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Overview

John D. Rioux is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada, specializing in research centered around biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional involvement in medicine. Their work spans multiple interconnected fields, including genetics, molecular biology, immunology, surgery, and epidemiology.

The research primarily focuses on the study of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and related gastrointestinal conditions. Main topics covered in their publications include:

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Microscopic Colitis
  • Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Digestive system and related health
  • Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders

Frequent co-authors collaborating with John D. Rioux include:

  • Steven R. Brant
  • Dermot McGovern
  • Mark S. Silverberg
  • Judy H. Cho
  • Richard H. Duerr

The scientist's work has been published extensively in venues such as:

  • Gastroenterology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Crohn's and Colitis

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by John D. Rioux include:

  • "Genetic architecture of the inflammatory bowel diseases across East Asian and European ancestries" (2023, Nature Genetics)
  • "Human enteric viruses autonomously shape inflammatory bowel disease phenotype through divergent innate immunomodulation" (2022, Science Immunology)
  • "Inflamed Ulcerative Colitis Regions Associated With MRGPRX2-Mediated Mast Cell Degranulation and Cell Activation Modules, Defining a New Therapeutic Target" (2021, Gastroenterology)
  • "Common and Rare Variant Prediction and Penetrance of IBD in a Large, Multi-ethnic, Health System-based Biobank Cohort" (2020, Gastroenterology)
  • "Whole-genome sequencing of African Americans implicates differential genetic architecture in inflammatory bowel disease" (2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics)

Best Publications

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

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

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies IL23R as an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gene

    Richard H. Duerr;Kent D. Taylor;Steven R. Brant;Steven R. Brant;John D. Rioux;John D. Rioux

  • Large-Scale Identification, Mapping, and Genotyping of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Human Genome

    David G. Wang;Jian-Bing Fan;Jian-Bing Fan;Chia-Jen Siao;Chia-Jen Siao;Anthony Berno;Anthony Berno

  • 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

  • Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

    Stephen Sawcer;Garrett Hellenthal;Matti Pirinen;Chris C. A. Spencer

  • Risk alleles for multiple sclerosis identified by a genomewide study.

    David A. Hafler;Alastair Compston;Stephen Sawcer;Mark J. Daly

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • High-resolution haplotype structure in the human genome.

    Mark J. Daly;John D. Rioux;Stephen F. Schaffner;Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson

  • Genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for Crohn disease and implicates autophagy in disease pathogenesis

    John D. Rioux;John D. Rioux;Ramnik J. Xavier;Kent D. Taylor;Mark S. Silverberg

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • 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

  • Genome-wide association scan in women with systemic lupus erythematosus identifies susceptibility variants in ITGAM, PXK, KIAA1542 and other loci.

    John B. Harley;John B. Harley;John B. Harley;Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme;Lindsey A. Criswell;Chaim O. Jacob

  • A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics

    Ryan L Collins;Ryan L Collins;Harrison Brand;Harrison Brand;Konrad J Karczewski;Konrad J Karczewski;Xuefang Zhao;Xuefang Zhao

  • Genetic association analyses implicate aberrant regulation of innate and adaptive immunity genes in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus

    James Bentham;David L. Morris;Deborah S. Cunninghame Graham;Christopher L. Pinder

  • Genetic variation in the 5q31 cytokine gene cluster confers susceptibility to Crohn disease.

    John D. Rioux;Mark J. Daly;Mark S. Silverberg;Kerstin Lindblad

  • A high resolution HLA and SNP haplotype map for disease association studies in the extended human MHC

    Paul I W de Bakker;Gil McVean;Pardis C Sabeti;Marcos M Miretti

  • Deep resequencing of GWAS loci identifies independent rare variants associated with inflammatory bowel disease.

    Manuel A. Rivas;Manuel A. Rivas;Manuel A. Rivas;Mélissa Beaudoin;Agnes Gardet;Christine Stevens

  • Deletion polymorphism upstream of IRGM associated with altered IRGM expression and Crohn's disease.

    Steven A McCarroll;Alan Huett;Petric Kuballa;Shannon D Chilewski

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Daly
Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital
Mark S. Silverberg
Mark S. Silverberg University of Toronto
Richard H. Duerr
Richard H. Duerr University of Pittsburgh
Judy H. Cho
Judy H. Cho Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Steven R. Brant
Steven R. Brant Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dermot P.B. McGovern
Dermot P.B. McGovern Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Ramnik J. Xavier
Ramnik J. Xavier Broad Institute
David A. Hafler
David A. Hafler Yale University
Kent D. Taylor
Kent D. Taylor David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center

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