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52. Transcriptomic network analysis reveals key drivers of response to anti-TNF biologics in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Chae-Yeon Yu, Hye-Soon Lee, Young Bin Joo, Soo-Kyung Cho, Chan-Bum Choi, Yoon-Kyoung Sung, Tae-Hwan Kim, Jae-Bum Jun, Dae Hyun Yoo, Sang-Cheol Bae, Kwangwoo Kim*, So-Young Bang*. Rheumatology. kead403. Online ahead of print.
doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kead403. [August, 2023]
51. Regulatory Variants on the Leukocyte Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor Gene Cluster are Associated with Crohn's Disease and Interact with Regulatory Variants for TAP2
Kwangwoo Kim^*, Shin Ju Oh^, Junho Lee, Ayeong Kwon, Chae-Yeon Yu, Sangsoo Kim, Chang Hwan Choi, Sang-Bum Kang, Tae Oh Kim, Dong Il Park, Chang Kyun Lee*. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis. jjad127. Online ahead of print.
doi: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjad127. [July, 2023]
48. Biological insights into systemic lupus erythematosus through an immune cell-specific transcriptome-wide association study
Xianyong Yin^, Kwangwoo Kim^, Hiroyuki Suetsugu^, So-Young Bang, Leilei Wen, Masaru Koido, Eunji Ha, Lu Liu, Yuma Sakamoto, Sungsin Jo, Rui-Xue Leng, Nao Otomo, Young-Chang Kwon, Yujun Sheng, Nobuhiko Sugano, Mi Yeong Hwang, Weiran Li, Masaya Mukai, Kyungheon Yoon, Minglong Cai, Kazuyoshi Ishigaki, Won Tae Chung, He Huang, Daisuke Takahashi, Shin-Seok Lee, Mengwei Wang, Kohei Karino, Seung-Cheol Shim, Xiaodong Zheng, Tomoya Miyamura, Young Mo Kang, Dongqing Ye, Junichi Nakamura, Chang-Hee Suh, Yuanjia Tang, Goro Motomura, Yong-Beom Park, Huihua Ding, Takeshi Kuroda, Jung-Yoon Choe, Chengxu Li, Hiroaki Niiro, Youngho Park, Changbing Shen, Takeshi Miyamoto, Ga-Young Ahn, Wenmin Fei, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Jung-Min Shin, Keke Li, Yasushi Kawaguchi, Yeon-Kyung Lee, Yong-Fei Wang, Koichi Amano, Dae Jin Park, Wanling Yang, Yoshifumi Tada, Yu Lung Lau, Ken Yamaji, Zhengwei Zhu, Masato Shimizu, Takashi Atsumi, Akari Suzuki, Takayuki Sumida, Yukinori Okada, Koichi Matsuda, Keitaro Matsuo, Yuta Kochi, Japanese Research Committee on Idiopathic Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head; Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Koichiro Ohmura, Tae-Hwan Kim, Sen Yang, Takuaki Yamamoto, Bong-Jo Kim, Nan Shen, Shiro Ikegawa, Hye-Soon Lee, Xuejun Zhang, Chikashi Terao*, Yong Cui*, Sang-Cheol Bae*. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. Online ahead of print.
doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2022-222345. [May, 2022]
49. Distinct transcriptome architectures underlying lupus establishment and exacerbation
Masahiro Nakano, Mineto Ota, Yusuke Takeshima, Yukiko Iwasaki, Hiroaki Hatano, Yasuo Nagafuchi, Takahiro Itamiya, Junko Maeda, Ryochi Yoshida, Saeko Yamada, Aya Nishiwaki, Haruka Takahashi, Hideyuki Takahashi, Yuko Akutsu, Takeshi Kusuda, Hiroyuki Suetsugu, Lu Liu, Kwangwoo Kim, Xianyong Yin, So-Young Bang, Yong Cui, Hye-Soon Lee, Hirofumi Shoda, Xuejun Zhang, Sang-Cheol Bae, Chikashi Terao, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Tomohisa Okamura, Kazuyoshi Ishigaki*, Keishi Fujio*. Cell. 185(18):3375-3389.e21.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.07.021. [September, 2022]
50. Higher genetic risk loads confer more diverse manifestations and higher risk of lupus nephritis in systemic lupus erythematosus
Young-Chang Kwon^, Eunji Ha^, Hyuk-Hee Kwon, Dae Jin Park, Jung-Min Shin, Young Bin Joo, Won Tae Chung, Dae-Hyun Yoo, Hye-Soon Lee, Kwangwoo Kim*, Sang-Cheol Bae*, So-Young Bang*. Arthritis & Rheumatololgy. 2023 Apr 3. Online ahead of print.
doi: 10.1002/art.42516. [April, 2023]
47. Novel susceptibility loci for steroid-associated osteonecrosis of the femoral head in systemic lupus erythematosus
Hiroyuki Suetsugu^, Kwangwoo Kim^, Takuaki Yamamoto*, So-Young Bang, Yuma Sakamoto, Jung-Min Shin, Nobuhiko Sugano, Ji Soong Kim, Masaya Mukai, Yeon-Kyung Lee, Koichiro Ohmura, Dae Jin Park, Daisuke Takahashi, Ga-Young Ahn, Kohei Karino, Young-Chang Kwon, Tomoya Miyamura, Jihye Kim, Junichi Nakamura, Goro Motomura, Takeshi Kuroda, Hiroaki Niiro, Takeshi Miyamoto, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Katsunori Ikari, Koichi Amano, Yoshifumi Tada, Ken Yamaji, Masato Shimizu, Takashi Atsumi, Taisuke Seki, Yoshiya Tanaka, Toshikazu Kubo, Ryo Hisada, Tomokazu Yoshioka, Mihoko Yamazaki, Tamon Kabata, Tomomichi Kajino, Yoichi Ohta, Takahiro Okawa, Yohei Naito, Ayumi Kaneuji, Yuji Yasunaga, Kenji Ohzono, Kohei Tomizuka, Masaru Koido, Koichi Matsuda, Yukinori Okada, Akari Suzuki, Bong-Jo Kim, Yuta Kochi, Hye-Soon Lee, Shiro Ikegawa*, Sang-Cheol Bae*, Chikashi Terao*. Human Molecular Genetics. 31(7):1082-1095.
doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddab306. [March, 2022]
46. Recent advances in understanding the genetic basis of systemic lupus erythematosus
Eunji Ha, Sang-Cheol Bae*, Kwangwoo Kim*. Seminars in Immunopathology, 44(1):29-46.
doi: 10.1007/s00281-021-00900-w. [January, 2022]
Eunji Ha^, So-Young Bang^, Jiwoo Lim, Jun Ho Yun, Jeong-Min Kim, Jae-Bum Bae, Hye-Soon Lee, Bong-Jo Kim*, Kwangwoo Kim*, Sang-Cheol Bae*. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 80(7):876-883.
doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219152. [July, 2021]
[resource] DEG/DMR/QTL summary statistics: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.w0vt4b8pw
44. Large-scale meta-analysis across East Asian and European populations updated genetic architecture and variant-driven biology of rheumatoid arthritis, identifying 11 novel susceptibility loci
Eunji Ha, Sang-Cheol Bae*, Kwangwoo Kim*. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 80(5):558-565.
doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219065. [May, 2021]
*featured in Research Highlight of Nature Reviews Rheumatology (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41584-021-00580-8).
[resource] Association summary statistics: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ns1rn8pr0
43. Meta-analysis of 208370 East Asians identifies 113 susceptibility loci for systemic lupus erythematosus
Xianyong Yin^, Kwangwoo Kim^, Hiroyuki Suetsugu^, So-Young Bang, Leilei Wen, Masaru Koido, Eunji Ha, Lu Liu, Yuma Sakamoto, Sungsin Jo, Rui-Xue Leng, Nao Otomo, Viktoryia Laurynenka, Young-Chang Kwon, Yujun Sheng, Nobuhiko Sugano, Mi Yeong Hwang, Weiran Li, Masaya Mukai, Kyungheon Yoon, Minglong Cai, Kazuyoshi Ishigaki, Won Tae Chung, He Huang, Daisuke Takahashi, Shin-Seok Lee, Mengwei Wang, Kohei Karino, Seung-Cheol Shim, Xiaodong Zheng, Tomoya Miyamura, Young Mo Kang, Dongqing Ye, Junichi Nakamura, Chang-Hee Suh, Yuanjia Tang, Goro Motomura, Yong-Beom Park, Huihua Ding, Takeshi Kuroda, Jung-Yoon Choe, Chengxu Li, Hiroaki Niiro, Youngho Park, Changbing Shen, Takeshi Miyamoto, Ga-Young Ahn, Wenmin Fei, Tsutomu Takeuchi, Jung-Min Shin, Keke Li, Yasushi Kawaguchi, Yeon-Kyung Lee, Yongfei Wang, Koichi Amano, Dae Jin Park, Wanling Yang, Yoshifumi Tada, Ken Yamaji, Masato Shimizu, Takashi Atsumi, Akari Suzuki, Takayuki Sumida, Yukinori Okada, Koichi Matsuda, Keitaro Matsuo, Yuta Kochi, Japanese Research Committee on Idiopathic Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head, Leah C. Kottyan, Matthew T. Weirauch, Sreeja Parameswaran, Shruti Eswar, Hanan Salim, Xiaoting Chen, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, John B. Harley, Koichiro Ohmura, Tae-Hwan Kim, Sen Yang, Takuaki Yamamoto, Bong-Jo Kim, Nan Shen, Shiro Ikegawa, Hye-Soon Lee, Xuejun Zhang, Chikashi Terao*, Yong Cui*, Sang-Cheol Bae*. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 80(5):632-640.
doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-219209. [May, 2021]
42. Allele-specific quantification of HLA-DRB1 transcripts reveals imbalanced allelic expression that modifies the amino acid effects in HLA-DRβ1
Sehwan Chun^, So-Young Bang^, Eunji Ha, Jing Cui, Ki-Nam Gu, Hye-Soon Lee, Kwangwoo Kim*, Sang-Cheol Bae*. Arthritis & Rheumatology, 73(3):381-391. doi: 10.1002/art.41535. [March, 2021]
41. Genome-wide association study in a Korean population identifies six novel susceptibility loci for rheumatoid arthritis
Young-Chang Kwon^, Jiwoo Lim^, So-Young Bang^, Eunji Ha, Mi Yeong Hwang, Kyungheon Yoon, Jung-Yoon Choe, Dae-Hyun Yoo, Shin-Seok Lee, Jisoo Lee, Won Tae Chung, Tae-Hwan Kim, Yoon-Kyoung Sung, Seung-Cheol Shim, Chan-Bum Choi, Jae-Bum Jun, Young Mo Kang, Jung-Min Shin, Yeon-Kyung Lee, Soo-Kyung Cho, Bong-Jo Kim, Hye-Soon Lee, Kwangwoo Kim*, Sang-Cheol Bae*. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 79(11):1438-1445. doi: 10.1136/ annrheumdis-2018-214297. [November, 2020]
40. Host Genetic and Gut Microbial Signatures in Familial Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Yoo Min Park^, Eunji Ha^, Ki-Nam Gu, Ga Young Shin, Chang Kyun Lee, Kwangwoo Kim*, Hyo Jong Kim*. Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, 11(7), e00213. doi: 10.14309/ctg.0000000000000213. [July, 2020]
39. MHC associations of ankylosing spondylitis in East Asians are complex and involve non-HLA-B27 HLA contributions
Geng Wang^, Tae-Hwan Kim^, Zhixiu Li^, Adrian Cortes, Kwangwoo Kim, So-Young Bang, Paul Leo, Matthew A. Brown* & Huji Xu*. Arthritis Res Ther. 9;22(1):74. doi: 10.1186/s13075-020-02148-5. [April, 2020]
38. Identifying damage clusters in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
Ga Young Ahn, Jiyoung Lee, Soyoung Won, Eunji Ha, Hyoungyoung Kim, Bora Nam, Ji Soong Kim, Juyeon Kang, Jae‐Hoon Kim, Gwan Gyu Song, Kwangwoo Kim, Sang‐Cheol Bae*. Int J Rheum Dis. 23(1):84-91. doi: 10.1111/1756-185X.13745. [April, 2020]
37. Allelic frequency differences of DAOA variants between Caucasians and Asians and their association with major mood disorders
Zhihua Yang, Shuang Zhang, Fuquan Zhang, Yao Yao, Kwangwoo Kim, David Meyre, Hongmei Zhang, Hai Liao, Shuquan Rao*, and Xinhe Huang*. Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy. 4;4:39. doi: 10.1038/s41392-019-0066-5. [October, 2019]
36. Update on the Genetics of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Genome-Wide Association Studies and Beyond
Young-Chang Kwon^, Sehwan Chun^, Kwangwoo Kim*, Anselm Mak*. Cells. 8(10), 1180. doi: 10.3390/ cells8101180. [September, 2019]
35. Deletion at 2q14.3 is associated with worse response to TNF-α blockers in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Ki-Nam Gu^, So-Young Bang^, Hye-Soon Lee, Youngho Park, Ju-Yeon Kang, Ji-Soong Kim, Bora Nam, Hyun-Seung Yoo, Jung-Min Shin, Yeon-Kyung Lee, Tae-Han Lee, Sehwan Chun, Soo-Kyung Cho, Chan-Bum Choi, Yoon-Kyoung Sung, Tae-Hwan Kim, Jae-Bum Jun, Dae Hyun Yoo, Kwangwoo Kim*, Sang-Cheol Bae*. Arthritis Res Ther. 28;21:195. doi: 10.1186/s13075-019-1983-y. [August, 2019]
34. Amino acid signatures of HLA Class-I and II molecules are strongly associated with SLE susceptibility and autoantibody production in Eastern Asians
Julio E. Molineros^, Loren L. Looger^, Kwangwoo Kim^, Yukinori Okada, Chikashi Terao, Celi Sun, Xu-jie Zhou, Prithvi Raj, Yuta Kochi, Akari Suzuki, Shuji Akizuki , Shuichiro Nakabo, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee, Young Mo Kang, Chang-Hee Suh, Won Tae Chung, Yong-Beom Park, Jung-Yoon Choe, Seung-Cheol Shim, Shin-Seok Lee, Xiaoxia Zuo, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Quan-Zhen Li, Nan Shen, Lauren L. Porter, John B. Harley, Kek Heng Chua, Hong Zhang, Edward K. Wakeland, Betty P. Tsao, Sang-Cheol Bae*, Swapan K. Nath*. PLoS Genetics. 15(4):e1008092. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008092. [April, 2019]
33. Massive false-positive gene–gene interactions by Rothman’s additive model
Kwangwoo Kim*. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 78(3):437-439. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214297 [March, 2019]
32. Genetic variants differentially associated with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus reveal the disease-specific biology
Jiwoo Lim, Kwangwoo Kim*. Scientific Reports. 25;9(1):2739. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-39132-2. [February, 2019]
31. Understanding HLA associations from SNP summary association statistics
Jiwoo Lim, Kwangwoo Kim*. Scientific Reports. 4;9(1):1337. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-37840-9. [February, 2019]
[resource] DISH (Direct Imputing Summary association statistics of HLA variants): https://github.com/Ben-JWL/DiSH
30. Genetic variants in systemic lupus erythematosus susceptibility loci, XKR6 and GLT1D1 are associated with childhood-onset SLE in a Korean cohort
Young Bin Joo, Jiwoo Lim, Betty P. Tsao, Swapan K. Nath, Kwangwoo Kim*, Sang-Cheol Bae*. Scientific Reports, 8; 9962. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-28128-z. [July, 2018]
29. Association of CD8+ T-cells with bone erosion in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Young Bin Joo, Youngho Park, Kwangwoo Kim, So-Young Bang, Sang-Cheol Bae*, Hye-Soon Lee*. International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases, 21(2):440-446. doi: 10.1111/1756-185X.13090. [February, 2018]
28. Biological function integrated prediction of severe radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis: a nested case control study
Young Bin Joo^, Yul Kim^, Youngho Park, Kwangwoo Kim, Jeong Ah Ryu, Seunghun Lee, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee*, Gwan-Su Yi*, Sang-Cheol Bae*. Arthritis Research & Therapy, 25;19(1):244. doi: 10.1186/s13075-017-1414-x. [October, 2017]
27. A missense variant in NCF1 is associated with susceptibility to multiple autoimmune diseases
Jian Zhao^*, Jianyang Ma^, Yun Deng, Jennifer A. Kelly, Kwangwoo Kim, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee, Quan-Zhen Li, Edward K. Wakeland, Rong Qiu, Mengru Liu, Jianping Guo, Zhanguo Li, Wenfeng Tan, Astrid Rasmussen, Christopher J. Lessard, Kathy L. Sivils, Bevra H. Hahn, Jennifer M. Grossman, Diane L. Kamen, Gary S. Gilkeson, Sang-Cheol Bae, Patrick M. Gaffney, Nan Shen*, Betty P. Tsao*. Nature Genetics, 49(3):433-437. doi: 10.1038/ng.3782. [March, 2017]
26. Confirmation of five novel susceptibility loci for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and integrated network analysis of 82 SLE susceptibility loci
Julio E. Molineros, Wanling Yang, Xu-jie Zhou, Celi Sun, Yukinori Okada, Huoru Zhang, Kek Heng Chua, Yu-Lung Lau, Yuta Kochi, Akari Suzuki, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Jianyang Ma, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee, Kwangwoo Kim, Sang-Cheol Bae, Hong Zhang, Nan Shen, Loren L. Looger, Swapan K. Nath*. Human Molecular Genetics, 15;26(6):1205-1216. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddx026. [May, 2017]
25. Update on the genetic architecture of rheumatoid arthritis
Kwangwoo Kim, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 13(1):13-24. doi: 10.1038/nrrheum.2016.176. [January, 2017]
24. Association of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of PADI4 and HLA-DRB1 Alleles with Susceptibility to Rheumatoid Arthritis-Related Lung Diseases
Seung Taek Song, Song Soo Kim, Ji Young Kim, So Young Lee, Kwangwoo Kim, In Sun Kwon, Ji Na Kim, Won Hong Park, In Seol Yoo, Su-Jin Yoo, Jin Hyun Kim, Seong Wook Kang, Seung-Cheol Shim*. Lung, 194(5):745-53. doi: 10.1007/s00408-016-9916-x. [October, 2016]
23. Association Heterogeneity Mapping Identifies an Asian-Specific Association of the GTF2I Locus with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Kwangwoo Kim^, So-Young Bang^, Katsunori Ikari, Dae Hyun Yoo, Soo-Kyung Cho, Chan-Bum Choi, Yoon-Kyoung Sung, Tae-Hwan Kim, Jae-Bum Jun, Young Mo Kang, Chang-Hee Suh, Seung-Cheol Shim, Shin-Seok Lee, Jisoo Lee, Won Tae Chung, Seong-Kyu Kim, Jung-Yoon Choe, Shigeki Momohara, Atsuo Taniguchi, Hisashi Yamanaka, Swapan K Nath, Hye-Soon Lee, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Scientific Reports, 8;6:27563. doi: 10.1038/srep27563. [June, 2016]
22. Response to intravenous cyclophosphamide treatment for lupus nephritis associated with polymorphisms in the FCGR2B-FCRLA locus
Kwangwoo Kim^, So-Young Bang^, Young Bin Joo, Taehyeung Kim, Hye-Soon Lee, Changwon Kang*, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. The Journal of Rheumatology, 43(6):1045-9. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.150665. [June, 2016]
21. Imputing variants in HLA-DR beta genes reveals that HLA-DRB1 is solely associated with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus
Kwangwoo Kim, So-Young Bang, Dae Hyun Yoo, Soo-Kyung Cho, Chan-Bum Choi, Yoon-Kyoung Sung, Tae-Hwan Kim, Jae-Bum Jun, Young Mo Kang, Chang-Hee Suh, Seung-Cheol Shim, Shin-Seok Lee, Jisoo Lee, Won Tae Chung, Seong-Kyu Kim, Jung-Yoon Choe, Swapan K. Nath, Hye-Soon Lee, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. PLoS ONE, 26;11(2):e0150283. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150283. [February, 2016]
[resource] Korean HLA-reference panel v1.1 (Please note v1.0 is recommended to impute nonHLA-DRB3,4,5 variants.)
20. Identification of a systemic lupus erythematosus risk locus spanning ATG16L2, FCHSD2, and P2RY2 in Koreans
Christopher J. Lessard^, Satria Sajuthi^, Jian Zhao^, Kwangwoo Kim^, John A. Ice, He Li, Hannah Ainsworth, Astrid Rasmussen, Jennifer A. Kelly, Mindy Marion, So-Young Bang, Young Bin Joo, Jeongim Choi, Hye-Soon Lee, Young Mo Kang, Chang-Hee Suh, Won Tae Chung, Soo-Kon Lee, Jung-Yoon Choe, Seung Cheol Shim, Ji Hee Oh, Young Jin Kim, BokGhee Han, Nan Shen, Hwee Siew Howe, Edward K. Wakeland, QuanZhen Li, Yeong Wook Song, Patrick M. Gaffney, Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme, Lindsey A. Criswell, Chaim O. Jacob, Robert P. Kimberly, Timothy J. Vyse, John B. Harley, Kathy L. Sivils, Sang-Cheol Bae*, Carl D. Langefeld, and Betty P. Tsao*. Arthritis & Rheumatology, 68(5):1197-209. doi: 10.1002/art.39548. [May, 2016]
19. High-density genotyping of immune-related loci identifies new SLE risk variants in individuals with Asian ancestry
Celi Sun^, Julio E. Molineros^, Loren L. Looger^, Xu-jie Zhou^, Kwangwoo Kim^, Yukinori Okada, Jianyang Ma, Yuan-yuan Qi, Xana Kim-Howard, Prasenjeet Motghare, Krishna Bhattarai, Adam Adler, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee, Tae-Hwan Kim, Young Mo Kang, Chang-Hee Suh, Won Tae Chung, Yong-Beom Park, Jung-Yoon Choe, Seung Cheol Shim, Yuta Kochi, Akari Suzuki, Michiaki Kubo, Takayuki Sumida, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Shin-Seok Lee, Young Jin Kim, Bok-Ghee Han, Mikhail Dozmorov, Kenneth M. Kaufman, Jonathan D. Wren, John B. Harley, Nan Shen, Kek Heng Chua, Hong Zhang, Sang-Cheol Bae*, and Swapan K. Nath*. Nature Genetics, 48(3):323-30. doi: 10.1038/ng.3496. [March, 2016]
[resource] Association summary statistics: Supplementary Data Set
18. An HLA-C amino-acid variant in addition to HLA-B*27 confers risk for ankylosing spondylitis in the Korean population
Kwangwoo Kim^, So-Young Bang^, Seunghun Lee, Hye-Soon Lee, Seung-Cheol Shim, Young Mo Kang, Chang-Hee Suh, Celi Sun, Swapan K. Nath, Sang-Cheol Bae*, and Tae-Hwan Kim*. Arthritis Research & Therapy, 17(1), 342. doi: 10.1186/s13075-015-0855-3. [November, 2015]
17. Interactions between amino-acid-defined MHC class II variants and smoking for seropositive rheumatoid arthritis.
Kwangwoo Kim^, Xia Jiang^, Jing Cui^, Bing Lu, Karen H. Costenbader, Jeffrey A. Sparks, So-Young Bang, Hye-soon Lee, Yukinori Okada, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Lars Alfredsson, Sang-Cheol Bae*, Lars Klareskog*, and Elizabeth W. Karlson*. Arthritis and Rheumatology, 67(10):2611-23. doi: 10.1002/art.39228. [October, 2015]
16. High-Density Genotyping of Immune Loci in Koreans and Europeans Identifies 8 New Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk Loci
Kwangwoo Kim, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee, Soo-Kyung Cho, Chan-Bum Choi, Yoon-Kyoung Sung, Tae-Hwan Kim, Jae-Bum Jun, Dae Hyun Yoo, Young Mo Kang, Seong-Kyu Kim, Chang-Hee Suh, Seung-Cheol Shim, Shin-Seok Lee, Jisoo Lee, Won Tae Chung, Jung-Yoon Choe, Hyoung Doo Shin, Jong-Young Lee, Bok-Ghee Han, Swapan K. Nath, Steve Eyre, John Bowes, Dimitrios A. Pappas, Joel M. Kremer, Miguel A Gonzalez-Gay, Luis Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Lisbeth Ärlestig, Yukinori Okada, Dorothée Diogo, Katherine P. Liao, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Solbritt Rantapää-Dahlqvist, Javier Martin, Lars Klareskog, Leonid Padyukov, Peter K. Gregersen, Jane Worthington, Jeffrey D. Greenberg, Robert M. Plenge*, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 74(3):e13. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2013-204749. [May, 2015]
15. Risk for ACPA-positive rheumatoid arthritis is driven by shared HLA amino acid polymorphisms in Asian and European populations
Yukinori Okada, Kwangwoo Kim, Buhm Han, Nisha E Pillai, Rick T-H Ong, Woei-Yuh Saw, Ma Luo, Lei Jiang, Jian Yin, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee, Matthew A. Brown, Sang-Cheol Bae, Huji Xu, Yik-Ying Teo, Paul IW de Bakker, and Soumya Raychaudhuri*. Human Molecular Genetics, 23(25), 6916-26. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddu387. [December, 2014]
14. The HLA-DRβ1 Amino Acid Positions 11-13-26 Explain the Majority of SLE-MHC Associations
Kwangwoo Kim, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee, Yukinori Okada, Buhm Han, Woei-Yuh Saw, Yik-Ying Teo, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Nature Communications, 5:5902. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6902. [December, 2014]
13. Construction and Application of a Korean Reference Panel for Imputing Classical Alleles and Amino Acids of Human Leukocyte Antigen Genes
Kwangwoo Kim, So-Young Bang, Hye-Soon Lee, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. PLoS ONE, 9(11), e112546. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112546. [November, 2014]
[resource] Korean HLA-reference panel v1.0
12. Targeted exon sequencing fails to identify rare coding variants with large effect in rheumatoid arthritis
So-Young Bang, Young-Ji Na, Kwangwoo Kim, Young Bin Joo, Youngho Park, Jaemoon Lee, Sun-Young Lee, Adnan A Ansari, Junghee Jung, Hwanseok Rhee, Jong-Young Lee, Bok-Ghee Han, Sung-Min Ahn, Sungho Won, Hye-Soon Lee, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Arthritis Research & Therapy, 16(5), 447. doi: 10.1186/s13075-014-0447-7. [September, 2014]
11. Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis Specific HLA-DRB1 Genotyping Microarray
Seung Yong Lee, So Yeon Yu, So-Young Bang, Ji-Hoon Kim, Seung Jun Kim, Sung-Hyun Hong, Kwangwoo Kim, Hye-Soon Lee, Sang-Cheol Bae, Young Ho Yoon,* and Seung Yong Hwang*. BioChip Journal, 8(3),187-198. [September, 2014]
10. Ethnic specificity of lupus-associated loci identified in a genome-wide association study in Korean women
Hye-Soon Lee^, Taehyeung Kim^, So Young Bang, Young Ji Na, Il Kim, Kwangwoo Kim, Jae-Hoon Kim, Yeun-Jun Chung, Hyoung Doo Shin, Young Mo Kang, SeungCheol Shim, Chang-Hee Suh, Yong-Beom Park, Jong-Sung Kim, Changwon Kang*, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 73(6), 1240-1245. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2012-202675. [June, 2014]
9. Clinical application of catalytically cleavable fluorescence probe technology for multiplexing quantification of BCR–ABL1 fusion transcripts
Kyoung-Jin Park^, Young Min Woo^, Kwangwoo Kim, Seung-Tae Lee, Chang-Seok Ki, Hee-Jin Kim, Sun-Hee Kim, and Jong-Won Kim*. Clinica Chimica Acta, 428, 72-76. [January, 2014]
8. A redundant epistatic interaction between IRF5 and STAT4 of the type I interferon pathway in susceptibility to lupus and rheumatoid arthritis
Kwangwoo Kim^, Soo-Kyung Cho^, Tae-Un Han, Jae-Hoon Kim, Suk-Jo Kang, Changwon Kang*, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Lupus, 22, 1336-1340. doi: 10.1177/0961203313504479. [November, 2013]
7. Variation in the ICAM1-ICAM4-ICAM5 locus is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus susceptibility in multiple ancestries
Kwangwoo Kim^, Elizabeth E. Brown^, Chan-Bum Choi, Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme on behalf of BIOLUPUS, Jennifer A. Kelly, Stuart B. Glenn, Joshua O. Ojwang, Adam Adler, Hye-Soon Lee, Susan A. Boackle, Lindsey A. Criswell, Graciela S. Alarcón, Jeffrey C. Edberg, Anne M. Stevens, Chaim O. Jacob, Gary S. Gilkeson, Diane L. Kamen, Betty P. Tsao, Juan-Manuel Anaya, Joel M. Guthridge, Swapan K. Nath, Bruce Richardson, Amr H. Sawalha, Young Mo Kang, Seung Cheol Shim, Chang-Hee Suh, Soo-Kon Lee, Chang-sik Kim, Joan T. Merrill, Michelle Petri, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Luis M. Vilá, Timothy B. Niewold, Javier Martin, Bernardo A. Pons-Estel on behalf of GENLES, Timothy J. Vyse, Barry I. Freedman, Kathy L. Moser, Patrick M. Gaffney, Adrienne Williams, Mary Comeau, John D. Reveille, Judith A. James, R. Hal Scofield, Carl D. Langefeld, Kenneth M. Kaufman, John B. Harley, Changwon Kang*, Robert P. Kimberly*, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 71 (11), 1809-1814. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2011-201110. [October, 2012]
6. Evaluation of TRAF6 in a Large Multi-Ancestral Lupus Cohort
Bahram Namjou^, Chan-Bum Choi^, Isaac T. W. Harley, Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme, Jennifer A. Kelly, Stuart B. Glenn, Joshua O. Ojwang, Adam Adler, Kwangwoo Kim, Caroline J. Gallant, Susan A. Boackle, Lindsey A. Criswell, Robert P. Kimberly, Elizabeth E. Brown, Jeffrey Edberg, Anne M. Stevens, Chaim O. Jacob, Gary S. Gilkeson, Diane L. Kamen, Betty P. Tsao, Juan- Manuel Anaya, Eun-Mi Kim, So-Yeon Park, Yoon-Kyoung Sung, Joel M. Guthridge, Joan T. Merrill, Michelle Petri, Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman, Luis M. Vilá, Timothy B. Niewold, Javier Martin, Bernardo A. Pons-Estel, Timothy J. Vyse, Barry I. Freedman, Kathy L. Moser, Patrick M. Gaffney, Adrienne Williams, Mary Comeau, John D. Reveille, Changwon Kang, Judith A. James, R. Hal Scofield, Carl D. Langefeld, Kenneth M. Kaufman, John B. Harley, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Arthritis & Rheumatism, 64 (6) 1960–1969. doi: 10.1002/art.34361. [June, 2012]
5. Replicated Association of a Regulatory Polymorphism in the Interferon-gamma Gene with Lupus Susceptibility
Kwangwoo Kim^, So-Yeon Park^, Taehyeung Kim, Young Mo Kang, Seung-Cheol Shim, Chang-Hee Suh, Yong-Beom Park, Chang-sik Kim, Changwon Kang*, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 70 (10) 1878-1879. doi: 10.1136/ard.2010.147249. [October, 2011]
4. Interferon-gamma Gene Polymorphisms Associated with Susceptibility to Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Kwangwoo Kim^, Soo-Kyung Cho^, Andrea Sestak, Bahram Namjou, Changwon Kang*, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 69 (6),1247-1250. doi: 10.1136/ard.2009.117572. [June, 2010]
3. CD244 is not associated with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus in a Korean population
Soo-Kyung Cho^, Tae-Un Han^, Kwangwoo Kim, So-Young Bang, Sang-Cheol Bae*, and Changwon Kang*. Arthritis & Rheumatism, 60 (10), 3153-3154. doi: 10.1002/art.24850. [October, 2009]
2. Genetic Studies of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Asia: Where are we now?
Il Kim^, Yun Jung Kim^, Kwangwoo Kim, Changwon Kang, Chan-Bum Choi, Yoon-Kyoung Sung, Hye-Soon Lee, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Genes & Immunity, 10, 421-432. doi: 10.1038/gene.2009.24. [July, 2009]
1. A regulatory SNP at position -899 in CDKN1A is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus nephritis
Kwangwoo Kim^, Yoon-Kyoung Sung^, Changsoo P. Kang, Chan-Bum Choi, Changwon Kang*, and Sang-Cheol Bae*. Genes & Immunity, 10, 482-486. doi: 10.1038/gene.2009.5. [July, 2009]
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