HLA class I and II alleles in susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis

JD Reveille, X Zhou, MJ Lee, MH Weisman… - Annals of the …, 2019 - ard.bmj.com
Objective To examine associations of HLA class I and class II alleles with ankylosing
spondylitis (AS) in three cohorts of patients of European, Asian and African ancestry …

Construction and benchmarking of a multi-ethnic reference panel for the imputation of HLA class I and II alleles

F Degenhardt, M Wendorff, M Wittig… - Human molecular …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Genotype imputation of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region is a cost-effective means
to infer classical HLA alleles from inexpensive and dense SNP array data. In the research …

The ties that bind: skin, gut and spondyloarthritis

E Gracey, E Dumas, M Yerushalmi… - Current Opinion in …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
The ties that bind: skin, gut and spondyloarthritis : Current Opinion in Rheumatology The ties
that bind: skin, gut and spondyloarthritis : Current Opinion in Rheumatology Log in or Register …

Amino acid signatures of HLA Class-I and II molecules are strongly associated with SLE susceptibility and autoantibody production in Eastern Asians

JE Molineros, LL Looger, K Kim, Y Okada, C Terao… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is a key genetic factor conferring risk of systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE), but precise independent localization of HLA effects is extremely …

FMF is associated with a wide spectrum of MHC class I-and allied SpA disorders but not with classical MHC class II-associated autoimmune disease: insights from a …

A Watad, NL Bragazzi, M Adawi, Y Shoenfeld… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Objectives: To test the hypothesis that familial Mediterranean fever (FMF)-associated
autoinflammation may exaggerate the tendency toward adaptive immunopathology or …

Genetic variants at the 16p13 locus confer risk for eosinophilic esophagitis

LC Kottyan, A Maddox, JR Braxton, EM Stucke… - Genes & …, 2019 - nature.com
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the esophagus triggered
by immune hypersensitivity to food. Herein, we tested whether genetic risk factors for known …

Does MHC heterozygosity influence microbiota form and function?

MAW Khan, WZ Stephens, AD Mohammed, JL Round… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
MHC molecules are essential for the adaptive immune response, and they are the most
polymorphic genetic loci in vertebrates. Extreme genetic variation at these loci is paradoxical …

Additive and heterozygous (dis)advantage GWAS models reveal candidate genes involved in the genotypic variation of maize hybrids to Azospirillum brasilense

MS Vidotti, DH Lyra, JS Morosini, ÍSC Granato… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Maize genotypes can show different responsiveness to inoculation with Azospirillum
brasilense and an intriguing issue is which genes of the plant are involved in the recognition …

the genetics of the human leucocyte antigen region in inflammatory bowel disease

JJ Ashton, K Latham, RM Beattie… - Alimentary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background The human leucocyte antigen (HLA) complex, located at chromosome 6p21. 3
is a highly polymorphic region containing the classical class I and II HLA genes. The region …

Genome-wide association studies identify susceptibility loci for epithelial ovarian cancer in east Asian women

K Lawrenson, F Song, DJ Hazelett, SP Kar, J Tyrer… - Gynecologic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) for epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC)
have focused largely on populations of European ancestry. We aimed to identify common …