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We show that CRISPR- induced Asxl1 mutated murine macrophages have a particularly heightened inflammatory response to AIM2 agonism, associated with an increased DNA damage response, as well as increased IL-10 secretion, mirroring a CVD protective effect of IL10 expression in ASXL1 CHIP. Our study supports the role of inflammasomes in CHIP-associated CVD and provides new evidence to support gene-specific strategies to address CHIP-associated CVD risk.","journal":"medRxiv","year":2022,"id":297826,"datarank":0.41568829110018257,"base_score":2.1972245773362196,"endowment":2.1972245773362196,"self_citation_contribution":0.32958368660043297,"citation_network_contribution":0.08610460449974959,"self_endowment_contribution":0.32958368660043297,"citer_contribution":0.08610460449974959,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":8,"citer_count":5,"citers_with_citation_signal":4,"citers_with_endowment":4,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.944,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":350114,"name":"Trevor P. 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