Publications by authors named "Jasmine Shwetar"

Long-term allograft survival is limited by humoral-associated chronic allograft rejection, suggesting inadequate constraint of humoral alloimmunity by contemporary immunosuppression. Heterogeneity in alloreactive B cells and the incomplete definition of which B cells participate in chronic rejection in immunosuppressed transplant recipients limits our ability to develop effective therapies. Using a double-fluorochrome single-HLA tetramer approach combined with single-cell culture, we investigated the B-cell receptor (BCR) repertoire characteristics, avidity, and phenotype of donor HLA-DQ reactive B cells in a transplant recipient with end-stage donor specific antibody (DSA)-associated cardiac allograft vasculopathy while receiving maintenance immunosuppression (tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, prednisone).

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SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination elicit potent immune responses. Our study presents a comprehensive multimodal single-cell analysis of blood from COVID-19 patients and healthy volunteers receiving the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and booster. We profiled immune responses via transcriptional analysis and lymphocyte repertoire reconstruction.

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How cells control gene expression is a fundamental question. The relative contribution of protein-level and RNA-level regulation to this process remains unclear. Here, we perform a proteogenomic analysis of tumors and untransformed cells containing somatic copy number alterations (SCNAs).

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SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination elicit potent immune responses. Our study presents a comprehensive multimodal single-cell dataset of peripheral blood of patients with acute COVID-19 and of healthy volunteers before and after receiving the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine and booster. We compared host immune responses to the virus and vaccine using transcriptional profiling, coupled with B/T cell receptor repertoire reconstruction.

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Article Synopsis
  • Next-generation sequencing is useful for finding somatic mosaicism in diseases, but identifying low-level mosaic variants is challenging.
  • The new Position-Based Variant Identification (PBVI) method enhances the detection of single nucleotide mosaic variants, achieving over 85% sensitivity at low variant levels.
  • PBVI effectively identified pathogenic variants in 17 out of 26 individuals with somatic overgrowth disorders, demonstrating its potential for research and diagnostics.
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Proteus syndrome is a progressive overgrowth disorder with vascular malformations caused by mosaic expression of the AKT1 c.49G > A, p.(E17K) activating variant which was predicted to cause lethality if expressed ubiquitously.

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The clinical diagnostic criteria for Proteus syndrome were defined before the discovery of the c.49G>A; p.(Glu17Lys) causal variant and used a combination of general and specific phenotypic attributes that could be combined to make a clinical diagnosis.

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  • Proteus syndrome is a progressive overgrowth disorder linked to a specific genetic mutation in the AKT1 gene, leading to diverse symptoms like skin and bone growth, vascular malformations, cysts, and benign tumors.
  • Mouse models were created to study the effects of this genetic variant, showing a range of variant allele fractions and a variety of abnormal growths, with vascular malformations being the most common finding among the 44 models.
  • Interestingly, the presence of the genetic variant in the blood of these mice contrasts with humans, and the study indicated that variant-positive cells can promote lesion development even in neighboring cells not carrying the mutation, suggesting a complex interaction in tissue changes.
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