ArticleScientific reports2022
Telomere length is not a main factor for the development of islet autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes in the TEDDY study.
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- Thyroid autoimmunity and the subsequent development of islet and celiac autoimmunity in the TEDDY study.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Relative Leukocyte Telomere Length Is Shorter in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Screening of Basic Psychosocial Aspects.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
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- Genetic Associations With C-peptide Levels Before Type 1 Diabetes Diagnosis in At-risk Relatives.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2025Article
- Looking back at the TEDDY study: lessons and future directions.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2025Review
- Characteristics of autoantibody-positive individuals without high-risk HLA-DR4-DQ8 or HLA-DR3-DQ2 haplotypes.Diabetologia · 2025Article
- Patterns and Determinants of Micronutrient Dietary Biomarkers and Their Associations with Dietary Intakes in Young Children.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Risk of celiac disease autoimmunity is modified by interactions between CD247 and environmental exposures.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The impact of telomere length on prostate cancer aggressiveness, genomic instability and health disparities.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Distinct transcriptomic profiles in children prior to the appearance of type 1 diabetes-linked islet autoantibodies and following enterovirus infection.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Possible heterogeneity of initial pancreatic islet beta-cell autoimmunity heralding type 1 diabetes.Journal of internal medicine · 2023Review
- Telomere dysfunction in some pediatric congenital and growth-related diseases.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Review
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Abstract
The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study enrolled 8676 children, 3-4 months of age, born with HLA-susceptibility genotypes for islet autoimmunity (IA) and type 1 diabetes (T1D). Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) was performed in 1119 children in a nested case-control study design. Telomere length was estimated from WGS data using five tools: Computel, Telseq, Telomerecat, qMotif and Motif_counter. The estimated median telomere length was 5.10 kb (IQR 4.52-5.68 kb) using Computel. The age when the blood sample was drawn had a significant negative correlation with telomere length (P = 0.003). European children, particularly those from Finland (P = 0.041) and from Sweden (P = 0.001), had shorter telomeres than children from the U.S.A. Paternal age (P = 0.019) was positively associated with telomere length. First-degree relative status, presence of gestational diabetes in the mother, and maternal age did not have a significant impact on estimated telomere length. HLA-DR4/4 or HLA-DR4/X children had significantly longer telomeres compared to children with HLA-DR3/3 or HLA-DR3/9 haplogenotypes (P = 0.008). Estimated telomere length was not significantly different with respect to any IA (P = 0.377), IAA-first (P = 0.248), GADA-first (P = 0.248) or T1D (P = 0.861). These results suggest that telomere length has no major impact on the risk for IA, the first step to develop T1D. Nevertheless, telomere length was shorter in the T1D high prevalence populations, Finland and Sweden.
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