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Elaine R. Nimmo is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and focuses their research on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and immunology and microbiology. Their work spans several subfields, including genetics, molecular biology, immunology, epidemiology, and infectious diseases.

The main scientific topics covered in their research include inflammatory bowel disease, microscopic colitis, inflammasome and immune disorders, epigenetics and DNA methylation, digestive system and related health, immune responses and vaccinations, and tuberculosis research and epidemiology.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Systemic Inflammation in Preclinical Ulcerative Colitis, 2021, Gastroenterology
  • Characterisation of the Circulating Transcriptomic Landscape in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Provides Evidence for Dysregulation of Multiple Transcription Factors Including NFE2, SPI1, CEBPB, and IRF2, 2022, Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Analysis of Systemic Epigenetic Alterations in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Defining Geographical, Genetic and Immune-Inflammatory influences on the Circulating Methylome, 2022, Journal of Crohn's and Colitis

The journals where this scientist frequently publishes include:

  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis
  • Gastroenterology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Elaine R. Nimmo are:

  • Marta Gut
  • Mauro D'Amato
  • Johan D. Söderholm
  • Nicholas A. Kennedy
  • Christine Olbjørn

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Paul R. Burton;David G. Clayton;Lon R. Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • 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 association study implicates immune activation of multiple integrin genes in inflammatory bowel disease

    Katrina M de Lange;Loukas Moutsianas;James C Lee;Christopher A Lamb

  • Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Vesela Gateva;Martin D. Tobin

  • Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants

    Paul R Burton;David G Clayton;Lon R Cardon;Nick Craddock

  • Sequence variants in the autophagy gene IRGM and multiple other replicating loci contribute to Crohn's disease susceptibility.

    Miles Parkes;Jeffrey C Barrett;Natalie J Prescott;Mark Tremelling

  • Definition of Phenotypic Characteristics of Childhood-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease

    Johan Van Limbergen;Johan Van Limbergen;Johan Van Limbergen;Richard K. Russell;Hazel E. Drummond;Marian C. Aldhous

  • Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls

    Nick Craddock;Matthew E. Hurles;Niall Cardin;Richard D. Pearson

  • Localization of type 1 diabetes susceptibility to the MHC class I genes HLA-B and HLA-A

    Sergey Nejentsev;Joanna M. M. Howson;Neil M. Walker;Jeffrey Szeszko

  • Regulation of telomere length and function by a Myb-domain protein in fission yeast

    Julia Promisel Cooper;Elaine R. Nimmo;Robin C. Allshire;Thomas R. Cech

  • Genome-wide association study of ulcerative colitis identifies three new susceptibility loci, including the HNF4A region

    Jeffrey C Barrett;James C Lee;Charles W Lees;Natalie J Prescott

  • Mutations derepressing silent centromeric domains in fission yeast disrupt chromosome segregation.

    R Allshire;E Nimmo;K Ekwall;Jean-Paul Javerzat

  • Genetic determinants of ulcerative colitis include the ECM1 locus and five loci implicated in Crohn's disease

    Sheila A Fisher;Mark Tremelling;Carl A Anderson;Rhian Gwilliam

  • Beyond Gene Discovery in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The Emerging Role of Epigenetics

    Nicholas T. Ventham;Nicholas A. Kennedy;Elaine R. Nimmo;Jack Satsangi

  • New genes in inflammatory bowel disease: lessons for complex diseases?

    Daniel R Gaya;Richard K Russell;Elaine R Nimmo;Jack Satsangi

  • Mutations in the fission yeast silencing factors clr4 + and rik1 + disrupt the localisation of the chromo domain protein Swi6p and impair centromere function

    Karl Ekwall;Elaine R. Nimmo;Jean-Paul Javerzat;Britta Borgstrøm

  • Defective meiosis in telomere-silencing mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    Elaine R. Nimmo;Alison L. Pidoux;Paul E. Perry;Robin C. Allshire

  • MicroRNAs: new players in IBD

    R Kalla;N T Ventham;N A Kennedy;J F Quintana

  • Allelic variations of the multidrug resistance gene determine susceptibility and disease behavior in ulcerative colitis.

    Gwo-Tzer Ho;Elaine R. Nimmo;Albert Tenesa;Janice Fennell

  • IL23R variation determines susceptibility but not disease phenotype in inflammatory bowel disease.

    Mark Tremelling;Mark Tremelling;Fraser Cummings;Fraser Cummings;Fraser Cummings;Sheila A Fisher;Sheila A Fisher;John Mansfield;John Mansfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack Satsangi
Jack Satsangi University of Oxford
Christopher G. Mathew
Christopher G. Mathew King's College London
Miles Parkes
Miles Parkes University of Cambridge
Willem H. Ouwehand
Willem H. Ouwehand University of Cambridge
Jeremy D. Sanderson
Jeremy D. Sanderson Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Natalie J. Prescott
Natalie J. Prescott King's College London
Derek P. Jewell
Derek P. Jewell University of Oxford
Cathryn M. Lewis
Cathryn M. Lewis King's College London
Panos Deloukas
Panos Deloukas Queen Mary University of London
Nicholas A. Watkins
Nicholas A. Watkins NHS Blood and Transplant

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