1. Integrative Analysis Reveals a Molecular Stratification of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases
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Isabel Almeida, Divi Cornec, Torsten Witte, Tania F. Rowley, Tianlu Li, Elena Carnero-Montoro, Mariana Brandão, Antonio Garcia-Gomez, Nancy Azevedo, Esmeralda Neves, Ana Lisa Taylor Tavares, Ana Campar, Jacques-Olivier Pers, Nicolas Hunzelmann, Ellen De Langhe, Ernst R. Dow, Magdolna Deák, Jorge Kageyama, Francisco Javier Garrancho, Gerard Espinosa, Carlo Chizzolini, Laleh Khodadadi, Falk Hiepe, Maria Angeles Aguirre-Zamorano, Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme, Rosario Lopez-Pedrera, Anne Buttgereit, Ricard Cervera, Javier Rodríguez-Ubreva, Fernanda Genre, Jerome Wojcik, Begoña Ubilla Garcia, Héctor Navarro-Linares, Maria Orietta Borghi, N.T. Baerlecken, Katja Kniesch, Yolanda Jiménez Gómez, Zuzanna Makowska, Martin Kerick, Elena Trombetta, Pierre-Emmanuel Jouve, Lorenzo Beretta, Ricardo Blanco Alonso, Bénédicte Rouvière, Isabel Díaz Quintero, Michael Zauner, Ralf Lesche, Daniel Toro-Domínguez, Manuel Rodriguez Maresca, Attila Balog, Pier Luigi Meroni, Qingyu Cheng, Georg Stummvoll, Johan Frostegård, Javier Martín, Márta Bocskai, Joerg Mueller, Tommaso Schioppo, Chris Chamberlain, Sonja Dulic, László Kovács, Raquel López Mejías, Velia Gerl, Francesc Català-Moll, Robert J. Benschop, Sara Remuzgo, Carolina Artusi, María Teruel, Eduardo Collantes-Estevez, Miguel A. González-Gay, Silvia Thiel, Bernard Lauwerys, Maria Gerosa, Yves Renaudineau, Pedro Carmona-Sáez, Raquel Faria, Rocío Aguilar-Quesada, Sepideh Babaei, Nuria Barbarroja, Maria Hernandez-Fuentes, María Concepción Fernández Roldán, Sambasiva P. Rao, Aurélie De Groof, Montserrat Alvarez, Anne-Lise Maudoux, Sikander Hayat, Guillermo Barturen, Maria Juarez, Damiana Álvarez-Errico, Alfonso Corrales Martínez, Julie Ducreux, Lucas Le Lann, Norberto Ortego, Jacqueline Marovac, Sandrine Jousse-Joulin, Enrique Raya, Laurence Laigle, Concepción Marañón, Esteban Ballestar, Manuel Martínez-Bueno, Barbara Vigone, Rik Lories, Doreen Belz, Gabriella Kádár, Gaia Montanelli, Fátima Farinha, Divya Thiagaran, M.C. Castro-Villegas, Christophe Jamin, Alain Saraux, Carlos Vasconcelos, Emanuele de Rinaldis, Donatienne Wynar, Enrique de Ramón, Antonio López-Berrio, Tania Anjos, Alejandro Escudero-Contreras, Ian White, Valérie Devauchelle-Pensec, Ignasi Rodríguez-Pintó, Nieves Varela, Quentin Simon, Michaela Lehner, Inmaculada Jiménez Moleón, Aleksandra Maria Dufour, Rafaela Ortega-Castro, Marialbert Acosta-Herrera, Mcdonald Fiona Mcdougall, Yiannis Ioannou, Jonathan Cremer, António Marinho, Jordi Martorell-Marugán, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO) Pfizer, University of Granada, Pharmaceuticals Division Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft, Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL), University of Barcelona, Centro de Genomica e Investigacion Oncologica (GENYO), Department of Bioinformatics, Center for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO), Granada, Spain, Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine (IPB - GRANADA), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), LabEX IGO Immunothérapie Grand Ouest, Lymphocyte B et Auto-immunité (LBAI), Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Brestois Santé Agro Matière (IBSAM), Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge [Barcelone] (IDIBELL), UCB Pharma, Slough SL1 3WE, United Kingdom, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Reearch (GENYO), Andalusian Public Health System Biobank, Granada, Spain, Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto (IPATIMUP), Universidade do Porto, Servico de Immunologica EX-CICAP, Servico de Imunologica EX-CICAP, Unidade de Imunologia Clínica, Centro Hospitalar do Porto, Portugal, Istituto Clinico Humanitas [Milan] (IRCCS Milan), Humanitas University [Milan] (Hunimed), Scleroderma Unit, Referral Center for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori - National Cancer Institute [Milan], Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute IDIBELL [Barcelona, Spain], Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], Universidad de Cantabria [Santander], Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Klinikum Leverkusen Teaching Hospital of the University of Cologne, Hannover Medical School [Hannover] (MHH), Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital of Vienna, Hospital Reina Sofía, Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga [Spain], Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Università degli Studi di Milano [Milano] (UNIMI), Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), AltraBio [Lyon], Geneva University Hospital (HUG), University of Szeged [Szeged], Charité - UniversitätsMedizin = Charité - University Hospital [Berlin], Sanofi [Cambridge, MA, USA], Sanofi Genzyme, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, USA, UCB Celltech [Slough, UK], Institut de Recherches Internationales Servier [Suresnes] (IRIS), Quartzbio, Geneva, Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina 'López-Neyra', Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico [Milan, Italy], Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research, Bayer HealthCare, Berlin, Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research Pfizer [Granada, Spain], University of Granada [Granada]-Andalusian Regional Government [Granada, Spain], Michel, Geneviève, Universidad de Granada = University of Granada (UGR), Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Lymphocytes B, Autoimmunité et Immunothérapies (LBAI), Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-LabEX IGO Immunothérapie Grand Ouest, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Institut Brestois Santé Agro Matière (IBSAM), Université de Brest (UBO), Universidade do Porto = University of Porto, University of Cologne, Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga = Regional University Hospital of Malaga [Spain], Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan (UNIMI), Universidad de Granada = University of Granada (UGR)-Andalusian Regional Government [Granada, Spain], UCL - SSS/IREC/RUMA - Pôle de Pathologies rhumatismales, and UCL - (SLuc) Service de rhumatologie
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0301 basic medicine ,Adult ,Epigenomics ,Male ,[SDV.IMM] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology ,Cross-sectional study ,Immunology ,Arthritis ,Bioinformatics ,Scleroderma ,Autoimmune Diseases ,Transcriptome ,Arthritis, Rheumatoid ,03 medical and health sciences ,Epigenome ,0302 clinical medicine ,Rheumatology ,medicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,Cluster Analysis ,Humans ,Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ,Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Diseases ,Aged ,Mixed Connective Tissue Disease ,030203 arthritis & rheumatology ,Inflammation ,Science & Technology ,Lupus erythematosus ,Scleroderma, Systemic ,business.industry ,Gene Expression Profiling ,Case-control study ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Antiphospholipid Syndrome ,3. Good health ,Clinical trial ,Gene expression profiling ,030104 developmental biology ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Sjogren's Syndrome ,Case-Control Studies ,[SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology ,Female ,Interferons ,business ,Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Clinical heterogeneity, a hallmark of systemic autoimmune diseases, impedes early diagnosis and effective treatment, issues that may be addressed if patients could be classified into groups defined by molecular pattern. This study was undertaken to identify molecular clusters for reclassifying systemic autoimmune diseases independently of clinical diagnosis. METHODS: Unsupervised clustering of integrated whole blood transcriptome and methylome cross-sectional data on 955 patients with 7 systemic autoimmune diseases and 267 healthy controls was undertaken. In addition, an inception cohort was prospectively followed up for 6 or 14 months to validate the results and analyze whether or not cluster assignment changed over time. RESULTS: Four clusters were identified and validated. Three were pathologic, representing "inflammatory," "lymphoid," and "interferon" patterns. Each included all diagnoses and was defined by genetic, clinical, serologic, and cellular features. A fourth cluster with no specific molecular pattern was associated with low disease activity and included healthy controls. A longitudinal and independent inception cohort showed a relapse-remission pattern, where patients remained in their pathologic cluster, moving only to the healthy one, thus showing that the molecular clusters remained stable over time and that single pathogenic molecular signatures characterized each individual patient. CONCLUSION: Patients with systemic autoimmune diseases can be jointly stratified into 3 stable disease clusters with specific molecular patterns differentiating different molecular disease mechanisms. These results have important implications for future clinical trials and the study of nonresponse to therapy, marking a paradigm shift in our view of systemic autoimmune diseases. ispartof: ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATOLOGY vol:73 issue:6 pages:1073-1085 ispartof: location:United States status: published
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