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Susan D. Thompson is affiliated with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on specialized subfields including Immunology, Hematology, Molecular Biology, Rheumatology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The main topics addressed in their work include Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research, Inflammasome and immune disorders, Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, interferon and immune responses, Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders, and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research.

Thompson has contributed to numerous publications, particularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Genomics, Nature Reviews Rheumatology, Arthritis & Rheumatology, and UNC Libraries.

Recent papers authored by or associated with Thompson include the following:

  • Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, 2022, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Biological classification of childhood arthritis: roadmap to a molecular nomenclature, 2021, Nature Reviews Rheumatology
  • Combined genetic analysis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis clinical subtypes identifies novel risk loci, target genes and key regulatory mechanisms, 2020, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
  • Increased Development of Th1, Th17, and Th1.17 Cells Under T1 Polarizing Conditions in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Broadening our understanding of the genetics of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA): Interrogation of three dimensional chromatin structures and genetic regulatory elements within JIA-associated risk loci, 2020, PLoS ONE

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Thompson include:

  • Carl D. Langefeld
  • Marc Sudman
  • John Bowes
  • Peter A. Nigrović
  • Sampath Prahalad

Best Publications

  • Association Between Telomere Length and Risk of Cancer and Non-Neoplastic Diseases A Mendelian Randomization Study

    Philip C Haycock;Stephen Burgess;Aayah Nounu

  • Dense genotyping of immune-related disease regions identifies 14 new susceptibility loci for juvenile idiopathic arthritis

    Anne Hinks;Anne Hinks;Joanna E. Cobb;Joanna E. Cobb;Miranda C. Marion;Sampath Prahalad

  • Transancestral mapping and genetic load in systemic lupus erythematosus

    Carl D. Langefeld;Hannah C. Ainsworth;Deborah S. Cunninghame Graham;Jennifer A. Kelly

  • Gene expression profiling of peripheral blood from patients with untreated new‐onset systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis reveals molecular heterogeneity that may predict macrophage activation syndrome

    Ndate Fall;Michael Barnes;Sherry Thornton;Lorie Luyrink

  • Experimental comparison and cross-validation of the Affymetrix and Illumina gene expression analysis platforms

    Michael Barnes;Johannes Freudenberg;Susan Thompson;Bruce Aronow

  • Meta-analysis of shared genetic architecture across ten pediatric autoimmune diseases

    Yun R Li;Jin Li;Sihai D Zhao;Sihai D Zhao;Jonathan P Bradfield

  • ImmunoChip Study Implicates Antigen Presentation to T Cells in Narcolepsy

    Juliette Faraco;Ling Lin;Birgitte Rahbek Kornum;Birgitte Rahbek Kornum;Eimear E. Kenny

  • Macrophage activation syndrome in patients with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis is associated with MUNC13-4 polymorphisms.

    Kejian Zhang;Jennifer Biroschak;David N. Glass;Susan D. Thompson

  • Subtype-specific peripheral blood gene expression profiles in recent-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

    Michael G. Barnes;Alexei A. Grom;Susan D. Thompson;Thomas A. Griffin

  • HLA-DRB1*11 and variants of the MHC class II locus are strong risk factors for systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis

    Michael J. Ombrello;Elaine F. Remmers;Ioanna Tachmazidou;Alexei Grom;Alexei Grom

  • Increased prevalence of familial autoimmunity in simplex and multiplex families with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis

    Sampath Prahalad;Edith S. Shear;Susan D. Thompson;Edward H. Giannini

  • X Chromosome Dose and Sex Bias in Autoimmune Diseases: Increased Prevalence of 47,XXX in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Sjögren's Syndrome.

    Ke Liu;Biji T. Kurien;Sarah L. Zimmerman;Kenneth M. Kaufman

  • Genetic architecture distinguishes systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis from other forms of juvenile idiopathic arthritis: clinical and therapeutic implications.

    Michael J Ombrello;Victoria L Arthur;Elaine F Remmers;Anne Hinks

  • The -174G allele of the interleukin-6 gene confers susceptibility to systemic arthritis in children: a multicenter study using simplex and multiplex juvenile idiopathic arthritis families.

    Emma M. Ogilvie;Mark S. Fife;Susan D. Thompson;Natalie Twine

  • Use of atorvastatin in systemic lupus erythematosus in children and adolescents.

    L. E. Schanberg;C. Sandborg;H. X. Barnhart;S. P. Ardoin

  • Cardiometabolic effects of genetic upregulation of the interleukin 1 receptor antagonist: A Mendelian randomisation analysis

    Daniel Freitag;Adam S. Butterworth;Peter Willeit;Joanna M M Howson

  • The Susceptibility Loci Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Shares With Other Autoimmune Diseases Extend to PTPN2, COG6, and ANGPT1

    Susan D. Thompson;Marc Sudman;Paula S. Ramos;Miranda C. Marion

  • Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and HLA Class I and Class II Interactions and Age-at-Onset Effects

    Jill A. Hollenbach;Susan D. Thompson;Teodorica L. Bugawan;Mary Ryan

  • Fine-mapping the MHC locus in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) reveals genetic heterogeneity corresponding to distinct adult inflammatory arthritic diseases

    A Hinks;J Bowes;J Cobb;HC Ainsworth

  • Review: Genetics and the Classification of Arthritis in Adults and Children

    Peter A. Nigrovic;Soumya Raychaudhuri;Susan D. Thompson

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl D. Langefeld
Carl D. Langefeld Wake Forest University
Wendy Thomson
Wendy Thomson University of Manchester
John F. Bohnsack
John F. Bohnsack University of Utah
Anne Hinks
Anne Hinks University of Manchester
Lucy R. Wedderburn
Lucy R. Wedderburn University College London
Peter A. Nigrovic
Peter A. Nigrovic Boston Children's Hospital
Carol A. Wise
Carol A. Wise The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Robert A. Colbert
Robert A. Colbert National Institutes of Health
John Bowes
John Bowes University of Manchester
Elizabeth D. Mellins
Elizabeth D. Mellins Stanford University

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