Shumaila Sayyab

Principal Research Engineer

Publications

2025

Lovisa Karlsson, Isabelle Öhrnberg, Shumaila Sayyab, David Martinez, Mika Gustafsson, Patricia Espinoza, Melissa Mendez-Aranda, Cesar Ugarte-Gil, Lameck Diero, Ronald Tonui, Jakob Paues, Maria Lerm (2025) A DNA Methylation Signature From Buccal Swabs to Identify Tuberculosis Infection Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 231, p. e47-e58 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiae333

2024

Isabelle Öhrnberg, Lovisa Karlsson, Shumaila Sayyab, Jakob Paues, David Martinez, Mika Gustafsson, Patricia Espinoza-Lopez, Melissa Mendez-Aranda, Ericka Meza, Cesar Ugarte-Gil, Nicholas Kiprotich, Lameck Diero, Ronald Tonui, Maria Lerm (2024) A DNA methylation signature identified in the buccal mucosa reflecting active tuberculosis is changing during tuberculosis treatment Scientific Reports, Vol. 14, Article 29552 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-80570-4

Anna J. Henningsson, Sandra Hellberg, Maria Lerm, Shumaila Sayyab (2024) Genome-wide DNA Methylation Profiling in Lyme Neuroborreliosis Reveals Altered Methylation Patterns of HLA Genes Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 229, p. 1209-1214 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiad451

2022

Isabelle Pehrson, Shumaila Sayyab, Jyotirmoy Das, Nina Idh, Jakob Paues, Melissa Mendez-Aranda, Cesar Ugarte-Gil, Maria Lerm (2022) The spectrum of tuberculosis described as differential DNA methylation patterns in alveolar macrophages and alveolar T cells Clinical Epigenetics, Vol. 14, Article 175 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13148-022-01390-9

Frida Nikesjö, Shumaila Sayyab, Lovisa Karlsson, Eirini Apostolou, Anders Rosén, Kristofer Hedman, Maria Lerm (2022) Defining post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS) by an epigenetic biosignature in peripheral blood mononuclear cells Clinical Epigenetics, Vol. 14, Article 172 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13148-022-01398-1

News

Post-COVID syndrome visible in DNA

A reprogramming of which genes are active, and which are not, is visible in post-COVID sufferers. In a study on a small group of individuals, genes associated with taste and smell, as well as cell metabolism, were affected.