Pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus: risks, mechanisms and therapeutic targets

MK Crow - Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2023 - ard.bmj.com
Research elucidating the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has defined
two critical families of mediators, type I interferon (IFN-I) and autoantibodies targeting nucleic …

Recent advances in understanding the genetic basis of systemic lupus erythematosus

E Ha, SC Bae, K Kim - Seminars in immunopathology, 2022 - Springer
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a polygenic chronic autoimmune disease leading to
multiple organ damage. A large heritability of up to 66% is estimated in SLE, with roughly …

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 …

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 …

Systemic lupus erythematosus as a genetic disease

ITW Harley, AH Sawalha - Clinical Immunology, 2022 - Elsevier
Systemic lupus erythematosus is the prototypical systemic autoimmune disease, as it is
characterized both by protean multi-organ system manifestations and by the uniform …

Higher genetic risk loads confer more diverse manifestations and higher risk of lupus nephritis in systemic lupus erythematosus

YC Kwon, E Ha, HH Kwon, DJ Park… - Arthritis & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a highly heritable complex disorder with
heterogeneous clinical manifestations. In this study, we aimed to identify the genetic risk …

Integrative Functional Genomics Identifies Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Causal Genetic Variant in the IRF5 Risk Locus

G Hou, T Zhou, N Xu, Z Yin, X Zhu… - Arthritis & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective IRF5 plays a crucial role in the development of lupus. Genome‐wide association
studies have identified several systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) risk single‐nucleotide …

A polygenic score for type 2 diabetes improves risk stratification beyond current clinical screening factors in an ancestrally diverse sample

JR Ashenhurst, OV Sazonova, O Svrchek… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A substantial proportion of the adult United States population with type 2 diabetes (T2D) are
undiagnosed, calling into question the comprehensiveness of current screening practices …

Genetics of SLE: does this explain susceptibility and severity across racial groups?

K Demkova, DL Morris, TJ Vyse - Rheumatology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The prevalence and severity of SLE have been found to vary across populations of different
ancestries. This review explores whether these differences can be explained by the genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Random forests algorithm boosts genetic risk prediction of systemic lupus erythematosus

W Ma, YL Lau, W Yang, YF Wang - Frontiers in Genetics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) present varied clinical manifestations,
posing a diagnostic challenge for physicians. Genetic factors substantially contribute to SLE …