TYK2: an emerging therapeutic target in rheumatic disease

E Morand, JF Merola, Y Tanaka, D Gladman… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) is a member of the JAK kinase family of intracellular
signalling molecules. By participating in signalling pathways downstream of type I …

ECCO guidelines on extraintestinal manifestations in inflammatory bowel disease

H Gordon, J Burisch, P Ellul, K Karmiris… - Journal of Crohn's …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This is the second European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation [ECCO] evidence-based
consensus on extraintestinal manifestations [EIMs] of inflammatory bowel disease [IBD] and …

Multi-omics analysis of innate and adaptive responses to BCG vaccination reveals epigenetic cell states that predict trained immunity

SJ Moorlag, L Folkman, R Ter Horst, T Krausgruber… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Immune responses are tightly regulated yet highly variable between individuals. To
investigate human population variation of trained immunity, we immunized healthy …

A unified metric of human immune health

R Sparks, N Rachmaninoff, WW Lau, DC Hirsch… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Immunological health has been challenging to characterize but could be defined as the
absence of immune pathology. While shared features of some immune diseases and the …

Genetic mapping across autoimmune diseases reveals shared associations and mechanisms

MR Lincoln, N Connally, PP Axisa, C Gasperi… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Autoimmune and inflammatory diseases are polygenic disorders of the immune system.
Many genomic loci harbor risk alleles for several diseases, but the limited resolution of …

The association of gluten-free diet with thyroid autoimmunity in patients with celiac disease: a meta-analysis

Y Liu, N Yao, Y Wang, Y Dong, L Wang, F Wang… - Food & function, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Background: Thyroid autoimmunity is an immune response to thyroid antigens that causes
varying degrees of thyroid dysfunction. The sole effective treatment for Celiac Disease (CD) …

Large-scale whole-exome sequencing analyses identified protein-coding variants associated with immune-mediated diseases in 350,770 adults

L Yang, YN Ou, BS Wu, WS Liu, YT Deng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The genetic contribution of protein-coding variants to immune-mediated diseases (IMDs)
remains underexplored. Through whole exome sequencing of 40 IMDs in 350,770 UK …

[HTML][HTML] Shared aetiology underlying multiple sclerosis and other immune mediated inflammatory diseases: Swedish familial co-aggregation and large-scale genetic …

Q Liu, Y Jiang, T Frisell, P Stridh, K Shchetynsky… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background While multiple sclerosis (MS) affects less than 1% of the general population,
immune mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs) collectively influence 5–10% of the …

GENIUS-MAWII: For robust Mendelian randomization with many weak invalid instruments

T Ye, Z Liu, B Sun… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Mendelian randomization (MR) addresses causal questions using genetic variants as
instrumental variables. We propose a new MR method, G-Estimation under No Interaction …

Coeliac disease as a model for understanding multiple sclerosis

N Drosu, K Bjornevik, M Cortese, M Levy… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The genetic architecture of multiple sclerosis (MS) is similar to that of coeliac disease, with
human leukocyte antigen (HLA) being the greatest genetic determinant in both diseases …