Mendelian randomization

E Sanderson, MM Glymour, MV Holmes… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Mendelian randomization (MR) is a term that applies to the use of genetic variation to
address causal questions about how modifiable exposures influence different outcomes …

Pathway paradigms revealed from the genetics of inflammatory bowel disease

DB Graham, RJ Xavier - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a complex genetic disease that is instigated and
amplified by the confluence of multiple genetic and environmental variables that perturb the …

Single-cell and spatial analysis reveal interaction of FAP+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages in colorectal cancer

J Qi, H Sun, Y Zhang, Z Wang, Z Xun, Z Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the most common malignancies with limited treatments
other than surgery. The tumor microenvironment (TME) profiling enables the discovery of …

Microbial network disturbances in relapsing refractory Crohn's disease

B Yilmaz, P Juillerat, O Øyås, C Ramon, FD Bravo… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) can be broadly divided into Crohn's disease (CD) and
ulcerative colitis (UC) from their clinical phenotypes. Over 150 host susceptibility genes have …

Association analyses identify 38 susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel disease and highlight shared genetic risk across populations

JZ Liu, S Van Sommeren, H Huang, SC Ng, R Alberts… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are the two main forms of inflammatory bowel disease
(IBD). Here we report the first trans-ancestry association study of IBD, with genome-wide or …

Revisiting the gut–joint axis: links between gut inflammation and spondyloarthritis

E Gracey, L Vereecke, D McGovern… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Gut inflammation is strongly associated with spondyloarthritis (SpA), as exemplified by the
high prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the even higher occurrence of …

Locus for severity implicates CNS resilience in progression of multiple sclerosis

MultipleMS Consortium Harroud Adil 1 78 78 Jónsdóttir … - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that
results in significant neurodegeneration in the majority of those affected and is a common …

Roles of macrophages in the development and treatment of gut inflammation

X Han, S Ding, H Jiang, G Liu - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Macrophages, which are functional plasticity cells, have the ability to phagocytize and digest
foreign substances and acquire pro-(M1-like) or anti-inflammatory (M2-like) phenotypes …

Intestinal dendritic cells in health and gut inflammation

AJ Stagg - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Dendritic cells (DCs) mediate tolerance to food antigens, limit reactivity to the gut microbiota
and are required for optimal response to intestinal pathogens. Intestinal DCs are …

Hobit- and Blimp-1-driven CD4+ tissue-resident memory T cells control chronic intestinal inflammation

S Zundler, E Becker, M Spocinska, M Slawik… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Although tissue-resident memory T cells (TRM cells) have been shown to regulate host
protection in infectious disorders, their function in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) remains …