Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis

L Padyukov - Seminars in immunopathology, 2022 - Springer
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory autoimmune disease involving symmetric joints
and is generally characterized by persistent pain, tenderness, and destruction of joints. The …

Recent advances in understanding the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis: new treatment strategies

AL Mueller, Z Payandeh, N Mohammadkhani… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is considered a chronic systemic, multi-factorial, inflammatory, and
progressive autoimmune disease affecting many people worldwide. While patients show …

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses identify novel genetic mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis

K Ishigaki, S Sakaue, C Terao, Y Luo, K Sonehara… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a highly heritable complex disease with unknown etiology. Multi-
ancestry genetic research of RA promises to improve power to detect genetic signals, fine …

Lineage-specific genome architecture links enhancers and non-coding disease variants to target gene promoters

BM Javierre, OS Burren, SP Wilder, R Kreuzhuber… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Long-range interactions between regulatory elements and gene promoters play key roles in
transcriptional regulation. The vast majority of interactions are uncharted, constituting a …

Molecular mechanisms in autoimmune thyroid disease

H Vargas-Uricoechea - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The most common cause of acquired thyroid dysfunction is autoimmune thyroid disease,
which is an organ-specific autoimmune disease with two presentation phenotypes …

CRISPR activation screen identifies BCL-2 proteins and B3GNT2 as drivers of cancer resistance to T cell-mediated cytotoxicity

J Joung, PC Kirchgatterer, A Singh, JH Cho… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The cellular processes that govern tumor resistance to immunotherapy remain poorly
understood. To gain insight into these processes, here we perform a genome-scale CRISPR …

Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis contributes to biology and drug discovery

Y Okada, D Wu, G Trynka, T Raj, C Terao, K Ikari… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
A major challenge in human genetics is to devise a systematic strategy to integrate disease-
associated variants with diverse genomic and biological data sets to provide insight into …

Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis: 2018 status

Y Okada, S Eyre, A Suzuki, Y Kochi… - Annals of the rheumatic …, 2019 - ard.bmj.com
Study of the genetics of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) began about four decades ago with the
discovery of HLA-DRB1. Since the beginning of this century, a number of non-HLA risk loci …

The pre-clinical phase of rheumatoid arthritis: from risk factors to prevention of arthritis

N Petrovská, K Prajzlerová, J Vencovský, L Šenolt… - Autoimmunity …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease considered as a multistep
process spanning from the interaction of genetic (eg, shared epitope or non-HLA loci) …

High-density genetic mapping identifies new susceptibility loci for rheumatoid arthritis

S Eyre, J Bowes, D Diogo, A Lee, A Barton, P Martin… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Using the Immunochip custom SNP array, which was designed for dense genotyping of 186
loci identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS), we analyzed 11,475 …