Cell Type–Specific Biomarkers of Systemic Sclerosis Disease Severity Capture Cell‐Intrinsic and Cell‐Extrinsic Circuits

JS Berkowitz, T Tabib, H Xiao, GM Sadej… - Arthritis & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multifactorial autoimmune fibrotic disorder involving
complex rewiring of cell‐intrinsic and cell‐extrinsic signaling coexpression networks …

Compendium of skin molecular signatures identifies key pathological features associated with fibrosis in systemic sclerosis

SJ Moon, JM Bae, KS Park, I Tagkopoulos… - Annals of the Rheumatic …, 2019 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives Treatment of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) can be challenging because
of clinical heterogeneity. Integration of genome-scale transcriptomic profiling for patients …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated, multicohort analysis of systemic sclerosis identifies robust transcriptional signature of disease severity

S Lofgren, M Hinchcliff, M Carns, T Wood, K Aren… - JCI insight, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare autoimmune disease with the highest case-fatality rate of
all connective tissue diseases. Current efforts to determine patient response to a given …

Single-cell transcriptome analysis identifies skin-specific T-cell responses in systemic sclerosis

AM Gaydosik, T Tabib, R Domsic, D Khanna… - Annals of the …, 2021 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives Although T cells have been implicated in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis
(SSc), a comprehensive study of T-cell-mediated immune responses in the affected skin of …

Systems level analysis of systemic sclerosis shows a network of immune and profibrotic pathways connected with genetic polymorphisms

JM Mahoney, J Taroni, V Martyanov… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare systemic autoimmune disease characterized by skin and
organ fibrosis. The pathogenesis of SSc and its progression are poorly understood. The SSc …

Integrated bulk and single-cell RNA-sequencing identified disease-relevant monocytes and a gene network module underlying systemic sclerosis

S Kobayashi, Y Nagafuchi, M Okubo, Y Sugimori… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective Immunological disturbances have been reported in systemic sclerosis (SSc). This
study assessed the transcriptome disturbances in immune cell subsets in SSc and …

Single-cell transcriptome analysis identifies subclusters with inflammatory fibroblast responses in localized scleroderma

G Werner, A Sanyal, E Mirizio, T Hutchins… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Localized scleroderma (LS) is an autoimmune disease with both inflammatory and fibrotic
components causing an abnormal deposition of collagen in the skin and underlying tissue …

Large-scale analysis of longitudinal skin gene expression in systemic sclerosis reveals relationships of immune cell and fibroblast activity with skin thickness and a …

B Skaug, MA Lyons, WR Swindell… - Annals of the …, 2022 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives Determine relationships between skin gene expression and systemic sclerosis
(SSc) clinical disease features, and changes in skin gene expression over time. Methods A …

Transcriptional insights into pathogenesis of cutaneous systemic sclerosis using pathway driven meta-analysis assisted by machine learning methods

X Xu, M Ramanujam, S Visvanathan, S Assassi, Z Liu… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Pathophysiology of systemic sclerosis (SSc, Scleroderma), an autoimmune rheumatic
disease, comprises of mechanisms that drive vasculopathy, inflammation and fibrosis …

Experimentally-derived fibroblast gene signatures identify molecular pathways associated with distinct subsets of systemic sclerosis patients in three independent …

ME Johnson, JM Mahoney, J Taroni, JL Sargent… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Genome-wide expression profiling in systemic sclerosis (SSc) has identified four
'intrinsic'subsets of disease (fibroproliferative, inflammatory, limited, and normal-like), each …