• Metabolic Signature of Dietary Iron Overload in a Mouse Model 

  Volani C; Paglia G; Smarason S; Pramstaller PP; Demetz E; Pfeifhofer-Obermair C; Weiss G (2018)

  Iron is an essential co-factor for several metabolic processes, including the Krebs cycle and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. Therefore, maintaining an appropriate iron balance is essential to ensure sufficient ...
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  Dossier Aritmie / Herzrhythmusstörungen 

  Rossini A; Rauhe W (Eurac Research, 2019)

  In occasione della Giornata mondiale del cuore 2019, questo dossier racconta come i medici dell'Ospedale di Bolzano e le ricercatrici di Eurac Research collaborano per studiare e curare le artimie. La quotidianità in corsia ...
• Lipidomics, Atrial Conduction, and Body Mass Index 

  Del Greco M F; Foco L; Teumer A; Verweij N; Paglia G; Meraviglia V; Melotti R; Vukovic V; Rauhe W; Joshi PK; Demirkan A; Felix SB; Pietzner M; Said MA; van de Vegte YJ; van der Harst P; Wright AF; Hicks AA; Campbell H; Dörr M; Snieder H; Wilson JF; Pramstaller PP; Rossini A; Pattaro C. (2019)

  BACKGROUND: Lipids are increasingly involved in cardiovascular risk prediction as potential proarrhythmic influencers. However, knowledge is limited about the specific mechanisms connecting lipid alterations with atrial ...
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  ensembldb: an R package to create and use Ensembl-based annotation resources. 

  Rainer J; Gatto L; Weichenberger CX (2019)

  Bioinformatics research frequently involves handling gene-centric data such as exons, transcripts, proteins, and their positions relative to a reference coordinate system. The ensembldb Bioconductor package retrieves and ...
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  Data in question: A survey of European biobank professionals on ethical, legal and societal challenges of biobank research 

  Goisauf M; Gillian M; Bentzen H B; Budin-Ljøsne I; Ursin L; Durnová A; Leitsalu L; Smith K; Casati S; Lavitrano M; Mascalzoni D; Boeckhout M; Mayrhofer MT (2019)

  Biobanks have evolved, and their governance procedures have undergone important transformations. Our paper examines this issue by focusing on the perspective of the professionals working in management or scientific roles ...
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  Compound heterozygous SZT2 mutations in two siblings with early-onset epilepsy, intellectual disability and macrocephaly 

  Domingues FS; König E; Schwienbacher C; Volpato CB; Picard A; Cantaloni C; Mascalzoni D; Lackner P; Heimbach A; Hoffmann P; Stanzial F; Hicks AA; Parmeggiani L; Benedicenti F; Pellegrin S; Casara G; Pramstaller PP (2019)

  PURPOSE: Mutations in SZT2 have been previously reported in several cases of early onset epilepsy and intellectual disability. In this study we investigate potential causal mutations in two male siblings affected by early ...
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  Subchronic Exposure to Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Modifies Cardiac Structure and Performance in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats 

  Rossi S; Savi M; Mazzola M; Pinelli S; Alinovi R; Gennaccaro L; Pagliaro A; Meraviglia V; Galetti M; Lozano-Garcia O; Rossini A; Frati C; Falco A; Quaini F; Bocchi L; Stilli D; Lucas S; Goldoni M; Macchi E; Mutti A; Miragoli M (2019)

  BACKGROUND: Non-communicable diseases, intended as the results of a combination of inherited, environmental and biological factors, kill 40 million people each year, equivalent to roughly 70% of all premature deaths ...
• A Negative Association Between Lithium in Drinking Water and the Incidences of Homicides, in Greece 

  Giotakos O; Tsouvelas G; Nisianakis P; Giakalou V; Lavdas AΑ; Tsiamitas C; Panagiotis K; Kontaxakis V (2015)
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  Modeling Parkinson's disease in midbrain-like organoids 

  Smits LM; Reinhardt L; Reinhardt P; Glatza M; Monzel AS; Stanslowsky N; Rosato-Siri MD; Zanon A; Antony PM; Bellmann J; Nicklas SM; Hemmer K; Qing X; Berger E; Kalmbach N; Ehrlich M; Bolognin S; Hicks AA; Wegner F; Sterneckert JL; Schwamborn JC (2019)

  Modeling Parkinson's disease (PD) using advanced experimental in vitro models is a powerful tool to study disease mechanisms and to elucidate unexplored aspects of this neurodegenerative disorder. Here, we demonstrate that ...
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  Plasmid-normalized quantification of relative mitochondrial DNA copy number 

  Fazzini F; Schoepf B; Blatzer M; Coassin S; Hicks AA; Kronenberg F; Fendt L (2018)
• Are Requirements to Deposit Data in Research Repositories Compatible With the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation? 

  Mascalzoni D; Bentzen HB; Budin-Ljosne I; Bygrave LA; Bell J; Dove ES; Fuchsberger C; Hveem K; Mayrhofer MT; Meraviglia V; O'Brien DR; Pattaro C; Pramstaller PP; Rakic V; Rossini A; Shabani M; Svantesson DJB; Tomasi M; Ursin L; Wjst M; Kaye J (2019)
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  Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 of 2013: Implications for biobanks 

  Staunton C; de Stadler E (2019)

  The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) No. 4 of 2013 is the first comprehensive data-protection regulation to be passed in South Africa (SA). Its objectives include giving effect to the constitutional right to ...
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  The GDPR and the research exemption: considerations on the necessary safeguards for research biobanks. 

  Staunton C; Slokenberga S; Mascalzoni D (2019)

  The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May 2018. The aspiration of providing for a high level of protection to individuals' personal data risked placing considerable constraints on scientific ...
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  Improving the accuracy of two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization: moving beyond the NOME assumption 

  Bowden J; Del Greco M F; Minelli C; Zhao Q; Lawlor DA; Sheehan NA; Thompson J; Smith GD (2018)

  Background Two-sample summary-data Mendelian randomization (MR) incorporating multiple genetic variants within a meta-analysis framework is a popular technique for assessing causality in epidemiology. If all genetic ...
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  The Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Suberoylanilide Hydroxamic Acid (SAHA) Restores Cardiomyocyte Contractility in a Rat Model of Early Diabetes 

  Bocchi L; Motta BM; Savi M; Vilella R; Meraviglia V; Rizzi F; Galati S; Buschini A; Lazzaretti M; Pramstaller PP; Rossini A; Stilli D (2019)

  In early diabetes, hyperglycemia and the associated metabolic dysregulation promote early changes in the functional properties of cardiomyocytes, progressively leading to the appearance of the diabetic cardiomyopathy ...
• Functional Effects of Striatin Knockout in Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes 

  Rosato Siri MD (2017)
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  Statins are protective against appropriate ICD intervention in patients with non-ischemic hypokinetic cardiomyopathy 

  Manfrin M; Foco L; Cima A; Oberhollenzer R; Bonmassari R; Pramstaller PP; Marini M; Cemin R (2017)
• Mendelian Randomization 

  Grover S; Stein CM; Ziegler A; Del Greco M F (2017)

  Confounding and reverse causality have prevented us from drawing meaningful clinical interpretation even in well-powered observational studies. Confounding may be attributed to our inability to randomize the exposure ...
• emeraLD: rapid linkage disequilibrium estimation with massive datasets 

  Quick C; Fuchsberger C; Taliun D; Abecasis G; Boehnke M; Kang HM (2018)

  Estimating linkage disequilibrium (LD) is essential for a wide range of summary statistics-based association methods for genome-wide association studies. Large genetic datasets, e.g. the TOPMed WGS project and UK Biobank, ...
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  Genome-wide association meta-analysis of PR interval identifies 50 novel loci associated with atrial and atrioventricular electrical activity 

  van Setten J; Brody JA; Jamshidi Y; Swenson BR; Butler AM; Campbell H; Del Greco M F; Evans DS; Gibson Q; Gudbjartsson DF; Kerr KF; Krijthe BP; Lyytikäinen LP; Müller C; Müller-Nurasyid M; Nolte IM; Padmanabhan S; Ritchie MD; Robino A; Smith AV; Steri M; Tanaka T; Teumer A; Trompet S; Ulivi S; Verweij N; Yin X; Arnar DO; Asselbergs FW; Bader JS; Barnard J; Bis S; Blankenberg S; Boerwinkle E; Bradford Y; Buckley BM; Chung MK; Crawford D; den Hoed M; Denny JC; Dominiczak AF; Ehret GB; Eijgelsheim M; Ellinor PT; Felix SB; Franco OH; Franke L; Harris TB; Holm H; Gandin I; Iorio A; Kähönen M; Kolcic I; Kors JA; Lakatta EG; Launer LJ; Lin H; Lin HJ; Loos RJF; Lubitz SA; Macfarlane PW; Magnani JW; Mateo Leach I; Meitinger T; Mitchell BD; Munzel T; Papanicolaou GJ; Peters A; Pfeufer A; Pramstaller PP; Raitakari OT; Rotter JI; Rudan I; Samani NJ; Schlessinger D; Silva Aldana CT; Sinner MF; Smith JD; Snieder H; Soliman EZ; Spector TD; Stott DJ; Strauch K; Tarasov KV; Thorsteinsdottir U; Uitterlinden AG; Van Wagoner DR; Völker U; Völzke H; Waldenberger M; Jan Westra H; Wild PS; Zeller T; Alonso A; Avery CL; Bandinelli S; Benjamin EJ; Cucca F; Dörr M; Ferrucci L; Gasparini P; Gudnason V; Hayward C; Heckbert SR; Hicks AA; Wouter Jukema J; Kääb S; Lehtimäki T; Liu Y; Munroe PB; Parsa A; Polasek O; Psaty BM; Roden DM; Schnabel RB; Sinagra G; Stefansson K; Stricker BH; van der Harst P; van Duijn CM; Wilson JF; Gharib SA; de Bakker PIW; Isaacs A; Arking DE; Sotoodehnia N (2018)

  Electrocardiographic PR interval measures atrio-ventricular depolarization and conduction, and abnormal PR interval is a risk factor for atrial fibrillation and heart block. Our genome-wide association study of over 92,000 ...

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