Linda S. Wicker

Idd loci synergize to prolong islet allograft survival induced by costimulation blockade in NOD mice (2008)

Mangada, Julie A., Pearson, Todd, Brehm, Michael A., Wicker, Linda S., Peterson, Laurence B., Shultz, Leonard D., ...

OBJECTIVE: NOD mice model human type 1 diabetes and are used to investigate tolerance induction protocols for islet transplantation in a setting of autoimmunity. However, costimulation blockade-based...

T1DBase: integration and presentation of complex data for type 1 diabetes research (2007)

Hulbert, Erin M., Smink, Luc J., Adlem, Ellen C., Allen, James E., Burdick, David B., Burren, Oliver S., ...

T1DBase (http://T1DBase.org) [Smink et al. (2005) Nucleic Acids Res., 33, D544–D549; Burren et al. (2004) Hum. Genomics, 1, 98–109] is a public website and database that supports the type 1...

Discovery, linkage disequilibrium and association analyses of polymorphisms of the immune complement inhibitor, decay-accelerating factor gene (DAF/CD55) in type 1 diabetes (2006)

Taniguchi, Hidenori, Lowe, Christopher E, Cooper, Jason D, Smyth, Deborah J, Bailey, Rebecca, Nutland, Sarah, ...

Abstract Background Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a common autoimmune disease resulting from T-cell mediated destruction of pancreatic beta cells. Decay accelerating factor (DAF, CD55), a...

T1DBase: integration and presentation of complex data for type 1 diabetes research (2006)

Hulbert, Erin M., Smink, Luc J., Adlem, Ellen C., E. Allen, James, Burdick, David B., Burren, Oliver S., ...

T1DBase (http://T1DBase.org) [Smink et al. (2005) Nucleic Acids Res., 33, D544–D549; Burren et al. (2004) Hum. Genomics, 1, 98–109] is a public website and database that supports the type 1...

T1DBase: integration and presentation of complex data for type 1 diabetes research (2006)

Hulbert, Erin M., Smink, Luc J., Adlem, Ellen C., E. Allen, James, Burdick, David B., Burren, Oliver S., ...

T1DBase (http://T1DBase.org) [Smink et al. (2005) Nucleic Acids Res., 33, D544–D549; Burren et al. (2004) Hum. Genomics, 1, 98–109] is a public website and database that supports the type 1...

Construction and analysis of tag single nucleotide polymorphism maps for six human-mouse orthologous candidate genes in type 1 diabetes (2005)

Maier, Lisa M, Smyth, Deborah J, Vella, Adrian, Payne, Felicity, Cooper, Jason D, Pask, Rebecca, ...

Abstract Background One strategy to help identify susceptibility genes for complex, multifactorial diseases is to map disease loci in a representative animal model of the disorder. The nonobese...

T1DBase, a community web-based resource for type 1 diabetes research (2005)

Smink, Luc J., Helton, Erin M., Healy, Barry C., Cavnor, Christopher C., Lam, Alex C., Flamez, Daisy, ...

T1DBase (http://T1DBase.org) is a public website and database that supports the type 1 diabetes (T1D) research community. The site is currently focused on the molecular genetics and biology of T1D...

Autoimmune diabetes and resistance to xenograft transplantation tolerance in NOD mice (2004)

Gordon, Ethel J., Wicker, Linda S., Peterson, Laurence B., Serreze, David V., Markees, Thomas G., Shultz, Leonard D., ...

Costimulation blockade induces prolonged rat islet and skin xenograft survival in C57BL/6 mice. Nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice, which are used to model human autoimmune diabetes, are resistant to...

Islet allograft survival induced by costimulation blockade in NOD mice is controlled by allelic variants of Idd3 (2004)

Pearson, Todd, Weiser, Peter, Markees, Thomas G., Serreze, David V., Wicker, Linda S., Peterson, Laurence B., ...

NOD mice develop type 1 autoimmune diabetes and exhibit genetically dominant resistance to transplantation tolerance induction. These two phenotypes are genetically separable. Costimulation blockade...

Islet cell autoimmunity and transplantation tolerance: two distinct mechanisms (2003)

Pearson, Todd, Markees, Thomas G., Serreze, David V., Pierce, Melissa A., Wicker, Linda S., Peterson, Laurence B., ...

Recent advances in islet transplantation have enabled physicians to cure type 1 autoimmune diabetes, but at the cost of lifelong immunosuppression with its attendant side effects and long-term health...

Genetic disassociation of autoimmunity and resistance to costimulation blockade-induced transplantation tolerance in nonobese diabetic mice (2003)

Pearson, Todd, Markees, Thomas G., Serreze, David V., Pierce, Melissa A., Marron, Michele P., Wicker, Linda S., ...

Curing type 1 diabetes by islet transplantation requires overcoming both allorejection and recurrent autoimmunity. This has been achieved with systemic immunosuppression, but tolerance induction...

NOD congenic mice genetically protected from autoimmune diabetes remain resistant to transplantation tolerance induction (2003)

Pearson, Todd, Markees, Thomas G., Wicker, Linda S., Serreze, David V., Peterson, Laurence B., Mordes, John P., ...

The loss of self-tolerance leading to autoimmune type 1 diabetes in the NOD mouse model involves at least 19 genetic loci. In addition to their genetic defects in self-tolerance, NOD mice resist...

Congenic Mapping of the Type 1 Diabetes Locus, Idd3, to a 780-kb Region of Mouse Chromosome 3: Identification of a Candidate Segment of Ancestral DNA by Haplotype Mapping

Lyons, Paul A., Armitage, Nicola, Argentina, Fabio, Denny, Paul, Hill, Natasha J., Lord, Christopher J., ...

Type 1 diabetes in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse arises as a consequence of T cell-mediated destruction of the insulin-producing β cells of the pancreas. Although little is known of the events...

T1DBase, a community web-based resource for type 1 diabetes research

Smink, Luc J., Helton, Erin M., Healy, Barry C., Cavnor, Christopher C., Lam, Alex C., Flamez, Daisy, ...

T1DBase (http://T1DBase.org) is a public website and database that supports the type 1 diabetes (T1D) research community. The site is currently focused on the molecular genetics and biology of T1D...

Genetic Control of Susceptibility to Cryptococcus neoformans in Mice

Rhodes, Judith C., Wicker, Linda S., Urba, Walter J.

Inbred mice injected intravenously with 5 × 106 cells of Cryptococcus neoformans showed two patterns of survival: sensitive (A/WySn, A.BY, A/J, DBA/2J, NZB/B1NJ, and SWR/J) and resistant...

Congenic Mapping of the Type 1 Diabetes Locus, Idd3, to a 780-kb Region of Mouse Chromosome 3: Identification of a Candidate Segment of Ancestral DNA by Haplotype Mapping

Lyons, Paul A., Armitage, Nicola, Argentina, Fabio, Denny, Paul, Hill, Natasha J., Lord, Christopher J., ...

Type 1 diabetes in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse arises as a consequence of T cell-mediated destruction of the insulin-producing β cells of the pancreas. Although little is known of the events...

T1DBase, a community web-based resource for type 1 diabetes research

Smink, Luc J., Helton, Erin M., Healy, Barry C., Cavnor, Christopher C., Lam, Alex C., Flamez, Daisy, ...

T1DBase (http://T1DBase.org) is a public website and database that supports the type 1 diabetes (T1D) research community. The site is currently focused on the molecular genetics and biology of T1D...

Genetic Control of Susceptibility to Cryptococcus neoformans in Mice

Rhodes, Judith C., Wicker, Linda S., Urba, Walter J.

Inbred mice injected intravenously with 5 × 106 cells of Cryptococcus neoformans showed two patterns of survival: sensitive (A/WySn, A.BY, A/J, DBA/2J, NZB/B1NJ, and SWR/J) and resistant...

T1DBase: integration and presentation of complex data for type 1 diabetes research

Hulbert, Erin M., Smink, Luc J., Adlem, Ellen C., Allen, James E., Burdick, David B., Burren, Oliver S., ...

T1DBase () [Smink et al. (2005) Nucleic Acids Res., 33, D544–D549; Burren et al. (2004) Hum. Genomics, 1, 98–109] is a public website and database that supports the type 1 diabetes (T1D) research...

NOD.c3c4 congenic mice develop autoimmune biliary disease that serologically and pathogenetically models human primary biliary cirrhosis

Irie, Junichiro, Wu, Yuehong, Wicker, Linda S., Rainbow, Daniel, Nalesnik, Michael A., Hirsch, Raphael, ...

Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an autoimmune disease with a strong genetic component characterized by biliary ductular inflammation with eventual liver cirrhosis. The serologic hallmark of PBC is...

Allelic variant in CTLA4 alters T cell phosphorylation patterns

Maier, Lisa M., Anderson, David E., De Jager, Philip L., Wicker, Linda S., Hafler, David A.

Little is known regarding the functional effects of common autoimmune susceptibility variants on human immune cells. The SNP CT60 (rs3087243; A/G) located in the 3′ UTR of the CTLA4 gene has been...

IL2RA Genetic Heterogeneity in Multiple Sclerosis and Type 1 Diabetes Susceptibility and Soluble Interleukin-2 Receptor Production

Maier, Lisa M., Lowe, Christopher E., Cooper, Jason, Downes, Kate, Anderson, David E., Severson, Christopher, ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) and type 1 diabetes (T1D) are organ-specific autoimmune disorders with significant heritability, part of which is conferred by shared alleles. For decades, the Human Leukocyte...

Amino acid polymorphisms altering the glycosylation of IL-2 do not protect from type 1 diabetes in the NOD mouse

Kamanaka, Masahito, Rainbow, Dan, Schuster-Gossler, Karin, Eynon, Elizabeth E., Chervonsky, Alexander V., Wicker, Linda S., ...

Idd3 is one of many gene regions that affect the development of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the nonobese diabetic (NOD) mouse. Idd3 has been localized to a 650-kb region on chromosome 3 containing the...