Congruent microbiome signatures in fibrosis-prone autoimmune diseases: IgG4-related disease and systemic sclerosis.
Damian R PlichtaJuhi SomaniMatthieu PichaudZachary S WallaceAna D FernandesCory A PeruginoHarri LähdesmäkiJohn H StoneHera VlamakisDaniel C ChungDinesh KhannaShiv PillaiRamnik J XavierPublished in: Genome medicine (2021)
These results provide an initial characterization of gut microbiome ecology in fibrosis-prone IgG4-RD and SSc and reveal microbial functions that offer insights into the pathophysiology of these rare diseases.