A2 Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä

The Finnish genetic heritage in 2022 - from diagnosis to translational research




TekijätUusimaa Johanna, Kettunen Johannes, Varilo Teppo, Järvelä Irma, Kallijärvi Jukka, Kääriäinen Helena, Laine Minna, Lapatto Risto, Myllynen Päivi, Niinikoski Harri, Rahikkala Elisa, Suomalainen Anu, Tikkanen Ritva, Tyynismaa Henna, Vieira Päivi, Zarybnicky Tomas, Sipilä Petra, Kuure Satu, Hinttala Reetta

KustantajaCompany of Biologists

Julkaisuvuosi2022

JournalDisease Models and Mechanisms

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimiDisease models & mechanisms

Lehden akronyymiDis Model Mech

Artikkelin numerodmm049490

Vuosikerta15

Numero10

ISSN1754-8403

eISSN1754-8411

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.049490

Verkko-osoitehttps://journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/15/10/dmm049490/278566/The-Finnish-genetic-heritage-in-2022-from

Rinnakkaistallenteen osoitehttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/177260219


Tiivistelmä
Isolated populations have been valuable for the discovery of rare monogenic diseases and their causative genetic variants. Finnish disease heritage (FDH) is an example of a group of hereditary monogenic disorders caused by single major, usually autosomal-recessive, variants enriched in the population due to several past genetic drift events. Interestingly, distinct subpopulations have remained in Finland and have maintained their unique genetic repertoire. Thus, FDH diseases have persisted, facilitating vigorous research on the underlying molecular mechanisms and development of treatment options. This Review summarizes the current status of FDH, including the most recently discovered FDH disorders, and introduces a set of other recently identified diseases that share common features with the traditional FDH diseases. The Review also discusses a new era for population-based studies, which combine various forms of big data to identify novel genotype-phenotype associations behind more complex conditions, as exemplified here by the FinnGen project. In addition to the pathogenic variants with an unequivocal causative role in the disease phenotype, several risk alleles that correlate with certain phenotypic features have been identified among the Finns, further emphasizing the broad value of studying genetically isolated populations.

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