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- Haahtela, T, et al.
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A short history from Karelia study to biodiversity and public health interventions
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Ingår i: Frontiers in allergy. - : Frontiers Media SA. - 2673-6101. ; 4, s. 1152927-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Contact with natural environments enriches the human microbiome, promotes immune balance and protects against allergies and inflammatory disorders. In Finland, the allergy & asthma epidemic became slowly visible in mid 1960s. After the World War II, Karelia was split into Finnish and Soviet Union (now Russia) territories. This led to more marked environmental and lifestyle changes in the Finnish compared with Russian Karelia.The Karelia Allergy Study 2002–2022showed that allergic conditions were much more common on the Finnish side. The Russians had richer gene-microbe network and interaction than the Finns, which associated with better balanced immune regulatory circuits and lower allergy prevalence. In the Finnish adolescents, a biodiverse natural environment around the homes associated with lower occurrence of allergies. Overall, the plausible explanation of the allergy disparity was the prominent change in environment and lifestyle in the Finnish Karelia from 1940s to 1980s. The nationwideFinnish Allergy Programme 2008–2018implemented the biodiversity hypothesis into practice by endorsing immune tolerance, nature contacts, and allergy health with favorable results. A regional health and environment programme,Nature Step to Health 2022–2032, has been initiated in the City of Lahti, EU Green Capital 2021. The programme integrates prevention of chronic diseases (asthma, diabetes, obesity, depression), nature loss, and climate crisis in the spirit ofPlanetary Health. Allergic diseases exemplify inappropriate immunological responses to natural environment. Successful management of the epidemics of allergy and other non-communicable diseases may pave the way to improve human and environmental health.
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- Horikoshi, Momoko, et al.
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New loci associated with birth weight identify genetic links between intrauterine growth and adult height and metabolism.
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Ingår i: Nature Genetics. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1061-4036 .- 1546-1718. ; 45:1
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- Birth weight within the normal range is associated with a variety of adult-onset diseases, but the mechanisms behind these associations are poorly understood. Previous genome-wide association studies of birth weight identified a variant in the ADCY5 gene associated both with birth weight and type 2 diabetes and a second variant, near CCNL1, with no obvious link to adult traits. In an expanded genome-wide association meta-analysis and follow-up study of birth weight (of up to 69,308 individuals of European descent from 43 studies), we have now extended the number of loci associated at genome-wide significance to 7, accounting for a similar proportion of variance as maternal smoking. Five of the loci are known to be associated with other phenotypes: ADCY5 and CDKAL1 with type 2 diabetes, ADRB1 with adult blood pressure and HMGA2 and LCORL with adult height. Our findings highlight genetic links between fetal growth and postnatal growth and metabolism.
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- Paskova, T., et al.
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Effect of high-temperature annealing on the residual strain and bending of freestanding GaN films grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy
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Ingår i: Applied Physics Letters. - : AIP Publishing. - 0003-6951 .- 1077-3118. ; 88:14, s. 141909-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The effect of high-temperature high-pressure annealing on the residual strain, bending, and point defect redistribution of freestanding hydride vapor phase epitaxial GaN films was studied. The bending was found to be determined by the difference in the in-plane lattice parameters in the two faces of the films. The results showed a tendency of equalizing the lattice parameters in the two faces with increasing annealing temperature, leading to uniform strain distribution across the film thickness. A nonmonotonic behavior of structural parameters with increasing annealing temperature was revealed and related to the change in the point defect content under the high-temperature treatment. © 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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- Tuomisto, T., et al.
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Thermal stability of in-grown vacancy defects in GaN grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy
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Ingår i: Journal of Applied Physics. - : AIP Publishing. - 0021-8979 .- 1089-7550. ; 99:6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We have used positron annihilation spectroscopy to study the thermal behavior of different native vacancy defects typical of freestanding GaN grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy under high pressure annealing at different annealing temperatures. The results show that the VGa - ON pairs dissociate and the Ga vacancies anneal out from the bulk of the material at temperatures 1500-1700 K. A binding energy of Eb =1.6 (4) eV can be determined for the pair. Thermal formation of Ga vacancies is observed at the annealing temperatures above 1700 K, indicating that Ga vacancies are created thermally at the high growth temperature, but their ability to form complexes such as VGa - ON determines the fraction of vacancy defects surviving the cooling down. The formation energy of the isolated Ga vacancy is experimentally determined. © 2006 American Institute of Physics.
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