Autoimmunity and organ damage in systemic lupus erythematosus

GC Tsokos - Nature immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Impressive progress has been made over the last several years toward understanding how
almost every aspect of the immune system contributes to the expression of systemic …

The MHC locus and genetic susceptibility to autoimmune and infectious diseases

V Matzaraki, V Kumar, C Wijmenga, A Zhernakova - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
In the past 50 years, variants in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) locus, also
known as the human leukocyte antigen (HLA), have been reported as major risk factors for …

Identification of 38 novel loci for systemic lupus erythematosus and genetic heterogeneity between ancestral groups

YF Wang, Y Zhang, Z Lin, H Zhang, TY Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a worldwide autoimmune disease with high
heritability, shows differences in prevalence, severity and age of onset among different …

Transcription factors operate across disease loci, with EBNA2 implicated in autoimmunity

JB Harley, X Chen, M Pujato, D Miller, A Maddox… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Explaining the genetics of many diseases is challenging because most associations localize
to incompletely characterized regulatory regions. Using new computational methods, we …

Transancestral mapping and genetic load in systemic lupus erythematosus

CD Langefeld, HC Ainsworth, DSC Graham… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with marked gender and
ethnic disparities. We report a large transancestral association study of SLE using …

Analyzing and interpreting genome data at the network level with ConsensusPathDB

R Herwig, C Hardt, M Lienhard, A Kamburov - Nature protocols, 2016 - nature.com
ConsensusPathDB consists of a comprehensive collection of human (as well as mouse and
yeast) molecular interaction data integrated from 32 different public repositories and a web …

Identification of risk loci and a polygenic risk score for lung cancer: a large-scale prospective cohort study in Chinese populations

J Dai, J Lv, M Zhu, Y Wang, N Qin, H Ma… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Genetic variation has an important role in the development of non-small-cell
lung cancer (NSCLC). However, genetic factors for lung cancer have not been fully …

Meta-analysis of 208370 East Asians identifies 113 susceptibility loci for systemic lupus erythematosus

X Yin, K Kim, H Suetsugu, SY Bang, L Wen… - Annals of the …, 2021 - ard.bmj.com
Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disorder, has been
associated with nearly 100 susceptibility loci. Nevertheless, these loci only partially explain …

The pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus: harnessing big data to understand the molecular basis of lupus

MD Catalina, KA Owen, AC Labonte, AC Grammer… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, systemic autoimmune disease that causes
damage to multiple organ systems. Despite decades of research and available murine …

Altered function and differentiation of age-associated B cells contribute to the female bias in lupus mice

E Ricker, M Manni, D Flores-Castro, D Jenkins… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Differences in immune responses to viruses and autoimmune diseases such as systemic
lupus erythematosus (SLE) can show sexual dimorphism. Age-associated B cells (ABC) are …