Kari K. Eklund

Microbiome variations in osteoarthritis reflect aging and metabolic factors, not the disease

This study analyzes microbiome data from multiple OA cohorts and finds no significant differences between OA patients and controls, attributing microbiome changes to age and BMI instead of OA.

FinnGen: Unique genetic insights from combining isolated population and national health register data

Finnish-enriched low-frequency variants, often coding, underlie many GWAS signals across 1,932 register endpoints in 218,792 Finns; a 15-disease meta-analysis with Estonian and UK biobanks adds 30 unreported associations.

Haploinsufficiency of A20 impairs protein-protein interactome and leads into caspase-8-dependent enhancement of NLRP3 inflammasome activation

This study identifies a novel mutation in A20 causing haploinsufficiency and shows it impairs the protein-protein interactome, leading to enhanced NLRP3 inflammasome activation through caspase-8.