Publications by authors named "Bekir Karakaya"

LPIN1 deficiency is an autosomal recessive disease caused by biallelic mutations in LPIN1, where impaired fatty acid metabolism leads to stress in skeletal muscle, resulting in severe rhabdomyolysis, often triggered by fever, exercise, fasting, and anesthesia. It is the second most common cause of severe, recurrent episodes of rhabdomyolysis in early childhood which can result in serious morbidity and mortality. To date, 71 patients have been published in 20 clinical studies in the form of case series.

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Sarcoidosis is an immune mediated granulomatous disease commonly affecting the lungs. Genome wide association studies identified many genomic regions that are shared among multiple immune mediated diseases. However, gene polymorphism rs1049550 is exclusively associated with sarcoidosis, making it a key gene of interest for sarcoidosis disease pathogenesis.

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C-C chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) and polymorphisms in gene are associated with sarcoidosis and Löfgren's syndrome. Löfgren's syndrome is an acute and usually self-remitting phenotype of sarcoidosis. We investigated whether the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs1799987 is associated with susceptibility for Löfgren's syndrome and has an effect on CCR5 expression on monocytes and function of CCR5.

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Rationale: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease of unknown cause. Löfgren's syndrome (LS) is a characteristic subgroup of sarcoidosis that is associated with a good prognosis in sarcoidosis. However, little is known about its genetic architecture or its broader phenotype, non-LS sarcoidosis.

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