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Overview

Edouard Louis is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

In subfields of research, Edouard Louis has contributed extensively to:

  • Genetics
  • Cancer Research
  • Epidemiology
  • Molecular Biology
  • Spectroscopy

Their work covers key topics such as:

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Microscopic Colitis
  • Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer
  • Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies

Edouard Louis has published notable papers, including:

  • Upadacitinib Induction and Maintenance Therapy for Crohn's Disease (2023), New England Journal of Medicine
  • Management of Patients With Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis During the Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pandemic: Results of an International Meeting (2020), Gastroenterology
  • Large-scale sequencing identifies multiple genes and rare variants associated with Crohn's disease susceptibility (2022), Nature Genetics
  • Genetic architecture of the inflammatory bowel diseases across East Asian and European ancestries (2023), Nature Genetics
  • Glycosylation of immunoglobulin G is regulated by a large network of genes pleiotropic with inflammatory diseases (2020), Science Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Edouard Louis include:

  • Marie-Alice Meuwis
  • Jean-François Focant
  • Nicolas Di Giovanni
  • Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet
  • Geert D'Haens

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Gastroenterology
  • The American Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Best Publications

  • Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

    Luke Jostins;Stephan Ripke;Rinse K Weersma;Richard H Duerr

  • Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease

    Jeffrey C. Barrett;Sarah Hansoul;Dan L. Nicolae;Judy H. Cho

  • Genome-wide meta-analysis increases to 71 the number of confirmed Crohn's disease susceptibility loci

    Andre Franke;Dermot P B McGovern;Jeffrey C. Barrett;Kai Wang

  • Meta-analysis identifies 29 additional ulcerative colitis risk loci, increasing the number of confirmed associations to 47.

    Carl A. Anderson;Gabrielle Boucher;Charlie W. Lees;Andre Franke

  • The second European evidence-based Consensus on the diagnosis and management of Crohn's disease: Definitions and diagnosis

    Gert Van Assche;Axel Dignass;Julian Panes;Laurent Beaugerie

  • Behaviour of Crohn's disease according to the Vienna classification: changing pattern over the course of the disease

    E Louis;A Collard;A F Oger;E Degroote

  • Two stage genome-wide search in inflammatory bowel disease provides evidence for susceptibility loci on chromosomes 3, 7 and 12.

    J Satsangi;M Parkes;E Louis;L Hashimoto

  • Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) gene polymorphism influences TNF-alpha production in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated whole blood cell culture in healthy humans.

    Edouard Louis;D. Franchimont;Anne Piron;Y. Gevaert

  • Maintenance of Remission Among Patients With Crohn's Disease on Antimetabolite Therapy After Infliximab Therapy Is Stopped

    Edouard Louis;Jean–Yves Mary;Gwenola Vernier–Massouille;Jean–Charles Grimaud

  • Development of the Crohn's disease digestive damage score, the Lémann score†‡§

    Benjamin Pariente;Jacques Cosnes;Silvio Danese;William J. Sandborn

  • Novel Crohn Disease Locus Identified by Genome-Wide Association Maps to a Gene Desert on 5p13.1 and Modulates Expression of PTGER4

    Cécile Libioulle;Edouard Louis;Sarah Hansoul;Cynthia Sandor

  • Fine-mapping inflammatory bowel disease loci to single-variant resolution

    Hailiang Huang;Hailiang Huang;Ming Fang;Luke Jostins;Maša Umićević Mirkov

  • Common variants in the NLRP3 region contribute to Crohn's disease susceptibility

    Alexandra-Chloé Villani;Mathieu Lemire;Geneviève Fortin;Edouard Louis

  • Induction therapy with the selective interleukin-23 inhibitor risankizumab in patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn's disease: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 2 study

    Brian G Feagan;William J Sandborn;Geert D'Haens;Julián Panés

  • Multicenter randomized-control led clinical trial of probiotics (Lactobacillus johnsonii, LA1) on early endoscopic recurrence of Crohn's disease after ileo-caecal resection

    Andre Van Gossum;Olivier Dewit;Edouard Louis;Geert de Hertogh

  • Predictors of severe Crohn's disease.

    Catherine Loly;Jacques Belaiche;Edouard Louis

  • Report of the ECCO pathogenesis workshop on anti-TNF therapy failures in inflammatory bowel diseases: definitions, frequency and pharmacological aspects.

    Matthieu Allez;Matthieu Allez;Konstantinos Karmiris;Edouard Louis;Gert Van Assche

  • Genetic markers may predict disease behavior in patients with ulcerative colitis.

    Maria Roussomoustakaki;Jack Satsangi;Ken Welsh;Edouard Louis

  • Early development of stricturing or penetrating pattern in Crohn’s disease is influenced by disease location, number of flares, and smoking but not by NOD2/CARD15 genotype

    Edouard Louis;V. Michel;J. P. Hugot;Catherine Reenaers

  • Development of the Lémann index to assess digestive tract damage in patients with Crohn's disease

    Benjamin Pariente;Jean Yves Mary;Silvio Danese;Yehuda Chowers

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Frederic Colombel
Jean-Frederic Colombel Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet
Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet University of Lorraine
Geert R. D'Haens
Geert R. D'Haens University of Amsterdam
Yoram Bouhnik
Yoram Bouhnik Beaujon Hospital
William J. Sandborn
William J. Sandborn University of California, San Diego
Stefan Schreiber
Stefan Schreiber Kiel University
Walter Reinisch
Walter Reinisch Medical University of Vienna
Matthieu Allez
Matthieu Allez Université Paris Cité

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