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DIABETES
Volume 62, Issue 9, Pages 3268-3274Publisher
AMER DIABETES ASSOC
DOI: 10.2337/db13-0159
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- Academy of Finland (Centre of Excellence in Molecular Systems Immunology and Physiology Research) [250114]
- DIAPREPP project of the Seventh Framework Program of the European Community [HEALTH-F2-2008-202013]
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation [36-2008-919]
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Previous studies show that children who later progress to type 1 diabetes (T1D) have decreased preautoimmune concentrations of multiple phospholipids as compared with nonprogressors. It is still unclear whether these changes associate with development of -cell autoimmunity or specifically with clinical T1D. Here, we studied umbilical cord serum lipidome in infants who later developed T1D (N = 33); infants who developed three or four (N = 31) islet autoantibodies, two (N = 31) islet autoantibodies, or one (N = 48) islet autoantibody during the follow-up; and controls (N = 143) matched for sex, HLA-DQB1 genotype, city of birth, and period of birth. The analyses of serum molecular lipids were performed using the established lipidomics platform based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. We found that T1D progressors are characterized by a distinct cord blood lipidomic profile that includes reduced major choline-containing phospholipids, including sphingomyelins and phosphatidylcholines. A molecular signature was developed comprising seven lipids that predicted high risk for progression to T1D with an odds ratio of 5.94 (95% CI, 1.07-17.50). Reduction in choline-containing phospholipids in cord blood therefore is specifically associated with progression to T1D but not with development of -cell autoimmunity in general.
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