed with the computational tool BraCeR using raw fastq files as input. The dataset contains sequences from 355 IgA+ peripheral blood B-lineage cells of two untreated celiac disease patients. The sequences comprise both IgA+ transglutaminase 2-specific and other IgA+ B cells.

  Dataset EGAD50000000341

• Human brain development single cell sequencing additional samples

  69 tissue samples from various parts of the developing human embryo brain were dissociated and single cells were collected and processed without bias for mRNA-seq using 10X chromium 3' protocol. Libraries were sequenced on Illumina NovaSeq and reads aligned against the human GRCh38 genome. This is an addition to EGAD00001006049 Human development single cell sequencing, consisting of samples added after the original submission to EGA, but included in final paper.

  Dataset EGAD50000001295

• COVID-19 Challenge Project Single Cell Profiling

  Single-cell profiling of sero-negative and sero-positive humans that were inoculated with SARS-CoV-2. The cellular response during SARS-CoV-2 is profiled using single-cell transcriptomics, CITE-seq and single cell immune profiling, by sampling PBMCs and nasal swabs before and at multiple time points during SARS-CoV-2 infection. This one-of-a-kind cellular map will give unique temporal resolution of how nasal and immune cells respond to SARS-CoV-2 exposure and infection.

  Dataset EGAD00001012227

• FFPE

  The mutational status of 112 recurrently mutated genes in B-cell lymphoma was examined by targeted next-generation sequencing (NGS). Libraries were performed with 150 ng of genomic DNA (gDNA) obtained from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) biopsy using molecular-barcoded library adapters (ThruPLEX Tag-seq kit; Takara) coupled with a custom hybridization capture based method (SureSelect XT Target Enrichment System Capture strategy, Agilent Technologies Inc.) and sequenced in a MiSeq instrument (Illumina, 2x150bp).

  Dataset EGAD00001006565

• WXS and RNA-seq raw sequence data for TG project

  WXS sequence data from 112 samples, RNA-seq sequence data from 117 samples, all sequence data are raw sequence data in fastq format, sequenced by Illumina platform.

  Dataset EGAD00001007989

• Efficacy of two different FGFR-inhibitors in a patient with extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma harboring an FGFR2 mutation

  Cholangiocarcinomas (CCAs) is a type of cancer with few effective systemic therapies. Elucidation of the molecular landscape of the disease from genomic studies based on next generation sequencing (NGS) has contributed to the introduction of new targeted therapies. One of these treatments consists of a class of small molecules that target members of the FGFR family of receptor tyrosine kinases. These drugs are effective and have been approved for cholangiocarcinomas with fusions or rearrangements of FGFR genes. In contrast, the role of these inhibitors in cholangiocarcinomas with mutations in FGFR genes is less well defined. We report here a patient with a cholangiocarcinoma bearing a FGFR2 p.Ser252Trp mutation. The patient was treated with two different FGFR inhibitors, as the first caused ocular toxicity. She obtained clinical benefit from both. This case illustrates the efficacy of FGFR inhibitors on cholangiocarcinoma with specific point mutations. This is the first case to report the clinical benefit of these drugs in FGFR2 p.Ser252Trp mutation. Clinical benefit can be sustained, as seen in our patient. Our case also shows that FGFR inhibitors-induced adverse effects, such as ocular toxicities, may not recur after re-challenge with an alternative drug of the same class.

  Study EGAS50000000015

• Polygenic Risk Score for the Prediction of Breast Cancer Is Related to Lesser Terminal Duct Lobular Unit Involution of the Breast

  The Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank (KTB) at the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center is an annotated biobank, which has recruited healthy women who provided demographic, lifestyle, and cancer-related information via self-administered questionnaire, blood samples and normal breast tissues. H&E slides of the normal breast tissues were scanned for image analysis and a pathologist measured the number of terminal duct lobular units (TDLUs) ("TDLU count"). The acini count per TDLU was quantified using the TDLU analyzer software. In this analysis, we computed the recently developed polygenic risk score (PRS) based on 313 common variants for the prediction of breast cancer and related this PRS to TDLU count and acini count per TDLU. We did this for the overall PRS, the ER-positive PRS and the ER-negative PRS.

  Study phs002062

• MYC Inhibition By Omomyc Causes DNA Damage And Overcomes PARPi Resistance In Breast Cancer.

  This study investigates the role of MYC dysregulation in DNA damage response (DDR) and PARP inhibitor (PARPi) resistance in breast cancer. Using Omomyc, a direct MYC inhibitor, we demonstrate that MYC inhibition shuts down DDR genes in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), causing DNA repair defects and inducing DNA damage that synergizes with PARPi treatment. Through patient-derived models and clinical samples from metastatic HR-altered breast cancer patients treated with PARPi, we identify MYC transcriptional activity as a predictive biomarker of PARPi resistance. Digital spatial profiling (DSP) analysis of pre-treatment tumor biopsies reveals that patients with progressive disease have significantly elevated MYC signatures compared to responders. These findings support the therapeutic strategy of combining MYC inhibition with PARPi in PARPi-resistant breast cancers where high MYC activity predicts poor response to therapy.

  Study EGAS50000001347

• RNA seq of intestinal biopsies and blood cells from patients with celiac disease and controls

  This study presents RNA sequenced from several intestinal phenotypes such as from patients with damaged intestinal mucosa as well as from those without a damaged intestine but still an autoantibody response to tissue transglutaminase (“potential celiac disease”) or those with treated celiac disease. By combining phenotypes in a much larger number of tissue samples from both peripheral blood and mucosal biopsies, we found highly differentially expressed genes, but also identify genes involved in controlling and triggering celiac disease associated changes. This study identifies molecular mechanisms involved in celiac disease and new possible targets for treatment and for identification of individuals at risk.

  Study EGAS50000001104