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We also discuss recent studies on gene fusions in both common and rare subtypes of ovarian tumours and how these findings can be translated to cancer therapies to benefit online pharmacy amoxil patients carrying these gene fusions.medical oncologygeneticsIntroductionIdentification of a germline pathogenic TP53 (MIM. *191170) variant in a patient with cancer has drastic medical impacts.1 Indeed, in TP53 variant carriers, chemotherapy and radiotherapy have been shown to contribute to the development of subsequent primary cancers, the incidence of which is remarkably high (above 40%).1–4 Therefore, in these patients, surgical treatment should be prioritised and radiotherapy and chemotherapy avoided, if possible, or at least carefully discussed in terms of benefit:risk ratio between risk of recurrence and risk of inducing second primary tumours. Furthermore, TP53 variant carriers should have specific surveillance protocols, including annual whole-body MRI,5 6 whose efficiency for online pharmacy amoxil early tumour detection has recently been shown by numerous studies.5–14Interpretation of germline TP53 variants, which are mainly missense variants, remains particularly complex. Whereas germline variants of TP53 were initially detected in Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS, MIM#151623),15–17 our perception of cancers related to germline alterations of TP53 has drastically evolved over time.1 2 18 19 The presence of a disease-causing germline variant should be considered in patients fulfilling Chompret criteria, which were sequentially updated online pharmacy amoxil and extended.1 The question of germline TP53 variant interpretation is becoming a growing concern in the field because the TP53 gene is currently included in many cancer gene panels, and the number of TP53 tests performed in patients not fulfilling the criteria mentioned earlier has increased exponentially. 20 21Classification of TP53 variants, in agreement with the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics/Association for Molecular Pathology guidelines, is based on several items, including frequency of the variant in the general population (gnomAD.

Https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/), segregation data, bioinformatics predictions and functional assays developed in yeast or human cancer cell lines.22 One of the first online pharmacy amoxil assays commonly used for TP53 missense variant interpretation was developed in yeast and is based on the expression of TP53 cDNA in strains containing reporter plasmids with different p53 binding sites.23 In this assay, p53 variants are classified as functional, not functional or partially functional if the transcriptional activity is conserved for some but not all yeast reporter plasmids (http://p53.iarc.fr/). More recently, two teams have developed in human cancer cell lines high throughput p53 functional assays.24 25 Kotler et al24 generated a synthetic library of TP53 variants located within the p53 DNA-binding domain and quantified the antiproliferative activity of these variants in the p53-null H1299 cancer cell line. In this assay, TP53 variants are categorised as ‘wild-type TP53-like variant’ (functional) online pharmacy amoxil or ‘disrupting’ (non-functional). In another assay, Giacomelli et al25 generated by saturation mutagenesis a TP53 library and tested the ability of the variants (1) to restore the survival of the p53-null A459 cell line exposed to high doses of DNA damaging agents, in order to detect loss of function (LOF) variants and (2) to induce in p53-wild-type A459 cells resistance to Nutlin-3, in order to detect variants with dominant negative effect (DNE).We previously developed, in Epstein-Barr amoxil-immortalised lymphocytes, a p53 functional assay exploring the transcriptional activity of the protein underlying its tumour suppressor activity.26 This assay is based on the exposure of cells to DNA damaging agents followed by the measurement of the p53 transcriptional response.27 28 With this assay, we showed that pathogenic TP53 variant carriers exhibit a constitutive defect in the transcriptional response to DNA damage, establishing a biological endophenotype associated with germline pathogenic variants.27 28 Compared with the other assays, its main advantage is to evaluate the impact of heterozygous variants in the genetic context of the patients. Its main disadvantage is that it requires EBV immortalisation, which is time-consuming and, therefore, not suited for a rapid classification and interpretation of TP53 variants in online pharmacy amoxil medical practice.Therefore, despite the different tools indicated previously and before the completion in the future of curated international databases, interpretation of germline TP53 variants remains challenging in clinical practice.

This prompted us to develop a p53 functional assay derived from the previous one but performed on fresh blood samples and suitable for rapid interpretation and medical management of patients. We show here that this assay can accurately detect pathogenic variants and can be used to reallocate unclassified variants by integrating the results to the classification online pharmacy amoxil strategy.22 Furthermore, this assay revealed that a TP53 polymorphism (rs78378222), present in 1.7% of the European population, compromises p53 functional activity with the same magnitude as a heterozygous null variant, when carried on both alleles.MethodsCell culture and treatmentEBV-immortalised cell lines were maintained in RPMI 1640 medium (GIBCO. Life Technologies, Carlsbad, California, USA) with 10% fetal calf serum (Invitrogen, Life Technologies) and 1% L-glutamine (Invitrogen) at 37°C with online pharmacy amoxil 5% CO2. Cells were seeded in duplicate in 12-well plates (Corning, New York, USA) at a density of 106 cells/well. Cells were treated or not with 200 ng/mL (0.3 µM final concentration) of doxorubicin (Sigma Aldrich, St online pharmacy amoxil.

Louis, Missouri, USA) for 8 hours. Cells were washed online pharmacy amoxil with 1× PBS and harvested for RNA extraction.Peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) isolation and cultureBlood samples were collected in EDTA tubes and kept for 2 days at room temperature before PBMC isolation on a lymphocyte separation medium (Eurobio, Evry, France). From 2.5 to 10.0 mL of blood per patient was used for PBMC isolation. Cell number and cell viability were assessed on a NanoEnTek Adam online pharmacy amoxil automatic cell counter with the AccuChip Kit (ScienceTEC, Villebon-sur-Yvette, France). One million cells were seeded per well in a 24-well plate and were let to grow for 48 hours in a lymphocyte activating medium (Chromosome Medium P, AmpliTech, Compiègne, France).

At least two wells were seeded per patient (treated and untreated) and online pharmacy amoxil duplicates or triplicates were performed whenever possible. Cells were treated with 800 ng/mL of doxorubicin for 8 hours, washed with 1× PBS, harvested and RNA extraction was performed using the online pharmacy amoxil NucleoSpin RNA XS kit (Macherey Nagel, Düren, Germany) according to the manufacturer’s instructions and quantified using a UV-VIS ND-1000 spectrophotometer (Biocompare, Nanodrop Technologies, USA).RNA-SeqFour control EBV cell lines wild-type for TP53 and four heterozygous TP53-mutant cell lines, corresponding to three canonical dominant negative missense variants (p.(Arg175His), p.(Arg248Trp) and p.(Arg273His)) and one complete deletion of the TP53 locus, were treated or not with doxorubicin. RNA was extracted using the Nucleospin RNAII kit (Macherey Nagel). Libraries were prepared online pharmacy amoxil using the NEBNext Ua Directional RNA Library Kit for Illumina (NEB, Ipswich, USA) and NGS sequencing of the libraries was performed on an Illumina NextSeq500 (Illumina, San Diego, USA) using 2*75 bp sequencing to generate 50M read pairs on average per sample. Experiments were performed in triplicates.

Bioinformatic analysis was carried out using an in-house automated pipeline AURIGA that uses the STAR V.2.5.3a tool for alignment, FeatureCounts tool V.1.5.2 for online pharmacy amoxil read counting and DESeq2 V.1.18.1 for statistical analysis.Selection of biomarkers indicative of p53-transcriptional activityNew biomarkers were selected among the transcripts strongly up-egulated by doxorubicin in control cells but not in the cells harbouring heterozygous TP53 alterations. CEP170B (NM_015005), PODXL (MIM*602632, NM_001018111), RRAD (MIM*179503, NM_004165), GLS2 (MIM*606365, NM_013267), CABYR (MIM*612135, NM_012189), TP53I3 (MIM*605171, NM_004881), EPS8L2 (MIM*614988, NM_022772), SULF2 (MIM*610013, NM_001161841), SESN1 (MIM*606103, NM_014454) and FHL2 (MIM*602633, NM_201555). Three control transcripts with a steady expression across all conditions and genotypes and expressed at the same level as the selected targets were online pharmacy amoxil also selected. TBP (MIM*600075, NM_003194), RIC8B (MIM*609147, NM_001330145) and MPP5 (MIM*606958, NM_022474.3). An internal control of treatment efficacy was included online pharmacy amoxil.

PLK1 (MIM*602098, NM_005030.5), whose transcript is downregulated by doxorubicin treatment both in wild-type and mutant cells.Reverse transcription–quantitative multiplex PCR of short fluorescent fragment (RT-QMPSF)Reverse transcription (RT) was performed on 100 ng of total RNA online pharmacy amoxil using the Verso cDNA Synthesis Kit (Thermo Scientific, Waltham, USA). RT-QMPSF was performed on 1.5 µL of RT using Diamond Taq DNA polymerase (Kaneka Eurogentec, Seraing, Belgium), 6% Dymethyl sulfoxide and 26 PCR cycles (94°C. 30 s/58°C. 1 min/72°C. 30 s).

Primer sequences are listed in online supplemental table 1. Amplicons were analysed on an ABI Prism 3500 Genetic Analyzer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, USA) using GeneScan 3.7 software.Supplemental materialReverse transcription–multiplex ligation probe amplification (RT-MLPA)RT-MLPA probes were pooled at a concentration of 1 fmol/µL each in 10 mM Tris/1 mM EDTA. Probe sequences are given in online supplemental table 1. RT (6.5 µL), probe mixture (1.5 µL) and SALSA-MLPA buffer (1.5 µL, MRC-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) were mixed before denaturation (95°C, 2 min) and hybridisation (60°C, 1 hour). Ligation was performed at 54°C for 15 min, adding 32 µL of ligation mixture, and heated 5 min at 98°C.

Then, 2.5 µL of the ligation was added to 7.5 µL of a Q5Hot Start High-Fidelity 2X Master Mix (NEB) supplemented with universal fluorescent PCR primers. PCR was performed using 35 cycles (94°C. 30 s/58°C. 30 s/72°C. 30 s).

Amplicons were analysed on an ABI Prism 3500 Genetic Analyzer using GeneScan V.3.7 software.Calculation of p53 functionality score and p53 mRNA ratioThe RT-MLPA or RT-QMPSF profiles of doxorubicin-treated and untreated cells were superimposed after adjusting the control amplicons to the same height. In the treated condition, the peak height of each of the 10 p53 target genes was measured and divided by the sum of the heights of the three control genes. This value was then divided by the same ratio calculated in the untreated condition. In the assay, the mean of the 10 values defines the p53 functionality score. The final p53 functionality score is the mean of the scores obtained in RT-MLPA and RT-QMPSF assays.

The p53 mRNA levels were expressed as a ratio of the normal values obtained for 3 TP53 wild-type control individuals. The efficacy of the genotoxic treatment was assessed by calculating a PLK1 (MIM*602098) ratio (treated/untreated) normalised with the three controls, which should be less than 0.5.ResultsDevelopment of a rapid p53 functional assay performed on bloodThe rationale of the assay is that p53 acts as a powerful transcriptional inductor when DNA damage occurs and that the common deleterious impact of pathogenic variants is the alteration of this transcriptional activity.26 To develop a functional assay directly performed on patient’s fresh blood, we first optimised the quantitative assay that we had previously developed in EBV-immortalised cell lines.27 28 To this aim, we performed a new comparative transcriptomic analysis using RNA-Seq, including non-polyadenylated RNAs. Four control EBV cell lines wild type for TP53 and four patients with LFS EBV cell lines were compared in the context of genotoxic stress induced by doxorubicin treatment. We selected 10 biomarkers corresponding to p53 targets involved in different biological pathways controlled by p53, such as cell adhesion and migration, cellular response to stress, apoptosis, cytoskeleton organisation, glycolysis or regulation of other metabolic pathways. To normalise the results, we selected three transcripts with a steady expression across all conditions and genotypes.

All these biomarkers were then included in two quantitative assays based on RT-MLPA and RT-QMPSF. To detect in the same assay the potential effect of variants on the TP53 transcript levels, we added different amplicons or probes corresponding to TP53 cDNA. As a defect in treatment efficacy would result in a low functionality score leading to the misinterpretation of a wild-type genotype as a mutant one, we also integrated in the assays an internal control of treatment efficacy. After exposure to doxorubicin, cells were harvested and the RT-MLPA and RT-QMPSF assays were performed in parallel for each sample to increase the robustness of the assay. An arbitrary functionality score was calculated from the induction score of the 10 p53 targets.

The p53 RNA levels were evaluated and expressed as a percentage of the mean levels obtained for three wild-type TP53 individuals. This new quantitative assay, based on both RT-QMPSF and RT-MLPA, was first validated on 31 lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from patients with LFS harbouring different germline heterozygous TP53 variants (online supplemental table 2).Supplemental materialWe then set up the conditions allowing the assay to be performed directly on the patients’ peripheral blood. Blood was collected in conventional EDTA tubes and kept at room temperature for 2 days to mimic sample shipping delays. PBMCs were isolated and cultured for 48 hours in a lymphocyte activating medium. Under these conditions, a strong p53 transcriptional response could be monitored in wild-type individuals (figure 1), indicating that testing p53 function directly on patients’ blood cells was feasible.P53 functional assay on peripheral blood.

(A) Schematic representation of the blood p53 functional assay workflow. (B,C) Typical RT-QMPSF (B) and RT-MLPA (C) results obtained for individual 15 with a wild-type TP53 genotype. The fluorescent profiles of doxorubicin-treated cells (red line) and untreated cells (blue line) were superimposed using the three control amplicons (RIC8B, TBP and MPP5). The horizontal bars indicate for each p53 target gene the level of expression in untreated cells. Treatment efficacy was evaluated by the transcriptional repression of the PLK1 marker (Plk1 treated/untreated ratio below 0.5).

In the treated condition, the peak height of each of the 10 p53 target genes was measured and divided by the sum of the heights of the three control genes. This value was divided by the same ratio calculated in the untreated condition to yield an arbitrary p53 functionality score. The p53 mRNA levels were expressed as a ratio of the normal values obtained for three control individuals. PBMC, peripheral blood mononuclear cell. RT-MLPA, reverse transcription–multiplex ligation probe amplification.

RT-QMPSF, reverse transcription–quantitative multiplex PCR of short fluorescent fragment." data-icon-position data-hide-link-title="0">Figure 1 P53 functional assay on peripheral blood. (A) Schematic representation of the blood p53 functional assay workflow. (B,C) Typical RT-QMPSF (B) and RT-MLPA (C) results obtained for individual 15 with a wild-type TP53 genotype. The fluorescent profiles of doxorubicin-treated cells (red line) and untreated cells (blue line) were superimposed using the three control amplicons (RIC8B, TBP and MPP5). The horizontal bars indicate for each p53 target gene the level of expression in untreated cells.

Treatment efficacy was evaluated by the transcriptional repression of the PLK1 marker (Plk1 treated/untreated ratio below 0.5). In the treated condition, the peak height of each of the 10 p53 target genes was measured and divided by the sum of the heights of the three control genes. This value was divided by the same ratio calculated in the untreated condition to yield an arbitrary p53 functionality score. The p53 mRNA levels were expressed as a ratio of the normal values obtained for three control individuals. PBMC, peripheral blood mononuclear cell.

RT-MLPA, reverse transcription–multiplex ligation probe amplification. RT-QMPSF, reverse transcription–quantitative multiplex PCR of short fluorescent fragment.p53 functional analysis of patient’s blood cells with different TP53 genotypesWe then applied the p53 functional assay on blood samples sent to our laboratory for TP53 molecular analysis (NGS screening of the 11 exons complemented by QMPSF). Molecular and functional analyses were performed in parallel, in double blind conditions. We analysed a total of 82 blood samples derived from 77 individuals (online supplemental table 3). These 77 individuals corresponded either to new index cases suspected to harbour a pathogenic TP53 variant or to relatives of index cases harbouring TP53 variants.

This sample reflects the real-life recruitment of our diagnostic laboratory as it includes unaffected individuals as well as individuals affected by cancer who may have undergone different chemotherapy treatments. Molecular analyses revealed that 51 individuals had no detectable germline TP53 variant. For these 51 individuals, the mean p53 functionality score measured was 12.7 (13.6 for the RT-QMPSF assay and 11.9 for the RT-MLPA assay) with a range of 7.5–22.8 (online supplemental table 3 and figure 2). The mean observed p53 mRNA levels were 93% with a range of 74%–125% (online supplemental table 3). In eight tested individuals, molecular analysis revealed seven distinct TP53 variants which could be considered as likely pathogenic or pathogenic based on their ClinVar classification or their truncating nature (table 1).

All the variants tested were confirmed to be germline heterozygous variants. For these eight patients, the assay yielded a reduced score compared with the wild-type individuals (mean 4.8, range 3.1–7.1. Table 1 and figure 2). In the patients with missense variants, p53 mRNA levels were above 75%. In contrast, p53 mRNA was clearly reduced in patients harbouring frameshift or splice variants (mean 58%, table 1 and figure 2) probably reflecting the activity of the nonsense-mediated mRNA decay.Supplemental materialView this table:Table 1 Interpretation of germline TP53 variants integrating the blood p53 functional assayp53 functional scores and mRNA level ratios in individuals with wild-type TP53 or with germline TP53 variants.

(A) p53 functionality scores obtained in 51 wild-type TP53 individuals, compared with the scores obtained for nine samples from eight individuals carrying a classified TP53 variant (online supplemental table 3) using a Mann-Whitney non-parametric test. (B) Comparison of the p53 mRNA ratios obtained in 51 wild-type TP53 individuals and in samples carrying a missense (five samples) or a truncating variant of TP53 (four samples), using a Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunns post-test (p=0.0031). ***PFigure 3 Impact of the heterozygous and homozygous TP53 c.*1175A>C variation on p53 pre-mRNA 3′ end processing. (A) Schematic representation of the TP53 3′ end region. The c.*1175A>C variant is predicted to yield at least two different transcripts.

The upper one corresponds to the normal transcript with pre-mRNA cleavage and polyadenylation, and the lower one to longer transcript that extends after the poly-A signal. €˜Exon 11’ primers amplify both transcripts, while ‘postpoly-A’ primers specifically amplify the longer transcripts. As postpoly-A primers could also amplify gDNA, primers ‘exon 7’ and ‘exon 10’, which are specific to gDNA, were added to the reaction in order to monitor DNA contamination. (B) RT-QMPSF result obtained for the index case’s father (individual 58, S1. Table 1 and online supplemental table 3) carrying the variant TP53 c.723del, p.(Cys242Alafs*5).

The profile (in red) was superimposed on the profile of a control individual wild type for TP53 (in blue), using the control amplicons RIC8B and TBP. (C) RT-QMPSF result obtained for the index case’s mother (individual 76, S1. Table 1 and online supplemental table 3) carrying the c.*1175A>C variant at the homozygous state. (D) RT-QMPSF result for the index case (individual 77, online supplemental table 3) carrying the c.723del, p.(Cys242Alafs*5) variant and the c.*1175A>C in trans. Red arrows indicate the appearance of longer p53 transcripts.

The horizontal bars show the reduction of the normal p53 transcript level, as compared with the control. RT-QMPSF, reverse transcription–quantitative multiplex PCR of short fluorescent fragment.DiscussionThe interpretation of germline TP53 variants in patients with cancer is critical and should be performed before starting treatment considering their medical impact. The main objective of our assay was to provide a fast functional classification of rare uncharacterised variants in order to help clinicians with decision-making. Compared with the previous assay that we developed in EBV-immortalised lymphocytes,27 28 this blood assay does not require long-term cell culture and the results can be obtained within 1 week, fulfilling the timing required for diagnostic practice. The only constraint is to perform it within 48 hours after blood sampling in order to obtain robust results.

Under these conditions, we were able to successfully analyse samples sent from other European countries.Our assay fulfils most of the recommendations recently published by the Clinical Genome Resource Sequence Variant Interpretation working group regarding the clinical validity of functional assays29. (1) compared with the previously described p53 functional assays that test in vitro either cloned cDNA in yeast or artificial mutant libraries in cancer cell lines,23–25 this blood assay is performed in clinical samples in the patients’ genetic context. (2) the assay evaluates the transcriptional activity of p53 and not a specific domain of the protein. (3) it analyses simultaneously the impact of the variant on protein function and mRNA levels. (4) it was validated using 51 wild-type TP53 controls and 8 patients with seven distinct pathogenic or likely-pathogenic TP53 variants.

And finally, (5) results show the robustness of the assay. Indeed, as shown in table 1, for 12 tested variants, we were able to perform the assay on EBV-immortalised cell lines and the results were very similar. Moreover, for five individuals, two different blood samples were tested and yielded similar results (table 1), and two variants (c.844C>T, p.(Arg282Trp). C.847C>T, p.(Arg283Cys)) were tested on two different individuals’ blood with concordant results (4.8 vs 5.0 and 5.3 vs 6.4).We observed among the wild-type TP53 individuals a wide range of functionality scores (7.5–22.8). This probably suggests that there is a variability of the p53-mediated transcriptional response to DNA damage in the general population, although no obvious impact of age, clinical status or sex could be observed.

The thresholds used in this study could be refined by testing additional deleterious variants. Despite this variability, all pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants generated low p53 functionality scores, and variants resulting in premature stop codons were also detected by a clear reduction of p53 mRNA levels. In addition, our assay allows testing of non-missense variants such as in frame indels. It should be highlighted that none of the previously published functional assays can be considered as a gold-standard method to classify germline TP53 variants.23–25 Therefore, no available p53 functional assay can be used to calibrate the blood assay. Indeed, as illustrated in table 1, discordant results were obtained for variants unambiguously classified in ClinVar as pathogenic or likely pathogenic.

In particular, the founder Brazilian p.(Arg337His), an example of a variant with low penetrance, highlights the limits of the available tools. Whereas segregation data performed on large Brazilian pedigrees have clearly shown that this variant is pathogenic,34 bioinformatic predictions and functional analyses35 are conflicting (table 1). Our blood functional assay clearly shows that this variant alters the transcriptional activity of p53, although to a lesser extent than DNE missense variations, highlighting the limits of functional assays based on overexpression of cDNA. This result was confirmed in four additional patients carrying this variant using EBV cell lines (table 1).The blood functional assay performed on PBMC harbouring unclassified variants led us to consider 12 variants (p.(Pro72His), p.(Gly105Asp), p.(Arg110His), p.(Phe134Leu), p.(Arg158Cys), p.(Pro278Arg), p.(Arg283Cys), p.(Leu348Ser), p.(Asp352Tyr), p.(Gly108_Phe109delinsVal), p.(Asn131del), p.(Leu265del)) as ‘functionally abnormal’, some with high impact. The interpretation is particularly challenging for p.(Pro72His), p.(Arg110His), p.(Arg158Cys), p.(Arg283Cys) and p.(Asp352Tyr) variants, as they were considered in yeast assays as functional or partially functional, and the Giacomelli assay classified them as not LOF_not DNE or was not conclusive.

The low functionality score observed for p.(Arg110His) was confirmed in an EBV cell line derived from the patient and confirmed in two EBV cell lines from other patients carrying this variant. The result for the p.(Asp352Tyr) variant was confirmed on a second blood sample and with an EBV cell line derived from another patient also carrying this variant. The effect of p.(Arg283Cys) was also confirmed in EBV cell lines derived from the patient and from three additional patients with the same variant (table 1).The clinical utility of the p53 functional assay is highlighted by the p.(Pro191Arg) variant. This variant was initially detected in a child with medulloblastoma at 2 years of age and whose brother died from a fibrosarcoma. Presymptomatic testing revealed that an unaffected brother (18 months), the mother and two maternal aunts were also carriers.

We were then requested to evaluate this variant, and the functional assay performed in the maternal aunt (individual 65, online supplemental table 3) clearly showed that this variant does not alter the p53 transcriptional activity (table 1 and online supplemental table 3). Considering this result, segregation analysis was performed on the brother’s fibrosarcoma sample, revealing the absence of the variant and consolidating the conclusion of a non-pathogenic variant.Our results show that this blood functional assay is also able to detect TP53 variations outside the coding regions, which are the only regions commonly analysed. Thanks to this assay, we discovered that the unaffected mother of an index case was homozygous for the polymorphic c.*1175A>C variant, and we show that this variant decreases p53 mRNA by altering the polyadenylation signal and produces longer transcripts extending beyond the poly-A site, as previously reported.30 When present on both alleles, this variant impacts p53 functionality with the same magnitude as a germline pathogenic TP53 variant. This prompted us to recommend breast MRI every year for this unaffected adult relative. We had the opportunity to perform the assay on EBV-immortalised lymphocytes harbouring only this heterozygous variant, and we observed a normal score (data not shown), suggesting that the heterozygous c.*1175A>C variant alone is insufficient to alter p53 function.

The comparison of the p53 functional scores observed in the index case who developed a high-grade glioma at 5 years of age and harbours the null c.723del, p.(Cys242Alafs*5) variant and in trans the polymorphic c.*1175A>C variant, and in her father carrying only the TP53 null variant suggests that the c.*1175A>C variant may act as a genetic modifier in pathogenic TP53 variant carriers and could increase the risk of glioma in carriers, as previously shown in the general population.30–33In summary, we suggest that our blood p53 functional assay should be a useful tool not only for the rapid interpretation of germline TP53 variants of unknown significance in clinical practice, in complement to the previously developed assays, but also for the indirect detection of cryptic alterations within regulatory regions impacting p53 function.Data availability statementAll data relevant to the study are included in the article or uploaded as supplementary information. Deidentified participant data are available from [email protected] statementsPatient consent for publicationNot required.AcknowledgmentsThe authors are grateful to their French and European colleagues for providing clinical information and sending blood samples for TP53 analysis. The authors are indebted to Philippe Ruminy (Inserm U1245, Comprehensive Cancer Centre Becquerel, Rouen) for advices on the reverse transcription–multiplex ligation probe amplification experiments and to Nikki Sabourin-Gibbs (Rouen University Hospital) for her assistance in editing the manuscript..

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And, overall, starting and completion wage rates were 36% and 60% online pharmacy amoxil higher, respectively, for apprentices in joint union-employer programs than in non-union ones. A study conducted by the University of California at Berkeley Labor Center for Labor Research and Education found that the share of workers of color entering apprenticeships in the three construction trades responsible for building most of the clean energy power plants in California reached 60% in 2017, compared with 56% for the state’s workforce as a whole. And veterans participated in these programs at a higher rate than in the workforce more broadly.

North America’s online pharmacy amoxil Building Trades Unions are working to create more diverse apprenticeship programs through their comprehensive apprenticeship readiness programs throughout the U.S. These programs provide a gateway for local residents – focusing on women, people of color, and transitioning veterans – to gain access to Building Trades’ registered apprenticeship programs. ARPs are administered by state and local Building Trades Councils and they teach NABTU’s nationally recognized Multi-Craft Core Curriculum.

Finally, a very recent report by the Illinois Economic Policy Institute on apprenticeship programs focusing on in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Oregon, and Iowa in the 10-year period between 2010 and 2020 concluded that diverse racial and ethnic participation in joint union-employer apprenticeship programs compared favorably to the online pharmacy amoxil racial and ethnic composition of public universities. Participation by the same groups was lower in employer-sponsored programs. It also concluded that graduates of joint union-employer apprenticeship programs earn more, are more likely to have private health insurance coverage and are more likely to have access to pension plans than graduates of employer programs.

More work online pharmacy amoxil needs to be done to ensure the growth of quality, equitable programs, and the good news is that more is being done. In February, President Biden rescinded Executive Order 13801 that, during its short life, spurred the growth of sub-standard employer-only apprenticeship programs, and also announced his support for the bipartisan National Apprenticeship Act of 2021. Recently, the Department of Labor announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment on a proposal to eliminate the Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Program, allowing the department to direct its resources toward expanding access to good-paying jobs through Registered Apprenticeships and creating reliable pathways to middle class.

And in September, the Department of Labor appointed 29 leaders from organized labor, industry and the public to the newly revitalized Advisory Committee on Apprenticeships. The committee will help promote greater awareness of the benefits of apprenticeship, foster increased alignment between apprenticeship opportunities and education systems, expand apprenticeship into new industries and occupations, and ensure equity for under-represented populations. Hopefully – through its work and the ongoing work of researchers in the private and public sector – we will be able to confirm what my personal experience has led me to believe.

Apprenticeship programs developed through cooperative labor management relationships are the keys to an equitable path to the middle class. Jeffrey Freund is the director of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards..

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Why Are More Black Kids can amoxil cause constipation Suicidal?. A Search for Answers.Mental health experts assumed can amoxil cause constipation that people of all races had the same risk factors for self-harm. Emerging evidence suggests that is not the case.Credit...Supported byContinue reading the main storyNov.

18, 2021Joe was 17 when he decided life wasn’t worth living.He was tired of the violence in his Boston neighborhood, where his older brother had spent more than a year recovering from a gunshot wound to his leg can amoxil cause constipation. And he was especially tired of the comments about his weight.“You think you can sit on that chair?. € his can amoxil cause constipation classmates would ask.Other times they were more direct, saying simply.

€œYou’re fat.”“Sometimes I’d be so depressed I wouldn’t eat for three days,” said Joe, now 25, who was a lineman on his high school’s football team.(Joe’s surname and that of another young person interviewed for this article are being withheld to protect their privacy. Joe is being identified by his middle name.)He can amoxil cause constipation thought about ending his life if the bullying didn’t stop. Those thoughts eventually became so pervasive that one day he came home from school and took can amoxil cause constipation a small handful of pills.

But it was enough only to produce a bad stomachache.Months later, he was still feeling depressed. €œLet me go see a therapist can amoxil cause constipation. My head’s not right,” he told his father.

€œI’m having these thoughts of killing myself — that you’d all be can amoxil cause constipation better without me here.”Joe still remembers his father’s response. €œThat’s not true. We love you can amoxil cause constipation.

But you want to talk to somebody and tell someone that?. They’re going to think you’re can amoxil cause constipation crazy.”Over the past generation, a mental health crisis has been brewing among Black youths like Joe, one that very few people — including Black families — have spoken about publicly. Self-reported suicide attempts rose nearly 80 percent among Black can amoxil cause constipation adolescents from 1991 to 2019, while the prevalence of attempts did not change significantly among those of other races and ethnicities.

Legislators and academics are now pushing for better research to understand why, especially in light of new evidence that suggests Black children may have unique risk factors for self-harm.‘I Didn’t Necessarily Want to Die’One study of high school students, published in September, found that the Black teenagers surveyed were more likely than the white teenagers to have attempted suicide without first having suicidal thoughts or plans. Because suicide screening questionnaires typically ask whether people are having suicidal thoughts or have made plans to hurt themselves, the authors speculated that the questionnaires can amoxil cause constipation might fail to identify some Black youths who are at risk of suicide, or that there could be additional factors that might indicate a need for intervention.More research is needed, but a government study conducted last year suggested that Black children and adolescents who died by suicide were more likely than white youths to have experienced a crisis in the two weeks before they died. They were also more likely to have had a family relationship problem, argument or conflict, or a history of suicide attempts.Jordan Burnham, who survived a jump from a ninth-story window when he was 18, said that if he had been asked whether he was planning to kill himself that day, the answer would have been no.“I couldn’t even think that far ahead,” he said.The fall broke his pelvis, shattered his left leg and fractured his wrist, skull and jaw.

It would be four years before he could walk again.“I didn’t can amoxil cause constipation necessarily want to die,” added Mr. Burnham, who is now 32 and visits as many as 60 schools a year to speak about suicide prevention and mental illness. €œBut the part of me that had depression and shame and sadness everyday — I can amoxil cause constipation wanted that pain to die.

I wanted that part can amoxil cause constipation to go away.”On the day of his suicide attempt, he was confronted by his parents about a stash of alcohol that they had found in his car. Although Mr. Burnham was diagnosed with depression as a teenager, he became can amoxil cause constipation so good at hiding it that even his own family members, who were loving and supportive, did not fully understand how much pain he held inside — or the extent to which he felt like an outsider as one of the few Black students at a mostly white school in suburban Philadelphia.Suicide and mental illness are often thought of as a “white phenomenon,” said Michael A.

Lindsey, the executive director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University, who studies the mental health of Black adolescents.Looking at the raw numbers, it’s easy to understand why. White deaths by can amoxil cause constipation suicide far outnumber those of Black people. But when taking into account youth suicide rates — the number of suicides per 100,000 individuals under age 25 — a different picture emerges.“I think the statistics are shocking,” said Dr.

Lindsey, who was the first to document trends in rising suicide attempts among Black adolescents.A 2018 study found that while the can amoxil cause constipation suicide rate of Black children 5 to 12 was low, it was nearly twice that of white children in the same age group. In one of the most recent examples, a 10-year-old Black girl with autism died by suicide in Utah in early November. Her parents said she had been subjected can amoxil cause constipation to racist bullying by her classmates.Among teenagers and young adults, suicide rates remain highest among whites, Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

But while the suicide rate has recently declined can amoxil cause constipation among those groups, it has continued to rise among Black youths. From 2013 to 2019 the suicide rate of Black boys and men 15 to 24 years old rose by 47 percent, and by 59 percent for Black girls and women of the same age.Adolescents of color who identify as L.G.B.T.Q. May be especially at risk of a suicide attempt, according to a national survey conducted by the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention group for can amoxil cause constipation L.G.B.T.Q.

Youth.Despite the racial disparities — and the fact that suicide is the second leading cause of death among all adolescents — there has been a dearth of research examining the racial and ethnic differences in youth suicidal ideation, plans or suicide attempts.This is partly because Black researchers who examine health disparities have been underfunded — in March the director of the National Institutes of Health issued a public apology for “structural racism in biomedical research” — but also because there are only a handful of academics who study these topics.“You have to bring culture into this, you have to talk about racism, you have to talk about discrimination,” said Arielle Sheftall, a principal investigator at the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. €œIt is something that Black youth experience every single day.”A report presented to Congress in 2019 identified gaps in research and policy and has resulted in more research dollars flowing to studies related to Black youth suicide, including a program to teach middle schoolers about mental health and a suicide prevention intervention called Success Over Stress, which touches on themes like systemic racism and police brutality to help ninth-grade students at predominantly Black schools develop coping skills.“These kids have stressors that are uniquely different than other kids,” said LaVome Robinson, the lead investigator of the Success Over Stress study and a professor of psychology at can amoxil cause constipation DePaul University in Chicago.‘Nothing to Stress About’Deaths by suicide are more common among boys than girls overall, but a study published in September found that suicide rates among Black girls increased by an average of 6.6 percent each year from 2003 to 2017 — more than twice the increase for Black boys. A diagnosis of depression or anxiety was more common among the girls.

Additionally, nearly 20 percent of the girls had engaged in an argument within 24 hours of their deaths.Denise (her middle name), 19, a high school senior in Cleveland, lives with can amoxil cause constipation her mother and six siblings. She struggles with depression and anxiety, largely driven by conflict at home and can amoxil cause constipation the lingering trauma of a sexual assault.“When I told Mom how I was feeling, she didn’t seem to care,” Denise said, adding. €œShe said I had nothing to stress about because I’m a kid.”“I just felt like there was nothing nobody could do to change the situation.”One evening in September, after a disagreement with her mother, she texted one of her school counselors and told her.

€œI don’t want to be here no more.”Her counselor insisted that she go to the hospital to get a psychiatric can amoxil cause constipation evaluation.“The first three nights I spent in the hospital, all I could do is cry,” said Denise, who received her first prescription for psychiatric medication while she was there. €œI just felt relieved that somebody could actually understand what I’m going through. It felt good can amoxil cause constipation to let it all out after holding it in for so long.”Suicidal behavior is already a well-known problem in Denise’s school district, which is about two-thirds Black.

In 2019, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that 18 percent of Cleveland high school students had attempted suicide in the previous 12 months, compared with about 9 percent nationally. Many students in Cleveland face can amoxil cause constipation chronic stressors, including neighborhood violence and food insecurity. Researchers have found that young people are more likely to die by suicide in high-poverty communities.Lisa Ellis, a counselor at a high school in Cleveland, developed an eight-week program for first-year students at her school that aims to help reduce the stigma of mental illness, which she sees as a large barrier preventing students of color from getting the help they need.Tips for Parents to Help Their Struggling TeensCard 1 of 6Are you concerned for your teen?.

If you worry that your teen might be experiencing depression or suicidal thoughts, there can amoxil cause constipation are a few things you can do to help. Dr. Christine Moutier, the chief medical officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suggests these steps:Look for changes.

Notice shifts in sleeping and eating habits in your teen, as well as any issues he or she might be having at school, such as slipping grades. Watch for angry outbursts, mood swings and a loss of interest in activities they used to love. Stay attuned to their social media posts as well.Keep the lines of communication open.

If you notice something unusual, start a conversation. But your child might not want to talk. In that case, offer him or her help in finding a trusted person to share their struggles with instead.Seek out professional support.

A child who expresses suicidal thoughts may benefit from a mental health evaluation and treatment. You can start by speaking with your child’s pediatrician or a mental health professional.In an emergency. If you have immediate concern for your child’s safety, do not leave him or her alone.

Call a suicide prevention lifeline. Lock up any potentially lethal objects. Children who are actively trying to harm themselves should be taken to the closest emergency room.Resources If you’re worried about someone in your life and don’t know how to help, these resources can offer guidance:1.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) 2. The Crisis Text Line.

Text TALK to 741741 3. The American Foundation for Suicide PreventionThe curriculum includes videos, like TED talks about mental health, as well as discussions about various mental health diagnoses and healthy coping mechanisms to help students regulate their emotions inside and outside the classroom.‘Keeping Your Business Out of the Street’An American Psychological Association report found that only 4 percent of psychologists in the United States in 2015 were Black, even though Black people represent 13 percent of the population. A similar disparity exists among social workers and psychiatrists.“This is a deterrent,” said Dr.

Kali D. Cyrus, a psychiatrist at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., and an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University. Talking about your family’s business with a white person — much less an outsider — is often discouraged in the Black community, added Dr.

Cyrus, who is Black.Most mental health care for children takes place in public schools via school psychologists or counselors. This is especially true in low-income districts where other resources are scarce. But these professionals are also in short supply.Even when mental health professionals are available, research has shown that Black adolescents’ depression often goes untreated because of negative perceptions of services and providers or feelings of shame about experiencing depressive symptoms.“Black families don’t typically have literacy in discussing ‘feelings’ with each other,” Dr.

Cyrus said in an email. €œThere is also the strong value of ‘keeping your business out of the street.’”Ever since Kathy Williams’s teenage son Torian Graves took his life in 1996, she has been teaching the people in her hometown, Durham, N.C., about the symptoms she missed and the importance of mental health treatment. But the stigma is still strong, she said.

Some parents are afraid of being judged and don’t trust therapists. Sometimes they say. €œJust pray about it.

It will go away.”Yes, she said, prayer is good. But treating mental illness requires more than that.After her son died, she found a poem in his room that he had written as a class assignment.It reads:Part of me is Carolina Blue,Full of Flavor and Excitement,Like a Wild RollercoasterOn the Loose.But, At times,I’m mean, dark, lonely,Black, mad at the world,Like a lost dog in the desert,Yet, they are both true,And they are both me.“Wow, this is the way my child was feeling,” she recalled thinking at the time.“I saw him angry at times and couldn’t figure out why,” she said of her son, who was 15 when he died. €œI believe Torian was depressed and we didn’t know it.”To help remove the stigma associated with therapy, Dr.

Lindsey has developed a pilot program at five New York City public middle and high schools that recruits Black youths who are experiencing symptoms of depression and enrolls them in therapy with a clinician at a school-based mental health clinic.When parents are informed that their children have mental health challenges, they often feel as if they did something wrong, Dr. Lindsey said.“The first thing we tell them is this is not your fault, this is not the result of bad parenting,” he added.As for Joe, who had been struggling with depression in Boston, he did eventually find a therapist with the help of his mother and his primary care doctor, and started therapy at the beginning of 12th grade.“Talking to someone every Wednesday for one hour, it just did something,” he said. €œIt made me feel like a person, like I was wanted.”His father and the rest of his family noticed that he wasn’t as angry anymore.“It’s not that I was crazy,” Joe said.

€œI needed someone to understand what I was going through, to give me a way to deal with it. Now, Joe said, “I love who I am.”If you’re worried about someone in your life and unsure of how to help, use one of these free, 24-7 resources:The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. 1-800-273-8255 (TALK)The Crisis Text Line.

Text TALK to 741741The American Foundation for Suicide PreventionThis article was produced as part of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 National Fellowship.How to Talk to a Child Who Is StrugglingStrategies to help young children open up about tough emotions.AdvertisementContinue reading the main storyAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyCannabis Use in Pregnancy May Lead to a More Anxious, Aggressive ChildA new study adds to a growing body of evidence that indicates prenatal marijuana use can impact children’s development and behavior.Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.For more than 40 years, research has been raising concerns about the effects of marijuana use during pregnancy.Credit...Getty ImagesNov. 19, 2021, 10:38 a.m.

ETChildren of women who use marijuana during or soon after pregnancy are twice as likely as other kids to become anxious, aggressive or hyperactive, according to a new study. The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence linking cannabis use during pregnancy to psychiatric problems in children. The behavioral issues may be driven in part by changes in the activity of genes found in the placenta, the organ that provides nutrients and oxygen to the growing fetus.For pregnant women, cannabis isn’t just a means of getting high.

Some women use it to ease severe morning sickness and anxiety, and they may not be aware that it can pose risks.Women “tend to think smoking and drinking during pregnancy need to be avoided at all costs, but not cannabis,” said Yoko Nomura, a behavioral neuroscientist at Queens College, City University of New York, and a co-author of the new study. €œWe have a long way to go to educate pregnant women, policymakers and even OB-GYN doctors on this issue.”Research suggests that a growing number of women are using cannabis during pregnancy. One study found that in 2016, nearly twice as many women in California reported using cannabis while pregnant than in 2009.Yet for more than 40 years, research has been raising concerns about the effects of marijuana use during pregnancy.

A longitudinal study that began in 1978 linked maternal cannabis use with children’s behavioral problems as well as deficits in language comprehension, visual perception, attention and memory. More recent research has linked cannabis use in pregnancy to low birth weight, reduced IQ, autism, delusional thoughts and attention problems, although some other studies have not identified such associations.Of concern, too, is that cannabis today is nothing like the cannabis of years past. Levels of THC, the compound responsible for most of marijuana’s psychological effects, have increased significantly in recent years.

€œOne joint today is like 17 joints in the 1970s,” said Dr. Darine El-Chaâr, a maternal-fetal medicine physician at The Ottawa Hospital in Canada who studies the health risks of marijuana use during pregnancy and was not involved in the new study.Studies have shown that THC can pass through the mother’s bloodstream to the placenta and then to the fetus. This is the case no matter how the cannabis is consumed, whether from smoking it, eating it or being exposed to it through vapors, oils or creams.

If they contain THC, “they’re all going to pass through to the baby,” Dr. El-Chaâr said.In the new study, Dr. Nomura and her colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and the City University of New York asked 322 healthy mothers who had given birth between 2011 and 2015 at Mount Sinai Hospital or NewYork-Presbyterian, Queens, in New York City whether they had ever used cannabis during the pregnancy or in the 18 months after.

Then they studied their children over time. The researchers gave the kids neurobiological tests each year to track their development, took and studied their hair samples, and gave the mothers tests to ascertain whether their children had behavioral issues.The children of mothers who said they had used marijuana were more than twice as likely as children of abstinent mothers to be anxious, aggressive or hyperactive when they were between the ages of 3 and 6. Their hair also contained higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and they had heart rate variations that “have been linked with a number of anxiety-related disorders,” said a co-author of the study, Yasmin Hurd, the director of the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai.The study does not, however, prove that prenatal cannabis use caused the children’s behavioral problems.

Some of the mothers said they had used cannabis only after giving birth (though THC can pass through breast milk). And women who use cannabis may differ from abstinent women in other ways that put their children at risk for behavioral issues. They may have underlying risk factors, such as a family history of psychiatric problems, or they may have been exposed to other chemicals during pregnancy that increase the risk for behavioral issues in their kids, said Ryan Bogdan, a psychologist at Washington University in St.

Louis who studies the underlying biology of psychiatric disorders. The authors of the study tried to control for such differences using statistical methods, but some could nevertheless have influenced the results.Yet the researchers also identified possible biological explanations for their findings, which bolsters the possibility that marijuana is a driving factor. As part of the study, the researchers collected placentas from some of the mothers after they gave birth and analyzed the activity of their placental genes.

They found that, compared with placentas from abstinent mothers, placentas from mothers who had used cannabis displayed dampened activity in genes that make key immune-related proteins. THC is known to suppress a marijuana user’s immune system, but it’s noteworthy to see these immune changes in the placenta, too, where they could directly affect the developing fetus.Immune abnormalities and s during pregnancy have long been linked with neuropsychiatric problems in kids, Dr. Hurd said.

In women who catch the flu during their first trimester of pregnancy, for instance, some studies have found an increased risk of giving birth to a baby who later develops schizophrenia. Key immune chemicals made by the body to fight s, known as cytokines, play important roles in brain signaling, so disturbances to these chemicals during pregnancy could affect brain development.Marijuana could affect how the placenta feeds the growing fetus, too, Dr. Bogdan said.

This could help explain why babies born to mothers who use cannabis during pregnancy are more likely to have low birth weight, and these nutrient restrictions could also affect the fetus’s brain development. Moreover, the placenta contains a protein that binds to THC and affects how neurons move and connect to one another, Dr. Bogdan added.To tease out exactly what might be happening, we need more research, Dr.

El-Chaâr said. Many questions don’t yet have clear answers, such as whether a certain amount of marijuana might be safe during pregnancy, or if any exposure could have potential effects on a growing baby. For now, especially in light of the new findings, she urges caution.“What I would tell patients is that there’s no known safe amount,” she said.Melinda Wenner Moyer is a contributing editor at Scientific American magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post and other publications.

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They were also more likely to have had a family relationship problem, argument or conflict, or a history of suicide attempts.Jordan Burnham, who survived a jump from a ninth-story window when he was 18, said that if he had been asked whether he was planning to kill himself that day, the answer would have been no.“I couldn’t even think that far ahead,” he said.The fall broke his pelvis, shattered his left leg and fractured his wrist, skull and jaw. It would be four years online pharmacy amoxil before he could walk again.“I didn’t necessarily want to die,” added Mr. Burnham, who is now 32 and visits as many as 60 schools a year to speak about suicide prevention and mental illness. €œBut the part online pharmacy amoxil of me that had depression and shame and sadness everyday — I wanted that pain to die.

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White deaths by suicide far outnumber online pharmacy amoxil those of Black people. But when taking into account youth suicide rates — the number of suicides per 100,000 individuals under age 25 — a different picture emerges.“I think the statistics are shocking,” said Dr. Lindsey, who online pharmacy amoxil was the first to document trends in rising suicide attempts among Black adolescents.A 2018 study found that while the suicide rate of Black children 5 to 12 was low, it was nearly twice that of white children in the same age group. In one of the most recent examples, a 10-year-old Black girl with autism died by suicide in Utah in early November.

Her parents said she had been subjected to racist bullying by her classmates.Among teenagers and young adults, suicide rates online pharmacy amoxil remain highest among whites, Native Americans and Alaska Natives. But while the suicide rate has online pharmacy amoxil recently declined among those groups, it has continued to rise among Black youths. From 2013 to 2019 the suicide rate of Black boys and men 15 to 24 years old rose by 47 percent, and by 59 percent for Black girls and women of the same age.Adolescents of color who identify as L.G.B.T.Q. May be especially at risk of a suicide attempt, according to a online pharmacy amoxil national survey conducted by the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention group for L.G.B.T.Q.

Youth.Despite the racial disparities — and the fact that suicide is the second leading cause of death among all adolescents — there has been a dearth of research examining the racial and ethnic differences in youth suicidal ideation, plans or suicide attempts.This is partly because Black researchers who examine health disparities have been underfunded — in March the director of the National Institutes of Health issued a public apology for “structural racism in biomedical research” — but also because there are only a handful of academics who study these topics.“You have to bring culture into this, you have to talk about racism, you have to talk about discrimination,” said Arielle Sheftall, a principal investigator at the Center for Suicide Prevention and Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. €œIt is something that Black youth experience every single day.”A report presented to Congress in 2019 identified gaps in research and policy and has resulted in more research dollars flowing to studies related to Black youth suicide, including a program to teach middle schoolers about mental health and a suicide prevention intervention called Success Over Stress, which touches on themes like systemic racism and police brutality to help ninth-grade students at predominantly Black schools develop coping skills.“These kids have stressors that are uniquely different than other kids,” said LaVome Robinson, the lead investigator of the Success Over Stress study and a professor of psychology at online pharmacy amoxil DePaul University in Chicago.‘Nothing to Stress About’Deaths by suicide are more common among boys than girls overall, but a study published in September found that suicide rates among Black girls increased by an average of 6.6 percent each year from 2003 to 2017 — more than twice the increase for Black boys. A diagnosis of depression or anxiety was more common among the girls. Additionally, nearly 20 percent of the girls had engaged in an argument within 24 hours of their deaths.Denise (her online pharmacy amoxil middle name), 19, a high school senior in Cleveland, lives with her mother and six siblings.

She struggles with depression and anxiety, largely driven by conflict at home and the lingering online pharmacy amoxil trauma of a sexual assault.“When I told Mom how I was feeling, she didn’t seem to care,” Denise said, adding. €œShe said I had nothing to stress about because I’m a kid.”“I just felt like there was nothing nobody could do to change the situation.”One evening in September, after a disagreement with her mother, she texted one of her school counselors and told her. €œI don’t want to be here no more.”Her counselor insisted that she go to the hospital to get a psychiatric evaluation.“The first three nights I spent in the hospital, all I could do is cry,” said Denise, who received her first prescription for psychiatric medication while she online pharmacy amoxil was there. €œI just felt relieved that somebody could actually understand what I’m going through.

It felt good to let it all out after holding it in for so long.”Suicidal behavior is already a well-known problem in online pharmacy amoxil Denise’s school district, which is about two-thirds Black. In 2019, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that 18 percent of Cleveland high school students had attempted suicide in the previous 12 months, compared with about 9 percent nationally. Many students in online pharmacy amoxil Cleveland face chronic stressors, including neighborhood violence and food insecurity. Researchers have found that young people are more likely to die by suicide in high-poverty communities.Lisa Ellis, a counselor at a high school in Cleveland, developed an eight-week program for first-year students at her school that aims to help reduce the stigma of mental illness, which she sees as a large barrier preventing students of color from getting the help they need.Tips for Parents to Help Their Struggling TeensCard 1 of 6Are you concerned for your teen?.

If you worry that your teen might be experiencing depression or suicidal thoughts, there are a few things you can online pharmacy amoxil do to help. Dr. Christine Moutier, the chief medical officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suggests these steps:Look for changes. Notice shifts in sleeping and eating habits in your teen, as well as any issues he or she might be having at school, such as slipping grades.

Watch for angry outbursts, mood swings and a loss of interest in activities they used to love. Stay attuned to their social media posts as well.Keep the lines of communication open. If you notice something unusual, start a conversation. But your child might not want to talk.

In that case, offer him or her help in finding a trusted person to share their struggles with instead.Seek out professional support. A child who expresses suicidal thoughts may benefit from a mental health evaluation and treatment. You can start by speaking with your child’s pediatrician or a mental health professional.In an emergency. If you have immediate concern for your child’s safety, do not leave him or her alone.

Call a suicide prevention lifeline. Lock up any potentially lethal objects. Children who are actively trying to harm themselves should be taken to the closest emergency room.Resources If you’re worried about someone in your life and don’t know how to help, these resources can offer guidance:1. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

1-800-273-8255 (TALK) 2. The Crisis Text Line. Text TALK to 741741 3. The American Foundation for Suicide PreventionThe curriculum includes videos, like TED talks about mental health, as well as discussions about various mental health diagnoses and healthy coping mechanisms to help students regulate their emotions inside and outside the classroom.‘Keeping Your Business Out of the Street’An American Psychological Association report found that only 4 percent of psychologists in the United States in 2015 were Black, even though Black people represent 13 percent of the population.

A similar disparity exists among social workers and psychiatrists.“This is a deterrent,” said Dr. Kali D. Cyrus, a psychiatrist at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., and an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University. Talking about your family’s business with a white person — much less an outsider — is often discouraged in the Black community, added Dr.

Cyrus, who is Black.Most mental health care for children takes place in public schools via school psychologists or counselors. This is especially true in low-income districts where other resources are scarce. But these professionals are also in short supply.Even when mental health professionals are available, research has shown that Black adolescents’ depression often goes untreated because of negative perceptions of services and providers or feelings of shame about experiencing depressive symptoms.“Black families don’t typically have literacy in discussing ‘feelings’ with each other,” Dr. Cyrus said in an email.

€œThere is also the strong value of ‘keeping your business out of the street.’”Ever since Kathy Williams’s teenage son Torian Graves took his life in 1996, she has been teaching the people in her hometown, Durham, N.C., about the symptoms she missed and the importance of mental health treatment. But the stigma is still strong, she said. Some parents are afraid of being judged and don’t trust therapists. Sometimes they say.

€œJust pray about it. It will go away.”Yes, she said, prayer is good. But treating mental illness requires more than that.After her son died, she found a poem in his room that he had written as a class assignment.It reads:Part of me is Carolina Blue,Full of Flavor and Excitement,Like a Wild RollercoasterOn the Loose.But, At times,I’m mean, dark, lonely,Black, mad at the world,Like a lost dog in the desert,Yet, they are both true,And they are both me.“Wow, this is the way my child was feeling,” she recalled thinking at the time.“I saw him angry at times and couldn’t figure out why,” she said of her son, who was 15 when he died. €œI believe Torian was depressed and we didn’t know it.”To help remove the stigma associated with therapy, Dr.

Lindsey has developed a pilot program at five New York City public middle and high schools that recruits Black youths who are experiencing symptoms of depression and enrolls them in therapy with a clinician at a school-based mental health clinic.When parents are informed that their children have mental health challenges, they often feel as if they did something wrong, Dr. Lindsey said.“The first thing we tell them is this is not your fault, this is not the result of bad parenting,” he added.As for Joe, who had been struggling with depression in Boston, he did eventually find a therapist with the help of his mother and his primary care doctor, and started therapy at the beginning of 12th grade.“Talking to someone every Wednesday for one hour, it just did something,” he said. €œIt made me feel like a person, like I was wanted.”His father and the rest of his family noticed that he wasn’t as angry anymore.“It’s not that I was crazy,” Joe said. €œI needed someone to understand what I was going through, to give me a way to deal with it.

Now, Joe said, “I love who I am.”If you’re worried about someone in your life and unsure of how to help, use one of these free, 24-7 resources:The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. 1-800-273-8255 (TALK)The Crisis Text Line. Text TALK to 741741The American Foundation for Suicide PreventionThis article was produced as part of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 National Fellowship.How to Talk to a Child Who Is StrugglingStrategies to help young children open up about tough emotions.AdvertisementContinue reading the main storyAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main storyCannabis Use in Pregnancy May Lead to a More Anxious, Aggressive ChildA new study adds to a growing body of evidence that indicates prenatal marijuana use can impact children’s development and behavior.Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.For more than 40 years, research has been raising concerns about the effects of marijuana use during pregnancy.Credit...Getty ImagesNov.

19, 2021, 10:38 a.m. ETChildren of women who use marijuana during or soon after pregnancy are twice as likely as other kids to become anxious, aggressive or hyperactive, according to a new study. The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence linking cannabis use during pregnancy to psychiatric problems in children. The behavioral issues may be driven in part by changes in the activity of genes found in the placenta, the organ that provides nutrients and oxygen to the growing fetus.For pregnant women, cannabis isn’t just a means of getting high.

Some women use it to ease severe morning sickness and anxiety, and they may not be aware that it can pose risks.Women “tend to think smoking and drinking during pregnancy need to be avoided at all costs, but not cannabis,” said Yoko Nomura, a behavioral neuroscientist at Queens College, City University of New York, and a co-author of the new study. €œWe have a long way to go to educate pregnant women, policymakers and even OB-GYN doctors on this issue.”Research suggests that a growing number of women are using cannabis during pregnancy. One study found that in 2016, nearly twice as many women in California reported using cannabis while pregnant than in 2009.Yet for more than 40 years, research has been raising concerns about the effects of marijuana use during pregnancy. A longitudinal study that began in 1978 linked maternal cannabis use with children’s behavioral problems as well as deficits in language comprehension, visual perception, attention and memory.

More recent research has linked cannabis use in pregnancy to low birth weight, reduced IQ, autism, delusional thoughts and attention problems, although some other studies have not identified such associations.Of concern, too, is that cannabis today is nothing like the cannabis of years past. Levels of THC, the compound responsible for most of marijuana’s psychological effects, have increased significantly in recent years. €œOne joint today is like 17 joints in the 1970s,” said Dr. Darine El-Chaâr, a maternal-fetal medicine physician at The Ottawa Hospital in Canada who studies the health risks of marijuana use during pregnancy and was not involved in the new study.Studies have shown that THC can pass through the mother’s bloodstream to the placenta and then to the fetus.

This is the case no matter how the cannabis is consumed, whether from smoking it, eating it or being exposed to it through vapors, oils or creams. If they contain THC, “they’re all going to pass through to the baby,” Dr. El-Chaâr said.In the new study, Dr. Nomura and her colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and the City University of New York asked 322 healthy mothers who had given birth between 2011 and 2015 at Mount Sinai Hospital or NewYork-Presbyterian, Queens, in New York City whether they had ever used cannabis during the pregnancy or in the 18 months after.

Then they studied their children over time. The researchers gave the kids neurobiological tests each year to track their development, took and studied their hair samples, and gave the mothers tests to ascertain whether their children had behavioral issues.The children of mothers who said they had used marijuana were more than twice as likely as children of abstinent mothers to be anxious, aggressive or hyperactive when they were between the ages of 3 and 6. Their hair also contained higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and they had heart rate variations that “have been linked with a number of anxiety-related disorders,” said a co-author of the study, Yasmin Hurd, the director of the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai.The study does not, however, prove that prenatal cannabis use caused the children’s behavioral problems. Some of the mothers said they had used cannabis only after giving birth (though THC can pass through breast milk).

And women who use cannabis may differ from abstinent women in other ways that put their children at risk for behavioral issues. They may have underlying risk factors, such as a family history of psychiatric problems, or they may have been exposed to other chemicals during pregnancy that increase the risk for behavioral issues in their kids, said Ryan Bogdan, a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies the underlying biology of psychiatric disorders. The authors of the study tried to control for such differences using statistical methods, but some could nevertheless have influenced the results.Yet the researchers also identified possible biological explanations for their findings, which bolsters the possibility that marijuana is a driving factor.

As part of the study, the researchers collected placentas from some of the mothers after they gave birth and analyzed the activity of their placental genes. They found that, compared with placentas from abstinent mothers, placentas from mothers who had used cannabis displayed dampened activity in genes that make key immune-related proteins. THC is known to suppress a marijuana user’s immune system, but it’s noteworthy to see these immune changes in the placenta, too, where they could directly affect the developing fetus.Immune abnormalities and s during pregnancy have long been linked with neuropsychiatric problems in kids, Dr. Hurd said.

In women who catch the flu during their first trimester of pregnancy, for instance, some studies have found an increased risk of giving birth to a baby who later develops schizophrenia. Key immune chemicals made by the body to fight s, known as cytokines, play important roles in brain signaling, so disturbances to these chemicals during pregnancy could affect brain development.Marijuana could affect how the placenta feeds the growing fetus, too, Dr. Bogdan said. This could help explain why babies born to mothers who use cannabis during pregnancy are more likely to have low birth weight, and these nutrient restrictions could also affect the fetus’s brain development.

Moreover, the placenta contains a protein that binds to THC and affects how neurons move and connect to one another, Dr. Bogdan added.To tease out exactly what might be happening, we need more research, Dr. El-Chaâr said. Many questions don’t yet have clear answers, such as whether a certain amount of marijuana might be safe during pregnancy, or if any exposure could have potential effects on a growing baby.

For now, especially in light of the new findings, she urges caution.“What I would tell patients is that there’s no known safe amount,” she said.Melinda Wenner Moyer is a contributing editor at Scientific American magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post and other publications. Her first book, “How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes,” was published in July.AdvertisementContinue reading the main story.

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