TY  - JOUR
A1  - Edgecock, T. R.
A1  - Caretta, O.
A1  - Davenne, T.
A1  - Densam, C.
A1  - Fitton, M.
A1  - Kelliher, D.
A1  - Loveridge, P.
A1  - Machida, S.
A1  - Prior, C.
A1  - Rogers, C.
A1  - Rooney, M.
A1  - Thomason, J.
A1  - Wilcox, D.
A1  - Wildner, E.
A1  - Efthymiopoulos, I.
A1  - Garoby, R.
A1  - Gilardoni, S.
A1  - Hansen, C.
A1  - Benedetto, E.
A1  - Jensen, E.
A1  - Kosmicki, A.
A1  - Martini, M.
A1  - Osborne, J.
A1  - Prior, G.
A1  - Stora, T.
A1  - Melo Mendonca, T.
A1  - Vlachoudis, V.
A1  - Waaijer, C.
A1  - Cupial, P.
A1  - Chancé, A.
A1  - Longhin, A.
A1  - Payet, J.
A1  - Zito, M.
A1  - Baussan, E.
A1  - Bobeth, C.
A1  - Bouquerel, E.
A1  - Dracos, M.
A1  - Gaudiot, G.
A1  - Lepers, B.
A1  - Osswald, F.
A1  - Poussot, P.
A1  - Vassilopoulos, N.
A1  - Wurtz, J.
A1  - Zeter, V.
A1  - Bielski, J.
A1  - Kozien, M.
A1  - Lacny, L.
A1  - Skoczen, B.
A1  - Szybinski, B.
A1  - Ustrycka, A.
A1  - Wroblewski, A.
A1  - Marie-Jeanne, M.
A1  - Balint, P.
A1  - Fourel, C.
A1  - Giraud, J.
A1  - Jacob, J.
A1  - Lamy, T.
A1  - Latrasse, L.
A1  - Sortais, P.
A1  - Thuillier, T.
A1  - Mitrofanov, S.
A1  - Loiselet, M.
A1  - Keutgen, Th.
A1  - Delbar, Th.
A1  - Debray, F.
A1  - Trophine, C.
A1  - Veys, S.
A1  - Daversin, C.
A1  - Zorin, V.
A1  - Izotov, I.
A1  - Skalyga, V.
A1  - Burt, G.
A1  - Dexter, A. C.
A1  - Kravchuk, V. L.
A1  - Marchi, T.
A1  - Cinausero, M.
A1  - Gramegna, F.
A1  - De Angelis, G.
A1  - Prete, G.
A1  - Collazuol, G.
A1  - Laveder, M.
A1  - Mazzocco, M.
A1  - Mezzetto, M.
A1  - Signorini, C.
A1  - Vardaci, E.
A1  - Di Nitto, A.
A1  - Brondi, A.
A1  - La Rana, G.
A1  - Migliozzi, P.
A1  - Moro, R.
A1  - Palladino, V.
A1  - Gelli, N.
A1  - Berkovits, D.
A1  - Hass, M.
A1  - Hirsh, T. Y.
A1  - Schuhmann, M.
A1  - Stahl, A.
A1  - Wehner, J.
A1  - Bross, A.
A1  - Kopp, J.
A1  - Neuffer, D.
A1  - Wands, R.
A1  - Bayes, R.
A1  - Laing, A.
A1  - Soler, P.
A1  - Agarwalla, S. K.
A1  - Cervera Villanueva, A.
A1  - Donini, A.
A1  - Ghosh, T.
A1  - Gómez Cadenas, J. J.
A1  - Hernández, P.
A1  - Martín-Albo, J.
A1  - Mena, O.
A1  - Burguet-Castell, J.
A1  - Agostino, L.
A1  - Buizza-Avanzini, M.
A1  - Marafini, M.
A1  - Patzak, T.
A1  - Tonazzo, A.
A1  - Duchesneau, D.
A1  - Mosca, L.
A1  - Bogomilov, M.
A1  - Karadzhov, Y.
A1  - Matev, R.
A1  - Tsenov, R.
A1  - Akhmedov, E.
A1  - Blennow, M.
A1  - Lindner, M.
A1  - Schwetz, T.
A1  - Fernández Martinez, E.
A1  - Maltoni, M.
A1  - Menéndez, J.
A1  - Giunti, C.
A1  - González García, M. C.
A1  - Salvado, J.
A1  - Coloma, P.
A1  - Huber, P.
A1  - Li, T.
A1  - López Pavón, J.
A1  - Orme, C.
A1  - Pascoli, S.
A1  - Meloni, D.
A1  - Tang, J.
A1  - Winter, W.
A1  - Ohlsson, T.
A1  - Zhang, H.
A1  - Scotto-Lavina, L.
A1  - Terranova, F.
A1  - Bonesini, M.
A1  - Tortora, L.
A1  - Alekou, A.
A1  - Aslaninejad, M.
A1  - Bontoiu, C.
A1  - Kurup, A.
A1  - Jenner, L. J.
A1  - Long, K.
A1  - Pasternak, J.
A1  - Pozimski, J.
A1  - Back, J. J.
A1  - Harrison, P.
A1  - Beard, K.
A1  - Bogacz, A.
A1  - Berg, J. S.
A1  - Stratakis, D.
A1  - Witte, H.
A1  - Snopok, P.
A1  - Bliss, N.
A1  - Cordwell, M.
A1  - Moss, A.
A1  - Pattalwar, S.
A1  - Apollonio, M.
T1  - High intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe
JF  - Physical Review Special Topics-Accelerators and Beams
N2  - The EUROnu project has studied three possible options for future, high intensity neutrino oscillation facilities in Europe. The first is a Super Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of pions created by bombarding targets with a 4 MW proton beam from the CERN High Power Superconducting Proton Linac. The far detector for this facility is the 500 kt MEMPHYS water Cherenkov, located in the Frejus tunnel. The second facility is the Neutrino Factory, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of mu(+) and mu(-) beams in a storage ring. The far detector in this case is a 100 kt magnetized iron neutrino detector at a baseline of 2000 km. The third option is a Beta Beam, in which the neutrinos come from the decay of beta emitting isotopes, in particular He-6 and Ne-18, also stored in a ring. The far detector is also the MEMPHYS detector in the Frejus tunnel. EUROnu has undertaken conceptual designs of these facilities and studied the performance of the detectors. Based on this, it has determined the physics reach of each facility, in particular for the measurement of CP violation in the lepton sector, and estimated the cost of construction. These have demonstrated that the best facility to build is the Neutrino Factory. However, if a powerful proton driver is constructed for another purpose or if the MEMPHYS detector is built for astroparticle physics, the Super Beam also becomes very attractive.
KW  - EMMA
KW  - beta-beam
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-126611
VL  - 16
IS  - 2
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hudson, Lawrence N.
A1  - Newbold, Tim
A1  - Contu, Sara
A1  - Hill, Samantha L. L.
A1  - Lysenko, Igor
A1  - De Palma, Adriana
A1  - Phillips, Helen R. P.
A1  - Senior, Rebecca A.
A1  - Bennett, Dominic J.
A1  - Booth, Hollie
A1  - Choimes, Argyrios
A1  - Correia, David L. P.
A1  - Day, Julie
A1  - Echeverria-Londono, Susy
A1  - Garon, Morgan
A1  - Harrison, Michelle L. K.
A1  - Ingram, Daniel J.
A1  - Jung, Martin
A1  - Kemp, Victoria
A1  - Kirkpatrick, Lucinda
A1  - Martin, Callum D.
A1  - Pan, Yuan
A1  - White, Hannah J.
A1  - Aben, Job
A1  - Abrahamczyk, Stefan
A1  - Adum, Gilbert B.
A1  - Aguilar-Barquero, Virginia
A1  - Aizen, Marcelo
A1  - Ancrenaz, Marc
A1  - Arbelaez-Cortes, Enrique
A1  - Armbrecht, Inge
A1  - Azhar, Badrul
A1  - Azpiroz, Adrian B.
A1  - Baeten, Lander
A1  - Báldi, András
A1  - Banks, John E.
A1  - Barlow, Jos
A1  - Batáry, Péter
A1  - Bates, Adam J.
A1  - Bayne, Erin M.
A1  - Beja, Pedro
A1  - Berg, Ake
A1  - Berry, Nicholas J.
A1  - Bicknell, Jake E.
A1  - Bihn, Jochen H.
A1  - Böhning-Gaese, Katrin
A1  - Boekhout, Teun
A1  - Boutin, Celine
A1  - Bouyer, Jeremy
A1  - Brearley, Francis Q.
A1  - Brito, Isabel
A1  - Brunet, Jörg
A1  - Buczkowski, Grzegorz
A1  - Buscardo, Erika
A1  - Cabra-Garcia, Jimmy
A1  - Calvino-Cancela, Maria
A1  - Cameron, Sydney A.
A1  - Cancello, Eliana M.
A1  - Carrijo, Tiago F.
A1  - Carvalho, Anelena L.
A1  - Castro, Helena
A1  - Castro-Luna, Alejandro A.
A1  - Cerda, Rolando
A1  - Cerezo, Alexis
A1  - Chauvat, Matthieu
A1  - Clarke, Frank M.
A1  - Cleary, Daniel F. R.
A1  - Connop, Stuart P.
A1  - D'Aniello, Biagio
A1  - da Silva, Pedro Giovani
A1  - Darvill, Ben
A1  - Dauber, Jens
A1  - Dejean, Alain
A1  - Diekötter, Tim
A1  - Dominguez-Haydar, Yamileth
A1  - Dormann, Carsten F.
A1  - Dumont, Bertrand
A1  - Dures, Simon G.
A1  - Dynesius, Mats
A1  - Edenius, Lars
A1  - Elek, Zoltán
A1  - Entling, Martin H.
A1  - Farwig, Nina
A1  - Fayle, Tom M.
A1  - Felicioli, Antonio
A1  - Felton, Annika M.
A1  - Ficetola, Gentile F.
A1  - Filgueiras, Bruno K. C.
A1  - Fonte, Steve J.
A1  - Fraser, Lauchlan H.
A1  - Fukuda, Daisuke
A1  - Furlani, Dario
A1  - Ganzhorn, Jörg U.
A1  - Garden, Jenni G.
A1  - Gheler-Costa, Carla
A1  - Giordani, Paolo
A1  - Giordano, Simonetta
A1  - Gottschalk, Marco S.
A1  - Goulson, Dave
A1  - Gove, Aaron D.
A1  - Grogan, James
A1  - Hanley, Mick E.
A1  - Hanson, Thor
A1  - Hashim, Nor R.
A1  - Hawes, Joseph E.
A1  - Hébert, Christian
A1  - Helden, Alvin J.
A1  - Henden, John-André
A1  - Hernández, Lionel
A1  - Herzog, Felix
A1  - Higuera-Diaz, Diego
A1  - Hilje, Branko
A1  - Horgan, Finbarr G.
A1  - Horváth, Roland
A1  - Hylander, Kristoffer
A1  - Horváth, Roland
A1  - Isaacs-Cubides, Paola
A1  - Ishitani, Mashiro
A1  - Jacobs, Carmen T.
A1  - Jaramillo, Victor J.
A1  - Jauker, Birgit
A1  - Jonsell, Matts
A1  - Jung, Thomas S.
A1  - Kapoor, Vena
A1  - Kati, Vassiliki
A1  - Katovai, Eric
A1  - Kessler, Michael
A1  - Knop, Eva
A1  - Kolb, Annette
A1  - Körösi, Àdám
A1  - Lachat, Thibault
A1  - Lantschner, Victoria
A1  - Le Féon, Violette
A1  - LeBuhn, Gretchen
A1  - Légaré, Jean-Philippe
A1  - Letcher, Susan G.
A1  - Littlewood, Nick A.
A1  - López-Quintero, Carlos A.
A1  - Louhaichi, Mounir
A1  - Lövei, Gabor L.
A1  - Lucas-Borja, Manuel Esteban
A1  - Luja, Victor H.
A1  - Maeto, Kaoru
A1  - Magura, Tibor
A1  - Mallari, Neil Aldrin
A1  - Marin-Spiotta, Erika
A1  - Marhall, E. J. P.
A1  - Martínez, Eliana
A1  - Mayfield, Margaret M.
A1  - Mikusinski, Gregorz
A1  - Milder, Jeffery C.
A1  - Miller, James R.
A1  - Morales, Carolina L.
A1  - Muchane, Mary N.
A1  - Muchane, Muchai
A1  - Naidoo, Robin
A1  - Nakamura, Akihiro
A1  - Naoe, Shoji
A1  - Nates-Parra, Guiomar
A1  - Navarerete Gutierrez, Dario A.
A1  - Neuschulz, Eike L.
A1  - Noreika, Norbertas
A1  - Norfolk, Olivia
A1  - Noriega, Jorge Ari
A1  - Nöske, Nicole M.
A1  - O'Dea, Niall
A1  - Oduro, William
A1  - Ofori-Boateng, Caleb
A1  - Oke, Chris O.
A1  - Osgathorpe, Lynne M.
A1  - Paritsis, Juan
A1  - Parrah, Alejandro
A1  - Pelegrin, Nicolás
A1  - Peres, Carlos A.
A1  - Persson, Anna S.
A1  - Petanidou, Theodora
A1  - Phalan, Ben
A1  - Philips, T. Keith
A1  - Poveda, Katja
A1  - Power, Eileen F.
A1  - Presley, Steven J.
A1  - Proença, Vânia
A1  - Quaranta, Marino
A1  - Quintero, Carolina
A1  - Redpath-Downing, Nicola A.
A1  - Reid, J. Leighton
A1  - Reis, Yana T.
A1  - Ribeiro, Danilo B.
A1  - Richardson, Barbara A.
A1  - Richardson, Michael J.
A1  - Robles, Carolina A.
A1  - Römbke, Jörg
A1  - Romero-Duque, Luz Piedad
A1  - Rosselli, Loreta
A1  - Rossiter, Stephen J.
A1  - Roulston, T'ai H.
A1  - Rousseau, Laurent
A1  - Sadler, Jonathan P.
A1  - Sáfián, Szbolcs
A1  - Saldaña-Vásquez, Romeo A.
A1  - Samnegård, Ulrika
A1  - Schüepp, Christof
A1  - Schweiger, Oliver
A1  - Sedlock, Jodi L.
A1  - Shahabuddin, Ghazala
A1  - Sheil, Douglas
A1  - Silva, Fernando A. B.
A1  - Slade, Eleanor
A1  - Smith-Pardo, Allan H.
A1  - Sodhi, Navjot S.
A1  - Somarriba, Eduardo J.
A1  - Sosa, Ramón A.
A1  - Stout, Jane C.
A1  - Struebig, Matthew J.
A1  - Sung, Yik-Hei
A1  - Threlfall, Caragh G.
A1  - Tonietto, Rebecca
A1  - Tóthmérész, Béla
A1  - Tscharntke, Teja
A1  - Turner, Edgar C.
A1  - Tylianakis, Jason M.
A1  - Vanbergen, Adam J.
A1  - Vassilev, Kiril
A1  - Verboven, Hans A. F.
A1  - Vergara, Carlos H.
A1  - Vergara, Pablo M.
A1  - Verhulst, Jort
A1  - Walker, Tony R.
A1  - Wang, Yanping
A1  - Watling, James I.
A1  - Wells, Konstans
A1  - Williams, Christopher D.
A1  - Willig, Michael R.
A1  - Woinarski, John C. Z.
A1  - Wolf, Jan H. D.
A1  - Woodcock, Ben A.
A1  - Yu, Douglas W.
A1  - Zailsev, Andreys
A1  - Collen, Ben
A1  - Ewers, Rob M.
A1  - Mace, Georgina M.
A1  - Purves, Drew W.
A1  - Scharlemann, Jörn P. W.
A1  - Pervis, Andy
T1  - The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
JF  - Ecology and Evolution
N2  - Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species' threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that support computation of a range of biodiversity indicators, is necessary to enable better understanding of historical declines and to project - and avert - future declines. We describe and assess a new database of more than 1.6 million samples from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world. The database contains measurements taken in 208 (of 814) ecoregions, 13 (of 14) biomes, 25 (of 35) biodiversity hotspots and 16 (of 17) megadiverse countries. The database contains more than 1% of the total number of all species described, and more than 1% of the described species within many taxonomic groups - including flowering plants, gymnosperms, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, beetles, lepidopterans and hymenopterans. The dataset, which is still being added to, is therefore already considerably larger and more representative than those used by previous quantitative models of biodiversity trends and responses. The database is being assembled as part of the PREDICTS project (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems - ). We make site-level summary data available alongside this article. The full database will be publicly available in 2015.
KW  - urban-rural gradient
KW  - instensively managed farmland
KW  - Mexican coffee plantations
KW  - Bombus Spp. Hymenoptera
KW  - bumblebee nest density
KW  - data sharing
KW  - land use
KW  - habitat destruction
KW  - global change
KW  - land-use change
KW  - plant community composition
KW  - Northeastern Costa Rica
KW  - dung beetle coleoptera
KW  - bird species richness
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-114425
VL  - 4
IS  - 24
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Barile, Frank A.
A1  - Berry, Colin
A1  - Blaauboer, Bas
A1  - Boobis, Alan
A1  - Bolt, Herrmann M.
A1  - Borgert, Christopher
A1  - Dekant, Wolfgang
A1  - Dietrich, Daniel
A1  - Domingo, Jose L.
A1  - Galli, Corrado L.
A1  - Gori, Gio Batta
A1  - Greim, Helmut
A1  - Hengstler, Jan G.
A1  - Heslop-Harrison, Pat
A1  - Kacew, Sam
A1  - Marquardt, Hans
A1  - Mally, Angela
A1  - Pelkonen, Olavi
A1  - Savolainen, Kai
A1  - Testai, Emanuela
A1  - Tsatsakis, Aristides
A1  - Vermeulen, Nico P.
T1  - The EU chemicals strategy for sustainability: in support of the BfR position
JF  - Archives of Toxicology
N2  - The EU chemicals strategy for sustainability (CSS) asserts that both human health and the environment are presently threatened and that further regulation is necessary. In a recent Guest Editorial, members of the German competent authority for risk assessment, the BfR, raised concerns about the scientific justification for this strategy. The complexity and interdependence of the networks of regulation of chemical substances have ensured that public health and wellbeing in the EU have continuously improved. A continuous process of improvement in consumer protection is clearly desirable but any initiative directed towards this objective must be based on scientific knowledge. It must not confound risk with other factors in determining policy. This conclusion is fully supported in the present Commentary including the request to improve both, data collection and the time-consuming and bureaucratic procedures that delay the publication of regulations.
KW  - pharmacology/toxicology
KW  - occupational medicine/industrial medicine
KW  - environmental health
KW  - biomedicine, general
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-307154
SN  - 0340-5761
SN  - 1432-0738
VL  - 95
IS  - 9
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fischer, Annette
A1  - Harrison, Kelly S
A1  - Ramirez, Yesid
A1  - Auer, Daniela
A1  - Chowdhury, Suvagata Roy
A1  - Prusty, Bhupesh K
A1  - Sauer, Florian
A1  - Dimond, Zoe
A1  - Kisker, Caroline
A1  - Hefty, P Scott
A1  - Rudel, Thomas
T1  - Chlamydia trachomatis-containing vacuole serves as deubiquitination platform to stabilize Mcl-1 and to interfere with host defense
JF  - eLife
N2  - Obligate intracellular Chlamydia trachomatis replicate in a membrane-bound vacuole called inclusion, which serves as a signaling interface with the host cell. Here, we show that the chlamydial deubiquitinating enzyme (Cdu) 1 localizes in the inclusion membrane and faces the cytosol with the active deubiquitinating enzyme domain. The structure of this domain revealed high similarity to mammalian deubiquitinases with a unique α-helix close to the substrate-binding pocket. We identified the apoptosis regulator Mcl-1 as a target that interacts with Cdu1 and is stabilized by deubiquitination at the chlamydial inclusion. A chlamydial transposon insertion mutant in the Cdu1-encoding gene exhibited increased Mcl-1 and inclusion ubiquitination and reduced Mcl-1 stabilization. Additionally, inactivation of Cdu1 led to increased sensitivity of C. trachomatis for IFNγ and impaired infection in mice. Thus, the chlamydial inclusion serves as an enriched site for a deubiquitinating activity exerting a function in selective stabilization of host proteins and protection from host defense.
KW  - cell-autonomous defense
KW  - Chlamydia trachomatis
KW  - deubiquitinase
KW  - Mcl-1
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-171073
VL  - 6
IS  - e21465
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Postema, Merel C.
A1  - Hoogman, Martine
A1  - Ambrosino, Sara
A1  - Asherson, Philip
A1  - Banaschewski, Tobias
A1  - Bandeira, Cibele E.
A1  - Baranov, Alexandr
A1  - Bau, Claiton H.D.
A1  - Baumeister, Sarah
A1  - Baur‐Streubel, Ramona
A1  - Bellgrove, Mark A.
A1  - Biederman, Joseph
A1  - Bralten, Janita
A1  - Brandeis, Daniel
A1  - Brem, Silvia
A1  - Buitelaar, Jan K.
A1  - Busatto, Geraldo F.
A1  - Castellanos, Francisco X.
A1  - Cercignani, Mara
A1  - Chaim‐Avancini, Tiffany M.
A1  - Chantiluke, Kaylita C.
A1  - Christakou, Anastasia
A1  - Coghill, David
A1  - Conzelmann, Annette
A1  - Cubillo, Ana I.
A1  - Cupertino, Renata B.
A1  - de Zeeuw, Patrick
A1  - Doyle, Alysa E.
A1  - Durston, Sarah
A1  - Earl, Eric A.
A1  - Epstein, Jeffery N.
A1  - Ethofer, Thomas
A1  - Fair, Damien A.
A1  - Fallgatter, Andreas J.
A1  - Faraone, Stephen V.
A1  - Frodl, Thomas
A1  - Gabel, Matt C.
A1  - Gogberashvili, Tinatin
A1  - Grevet, Eugenio H.
A1  - Haavik, Jan
A1  - Harrison, Neil A.
A1  - Hartman, Catharina A.
A1  - Heslenfeld, Dirk J.
A1  - Hoekstra, Pieter J.
A1  - Hohmann, Sarah
A1  - Høvik, Marie F.
A1  - Jernigan, Terry L.
A1  - Kardatzki, Bernd
A1  - Karkashadze, Georgii
A1  - Kelly, Clare
A1  - Kohls, Gregor
A1  - Konrad, Kerstin
A1  - Kuntsi, Jonna
A1  - Lazaro, Luisa
A1  - Lera‐Miguel, Sara
A1  - Lesch, Klaus‐Peter
A1  - Louza, Mario R.
A1  - Lundervold, Astri J.
A1  - Malpas, Charles B
A1  - Mattos, Paulo
A1  - McCarthy, Hazel
A1  - Namazova‐Baranova, Leyla
A1  - Nicolau, Rosa
A1  - Nigg, Joel T.
A1  - Novotny, Stephanie E.
A1  - Oberwelland Weiss, Eileen
A1  - O'Gorman Tuura, Ruth L.
A1  - Oosterlaan, Jaap
A1  - Oranje, Bob
A1  - Paloyelis, Yannis
A1  - Pauli, Paul
A1  - Picon, Felipe A.
A1  - Plessen, Kerstin J.
A1  - Ramos‐Quiroga, J. Antoni
A1  - Reif, Andreas
A1  - Reneman, Liesbeth
A1  - Rosa, Pedro G.P.
A1  - Rubia, Katya
A1  - Schrantee, Anouk
A1  - Schweren, Lizanne J.S.
A1  - Seitz, Jochen
A1  - Shaw, Philip
A1  - Silk, Tim J.
A1  - Skokauskas, Norbert
A1  - Soliva Vila, Juan C.
A1  - Stevens, Michael C.
A1  - Sudre, Gustavo
A1  - Tamm, Leanne
A1  - Tovar‐Moll, Fernanda
A1  - van Erp, Theo G.M.
A1  - Vance, Alasdair
A1  - Vilarroya, Oscar
A1  - Vives‐Gilabert, Yolanda
A1  - von Polier, Georg G.
A1  - Walitza, Susanne
A1  - Yoncheva, Yuliya N.
A1  - Zanetti, Marcus V.
A1  - Ziegler, Georg C.
A1  - Glahn, David C.
A1  - Jahanshad, Neda
A1  - Medland, Sarah E.
A1  - Thompson, Paul M.
A1  - Fisher, Simon E.
A1  - Franke, Barbara
A1  - Francks, Clyde
T1  - Analysis of structural brain asymmetries in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder in 39 datasets
JF  - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
N2  - Objective
Some studies have suggested alterations of structural brain asymmetry in attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but findings have been contradictory and based on small samples. Here, we performed the largest ever analysis of brain left‐right asymmetry in ADHD, using 39 datasets of the ENIGMA consortium.

Methods
We analyzed asymmetry of subcortical and cerebral cortical structures in up to 1,933 people with ADHD and 1,829 unaffected controls. Asymmetry Indexes (AIs) were calculated per participant for each bilaterally paired measure, and linear mixed effects modeling was applied separately in children, adolescents, adults, and the total sample, to test exhaustively for potential associations of ADHD with structural brain asymmetries.

Results
There was no evidence for altered caudate nucleus asymmetry in ADHD, in contrast to prior literature. In children, there was less rightward asymmetry of the total hemispheric surface area compared to controls (t = 2.1, p = .04). Lower rightward asymmetry of medial orbitofrontal cortex surface area in ADHD (t = 2.7, p = .01) was similar to a recent finding for autism spectrum disorder. There were also some differences in cortical thickness asymmetry across age groups. In adults with ADHD, globus pallidus asymmetry was altered compared to those without ADHD. However, all effects were small (Cohen’s d from −0.18 to 0.18) and would not survive study‐wide correction for multiple testing.

Conclusion
Prior studies of altered structural brain asymmetry in ADHD were likely underpowered to detect the small effects reported here. Altered structural asymmetry is unlikely to provide a useful biomarker for ADHD, but may provide neurobiological insights into the trait.
KW  - attention‐deficit
KW  - hyperactivity disorder
KW  - brain asymmetry
KW  - brain laterality
KW  - structural MRI
KW  - large‐scale data
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-239968
VL  - 62
IS  - 10
SP  - 1202
EP  - 1219
ER  -