Articles tagged "Genomics"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Prevalence of Risk Factors for NAFLD among Living Liver Donors
D. A. Axelrod¹, M. Simpson², E. Pomfret³, A. Ehrlich⁴, S. Rwema⁴, R. Chung⁴, F. Gordon⁵
¹Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa CIty, IA, ²Surgery, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA, ³University of Colorado, Denver, CA, ⁴Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁵Lahey, Burlington, MA
*Purpose: The development of non-alcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD) disease has been strongly associated with the presence of polymorphisms in PNPLA3 rs738409. When compared with wild…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Single Cell Profiling of PBMC Identifies Immune Populations Associated with High Risk of Early Acute Rejection
W. Zhang, S. Farouk, Z. Sun, W. Huang, Z. Yi, J. Fu, C. Wei, M. Fribourg-Casajuana, C. He, P. Cravedi, B. Murphy
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*Purpose: Our previous transcriptomic analysis of pre-transplant peripheral blood revealed a 23-gene set predictive of early acute rejection (EAR) post kidney transplant (JCI Insight, 2019).…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Introduction of Preemptive Pharmacogenomic Testing in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Early Evaluation of the Clinical Impact of Genomic Guided Tacrolimus Dosing
G. Girone¹, V. Do¹, K. Belfield¹, R. Pulk¹, E. Cohen¹, E. Marin²
¹Department of Pharmacy, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, ²Department of Nephrology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: Tacrolimus is widely accepted as the mainstay of immunosuppression in solid organ transplant. Inherited differences in CYP3A activity are known to contribute to dosing…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Single-Cell RNA Sequencing to Assess the Effect of IL-6 Receptor Blockade in Kidney Transplantation
A. Zarinsefat, P. Rashmi, A. Da Silva, T. Sigdel, S. Chandran, Q. Tang, J. Ye, F. Vincenti, M. Sarwal
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Prospective randomized study of IL-6R blockade with Tocilizumab for treatment of subclinical inflammation (SCI) in renal transplantation, reveals unique profiles of resting and stimulated…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Elucidating the Genetic Background of End Stage Renal Disease of Unknown Aetiology in Patients Listed for Kidney Transplantation
E. Leenen¹, B. Beck², A. Joerres¹, A. Weidemann¹
¹Department of Medicine I - Nephrology, Transplantation & Medical Intensive Care, Medical Center Cologne-Merheim, Cologne, Germany, ²Institute of Human Genetics University Hospital Cologne, Medical Center Cologne-Merheim, Cologne, Germany
*Purpose: The prevalence of end stage renal disease (ESRD) of unknown aetiology in adult patients accounts for almost 20% of all dialysis patients in Europe.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Identification of Molecular Markers for Liver Cirrhosis (NASH) by Single-Nucleus RNA Sequencing
C. Kuscu¹, A. Mouhammed², C. Kuscu³, A. R. Wolen³, J. D. Eason³, D. Maluf³, V. Mas³
¹Dept of Surgery, Transplant Research Institute, James D. Eason Transplant Institute, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ²Bioinformatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, ³Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
*Purpose: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a progressive disease and it constitutes a significant portion of the chronic liver diseases that affected more than…
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…

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