Mechanisms of joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis—immune cell–fibroblast–bone interactions

N Komatsu, H Takayanagi - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2022 - nature.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by inflammation and destruction of bone and
cartilage in affected joints. Autoimmune responses lead to increased osteoclastic bone …

Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

[HTML][HTML] Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals

A Okbay, Y Wu, N Wang, H Jayashankar, M Bennett… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment (EA) in a
sample of~ 3 million individuals and identify 3,952 approximately uncorrelated genome …

A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes

S Sakaue, M Kanai, Y Tanigawa, J Karjalainen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Current genome-wide association studies do not yet capture sufficient diversity in
populations and scope of phenotypes. To expand an atlas of genetic associations in non …

Rheumatoid arthritis: pathogenic roles of diverse immune cells

S Jang, EJ Kwon, JJ Lee - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease associated with
synovial tissue proliferation, pannus formation, cartilage destruction, and systemic …

Human microglial state dynamics in Alzheimer's disease progression

N Sun, MB Victor, YP Park, X **ong, AN Scannail… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Altered microglial states affect neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, and disease but
remain poorly understood. Here, we report 194,000 single-nucleus microglial transcriptomes …

[HTML][HTML] A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome

K Zhang, JD Hocker, M Miller, X Hou, J Chiou… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Current catalogs of regulatory sequences in the human genome are still incomplete and lack
cell type resolution. To profile the activity of gene regulatory elements in diverse cell types …

IL-6 in inflammation, autoimmunity and cancer

T Hirano - International immunology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
IL-6 is involved both in immune responses and in inflammation, hematopoiesis, bone
metabolism and embryonic development. IL-6 plays roles in chronic inflammation (closely …

A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci

N Kerimov, JD Hayhurst, K Peikova, JR Manning… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies have published their summary
statistics, which can be used to gain insight into complex human traits by downstream …

Causal relationship between gut microbiota and autoimmune diseases: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

Q Xu, JJ Ni, BX Han, SS Yan, XT Wei, GJ Feng… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Growing evidence has shown that alterations in gut microbiota composition are
associated with multiple autoimmune diseases (ADs). However, it is unclear whether these …