Articles tagged "Genomics"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplantation in Inherited Kidney Diseases
Y. Caliskan¹, H. Yazici², R. Ouseph¹, Y. Ozluk³, H. Randall⁴, E. Demir², F. Savran Oguz⁵, A. Turkmen², M. S. Sever², K. Lentine¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ²Division of Nephrology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ³Department of Pathology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Center for Abdominal Transplantation, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, ⁵Department of Medical Biology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
*Purpose: We aimed to evaluate the kidney transplant (KTx) recipients with inherited kidney diseases and investigate the causal genetic variants in recipients with undetermined etiology.*Methods:…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Genetic Testing of Living Related Donors for Inherited Renal Disease Improves Evaluation and Promotes Informed Choice of At-Risk Living Donors
C. P. Thomas¹, M. E. Freese¹, D. A. Katz²
¹Internal Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ²Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
*Purpose: Living kidney donors (LKDs) with a family history of kidney disease are at higher risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) compared to LKDs without…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Transcriptomic Profiling of Paired Serum and Biopsy Samples from FSGS Patients
C. Kuscu¹, M. Kiran², A. Wolen¹, C. Kuscu¹, A. Bajwa¹, J. Eason¹, D. Maluf¹, E. Akalin³, V. Mas¹
¹Transplant Research Institute, James D. Eason Transplant Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ²Department of Systems and Computational Biology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, ³Department of Medicine and Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY
*Purpose: Pathogenesis and molecular footprints of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) after kidney transplantation whether it is primary or secondary is unknown. Herein, we studied a…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Physician Survey on Using APOL1 Genetic Testing in Live Kidney Donor Selection
M. Doshi¹, E. Gordon², B. Freedman³, C. Thomas⁴, C. Glover⁵, J. Locke⁶
¹Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ³Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC, ⁴Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, ⁵N/A, Miami, FL, ⁶Surgery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Live kidney donors of recent African ancestry are at an increased risk of developing end stage kidney disease than matched healthy non-donors. A recent…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Tissue Resident Memory T Cells in Mouse Renal Transplantation
K. Abou-Daya¹, D. Zhao¹, R. Tieu¹, R. Rammal², M. Oberbarnscheidt¹, F. Lakkis¹
¹Starzl Transplantation Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, ²American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
*Purpose: The newly identified tissue resident subset of memory T cells (TRM) provides immune surveillance in the tissue and first response against infections. They are…
2020 American Transplant Congress
High-Activity Classical and Alternative Complement Pathway Genotypes – Association with Donor-Specific Antibody-Triggered Injury and Renal Allograft Survival
R. Reindl-Schwaighofer¹, B. Mezö², F. Eskandary¹, A. Heinzel¹, M. Wahrmann¹, K. Doberer¹, A. Heilos³, G. Bond¹, J. Kläger⁴, N. Kozakowski⁴, H. Haslacher⁵, R. Oberbauer¹, O. Viklický⁶, P. Hruba⁶, P. F. Halloran⁷, K. Rusai³, Z. Prohászka⁸, G. A. Böhmig¹
¹Department of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ²Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, ³Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁴Department of Pathology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁵Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, ⁶Department of Nephrology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic, ⁷Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, ⁸Department of Medicine III, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
*Purpose: Complement may contribute to donor-specific antibody (DSA)-triggered transplant injury. Here, we investigated whether the intrinsic strength of classical (CP) and alternative complement pathways (AP)…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Genome-Wide Analysis of Epstein Barr Virus Identifies Variations in the Latency Gene EBNA3C That Are Associated with Post Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder
E. Maloney, J. Toh, S. M. Krams, C. O. Esquivel, O. M. Martinez
Stanford University Sch of Med, Stanford, CA
*Purpose: Epstein Barr virus (EBV) is a gamma herpes virus that is associated with a variety of human malignancies including EBV+ B cell lymphomas in…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Combining Pharmacy and Genome-Wide Genotyping Data to Examine Medication Regimen Complexity Indices (MRCI), Drug-Drug and Gene-Drug Interactions in Transplant Patients
L. Callans, J. Obayemi, H. Gao, A. Shaked, B. Chang, B. Keating
Penn Transplant Institute, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Polypharmacy, typically defined as the use of five or more medications, is a barrier to adherence, and the resulting complex medication regimens result in…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Role of Genetic Studies in Reclassifying Cause of End Stage Kidney Disease among Kidney Transplant Candidates
M. El Ters¹, F. Pinto e Vairo², F. C. Fervenza¹, M. Alexander³, F. G. Cosio¹, H. Amer¹, M. Hogan¹
¹Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Department of Clinical Genomics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Recent studies evaluating genetic causes of kidney disease have reclassified a subgroup of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) into collagenopathies. This knowledge has implication in…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Use of Cell-Free MicroRNAs for the Diagnosis of Allograft Rejection in Liver Transplant Recipients Using Standard and Novel Direct Detection Platforms
T. Kohut¹, B. Chang², J. Wen¹, A. Shaked², B. Keating²
¹Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ²Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Transplant Institute, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Standard immunosuppression therapy (IST) in liver transplant (LTx) recipients requires a delicate balance to prevent side effects and allograft rejection (AR). There is no…

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