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 Xavier

Published 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.

Keyphrases

systemic sclerosis
interstitial lung disease
genome wide
microbial community
liver fibrosis
single cell