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ReviewSeminars in immunopathology2012

Early life precursors, epigenetics, and the development of food allergy.

Xiumei Hong, Xiaobin Wang

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Review in Seminars in immunopathology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. The methylation profile ofFrontiers in immunology · 2023
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  17. Epigenetic Changes During Food-Specific Immunotherapy.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2016
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  19. Regulatory T cells in allergic diseases.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xiumei HongCenter on the Early Life Origins of Disease, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205-2179, USA. xhong@jhsph.edu.
Xiaobin Wang
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Preterm Birth, Maternal and Cord Blood Metabolome, and Child Metabolic RiskR01HD041702 · NICHD · LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO · PI Frank B Hu, XIAOBIN WANG · 2001 to 2026
$11.1M
Post Genome-Wide Association Study of Food AllergyU01AI090727 · NIAID · LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO · PI WANG, XIAOBIN · 2010 to 2014
$2.3M
Establishing Precursors of Food Allergy in NewbornsR21AI079872 · NIAID · LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO · PI WANG, XIAOBIN · 2008 to 2009
$447k
Epigenome Association Study of Food AllergyR21AI088609 · NIAID · LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO · PI WANG, XIAOBIN · 2010 to 2011
$409k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI079872NIAID NIH HHS R21AI079872NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI088609NIAID NIH HHS R21AI088609NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI090727NIAID NIH HHS U01AI090727NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD041702
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food allergy (FA), a major clinical and public health concern worldwide, is caused by a complex interplay of environmental exposures, genetic variants, gene-environment interactions, and epigenetic alterations. This review summarizes recent advances surrounding these key factors, with a particular focus on the potential role of epigenetics in the development of FA. Epidemiologic studies have reported a number of nongenetic factors that may influence the risk of FA, such as timing of food introduction and feeding pattern, diet/nutrition, exposure to environmental tobacco smoking, prematurity and low birth weight, microbial exposure, and race/ethnicity. Current studies on the genetics of FA are mainly conducted using candidate gene approaches, which have linked more than 10 genes to the genetic susceptibility of FA. Studies on gene-environment interactions of FA are very limited. Epigenetic alteration has been proposed as one of the mechanisms to mediate the influence of early life environmental exposures and gene-environment interactions on the development of diseases later in life. The role of epigenetics in the regulation of the immune system and the epigenetic effects of some FA-associated environmental exposures are discussed in this review. There is a particular lack of large-scale prospective birth cohort studies that simultaneously assess the interrelationships of early life exposures, genetic susceptibility, epigenomic alterations, and the development of FA. The identification of these key factors and their independent and joint contributions to FA will allow us to gain important insight into the biological mechanisms by which environmental exposures and genetic susceptibility affect the risk of FA and will provide essential information to develop more effective new paradigms in the diagnosis, prevention, and management of FA.

Indexed as

EpigenomicsFood HypersensitivityGene-Environment InteractionAnimalsEnvironmental ExposureEpigenesis, GeneticGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansInfant, Low Birth WeightInfant, NewbornPremature BirthRisk FactorsTobacco Smoke PollutionTobacco Smoke Pollution

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PMID22777545
PMCPMC3439840
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