• AtHESPERIN: A novel regulator of circadian rhythms with poly(A)-degrading activity in plants 

      Delis C., Krokida A., Tomatsidou A., Tsikou D., Beta R.A.A., Tsioumpekou M., Moustaka J., Stravodimos G., Leonidas D.D., Balatsos N.A.A., Papadopoulou K.K. (2016)
      We report the identification and characterization of a novel gene, AtHesperin (AtHESP) that codes for a deadenylase in Arabidopsis thaliana. The gene is under circadian clock-gene regulation and has similarity to the ...
    • Deciphering osteoarthritis genetics across 826,690 individuals from 9 populations 

      Boer C.G., Hatzikotoulas K., Southam L., Stefánsdóttir L., Zhang Y., Coutinho de Almeida R., Wu T.T., Zheng J., Hartley A., Teder-Laving M., Skogholt A.H., Terao C., Zengini E., Alexiadis G., Barysenka A., Bjornsdottir G., Gabrielsen M.E., Gilly A., Ingvarsson T., Johnsen M.B., Jonsson H., Kloppenburg M., Luetge A., Lund S.H., Mägi R., Mangino M., Nelissen R.R.G.H.H., Shivakumar M., Steinberg J., Takuwa H., Thomas L.F., Tuerlings M., Loughlin J., Arden N., Birrell F., Carr A., Deloukas P., Doherty M., McCaskie A.W., Ollier W.E.R., Rai A., Ralston S.H., Spector T.D., Wallis G.A., Martinsen A.E., Willer C., Fors E.A., Mundal I., Hagen K., Nilsen K.B., Lie M.U., Børte S., Brumpton B., Nielsen J.B., Fritsche L.G., Zhou W., Heuch I., Storheim K., Tyrpenou E., Koukakis A., Chytas D., Evangelopoulos D.S., Efstathios C., Pneumaticos S., Nikolaou V.S., Malizos K., Anastasopoulou L., Abecasis G., Baras A., Cantor M., Coppola G., Deubler A., Economides A., Lotta L.A., Overton J.D., Reid J.G., Shuldiner A., Karalis K., Siminovitch K., Beechert C., Forsythe C., Fuller E.D., Gu Z., Lattari M., Lopez A., Schleicher T.D., Padilla M.S., Widom L., Wolf S.E., Pradhan M., Manoochehri K., Bai X., Balasubramanian S., Boutkov B., Eom G., Habegger L., Hawes A., Krasheninina O., Lanche R., Mansfield A.J., Maxwell E.K., Nafde M., O'Keeffe S., Orelus M., Panea R., Polanco T., Rasool A., Salerno W., Staples J.C., Li D., Sharma D., Banerjee I., Bovijn J., Locke A., Verweij N., Haas M., Hindy G., De T., Akbari P., Sosina O., Ferreira M.A.R., Jones M.B., Mighty J., LeBlanc M.G., Mitnaul L.J., Babis G.C., Cheung J.P.Y., Kang J.H., Kraft P., Lietman S.A., Samartzis D., Slagboom P.E., Stefansson K., Thorsteinsdottir U., Tobias J.H., Uitterlinden A.G., Winsvold B., Zwart J.-A., Davey Smith G., Sham P.C., Thorleifsson G., Gaunt T.R., Morris A.P., Valdes A.M., Tsezou A., Cheah K.S.E., Ikegawa S., Hveem K., Esko T., Wilkinson J.M., Meulenbelt I., Lee M.T.M., van Meurs J.B.J., Styrkársdóttir U., Zeggini E., arcOGEN Consortium, HUNT All-In Pain, ARGO Consortium, Regeneron Genetics Center (2021)
      Osteoarthritis affects over 300 million people worldwide. Here, we conduct a genome-wide association study meta-analysis across 826,690 individuals (177,517 with osteoarthritis) and identify 100 independently associated ...
    • Decoding the reproductive system of the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae 

      Gregoriou M.-E., Reczko M., Kakani E.G., Tsoumani K.T., Mathiopoulos K.D. (2021)
      In most diploid organisms, mating is a prerequisite for reproduction and, thus, critical to the maintenance of their population and the perpetuation of the species. Besides the importance of understanding the fundamentals ...
    • Detection of mitochondrial transfer RNA (mt-tRNA) gene mutations in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and sarcoidosis 

      Daniil Z., Kotsiou O.S., Grammatikopoulos A., Peletidou S., Gkika H., Malli F., Antoniou K., Vasarmidi E., Mamuris Z., Gourgoulianis K., Zifa E. (2018)
      Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species production may lead to tissue injury associated with two respiratory disorders of unknown origin which are shared by common tissue fibrosis, IPF and sarcoidosis. Sequence analysis of ...
    • Drug genetic associations with COVID-19 manifestations: a data mining and network biology approach 

      Charitou T., Kontou P.I., Tamposis I.A., Pavlopoulos G.A., Braliou G.G., Bagos P.G. (2022)
      Available drugs have been used as an urgent attempt through clinical trials to minimize severe cases of hospitalizations with Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), however, there are limited data on common pharmacogenomics ...
    • Emergence of sequence type 11 Klebsiella pneumoniae coproducing NDM-1 and VIM-1 metallo-β-lactamases in a Greek hospital 

      Papagiannitsis C.C., Malli E., Florou Z., Sarrou S., Hrabak J., Mantzarlis K., Zakynthinos E., Petinaki E. (2017)
      Sequence type 11 Klebsiella pneumoniae, coproducing NDM-1 and VIM-1 metallo-β-lactamases, were isolated in a Greek hospital. blaNDM-1 was part of a Tn125 derivative, located on an ~90-kb plasmid similar to the NDM-1-encoding ...
    • Emerging molecular networks common in ionizing radiation, immune and inflammatory responses by employing bioinformatics approaches 

      Georgakilas, A. G.; Pavlopoulou, A.; Louka, M.; Nikitaki, Z.; Vorgias, C. E.; Bagos, P. G.; Michalopoulos, I. (2015)
      Efficient radiation therapy is characterized by enhanced tumor cell killing involving the activation of the immune system (tumor immunogenicity) but at the same time minimizing chronic inflammation and radiation adverse ...
    • Evaluation of 12 GWAS-drawn SNPs as biomarkers of rheumatoid arthritis response to TNF inhibitors. A potential SNP association with response to etanercept 

      Ferreiro-Iglesias A., Montes A., Perez-Pampin E., Cañete J.D., Raya E., Magro-Checa C., Vasilopoulos Y., Caliz R., Ferrer M.A., Joven B., Carreira P., Balsa A., Salcedo D.P., Blanco F.J., Moreno-Ramos M.J., Manrique-Arija S., Del Carmen Ordonez M., Alegre-Sancho J.J., Narvaez J., Navarro-Sarabia F., Moreira V., Valor L., Garcia-Portales R., Marquez A., Gomez-Reino J.J., Martin J., Gonzalez A. (2019)
      Research in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is increasingly focused on the discovery of biomarkers that could enable personalized treatments. The genetic biomarkers associated with the response to TNF inhibitors (TNFi) are among ...
    • Expression profile of the GA733 gene family in colorectal cancer: Correlation with clinicopathological parameters 

      Mamaloudis I., Zacharoulis D., Samara M., Papadopoulos G., Samara S., Koukoulis G., Chatzitheofilou C., Kollia P. (2015)
      GA733-1/-2/-3 genes have been detected in various types of cancer, although their role has not been fully clarified. GA733-2 and GA733-1 have been correlated with lymph node metastases in laryngeal cancer and liver metastases, ...
    • Genome-wide Association and Meta-analysis of Age at Onset in Parkinson Disease: Evidence from the COURAGE-PD Consortium 

      Grover S., Sreelatha A.A.K., Pihlstrom L., Domenighetti C., Schulte C., Sugier P.-E., Radivojkov-Blagojevic M., Lichtner P., Mohamed O., Portugal B., Landoulsi Z., May P., Bobbili D., Edsall C., Bartusch F., Hanussek M., Krüger J., Hernandez D.G., Blauwendraat C., Mellick G.D., Zimprich A., Pirker W., Tan M., Rogaeva E., Lang A., Koks S., Taba P., Lesage S., Brice A., Corvol J.-C., Chartier-Harlin M.-C., Mutez E., Brockmann K., Deutschländer A.B., Hadjigeorgiou G.M., Dardiotis E., Stefanis L., Simitsi A.M., Valente E.M., Petrucci S., Straniero L., Zecchinelli A., Pezzoli G., Brighina L., Ferrarese C., Annesi G., Quattrone A., Gagliardi M., Burbulla L.F., Matsuo H., Kawamura Y., Hattori N., Nishioka K., Chung S.J., Kim Y.J., Pavelka L., Van De Warrenburg B.P.C., Bloem B.R., Singleton A.B., Aasly J., Toft M., Guedes L.C., Ferreira J.J., Bardien S., Carr J., Tolosa E., Ezquerra M., Pastor P., Diez-Fairen M., Wirdefeldt K., Pedersen N.L., Ran C., Belin A.C., Puschmann A., Hellberg C., Clarke C.E., Morrison K.E., Krainc D., Farrer M.J., Kruger R., Elbaz A., Gasser T., Sharma M. (2022)
      Background and Objectives Considerable heterogeneity exists in the literature concerning genetic determinants of the age at onset (AAO) of Parkinson disease (PD), which could be attributed to a lack of well-powered replication ...
    • Genome-wide association study identifies candidate markers related to lincRNAs associated with male infertility in the Greek population 

      Kyrgiafini M.-A., Markantoni M., Sarafidou T., Chatziparasidou A., Christoforidis N., Mamuris Z. (2020)
      Background: Male infertility is currently one of the most common problems faced by couples worldwide. We performed a GWAS on Greek population and gathered statistically significant SNPs in order to investigate whether they ...
    • Identification of Chromosomal Regions Linked to Diabetic Nephropathy: A Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Linkage Scans 

      Tziastoudi M., Stefanidis I., Stravodimos K., Zintzaras E. (2019)
      Aims: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) has become a serious public health problem. Genetic factors are involved in the pathogenesis of DN, but the exact mode of inheritance is still unknown. Genome-wide linkage scans (GWLS) have ...
    • Identification of gene expression profiles in myocardial infarction: A systematic review and meta-analysis 

      Kontou P., Pavlopoulou A., Braliou G., Bogiatzi S., Dimou N., Bangalore S., Bagos P. (2018)
      Background: Myocardial infarction (MI) is a multifactorial disease with complex pathogenesis, mainly the result of the interplay of genetic and environmental risk factors. The regulation of thrombosis, inflammation and ...
    • Identification of novel risk loci for restless legs syndrome in genome-wide association studies in individuals of European ancestry: a meta-analysis 

      Schormair B., Zhao C., Bell S., Tilch E., Salminen A.V., Pütz B., Dauvilliers Y., Stefani A., Högl B., Poewe W., Kemlink D., Sonka K., Bachmann C.G., Paulus W., Trenkwalder C., Oertel W.H., Hornyak M., Teder-Laving M., Metspalu A., Hadjigeorgiou G.M., Polo O., Fietze I., Ross O.A., Wszolek Z., Butterworth A.S., Soranzo N., Ouwehand W.H., Roberts D.J., Danesh J., Allen R.P., Earley C.J., Ondo W.G., Xiong L., Montplaisir J., Gan-Or Z., Perola M., Vodicka P., Dina C., Franke A., Tittmann L., Stewart A.F.R., Shah S.H., Gieger C., Peters A., Rouleau G.A., Berger K., Oexle K., Di Angelantonio E., Hinds D.A., Müller-Myhsok B., Winkelmann J., Balkau B., Ducimetière P., Eschwège E., Rancière F., Alhenc-Gelas F., Gallois Y., Girault A., Fumeron F., Marre M., Roussel R., Bonnet F., Bonnefond A., Cauchi S., Froguel P., Cogneau J., Born C., Caces E., Cailleau M., Lantieri O., Moreau J.G., Rakotozafy F., Tichet J., Vol S., Agee M., Alipanahi B., Auton A., Bell R.K., Bryc K., Elson S.L., Fontanillas P., Furlotte N.A., Hinds D.A., Hromatka B.S., Huber K.E., Kleinman A., Litterman N.K., McIntyre M.H., Mountain J.L., Northover C.A., Pitts S.J., Sathirapongsasuti J.F., Sazonova O.V., Shelton J.F., Shringarpure S., Tian C., Tung J.Y., Vacic V., Wilson C.H., 23andMe Research Team, DESIR study group, 23andMe Research Team, DESIR study group, DESIR study group, DESIR study group (2017)
      Background Restless legs syndrome is a prevalent chronic neurological disorder with potentially severe mental and physical health consequences. Clearer understanding of the underlying pathophysiology is needed to improve ...
    • Identification of the novel HLA-DRB1*11:192 allele by sequence-based typing in Greece 

      Sarri C.A., Markantoni M., Hadjichristidoulou C., Mamuris Z. (2016)
      The new allele DRB1*11:192 exon 2 differs from the DRB1*11:01:01:01 by three substitutions. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
    • Interactome networks between the human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV), the human metapneumovirus (ΗMPV), and their host: In silico investigation and comparative functional enrichment analysis 

      Rouka E., Hatzoglou C., Gourgoulianis K.I., Zarogiannis S.G. (2020)
      Background and objectives: Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) and human metapneumovirus (HMPV) are leading causes of upper and lower respiratory tract infections in non-immunocompetent subjects, yet the mechanisms ...
    • Isolation of oxamyl-degrading bacteria and identification of cehA as a novel oxamyl hydrolase gene 

      Rousidou K., Chanika E., Georgiadou D., Soueref E., Katsarou D., Kolovos P., Ntougias S., Tourna M., Tzortzakakis E.A., Karpouzas D.G. (2016)
      Microbial degradation is the main process controlling the environmental dissipation of the nematicide oxamyl. Despite that, little is known regarding the microorganisms involved in its biotransformation. We report the ...
    • Low Prevalence of TERT Promoter, BRAF and RAS Mutations in Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Greek Population 

      Argyropoulou M., Veskoukis A.S., Karanatsiou P.-M., Manolakelli A., Kostoglou-Athanassiou I., Vilaras G., Karameris A., Liadaki K. (2020)
      Thyroid cancer is a common endocrine malignancy and displays a variety of histological patterns ranging from adenoma to malignant tumors. Molecular diagnostics have given significant insights into the genetic basis of ...
    • Meta-analysis of BCOR rearranged sarcomas: challenging the therapeutic approach 

      Kyriazoglou A., Bagos P. (2021)
      Introduction: BCOR rearranged sarcomas comprise a group of malignant mesenchymal tumors that until recently were classified as Ewing sarcomas or as undifferentiated round cell sarcomas. The identification of alterations ...
    • Meta-analysis of gene expression data in adipose tissue reveals new obesity associated genes 

      Goutzelas Y., Kontou P., Mamuris Z., Bagos P., Sarafidou T. (2022)
      High-throughput transcriptomic and proteomic data like microarray data are deposited in public databases such as Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). Omics data integration and processing from different and independent studies ...