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Manuela</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Porras, Marta Sevilla</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Castaño, Jair Antonio Tenorio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nevado, Julián</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aguado, Jose María</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aguilar, Carlos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aguilera-Albesa, Sergio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Almadana, Virginia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Almoguera, Berta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alvarez, Nuria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Andreu-Bernabeu, Álvaro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" 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font="default" size="100%">Migeotte, Isabelle</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Renieri, Alessandra</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Planas, Anna M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ludwig, Kerstin U</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Buti, Maria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rahmouni, Souad</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alarcón-Riquelme, Marta E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schulte, Eva C</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Franke, Andre</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Karlsen, Tom H</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Valenti, Luca</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zeberg, Hugo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Richards, Brent</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ganna, Andrea</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boada, Mercè</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rojas, Itziar</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ruiz, Agustín</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sánchez, Pascual</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Real, Luis Miguel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Guillén-Navarro, Encarna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ayuso, Carmen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">González-Neira, Anna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riancho, José A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rojas-Martinez, Augusto</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Flores, Carlos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lapunzina, Pablo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carracedo, Ángel</style></author></authors><translated-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SCOURGE Cohort Group</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">HOSTAGE Cohort Group</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">GRA@CE Cohort Group</style></author></translated-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Novel genes and sex differences in COVID-19 severity.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hum Mol Genet</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hum Mol Genet</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2022 Jun 16</style></date></pub-dates></dates><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Here we describe the results of a genome-wide study conducted in 11 939 COVID-19 positive cases with an extensive clinical information that were recruited from 34 hospitals across Spain (SCOURGE consortium). In sex-disaggregated genome-wide association studies for COVID-19 hospitalization, genome-wide significance (p &lt; 5x10-8) was crossed for variants in 3p21.31 and 21q22.11 loci only among males (p = 1.3x10-22 and p = 8.1x10-12, respectively), and for variants in 9q21.32 near TLE1 only among females (p = 4.4x10-8). In a second phase, results were combined with an independent Spanish cohort (1598 COVID-19 cases and 1068 population controls), revealing in the overall analysis two novel risk loci in 9p13.3 and 19q13.12, with fine-mapping prioritized variants functionally associated with AQP3 (p = 2.7x10-8) and ARHGAP33 (p = 1.3x10-8), respectively. The meta-analysis of both phases with four European studies stratified by sex from the Host Genetics Initiative confirmed the association of the 3p21.31 and 21q22.11 loci predominantly in males and replicated a recently reported variant in 11p13 (ELF5, p = 4.1x10-8). Six of the COVID-19 HGI discovered loci were replicated and an HGI-based genetic risk score predicted the severity strata in SCOURGE. We also found more SNP-heritability and larger heritability differences by age (&lt;60 or ≥ 60 years) among males than among females. Parallel genome-wide screening of inbreeding depression in SCOURGE also showed an effect of homozygosity in COVID-19 hospitalization and severity and this effect was stronger among older males. In summary, new candidate genes for COVID-19 severity and evidence supporting genetic disparities among sexes are provided.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Peña-Chilet, Maria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Roldán, Gema</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Perez-Florido, Javier</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ortuno, Francisco M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carmona, Rosario</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aquino, Virginia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">López-López, Daniel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Loucera, Carlos</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fernandez-Rueda, Jose L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gallego, Asunción</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Garcia-Garcia, Francisco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">González-Neira, Anna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pita, Guillermo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Núñez-Torres, Rocío</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Santoyo-López, Javier</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ayuso, Carmen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Minguez, Pablo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Avila-Fernandez, Almudena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Corton, Marta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Moreno-Pelayo, Miguel Ángel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morin, Matías</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gallego-Martinez, Alvaro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lopez-Escamez, Jose A</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Borrego, Salud</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antiňolo, Guillermo</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Amigo, Jorge</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salgado-Garrido, Josefa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pasalodos-Sanchez, Sara</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Morte, Beatriz</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carracedo, Ángel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alonso, Ángel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dopazo, Joaquin</style></author></authors><translated-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spanish Exome Crowdsourcing Consortium</style></author></translated-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CSVS, a crowdsourcing database of the Spanish population genetic variability.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nucleic Acids Res</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nucleic Acids Res</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alleles</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chromosome Mapping</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crowdsourcing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Databases, Genetic</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Exome</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gene Frequency</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genetic Variation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genetics, Population</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome, Human</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genomics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Internet</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Precision Medicine</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Software</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spain</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2021 01 08</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">49</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">D1130-D1137</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The knowledge of the genetic variability of the local population is of utmost importance in personalized medicine and has been revealed as a critical factor for the discovery of new disease variants. Here, we present the Collaborative Spanish Variability Server (CSVS), which currently contains more than 2000 genomes and exomes of unrelated Spanish individuals. This database has been generated in a collaborative crowdsourcing effort collecting sequencing data produced by local genomic projects and for other purposes. Sequences have been grouped by ICD10 upper categories. A web interface allows querying the database removing one or more ICD10 categories. In this way, aggregated counts of allele frequencies of the pseudo-control Spanish population can be obtained for diseases belonging to the category removed. Interestingly, in addition to pseudo-control studies, some population studies can be made, as, for example, prevalence of pharmacogenomic variants, etc. In addition, this genomic data has been used to define the first Spanish Genome Reference Panel (SGRP1.0) for imputation. This is the first local repository of variability entirely produced by a crowdsourcing effort and constitutes an example for future initiatives to characterize local variability worldwide. CSVS is also part of the GA4GH Beacon network. CSVS can be accessed at: http://csvs.babelomics.org/.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">D1</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32990755?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Avila-Fernandez, Almudena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Perez-Carro, Raquel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Corton, Marta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lopez-Molina, Maria Isabel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Campello, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Garanto, Alex</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fernadez-Sanchez, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Duijkers, Lonneke</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lopez-Martinez, Miguel Angel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riveiro-Alvarez, Rosa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">da Silva, Luciana Rodrigues Jacy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sanchez-Alcudia, Rocío</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Martin-Garrido, Esther</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reyes, Noelia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Garcia-Garcia, Francisco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dopazo, Joaquin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Garcia-Sandoval, Blanca</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Collin, Rob W</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cuenca, Nicolas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ayuso, Carmen</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals ZNF408 as a New Gene Associated With Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa with Vitreal Alterations.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Human molecular genetics</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015 Apr 16</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/04/16/hmg.ddv140.abstract</style></url></web-urls></urls><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">14</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">24</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4037-4048</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a group of progressive inherited retinal dystrophies that cause visual impairment as a result of photoreceptor cell death. RP is heterogeneous, both clinically and genetically making difficult to establish precise genotype-phenotype correlations. In a Spanish family with autosomal recessive RP (arRP), homozygosity mapping and whole exome sequencing led to the identification of a homozygous mutation (c.358_359delGT; p.Ala122Leufs*2) in the ZNF408 gene. A screening performed in 217 additional unrelated families revealed another homozygous mutation (c.1621C&gt;T; p.Arg541Cys) in an isolated RP case. ZNF408 encodes a transcription factor that harbors ten predicted C2H2-type fingers thought to be implicated in DNA binding. To elucidate the ZNF408 role in the retina and the pathogenesis of these mutations we have performed different functional studies. By immunohistochemical analysis in healthy human retina, we identified that ZNF408 is expressed in both cone and rod photoreceptors, in a specific type of amacrine and ganglion cells, and in retinal blood vessels. ZNF408 revealed a cytoplasmic localization and a nuclear distribution in areas corresponding with the euchromatin fraction. Immunolocalization studies showed a partial mislocalization of the p.Arg541Cys mutant protein retaining part of the WT protein in the cytoplasm. Our study demonstrates that ZNF408, previously associated with Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy (FEVR), is a new gene causing arRP with vitreous condensations supporting the evidence that this protein plays additional functions into the human retina.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Avila-Fernandez, Almudena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Perez-Carro, Raquel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Corton, Marta</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lopez-Molina, Maria Isabel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Campello, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Garanto, Alejandro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fernandez-Sanchez, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Duijkers, Lonneke</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lopez-Martinez, Miguel Angel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Riveiro-Alvarez, Rosa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">da Silva, Luciana Rodrigues Jacy</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sanchez-Alcudia, Rocío</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Martin-Garrido, Esther</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reyes, Noelia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Garcia-Garcia, Francisco</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dopazo, Joaquin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Garcia-Sandoval, Blanca</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Collin, Rob W J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cuenca, Nicolas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ayuso, Carmen</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Whole-exome sequencing reveals ZNF408 as a new gene associated with autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa with vitreal alterations.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hum Mol Genet</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hum Mol Genet</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Amino Acid Sequence</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Animals</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chlorocebus aethiops</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chromosome Mapping</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">COS Cells</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DNA-Binding Proteins</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Exome</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome-Wide Association Study</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Homozygote</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Molecular Sequence Data</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mutant Proteins</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pedigree</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Retina</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Retinitis pigmentosa</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Transcription Factors</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2015 Jul 15</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">24</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4037-48</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a group of progressive inherited retinal dystrophies that cause visual impairment as a result of photoreceptor cell death. RP is heterogeneous, both clinically and genetically making difficult to establish precise genotype-phenotype correlations. In a Spanish family with autosomal recessive RP (arRP), homozygosity mapping and whole-exome sequencing led to the identification of a homozygous mutation (c.358_359delGT; p.Ala122Leufs*2) in the ZNF408 gene. A screening performed in 217 additional unrelated families revealed another homozygous mutation (c.1621C&gt;T; p.Arg541Cys) in an isolated RP case. ZNF408 encodes a transcription factor that harbors 10 predicted C2H2-type fingers thought to be implicated in DNA binding. To elucidate the ZNF408 role in the retina and the pathogenesis of these mutations we have performed different functional studies. By immunohistochemical analysis in healthy human retina, we identified that ZNF408 is expressed in both cone and rod photoreceptors, in a specific type of amacrine and ganglion cells, and in retinal blood vessels. ZNF408 revealed a cytoplasmic localization and a nuclear distribution in areas corresponding with the euchromatin fraction. Immunolocalization studies showed a partial mislocalization of the p.Arg541Cys mutant protein retaining part of the WT protein in the cytoplasm. Our study demonstrates that ZNF408, previously associated with Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy (FEVR), is a new gene causing arRP with vitreous condensations supporting the evidence that this protein plays additional functions into the human retina. &lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">14</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25882705?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record></records></xml>