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Probing the Role of Genes & Microbiome in Ankylosing Spondylitis & RA

  |  Issue: September 2019  |  

Lara C. Pullen, PhD, is a medical writer based in the Chicago area.

References

  1. Asquith M, Sternes PR, Costello M-E, et al. HLA alleles associated with risk of ankylosing spondylitis and rheumatoid arthritis influence the gut microbiome. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2019 Apr 30. [Epub ahead of print]
  2. Yin J, Sternes PR, Wang M, et al. Shotgun metagenomics reveals an enrichment of potentially cross-reactive bacterial epitopes in ankylosing spondylitis patients, as well as the effects of TNFi therapy and the host’s genotype upon microbiome composition. BioRxiv.org. Preprint. 2019 Mar 8.

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