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ReviewJournal of autoimmunity2013

Rethinking mechanisms of autoimmune pathogenesis.

Shiv Pillai

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of autoimmunity, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Tracking the role of Aire in immune tolerance to the eye with a TCR transgenic mouse model.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  12. Exploration of the Sialic Acid World.Advances in carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry · 2018
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  18. Epigenetics and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Unmet Needs.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shiv PillaiMassachusetts General Hospital, Center for Cancer Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA. Electronic address: pillai@helix.mgh.harvard.edu.
Massachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Studies on Peripheral B Lymphocyte DevelopmentR01AI064930 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI PILLAI, SHIV SUBRAMANIAM · 2006 to 2016
$3.9M
Mutations in the SIAE Gene and Susceptibility to Autoimmune DiseasesR01AI076505 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI PILLAI, SHIV SUBRAMANIAM · 2009 to 2012
$1.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI064930NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI076505
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Why exactly some individuals develop autoimmune disorders remains unclear. The broadly accepted paradigm is that genetic susceptibility results in some break in immunological tolerance, may enhance the availability of autoantigens, and may enhance inflammatory responses. Some environmental insults that occur on this background of susceptibility may then contribute to autoimmunity. In this review we discuss some aspects related to inhibitory signaling and rare genetic variants, as well as additional factors that might contribute to autoimmunity including the possible role of clonal somatic mutations, the role of epigenetic events and the contribution of the intestinal microbiome. Genetic susceptibility alleles generally contribute to the loss of immunological tolerance, the increased availability of autoantigens, or an increase in inflammation. Apart from common genetic variants, rare loss-of-function genetic variants may also contribute to the pathogenesis of autoimmunity. Studies of an inhibitory signaling pathway in B cells helped identify a negative regulatory enzyme called sialic acid acetyl esterase. The study of rare genetic variants of this enzyme provides an illustrative example showing the importance of detailed functional analyses of variant alleles and the need to exclude functionally normal common or rare genetic variants from analysis. It has also become clear that pathways that are functionally impacted by either common or rare defective variants can also be more significantly compromised by gene expression changes that may result from epigenetic alterations. Another important and evolving area that has been discussed relates to the role of the intestinal microbiome in influencing helper T cell polarization and the development of autoimmunity.

Indexed as

AcetylesteraseAnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesEpigenesis, GeneticGene-Environment InteractionGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHumansImmune ToleranceIntestinesMicrobiotaPolymorphism, GeneticTh1-Th2 BalanceAcetylesterasesialate O-acetylesteraseAutoimmunityEpigeneticsGenetic variantsMicrobiomeSIAE

Identifiers

PMID23809879
PMCPMC4820393
OpenAlexW2086444312

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Registered trials

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