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Scientific Publications

2025

  • Gene–Environment Interaction Affects Risk of Atopic Eczema: Population and In Vitro Studies

    Marie Standl, Ashley Budu-Aggrey, Luke J. Johnston, Martina S. Elias, S. Hasan Arshad, Peter Bager, Veronique Bataille, Helena Blakeway, Klaus Bønnelykke, Dorret Boomsma … Sara J. Brown

    Allergy, 2025; 0:1–12
    doi: 10.1111/all.16605

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  • GWAS meta-analysis of psoriasis identifies new susceptibility alleles impacting disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets

    Nick Dand, Philip E. Stuart, John Bowes, David Ellinghaus, Joanne Nititham, Jake R. Saklatvala, Maris Teder-Laving, Laurent F. Thomas, Tanel Traks, Steffen Uebe, Gunter Assmann, David Baudry, Frank Behrens, Allison C. Billi, Matthew A. Brown, Harald Burkhardt, Francesca Capon, Raymond Chung, Charles J. Curtis, Michael Duckworth, Eva Ellinghaus, Oliver FitzGerald, Sascha Gerdes, Christopher E. M. Griffiths, Susanne Gulliver, Philip S. Helliwell, Pauline Ho, Per Hoffmann, Oddgeir L. Holmen, Zhi-ming Huang, Kristian Hveem, Deepak Jadon, Michaela Köhm, Cornelia Kraus, Céline Lamacchia, Sang Hyuck Lee, Feiyang Ma, Satveer K. Mahil, Neil McHugh, Ross McManus, Ellen H. Modalsli, Michael J. Nissen, Markus Nöthen, Vinzenz Oji, Jorge R. Oksenberg, Matthew T. Patrick, Bethany E. Perez White, Andreas Ramming, Jürgen Rech, Cheryl Rosen, Mrinal K. Sarkar, Georg Schett, Börge Schmidt, Trilokraj Tejasvi, Heiko Traupe, John J. Voorhees, Eike Matthias Wacker, Richard B. Warren, Rachael Wasikowski, Stephan Weidinger, Xiaoquan Wen, Zhaolin Zhang, BSTOP study group, Estonian Biobank research team, Anne Barton, Vinod Chandran, Tõnu Esko, John Foerster, Andre Franke, Dafna D. Gladman, Johann E. Gudjonsson, Wayne Gulliver, Ulrike Hüffmeier, Külli Kingo, Sulev Kõks, Wilson Liao, Mari Løset, Reedik Mägi, Rajan P. Nair, Proton Rahman, André Reis, Catherine H. Smith, Paola Di Meglio, Jonathan N. Barker, Lam C. Tsoi, Michael A. Simpson & James T. Elder

    Nature Communications, volume 16, Article number: 2051 (2025)
    doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-56719-8

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  • Embedded Ethics in Practice: A Toolbox for Integrating the Analysis of Ethical and Social Issues into Healthcare AI Research

    Theresa Willem, Marie-Christine Fritzsche, Bettina M. Zimmermann, Anna Sierawska, Svenja Breuer, Maximilian Braun, Anja K. Ruess, Marieke Bak, Franziska B. Schönweitz, Lukas J. Meier, Amelia Fiske, Daniel Tigard, Ruth Müller, Stuart McLennan & Alena Buyx

    Science and Engineering Ethics 31, 3 (2025).
    doi: doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-00523-y
  • Weighing the benefits and risks of collecting race and ethnicity data in clinical settings for medical artificial intelligence

    Amelia Fiske, Sarah Blacker, Lester Darryl Geneviève, Theresa Willem, Marie-Christine Fritzsche, Alena Buyx, Leo Anthony Celi, Stuart McLennan

    The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 7, Issue 4, e286 - e294 (2025)
    doi: 10.1016/j.landig.2025.01.003
  • Artificial intelligence for omics-driven patient stratification and precision medicine

    Teemu Joel Rintala

    Publications of the University of Eastern Finland (2025)
    doi: isbn: 978-952-61-5565-4

2024

2023

  • Skin Colonization with S. aureus Can Lead to Increased NLRP1 Inflammasome Activation in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis

    Helen Vaher, Kristiina Kingo, Peep Kolberg, Martin Pook, Liisi Raam, Anet Laanesoo, Anu Remm, Tanel Tenson, Kaur Alasoo, Ulrich Mrowietz, Stephan Weidinger, Külli Kingo, Ana Rebane

    Journal of Investigative Dermatology (2023), Volume 143
    doi: 10.1016/j.jid.2023.01.013
  • DREAM: an R package for druggability evaluation of human complex diseases

    Antonio Federico, Michele Fratello, Alisa Pavel, Lena Möbus, Giusy del Giudice, Angela Serra, and Dario Greco

    Bioinformatics (2023). Jul; 39(7): btad442.
    doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btad442
  • European and multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of atopic dermatitis highlights importance of systemic immune regulation

    Ashley Budu-Aggrey, Anna Kilanowski, Maria K. Sobczyk, 23andMe Research Team, Suyash S. Shringarpure, Ruth Mitchell, Kadri Reis, Anu Reigo, Estonian Biobank Research Team, Reedik Mägi, Mari Nelis, Nao Tanaka, Ben M. Brumpton, Laurent F. Thomas, Pol Sole-Navais, Christopher Flatley, Antonio Espuela-Ortiz, Esther Herrera-Luis, Jesus V. T. Lominchar, Jette Bork-Jensen, Ingo Marenholz, Aleix Arnau-Soler, Ayoung Jeong, Katherine A. Fawcett, Hansjorg Baurecht, Elke Rodriguez, Alexessander Couto Alves, Ashish Kumar, Patrick M. Sleiman, Xiao Chang, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Chen Hu, Cheng-jian Xu, Cancan Qi, Sarah El-Heis, Philip Titcombe, Elie Antoun, João Fadista, Carol A. Wang, Elisabeth Thiering, Baojun Wu, Sara Kress, Dilini M. Kothalawala, Latha Kadalayil, Jiasong Duan, Hongmei Zhang, Sabelo Hadebe, Thomas Hoffmann, Eric Jorgenson, Hélène Choquet, Neil Risch, Pål Njølstad, Ole A. Andreassen, Stefan Johansson, Catarina Almqvist, Tong Gong, Vilhelmina Ullemar, Robert Karlsson, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Agnieszka Szwajda, Esteban G. Burchard, Jacob P. Thyssen, Torben Hansen, Line L. Kårhus, Thomas M. Dantoft, Alexander C.S.N. Jeanrenaud, Ahla Ghauri, Andreas Arnold, Georg Homuth, Susanne Lau, Markus M. Nöthen, Norbert Hübner, Medea Imboden, Alessia Visconti, Mario Falchi, Veronique Bataille, Pirro Hysi, Natalia Ballardini, Dorret I. Boomsma, Jouke J. Hottenga, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Jakob Stokholm, Bo Chawes, Ann-Marie M. Schoos, Ana Esplugues, Mariona Bustamante, Benjamin Raby, Syed Arshad, Chris German, Tõnu Esko, Lili A. Milani, Andres Metspalu, Chikashi Terao, Katrina Abuabara, Mari Løset, Kristian Hveem, Bo Jacobsson, Maria Pino-Yanes, David P. Strachan, Niels Grarup, Allan Linneberg, Young-Ae Lee, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Stephan Weidinger, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Erik Melén, Hakon Hakonarson, Alan D. Irvine, Deborah Jarvis, Tamar Nijsten, Liesbeth Duijts, Judith M. Vonk, Gerard H. Koppelmann, Keith M. Godfrey, Sheila J. Barton, Bjarke Feenstra, Craig E. Pennell, Peter D. Sly, Patrick G. Holt, L. Keoki Williams, Hans Bisgaard, Klaus Bønnelykke, John Curtin, Angela Simpson, Clare Murray, Tamara Schikowski, Supinda Bunyavanich, Scott T. Weiss, John W. Holloway, Josine L. Min, Sara J. Brown, Marie Standl and Lavinia Paternoster

    Nature Communications (2023) 14:6172
    doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41180-2

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  • Dupilumab but not cyclosporine treatment shifts the microbiome toward a healthy skin flora in patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis

    Jan Hartmann, Lucas Moitinho-Silva, Nicole Sander, Inken Harder, Robert Häsler, Elke Rodriguez, Eva Haufe, Andreas Kleinheinz, Susanne Abraham, Annice Heratizadeh, Elke Weisshaar, Knut Schäkel, Christiane Handrick, Matthias Augustin, Andreas Wollenberg, Petra Staubach-Renz, Konstantin Ertner, Michael Sticherling, Beate Schwarz, Sven Quist, Franca Wiemers, Florian Schenck, Julia Wildberger, Lukas Tittmann, Wolfgang Lieb, Jochen Schmitt, Thomas Werfel, Stephan Weidinger, the TREATgermany Study Group

    Allergy (2023); 00: 1–11.
    doi: 10.1111/all.15742

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2022

2021

2020

2019

  • Progression of acute-to-chronic atopic dermatitis is associated with quantitative rather than qualitative changes in cytokine responses

    Lam C. Tsoi, Elke Rodriguez, Dora Stölzl, Ulrike Wehkamp, Jingru Sun, Sascha Gerdes, Mrinal K. Sarkar, Matthias Hübenthal, Chang Zeng, Ranjitha Uppala, Xianying Xing, Frederieke Thielking, Allison C. Billi, William R. Swindell, Alanna Shefler, Jiahan Chen, Matthew T. Patrick, Paul W. Harms, J. Michelle Kahlenberg, Bethany E. Perez White, Emanual Maverakis, Johann E. Gudjonsson, Stephan Weidinger

    J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2019 Dec 28. pii: S0091-6749(19)32610-7
    doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2019.11.047
  • Microbe-host interplay in atopic dermatitis and psoriasis

    Nanna Fyhrquist, Gareth Muirhead, Stefanie Prast-Nielsen, Marine Jeanmougin, Peter Olah, Tiina Skoog, Gerome Jules-Clement, Micha Feld, Mauricio Barrientos-Somarribas, Hanna Sinkko, Ellen H. van den Bogaard, Patrick L.J.M. Zeeuwen, Gijs Rikken, Joost Schalkwijk, Hanna Niehues, Walter Däubener, Silvia Kathrin Eller, Helen Alexander, Davide Pennino, Sari Suomela, Ioannis Tessas, Emilia Lybeck, Anna M. Baran, Hamid Darban, Roopesh Singh Gangwar, Ulrich Gerstel, Katharina Jahn, Piia Karisola, Lee Yan, Britta Hansmann, Shintaro Katayama, Stephan Meller, Max Bylesjö, Philippe Hupé, Francesca Levi-Schaffer, Dario Greco, Annamari Ranki, Jens M. Schröder, Jonathan Barker, Juha Kere, Sophia Tsoka, Antti Lauerma, Vassili Soumelis, Frank O. Nestle, Bernhard Homey, Björn Andersson & Harri Alenius

    Nature Communications volume 10, Article number: 4703 (2019)
    doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12253-y