Drug repurposing: progress, challenges and recommendations

S Pushpakom, F Iorio, PA Eyers, KJ Escott… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Given the high attrition rates, substantial costs and slow pace of new drug discovery and
development, repurposing of'old'drugs to treat both common and rare diseases is …

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and the microbiome—searching the crime scene for clues

M Lee, EB Chang - Gastroenterology, 2021 - Elsevier
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) develop via convergence of environmental, microbial,
immunological, and genetic factors. Alterations in the gut microbiota have been associated …

Functional map** and annotation of genetic associations with FUMA

K Watanabe, E Taskesen, A Van Bochoven… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
A main challenge in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is to pinpoint possible causal
variants. Results from GWAS typically do not directly translate into causal variants because …

Genome-wide enhancer maps link risk variants to disease genes

J Nasser, DT Bergman, CP Fulco, P Guckelberger… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of noncoding loci that
are associated with human diseases and complex traits, each of which could reveal insights …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes

A Kundaje, W Meuleman, J Ernst, M Bilenky, A Yen… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The reference human genome sequence set the stage for studies of genetic variation and its
association with human disease, but epigenomic studies lack a similar reference. To …

Third European evidence-based consensus on diagnosis and management of ulcerative colitis. Part 1: definitions, diagnosis, extra-intestinal manifestations …

F Magro, P Gionchetti, R Eliakim… - Journal of Crohn's …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
1.2. Definitions Ulcerative colitis [UC] is a chronic inflammatory condition that causes
continuous mucosal inflammation of the colon, usually without granulomas on biopsy. It …

Gut microbiota and IBD: causation or correlation?

J Ni, GD Wu, L Albenberg, VT Tomov - Nature reviews Gastroenterology …, 2017 - nature.com
A general consensus exists that IBD is associated with compositional and metabolic
changes in the intestinal microbiota (dysbiosis). However, a direct causal relationship …

ACG clinical guideline: management of Crohn's disease in adults

GR Lichtenstein, EV Loftus, KL Isaacs… - Official journal of the …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Crohn's disease is an idiopathic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology with genetic,
immunologic, and environmental influences. The incidence of Crohn's disease has steadily …

Interactions between the microbiota and the immune system

LV Hooper, DR Littman, AJ Macpherson - science, 2012 - science.org
The large numbers of microorganisms that inhabit mammalian body surfaces have a highly
coevolved relationship with the immune system. Although many of these microbes carry out …

The NHGRI GWAS Catalog, a curated resource of SNP-trait associations

D Welter, J MacArthur, J Morales, T Burdett… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Catalog of Published
Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) Catalog provides a publicly available manually …