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Genetic and genomic analyses of neurological diseases in dogs as a model of rare human diseases
No full textL’identification des mutations génétiques impliquées dans les maladies rares est un prérequis pour mieux les comprendre, les traiter et accompagner les patients. Pour se faire, des modèles animaux présentant des maladies spontanées homologues aux maladies humaines sont très prometteurs. Le chien développe spontanément des maladies génétiques, rares chez l’Homme, mais fréquentes dans certaines races de chiens, ce qui simplifie les analyses génétiques. Ma thèse a porté sur deux maladies neurologiques : l’épilepsie et la neuropathie. Pour l’épilepsie, l’objectif était d’identifier des variants génétiques à partir de données de génotypage et de séquençage de génomes complets de deux races canines prédisposées. Un locus lié à la maladie a été identifié dans une race et des variants ponctuels et structuraux candidats ont été identifiés dans les deux races et sont en cours de validation par séquençage ciblé. Pour la neuropathie, l’équipe avait identifié une mutation en amont du gène GDNF, responsable d’une neuropathie sensitive chez des chiens de chasse. J’ai participé à la validation fonctionnelle de cette mutation. De plus, GDNF étant un excellent gène candidat pour les neuropathies humaines, j’ai séquencé ce gène chez 111 patients et extrait les variants de GDNF d’une base de données d’exomes et de génomes de plus de 600 patients. J’ai ainsi identifié 21 variants rares ou inconnus et les ai priorisé selon leurs impacts prédits in silico. Ces deux projets, alliant analyses génétiques, génomiques et fonctionnelles, chez l’homme et le chien, montrent le potentiel du chien pour l’identification de gènes candidats dans des maladies rares et/ou complexes chez l’Homme.The identification of genetic mutations involved in rare diseases is a prerequisite for a better understanding, therapies and care to patients. To this aim, animal models declaring spontaneous diseases, homologous to human diseases are very promising. Dogs spontaneously develop genetic diseases, rare in humans, but frequent in some dog breeds, which simplifies the genetic analyzes. My thesis focused on two neurological diseases: epilepsy and neuropathy. For epilepsy, the goal was to identify genetic variants from genotyping data and sequencing of whole genome of dogs from two predisposed breeds. A disease-related locus has been identified in one breed and candidate point mutations and structural variants were identified in the two breeds and are being validated by targeted sequencing. For neuropathy, the team previously identified a mutation upstream of the GDNF gene, responsible for sensory neuropathy in hunting dogs. I participated to the functional validation of this mutation. In addition, GDNF being an excellent candidate gene for human neuropathies, I sequenced this gene in 111 patients and extracted GDNF variants from a database of exomes and genomes from more than 600 patients. I identified 21 rare or unknown variants and prioritized them according to their in silico predicted impacts. These two projects, combining genetics, genomics and functional analyses, in humans and dogs, show the dog's potential for identifying candidate genes in rare and / or complex diseases in humans
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Research of genes implicated in canine retinopathies as models of human retinitis pigmentosa
No full textLe chien présente de nombreuses maladies génétiques dont les rétinopathies auxquelles je me suis intéressée. Historiquement, l’homme a appliqué aux chiens une sélection artificielle extrêmement forte, créant ainsi près de 400 races répondant à des besoins spécifiques. En uniformisant ainsi de nombreux traits phénotypiques et comportementaux, l’homme a sélectionné les allèles recherchés mais a également concentré involontairement des allèles délétères responsables de maladies génétiques. Ces maladies étant pour beaucoup cliniquement et génétiquement similaires aux maladies humaines, le chien constitue alors un modèle de choix pour en rechercher les bases génétiques et développer de nouvelles thérapies pour un bénéfice mutuel pour l’homme et le chien. J’ai travaillé sur l’Atrophie Progressive de la Rétine (APR) dans deux races avec le concours du Dr Gilles Chaudieu et des clubs de race : le border collie et le berger picard. Concernant l’APR du border collie, les analyses réalisées avant mon arrivée avaient identifié un locus de 20Mb sur le chromosome X. J’ai tout d’abord mis à jour les données épidémiologiques et cliniques d’environ 500 chiens et poursuivi la collecte de prélèvements. Une analyse de liaison génétique pangénomique sur 130 chiens m’a permis de confirmer le mode de transmission et le locus. J’ai ensuite conduis plusieurs analyses génétiques (« homozygosity mapping », analyses des génotypes, séquençage de gènes candidats) sans pour autant réduire le locus ni identifier de mutation causale. Dans ce contexte et grâce à l’avènement des nouvelles technologies de séquençage, j’ai choisi de séquencer le génome complet de trois chiens atteints et deux porteurs apparentés. Ce travail m’a permis d’identifier 117variants dont 9 dans le locus d’intérêt, mais aucun dans des régions codantes. Je me suis donc focalisée sur les variants de régions régulatrices pour 13 gènes candidats. De plus, j’ai identifié cinq variants structuraux, encore en cours d’étude. Concernant l’APR du berger picard, nous avons relancé le projet par la collecte de prélèvements et la réalisation d’un pedigree de 154 chiens. Ce travail a amené à une collaboration tripartite internationale par le séquençage de deux chiens atteints et deux indemnes d’APR, dont les analyses sont en cours. Cette thèse m’a permis d’aborder la génétique d’une maladie génétique rare chez l’homme grâce à un modèle spontané original ; et même si ce travail n’a pas abouti à l’identification de mutations à ce jour, ces APR restent de bons modèles génétique et thérapeutique pour les rétinites pigmentaires humaines.Dogs are affected by numerous genetic diseases including retinopathies, the subject of my thesis. Historically, humans have exerted a very strong artificial selection to dogs, thus creating some 400 breeds to perform specific tasks or to harbour specific traits. By such an homogenisation of phenotypic and behavioural traits, humans have selected desired alleles but also concentrated undesired deleterious alleles responsible of genetic diseases. These diseases are clinically and genetically similar to human genetic diseases, making dogs a model of choice to search for the genetic bases of such genetic diseases and to develop new therapies for a mutual benefit for dogs and humans. I worked on Progressive Retinal Atrophies (PRA) in two breeds, thanks to the contribution of the veterinary ophthalmologist Dr. Gilles Chaudieu and the breed clubs of border collies and berger picard. Concerning the border collie PRA, genetic analyses performed before my thesis allowed the identification of a locus of 20Mb on the X chromosome. I first completed and supplemented the epidemiological and clinical data for about 500 dogs and continued the sample and data collection. A first genetic linkage analysis on 130 dogs allowed to confirm the transmission mode and the locus. I then performed several genetic analyses (« homozigosity mapping », genotypes analyses, candidate gene sequencing) without significantly reducing the locus,neither finding the causal mutation, unfortunately. In this context and thanks to the development of new sequencing technologies, I chose to sequence the entire genome of three PRA affected border collies and two unaffected related dogs. This work allowed the identification of 117variants, 9 in the locus but none in coding regions. I thus focused my research on genetic variants from potential regulatory regions for 13 candidate genes. In addition, I identified five structural variants. The analysis of these variants is still ongoing. Concerning the berger picard PRA, we have re-initiated the project by collecting samples and designing a large pedigree of 154 dogs. This workled to an international collaboration by the sequencing of the entire genomes of 2 affected and 2 unaffected bergers picards for which the statistical analyses are ongoing. This thesis allowed me to work on the genetics of rare diseases in humans with a spontaneous and original animal model and even if thiswork has not yet reached the identification of the mutations, these two PRAs in these two breeds remain good genetic and therapeutic models for human RP RetinitisPigmentosa
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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