Osteoarthritis: toward a comprehensive understanding of pathological mechanism

DI Chen, J Shen, W Zhao, T Wang, L Han, JL Hamilton… - Bone research, 2017 - nature.com
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common degenerative joint disease and a major cause of
pain and disability in adult individuals. The etiology of OA includes joint injury, obesity …

Epidemiology of OA

T Neogi, Y Zhang - Rheumatic diseases clinics of North …, 2012 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis in the US, and a leading cause of
disability. It is typically defined in epidemiologic studies on the basis of radiographic findings …

Identification of new therapeutic targets for osteoarthritis through genome-wide analyses of UK Biobank data

I Tachmazidou, K Hatzikotoulas, L Southam… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Osteoarthritis is the most common musculoskeletal disease and the leading cause of
disability globally. Here, we performed a genome-wide association study for osteoarthritis …

Cohort profile: Estonian biobank of the Estonian genome center, university of Tartu

L Leitsalu, T Haller, T Esko… - International journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Estonian Biobank cohort is a volunteer-based sample of the Estonian resident
adult population (aged≥ 18 years). The current number of participants—close to 52000 …

Pain vulnerability: a neurobiological perspective

F Denk, SB McMahon, I Tracey - Nature neuroscience, 2014 - nature.com
There are many known risk factors for chronic pain conditions, yet the biological
underpinnings that link these factors to abnormal processing of painful signals are only just …

Meta-analysis of Icelandic and UK data sets identifies missense variants in SMO, IL11, COL11A1 and 13 more new loci associated with osteoarthritis

U Styrkarsdottir, SH Lund, G Thorleifsson, F Zink… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Osteoarthritis has a highly negative impact on quality of life because of the associated pain
and loss of joint function. Here we describe the largest meta-analysis so far of osteoarthritis …

Interplay between genetics and epigenetics in osteoarthritis

SJ Rice, F Beier, DA Young, J Loughlin - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Research into the molecular genetics of osteoarthritis (OA) has been substantially bolstered
in the past few years by the implementation of powerful genome-wide scans that have …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic predictors of human chronic pain conditions

K Zorina-Lichtenwalter, CB Meloto, S Khoury… - Neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
Chronic pain conditions are multifactorial disorders with a high frequency in the population.
Their pathophysiology is often unclear, and treatment is inefficient. During the last 20 years …

Severe osteoarthritis of the hand associates with common variants within the ALDH1A2 gene and with rare variants at 1p31

U Styrkarsdottir, G Thorleifsson, HT Helgadottir… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis and is a major cause of pain and disability
in the elderly. To search for sequence variants that confer risk of osteoarthritis of the hand …

Genome‐wide DNA methylation study identifies significant epigenomic changes in osteoarthritic cartilage

MA Jeffries, M Donica, LW Baker… - Arthritis & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To perform a genome‐wide DNA methylation study to identify DNA methylation
changes in osteoarthritic (OA) cartilage tissue. Methods The contribution of differentially …