Nature Communications (May 2018)

Comprehensive epigenetic landscape of rheumatoid arthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes

  • Rizi Ai,
  • Teresina Laragione,
  • Deepa Hammaker,
  • David L. Boyle,
  • Andre Wildberg,
  • Keisuke Maeshima,
  • Emanuele Palescandolo,
  • Vinod Krishna,
  • David Pocalyko,
  • John W. Whitaker,
  • Yuchen Bai,
  • Sunil Nagpal,
  • Kurtis E. Bachman,
  • Richard I. Ainsworth,
  • Mengchi Wang,
  • Bo Ding,
  • Percio S. Gulko,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Gary S. Firestein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04310-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) in the intimal layer of the synovium can become invasive and destroy cartilage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Here the authors integrate a variety of epigenomic data to map the epigenome of FLS in RA and identify potential therapeutic targets.