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Celera is conducting disease association studies to identify genetic markers linked to specific diseases for incorporation into new diagnostic products.

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Celera has discovered and replicated a number of novel genetic markers associated with common, complex diseases. Some of the findings which have been recently published or presented include:

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES

Analysis of Families in the Multiple Autoimmune Disease Genetics Consortium (MADGC) Collection
[ Published in Am. J. Hum. Genet. - February, 2005 ]

Psoriasis

A Large-Scale Genetic Association Study Confirms IL12B  and Leads to the Identification of IL23R as Psoriasis-Risk Genes
[ Published in The American Journal of Human Genetics - February 2007 ]

Celera Identifies Two Genetic Variations Predisposing Individuals to Increased Risk for Psoriasis
[ Published in AJHG - February, 2007 ]

Rheumatoid Arthritis

A Candidate Gene Approach Identifies the TRAF1/C5 Region as a Risk Factor for Rheumatoid Arthritis
[ Published in PLoS Medicine - September, 2007 ]

PTPN22 Genetic Variation: Evidence for Multiple Variants Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis
[ Published in Am. J. Hum. Genet. - October, 2005 ]

Association of the PTPN22 C1858T single-nucleotide polymorphism with rheumatoid arthritis phenotypes in an inception cohort
[ Published in Arthritis and Rheumatism - September, 2005 ]

Arthritis Foundation Names PTPN22 association as one of the Top 10 Arthritis Advances of 2004 - December 2004
[ Read the Arthritis Foundation Top 10 list]

A Missense Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism in a Gene Encoding a Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase (PTPN22) Is Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis - 2004
[ Paper published in American Journal of Human Genetics ]
[ Read NARAC press release ]

Annual European Congress of Rheumatology (EULAR)- June 10, 2004 - Berlin, Germany
[ Read press release ]
[ Presentation .pdf ]


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CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Cardiovascular Disease

Iakoubova et al., (2008) Association of the Trp719Arg Polymorphism in Kinesin-Like Protein 6 With Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Heart Disease in 2 Prospective Trials: The CARE and WOSCOPS Trials.
[ Published in J Am Coll Cardiol - January 2008 ]

Shiffman et al., (2008) A Kinesin Family Member 6 Variant Is Associated With Coronary Heart Disease in the Women’s Health Study.
[ Published in J Am Coll Cardiol - January 2008 ]

Iakoubova et al., (2008) Polymorphism in KIF6 Gene and Benefit From Statins After Acute Coronary Syndromes: Results From the PROVE IT-TIMI 22 Study.
[ Published in J Am Coll Cardiol - January 2008 ]

Shiffman et al., (2007) Association of Gene Variants With Incident Myocardial Infarction in the Cardiovascular Health Study.
[ Published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology - November, 2007 ]

Bare et al., (2007) Five common gene variants identify elevated genetic risk for coronary heart disease.
[ Published in Genetics in Medicine - October, 2007 ]

Luke et al., (2007) A Polymorphism in the Protease-Like Domain of Apolipoprotein(a) Is Associated With Severe Coronary Artery Disease.
[ Published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology - June, 2007 ]

Morrison et al., (2007) Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease Risk using a Genetic Risk Score: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
[ Published in American Journal of Epidemiology - April, 2007 ]

Iakoubova et al., (2006) Asp92Asn Polymorphism in the Myeloid IgA Fc Receptor Is Associated With Myocardial Infarction in Two Disparate Populations.
[ Published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology - September, 2006 ]

Shiffman et al., (2006) Gene Variants of VAMP8 and HNRPUL1 Are Associated With Early-Onset Myocardial Infarction.
[ Published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology - July, 2006 ]

Shiffman et al., (2005) Identification of Four Gene Variants Associated with Myocardial Infarction. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 77:596-605.
[ Published in The American Journal of Human Genetics - October, 2005 ]

Replicated Association of a Purinergic Receptor Variant With Risk of Myocardial Infarction - March 8, 2005
[ Presentation at American College of Cardiology – Annual Scientific Session 2005 ]

A Polymorphism in the Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 8 Gene is Strongly Associated with Myocardial Infarction in Two Independent Studies - March 6, 2005
[ Poster from American College of Cardiology – Annual Scientific Session 2005 ]

Replicated Associations of Genetic Variants With Coronary Artery Disease And Myocardial Infarction
A 7,500 Gene Study - March 4, 2005
[ Presentation at American College of Cardiology – Annual Scientific Session 2005 ]

5th World Stroke Congress - June 25, 2004 - Vancouver, BC
[ Poster .pdf ]

International Vascular Biology Meeting - June 3, 2004 - Toronto, Canada
[ Read press release ]
[ Poster .pdf ]

Novel Genetic Markers Associated with Risk of Myocardial Infarction From a Genomic Scale Scan of Putative Functional Polymorphisms
Poster from the International Vascular Biology Meeting
June 3, 2004 - Toronto, Canada [.pdf]

American College of Cardiology - March 8, 2004 - New Orleans, LA
[ Summary .pdf ]
[ Poster .pdf ]

Novel Genetic Markers Associated with Myocardial Infarction: A Genomic Scale Scan of Putative Functional Polymorphisms
Poster from the American College of Cardiology Meeting
March 8, 2004 - New Orleans, LA [.pdf]

13th International Symposium on Atherosclerosis - September 30, 2003 - Kyoto, Japan
[ Read press release ]

Deep Vein Thrombosis

Gene Variants Associated With Deep Vein Thrombosis
[Published in JAMA - March, 2008]

Stroke

Evaluation of the Paraoxonases as Candidate Genes for Stroke
[Published in Stroke - October, 2005]


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CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES

Alzheimer's Disease

Li et al., (2007) Evidence that Common Variation in NEDD9 is Associated with Susceptibility to Late-onset Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease
[ Published in Human Molecular Genetics - December, 2007 ]

Evidence for novel susceptibility genes for late-onset Alzheimer's disease from a genome-wide association study of putative functional variants
[ Published in Human Molecular Genetics - February, 2007 ]

DAPK1 variants are associated with Alzheimer’s disease and allele-specific expression
[ Published in Human Molecular Genetics - July, 2006 ]

Ubiquilin 1 Polymorphisms Are Not Associated with Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
[ Published in Annals of Neurology - January, 2006]

A Scan of Chromosome 10 Identifies a Novel Locus Showing Strong Association with Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease
[ Published in the American Journal of Human Genetics - January, 2006 ]

The BDNF val66met polymorphism is not associated with late onset Alzheimer’s disease in three case–control samples -
[ Published in Molecular Psychiatry - June, 2005 ]

Genetic Association of the APP Binding Protein 2 Gene (APBB2) with Late Onset Alzheimer Disease
[ Published in Human Mutation - 2005 ]

Association of late-onset Alzheimer’s disease with genetic variation in multiple members of the GAPD gene family
[ Published in PNAS - November, 2004 ]

9th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders - July 21, 2004 - Philadelphia, PA
[ Poster-GAPD.pdf ]
[ Poster-APBB2.pdf ]
[ Poster-CH10.pdf ]
[ Poster-IDE.pdf ]

Association of ABCA1 with late-onset Alzheimer’s disease is not observed in a case-control study
[ Published in Neuroscience Letters - May, 2004 ]

Parkinson's Disease

Genetic Evidence for Ubiquitin-Specific Proteases USP24 and USP40 as Candidate Genes for Late-Onset Parkinson Disease
[ Published in InterScience - August, 2006 ]

A Case-Control Association Study of the 12 Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms Implicated in Parkinson Disease by a Recent Genome Scan
[ Published in The American Journal of Human Genetics - June, 2006 ]


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CIRRHOSIS AND HEPATITIS C INFECTION/LIVER DISEASES

Guo et al., Functional Consequences of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of Toll-like receptor 4 on Hepatic Stellate Cells
[Presented at American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Nov 2-5, 2007, Boston]

Huang et al., Multiple Genetic Markers In TLR4 Region Are Associated With Cirrhosis Risk In CHC Patients
[Poster Presented at American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Nov 2-5, 2007, Boston]

Huang et al., A 7 gene signature identifies the risk of developing cirrhosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C
[ Published in Hepatology - April 2007 ]

Cargill et al., A Large-Scale Genetic Association Study Confirms IL12B and Leads to the Identification of IL23R as Psoriasis-Risk Genes
[ Published in Am. J. Hum. Genet., 80:273-390, 2007. ]

Huang et al., A Multi-gene Signature Accurately Predicts the Risk of Bridging Fibrosis/Cirrhosis in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C
[ Presented in The European Association for the Study of the Liver Meeting. April 26 -30 2006 Vienna Austria ]

Identification of Two Gene Variants Associated With Risk of Advanced Fibrosis in Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C
[ Published in Gastroenterology - 2006; 130-1679-1687 ]

Association of Fibrosis Risk in HCV Patients with a Missense SNP in Gene CPT1A - 2005
[ Presentation at 40th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) – Paris, France – April 15, 2005 ]

Novel Genetic Markers Associated With Risk Of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis In Patients With Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases - May 2005
[ Abstract .pdf ]

Identification of Novel Genetic Markers Associated with Fibrosis Progression Risk in HCV Patients - 2004
[ Presentation at American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases – Boston - October 29 - November 2, 2004 ]

Gene Expression Profiles of Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C (CH-C) Treated with Pegylated Interferon alfa-2b and Ribavirin (PEG-IFN/RBV)
Poster from Digestive Disease Week (DDW) meeting
May 15-20, 2004 - New Orleans, LA [.pdf]

Gene Expression Profiles of Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C (CH-C) Treated with Pegylated Interferon alfa-2b and Ribovirin (PEG-INF/RBV)
[ Poster presented at Digestive Disease Week – New Orleans, LA - May 15-20, 2004 ]

Extraction of HCV-RNA from Plasma Samples Using the Abbott m1000
Poster from the 2003 General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology
May 18-22, 2003 - Washington,DC [.pdf]

10th International Meeting on Hepatitis C Virus and Related Viruses - December 5, 2003 - Kyoto, Japan
[ Abstract .pdf ]
[ Presentation .pdf ]


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INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Human Papillomavirus (HPV)

A rapid method for detection of oncogenic HPV types in cervical samples
Poster from the Association for Molecular Pathology 10th Annual Meeting November 10-13, 2004 [.pdf]


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ONCOLOGY

Breast Cancer

Data Validating Its Metastasis Score as a Molecular Prognostic Tool in Breast Cancer
[ Presented as a poster at the 24th annual Miami Breast Cancer Conference in Miami Beach, FL - February 2007 ]

An RT-PCR-based multi-gene prognostic signature predicts distant metastasis of node negative, ER positive breast cancer from FFPE sections.
[ Abstract presented at ASCO 42nd Annual meeting Chicago - June 2006 ]

Translating Cancer Markers into Diagnostics Assays - American Association for Cancer Research – Oncogenomics 2005
[ Presentation at Oncogenomics 2005 - San Diego, CA - February 2, 2005 ]

24th Congress of the International Association for Breast Cancer Research - November 3, 2003 - Sacramento, CA
[ Abstract .pdf ]
[ Poster .pdf ]

Colon Cancer

CD133/Prominin-1 Is A Novel Antibody Therapeutic Target in Pancreatic, Gastric and Hepatocellular Cancers
Poster from AACR Annual Meeting, April 15-18, 2007 - Los Angeles, CA [.pdf]

Proteomic analysis of colorectal tumor cells identifies CD133/Prominin-1, a cancer stem cell marker, as a monoclonal antibody therapeutic candidate
Poster from AACR Annual Meeting, April 15-18, 2007 - Los Angeles, CA [.pdf]

Lung Cancer

Lung cancer biomarkers identified through mass spectrometry-based proteomic discovery from tissue and cell lines
Poster from AACR Annual Meeting, April 15-18, 2007 - Los Angeles, CA [.pdf]

The Use of Mass Spectrometry Based Proteomics to Identify Cell Surface Proteins Applicable for Monitoring Drug Resistance, Response and Therapeutic Targeting
Poster from AACR Annual Meeting, April 15-18, 2007 - Los Angeles, CA [.pdf]

                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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