Molecular Epidemiology of B cell Activation, DNA Repair & HIV-Associated Lymphoma

B 细胞激活、DNA 修复的分子流行病学

• 批准号: 7892899
• 负责人: Shehnaz Khursheed Hussain
• 金额: $ 12.25万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7892899
• 关键词: AIDS epidemiology; AIDS-Related Lymphoma; AIDS-Related Non-Hodgkin' s Lymphoma; AIDS/HIV problem; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Age; American; Amino Acid Substitution; Anti-Retroviral Agents; B-Cell Activation; B-Lymphocytes; Binding Sites; Bioinformatics; Biological; Biological Markers; CXCL13 gene; Cancer Immunology Science; Candidate Disease Gene; Cell Count; Cessation of life; Chronic; Clinical; Cohort Studies; Collaborations; Complex; Computational Biology; Computer Simulation; DNA Repair; Data; Data Analyses; Databases; Detection; Development; Development Plans; Doctor of Philosophy; Early Diagnosis; Environment; Epidemiological Factors; Epidemiology; Etiology; Factor Analysis; Family history of; Future; Genes; Genetic; Genetic Polymorphism; Genetic Variation; Genotype; Goals; Grant; HIV; HIV Seropositivity; HIV therapy; Habits; Haplotypes; Immune System Diseases; Immunoglobulin Class Switching; Immunoglobulin Genes; Immunoglobulin Somatic Hypermutation; Immunoglobulin Switch Recombination; Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes; Incidence; Individual; Infectious Agent; Institutes; Linkage Disequilibrium; Logistic Regressions; Lymphomagenesis; Manuscripts; Mentors; Modeling; Molecular; Molecular Epidemiology; Molecular Epidemiology of Cancer; Molecular Genetics; Natural History; Nested Case-Control Study; Non-Hodgkin' s Lymphoma; Other Genetics; Pathogenesis; Pathway interactions; Pattern; Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Predisposition; Prevention; Probability; Public Health; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Risk; Risk Assessment; Role; Schools; Scientist; Serum; Somatic Mutation; Statistical Methods; Suppressor Genes; T-Lymphocyte; Techniques; Testing; Training; Tumor Subtype; Tumor Suppressor Genes; Woman; Writing; activation-induced cytidine deaminase; base; career; career development; chemokine; cigarette smoking; cohort; comparative genomics; cytokine; data modeling; design; experience; genetic association; genetic risk factor; genome wide association study; high risk; high throughput technology; immunoregulation; infected B cell; infection related cancer; inflammatory marker; innovation; meetings; member; molecular marker; mortality; professor; programs; prospective; public health relevance; repaired; therapeutic development; transcription factor; tumor; years of life lost

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal describes a five-year program designed in the short-term to provide additional specific training and mentored research experience to Dr. Shehnaz K. Hussain to enable her to achieve her long-term goal of successfully launching a career as an independent academic researcher and scientist in cancer molecular epidemiology with a focus on infection-related cancers. Dr. Hussain received a Sc.M. in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins, a Ph.D. in epidemiology from U. W. Seattle, was a postdoc at the Karolinska Institute, and is currently a newly appointed Assistant Professor in the UCLA Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Hussain will meet her academic career goals with the help of a highly experienced and supportive interdisciplinary team of mentors including Drs. Zhang (cancer molecular epidemiology), Martinez-Maza (cancer immunology), Detels (HIV/AIDS epidemiology), and Sinsheimer (statistical genetics); a clear and directed career development plan including grant and manuscript writing, didactic training in computational biology, bioinformatics, complex data analysis, and issues in the design/conduct of genome wide association studies, and wet-lab training; a strong and collaborative institutional environment consisting of multiple centers, departments, and schools of UCLA; and a well-defined research project with a high possibility of being developed into an independent research program. The main hypothesis of Dr. Hussain's research project is that adverse genotypes of B cell activation-related genes will be associated with increased risk of HIV-associated non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (AIDS-NHL). Dr. Hussain will conduct a nested case-control study in two well-described HIV cohorts, the MACS and WIHS. TagSNPs in candidate genes, prioritized by putative functionality, will be genotyped in AIDS-NHL cases and matched controls. Multivariate logistic regression models and pathway-based statistical methods will be utilized to determine the association between tagSNPs and haplotypes and AIDS-NHL risk, and to examine whether these associations are modified by other genetic, molecular, or epidemiological factors. This project will integrate high-throughput technologies, innovative statistical methods, and a wealth of previously collected data to extend our understanding of NHL etiology. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) poses an important public health burden in the U.S., which is underscored by the steady rise in incidence and mortality and high number of average years of life lost. Unfortunately, the exact causes of NHL are still largely unknown. Etiological studies of NHL in HIV infected individuals, who are at very high risk of NHL, will inform future strategies for risk assessment, detection, and prevention of NHL.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案描述了一个为期五年的短期项目，旨在为Shehnaz K. Hussain博士提供额外的具体培训和指导研究经验，使她能够实现她的长期目标，即成功启动癌症分子流行病学的独立学术研究人员和科学家的职业生涯，重点是感染相关癌症。侯赛因博士获得理学硕士学位。在约翰霍普金斯大学获得流行病学博士学位，在西雅图大学获得流行病学博士学位，曾在卡罗林斯卡研究所做博士后，目前是加州大学洛杉矶分校流行病学系新任命的助理教授。Hussain博士将在一个经验丰富的跨学科导师团队的帮助下实现她的学术生涯目标。Zhang（癌症分子流行病学），Martinez-Maza（癌症免疫学），Detels （HIV/AIDS流行病学），Sinsheimer（统计遗传学）；一个明确和有针对性的职业发展计划，包括拨款和手稿写作，计算生物学、生物信息学、复杂数据分析的教学培训，以及全基因组关联研究的设计/实施问题，以及湿实验室培训；由加州大学洛杉矶分校多个中心、部门和学院组成的强大而协作的制度环境；一个明确的研究项目，有很大的可能性发展成为一个独立的研究项目。Hussain博士研究项目的主要假设是，B细胞激活相关基因的不良基因型将与hiv相关非霍奇金淋巴瘤（AIDS-NHL）的风险增加有关。Hussain博士将在MACS和WIHS这两个描述良好的HIV队列中进行巢式病例对照研究。候选基因中的标记单核苷酸多态性，根据假定的功能优先排序，将在艾滋病-非hl病例和匹配对照中进行基因分型。多变量逻辑回归模型和基于通路的统计方法将用于确定标签snp和单倍型与艾滋病- nhl风险之间的关联，并检查这些关联是否受到其他遗传、分子或流行病学因素的修饰。该项目将整合高通量技术、创新的统计方法和大量先前收集的数据，以扩展我们对NHL病因学的理解。