LECTURE: Pärt Peterson: Age-associated epigenetic changes in human immune cells

Pärt Peterson graduated in Molecular biology at the University of Tartu, Estonia, he obtained PhD at the University of Tampere, Finland in 1996. 

Selected publications:

S Meyer, M Woodward, C Hertel, P Vlaicu, Y Haque, J Kärner, A Macagno, SC Onuoha, D Fishman, H Peterson, K Metsküla, R Uibo, K Jäntti, K Hokynar, AS Wolff; APECED patient collaborative, K Krohn, A Ranki, P Peterson, K Kisand, A Hayday, AIRE-Deficient Patients Harbor Unique High-Affinity Disease-Ameliorating Autoantibodies. Cell, 2016 Jul 28;166(3):582-95.

M Laan, U Haljasorg, K Kisand, A Saluments, P Peterson, Pregnancy-induced thymic involution is associated with suppression of chemokines essential for T-lymphoidprogenitor homing. European Journal of Immunology, 2016, May 23.

M Limbach, M Saare, L Tsarel, K Kisand, T Eglit, S Sauer, T Axelsson, AC Syvanen, A Metspalu, L Milani, P Peterson, Epigenetic profiling in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells from Graves' disease patients reveals changes in genes associated with T cell receptor signalling, Journal of Autoimmunity, 2016, Feb;67:46-56.

K Kisand, AS Bøe Wolff, KT Podkrajsek, L Tserel, M Link, KV Kisand , E Ersvaer, J Perheentupa, MM Erichsen, N Bratanic, A Meloni, F Cetani, R Perniola, B Ergun-Longmire, N Maclaren, KJ Krohn, M Pura, B Schalke, P Ströbel, MI Leite, T Battelino, ES Husebye, P Peterson, N Willcox, A Meager, Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis in APECED or thymoma patients correlates with autoimmunity to Th17-associated cytokines, Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2010, 207: 299-308.

K Nagamine, P Peterson, HS Scott, J Kudoh, S Minoshima, M Heino, KJ Krohn, MD Lalioti, PE Mullis, SE Antonarakis, K Kawasaki, S Asakawa, F Ito, N Shimizu, Positional cloning of the APECED gene, Nature Genetics, 1997, 17 (4), 393-398