Human immunology and immunotherapy: main achievements and challenges

J Varadé, S Magadán… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
The immune system is a fascinating world of cells, soluble factors, interacting cells, and
tissues, all of which are interconnected. The highly complex nature of the immune system …

Disorders of ubiquitylation: unchained inflammation

DB Beck, A Werner, DL Kastner… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Ubiquitylation is an essential post-translational modification that regulates intracellular
signalling networks by triggering proteasomal substrate degradation, changing the activity of …

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 …

Defining inflammatory cell states in rheumatoid arthritis joint synovial tissues by integrating single-cell transcriptomics and mass cytometry

F Zhang, K Wei, K Slowikowski, CY Fonseka… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To define the cell populations that drive joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we
applied single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), mass cytometry, bulk RNA sequencing …

Functionally informed fine-mapping and polygenic localization of complex trait heritability

O Weissbrod, F Hormozdiari, C Benner, R Cui… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Fine-mapping aims to identify causal variants impacting complex traits. We propose
PolyFun, a computationally scalable framework to improve fine-mapping accuracy by …

Genome-wide association study identifies Sjögren's risk loci with functional implications in immune and glandular cells

B Khatri, KL Tessneer, A Rasmussen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sjögren's disease is a complex autoimmune disease with twelve established susceptibility
loci. This genome-wide association study (GWAS) identifies ten novel genome-wide …

Fine-mapping, trans-ancestral and genomic analyses identify causal variants, cells, genes and drug targets for type 1 diabetes

CC Robertson, JRJ Inshaw, S Onengut-Gumuscu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We report the largest and most diverse genetic study of type 1 diabetes (T1D) to date
(61,427 participants), yielding 78 genome-wide-significant (P< 5× 10− 8) regions, including …

RBP–RNA interactions in the control of autoimmunity and autoinflammation

J Liu, X Cao - Cell research, 2023 - nature.com
Autoimmunity and autoinflammation arise from aberrant immunological and inflammatory
responses toward self-components, contributing to various autoimmune diseases and …

The genetics of rheumatoid arthritis

LE Dedmon - Rheumatology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
RA is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease that primarily affects the small joints of the
hands and feet, and results in a mean reduction in life expectancy of 3–10 years. RA is a …

Long non-coding RNAs towards precision medicine in gastric cancer: early diagnosis, treatment, and drug resistance

L Yuan, ZY Xu, SM Ruan, S Mo, JJ Qin, XD Cheng - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Gastric cancer is a deadly disease and remains the third leading cause of cancer-related
death worldwide. The 5-year overall survival rate of patients with early-stage localized …