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Perinatal granulopoiesis and risk of pediatric asthma

  1. Benjamin A Turturice  Is a corresponding author
  2. Juliana Theorell
  3. Mary Dawn Koenig
  4. Lisa Tussing-Humphreys
  5. Diane R Gold
  6. Augusto A Litonjua
  7. Emily Oken
  8. Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman
  9. David L Perkins  Is a corresponding author
  10. Patricia W Finn  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Illinois at Chicago, United States
  2. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States
  3. University of Rochester, United States
  4. Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63745
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  1. Benjamin A Turturice
  2. Juliana Theorell
  3. Mary Dawn Koenig
  4. Lisa Tussing-Humphreys
  5. Diane R Gold
  6. Augusto A Litonjua
  7. Emily Oken
  8. Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman
  9. David L Perkins
  10. Patricia W Finn
(2021)
Perinatal granulopoiesis and risk of pediatric asthma
eLife 10:e63745.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63745
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Abstract

There are perinatal characteristics, such as gestational age, reproducibly associated with risk for pediatric asthma. Identification of biologic processes influenced by these characteristics could facilitate risk stratification or new therapeutic targets. We hypothesized that transcriptional changes associated with multiple epidemiologic risk factors would be mediators of pediatric asthma risk. Using publicly available transcriptomic data from cord blood mononuclear cells, transcription of genes involved in myeloid differentiation were observed to be inversely associated with a pediatric asthma risk stratification based on multiple perinatal risk factors. This gene signature was validated in an independent prospective cohort and was specifically associated with genes localizing to neutrophil specific granules. Further validation demonstrated that umbilical cord blood serum concentration of PGLYRP-1, a specific granule protein, was inversely associated with mid-childhood current asthma and early-teen FEV1/FVCx100. Thus, neutrophil specific granule abundance at birth predicts risk for pediatric asthma and pulmonary function in adolescence.

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Data from RNAseq is available on NCBI Bioproject database PRJNA577955.

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  1. Benjamin A Turturice

    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States
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  2. Juliana Theorell

    Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States
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  3. Mary Dawn Koenig

    Department of Women, Children and Family Health Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States
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  4. Lisa Tussing-Humphreys

    Department of Medicine and Cancer Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States
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  5. Diane R Gold

    Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
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  6. Augusto A Litonjua

    Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Rochester, United States
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  7. Emily Oken

    Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Life Course, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, United States
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  8. Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman

    Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Life Course, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, United States
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  9. David L Perkins

    Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States
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    perkinsd@uic.edu
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  10. Patricia W Finn

    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States
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    pwfinn@uic.edu
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Funding

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (F30HL136001)

  • Benjamin A Turturice

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI053878)

  • Patricia W Finn

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD034568)

  • Emily Oken

National Institutes of Health (UH3OD023286)

  • Emily Oken

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Nurse Faculty Scholars Program #72117)

  • Mary Dawn Koenig

University of Illinois at Chicago (College of Nursing Dean's Award)

  • Mary Dawn Koenig

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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Human subjects: The current study was approved by the University of Illinois at Chicago IRB, 20160326 and 20150353, and the IRB of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

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© 2021, Turturice et al.

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  1. Benjamin A Turturice
  2. Juliana Theorell
  3. Mary Dawn Koenig
  4. Lisa Tussing-Humphreys
  5. Diane R Gold
  6. Augusto A Litonjua
  7. Emily Oken
  8. Sheryl L Rifas-Shiman
  9. David L Perkins
  10. Patricia W Finn
(2021)
Perinatal granulopoiesis and risk of pediatric asthma
eLife 10:e63745.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63745

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