T-cell receptor repertoire analysis in monozygotic twins concordant and discordant for type 1 diabetes. (Articolo in rivista)

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• Articolo in rivista (Classe)
• Prodotto della ricerca (Classe)

Label

• T-cell receptor repertoire analysis in monozygotic twins concordant and discordant for type 1 diabetes. (Articolo in rivista) (literal)

Anno

• 2012-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)

Alternative label

• Fozza C, Contini S, Corda G, Virdis P, Galleu A, Bonfigli S, Pacifico A, Maioli M, Mastinu F, Pitzalis M, Cucca F, Longinotti M. (2012)
  T-cell receptor repertoire analysis in monozygotic twins concordant and discordant for type 1 diabetes.
  in Immunobiology (1979)
  (literal)

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• Fozza C, Contini S, Corda G, Virdis P, Galleu A, Bonfigli S, Pacifico A, Maioli M, Mastinu F, Pitzalis M, Cucca F, Longinotti M. (literal)

Pagina inizio

• 920 (literal)

Pagina fine

• 925 (literal)

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• 217 (literal)

Rivista

• Immunobiology (Rivista)

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• 9 (literal)

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• Istituto di ematologia, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy Istituto di Clinica Medica, Servizio di Diabetologia, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy Unità Operativa di Diabetologia, Ospedale San Martino, Oristano, Italy Istituto di Genetica Medica, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari, Sassari, Italy (literal)

Titolo

• T-cell receptor repertoire analysis in monozygotic twins concordant and discordant for type 1 diabetes. (literal)

Abstract

• Several data suggest that stochastic rearrangements of the TCR could play a pathogenic role in both disease predisposition and protection in type 1 diabetes (T1D). As twin sets offer an enormous potential in evaluating the role of genetic and environmental factors in susceptibility to disease, the main goal of this study was to assess whether the degree of sharing of the expressed TCR repertoire of twin pairs discordant for T1D differs from that of disease concordant pairs. We performed our analysis in 5 pairs of monozygotic twins, 3 of which were concordant and 2 discordant for T1D, by combining flow cytometry and CDR3 spectratyping on both CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells. Our data show that TCR repertoires show increased level of concordance within each twin pair, especially in CD8+ cells, in terms of mean BV expression levels on flow cytometry as well as of CDR3 patterns and frequencies of skewed or oligoclonal BV subfamilies on spectratyping. It is worth noting that the degree of similarity among twins seems to be independent of concordance or discordance for T1D. Our findings seem to suggest that in monozygotic twins with T1D the TCR repertoire is influenced by genetic factors more than by the presence of the autoimmune disorder itself. (literal)

Prodotto di

• Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB) (Istituto)

Autore CNR

• MARISTELLA PITZALIS (Persona)
• FRANCESCO CUCCA (Unità di personale interno)

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Autore CNR di

• FRANCESCO CUCCA (Unità di personale interno)
• MARISTELLA PITZALIS (Persona)

Prodotto

• Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica (IRGB) (Istituto)

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• Immunobiology (Rivista)