Molecular mechanisms and management of a cutaneous inflammatory disorder: psoriasis

YR Woo, DH Cho, HJ Park - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Psoriasis is a complex chronic inflammatory cutaneous disorder. To date, robust molecular
mechanisms of psoriasis have been reported. Among diverse aberrant immunopathogenetic …

Association between telomere length and risk of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases: a Mendelian randomization study

PC Haycock, S Burgess, A Nounu, J Zheng… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The causal direction and magnitude of the association between telomere length
and incidence of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases is uncertain owing to the susceptibility …

Genome-wide association and HLA region fine-mapping studies identify susceptibility loci for multiple common infections

C Tian, BS Hromatka, AK Kiefer, N Eriksson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Infectious diseases have a profound impact on our health and many studies suggest that
host genetics play a major role in the pathogenesis of most of them. We perform 23 genome …

Large scale meta-analysis characterizes genetic architecture for common psoriasis associated variants

LC Tsoi, PE Stuart, C Tian, JE Gudjonsson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Psoriasis is a complex disease of skin with a prevalence of about 2%. We conducted the
largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for psoriasis to date …

[HTML][HTML] Autoimmune aspects of psoriasis: Heritability and autoantigens

JC Prinz - Autoimmunity reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Chronic immune-mediated disorders (IMDs) constitute a major health burden.
Understanding IMD pathogenesis is facing two major constraints: Missing heritability …

A genome-wide association study identifies six novel risk loci for primary biliary cholangitis

F Qiu, R Tang, X Zuo, X Shi, Y Wei, X Zheng… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is an autoimmune liver disease with a strong hereditary
component. Here, we report a genome-wide association study that included 1,122 PBC …

Polymorphisms in CD84, IL12B and TNFAIP3 are associated with response to biologics in patients with psoriasis

J Van den Reek, MJH Coenen… - British Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background The effectiveness of biologics for psoriasis shows heterogeneity among
patients. With pharmacogenetic markers, it might be possible to predict treatment response …

[HTML][HTML] Melanocytes: target cells of an HLA-C* 06: 02–restricted autoimmune response in psoriasis

JC Prinz - Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2017 - Elsevier
HLA-C* 06: 02 is the main psoriasis risk allele. By the unbiased analysis of a Vα3S1/Vβ13S1
T-cell receptor from pathogenic psoriatic CD8+ T cells, we had recently proven that HLA-C …

Inflammatory pathway genes associated with inter-individual variability in the trajectories of morning and evening fatigue in patients receiving chemotherapy

F Wright, M Hammer, SM Paul, BE Aouizerat, KM Kober… - Cytokine, 2017 - Elsevier
Fatigue, a highly prevalent and distressing symptom during chemotherapy (CTX),
demonstrates diurnal and interindividual variability in severity. Little is known about the …

Combined transcriptomic analysis revealed AKR1B10 played an important role in psoriasis through the dysregulated lipid pathway and overproliferation of …

Y Gao, X Yi, Y Ding - BioMed research international, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
RNA‐seq has enabled in‐depth analysis of the pathogenesis of psoriasis on the
transcriptomic level, and many biomarkers have been discovered to be related to the …