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Immunity ; 55(6): 1051-1066.e4, 2022 06 14.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35649416

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Microbial exposures are crucial environmental factors that impact healthspan by sculpting the immune system and microbiota. Antibody profiling via Phage ImmunoPrecipitation Sequencing (PhIP-Seq) provides a high-throughput, cost-effective approach for detecting exposure and response to microbial protein products. We designed and constructed a library of 95,601 56-amino acid peptide tiles spanning 14,430 proteins with "toxin" or "virulence factor" keyword annotations. We used PhIP-Seq to profile the antibodies of ∼1,000 individuals against this "ToxScan" library. In addition to enumerating immunodominant antibody epitopes, we studied the age-dependent stability of the ToxScan profile and used a genome-wide association study to find that the MHC-II locus modulates bacterial epitope selection. We detected previously described anti-flagellin antibody responses in a Crohn's disease cohort and identified an association between anti-flagellin antibodies and juvenile dermatomyositis. PhIP-Seq with the ToxScan library is thus an effective tool for studying the environmental determinants of health and disease at cohort scale.


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Bacteriófagos , Biblioteca de Péptidos , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Anticuerpos , Formación de Anticuerpos , Bacteriófagos/genética , Estudio de Asociación del Genoma Completo , Humanos , Epítopos Inmunodominantes , Prevalencia , Factores de Virulencia/genética
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Front Med (Lausanne) ; 9: 842586, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35372396

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Background: Little is known about the spatial distribution of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) in the United States (U.S.), or their geospatial associations. Methods: We studied a national myositis patient registry, with cases diagnosed in the contiguous U.S. from 1985-2011 and comprised of dermatomyositis (DM, n = 484), polymyositis (PM, n = 358), and inclusion body myositis (IBM, n = 318) patients. To assess the association of myositis prevalence with distance from roads, we employed log-Gaussian Cox process models, offset with population density. Results: The U.S. IIM case distribution demonstrated a higher concentration in the Northest. DM, IBM, and cases with lung disease were more common in the East, whereas PM cases were more common in the Southeast. One area in the West and one area in the South had a significant excess in cases of DM relative to PM and of cases with lung disease relative to those without lung disease, respectively. IIM cases tended to cluster, with between-points interactions more intense in the Northeast and less in the South. There was a trend of a higher prevalence of IIM and its major phenotypes among people living within 50 m of a roadway relative to living beyond 200 m. Demographic characteristics, rural-urban commuting area, and female percentage were significantly associated with the prevalence of IIM and with major phenotypes. Conclusions: Using a large U.S. database to evaluate the spatial distribution of IIM and its phenotypes, this study suggests clustering in some regions of the U.S. and a possible association of proximity to roadways.

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