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ReviewTherapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease2025

The genetics of gout: translation into clinical practice.

Tony R Merriman, Fiorella Rosas-Chavez, Lisa K Stamp

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Review in Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Is Gout an Autoinflammatory Disease?Current rheumatology reports · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tony R MerrimanDivision of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0844-8726
Fiorella Rosas-ChavezDivision of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Lisa K StampDepartment of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Te Whatu Ora, Waitaha, New Zealand.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0138-2912

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gout results from an innate immune response to monosodium urate crystals deposited in joints in people with hyperuricemia. Central to this is activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome and secretion of interleukin-1β. The pathogenic mechanism of NLRP3 inflammasome activation in gout is not well understood. However, recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in gout have revealed new pathogenic pathways, for example, genes involved in NLRP3 inflammasome activation and activity, and genes involved in clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential. Genetic risk variants identified by GWAS are being used in Mendelian randomization studies to understand putative causal relationships between gout and co-morbid conditions (e.g., insulin resistance is causal of hyperuricemia). The genetic risk variants can also be combined into a genetic risk score to predict outcome in gout. Finally, inherited genetic variants influence response to allopurinol, in particular the p.Gln141Lys variant in ABCG2.

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geneticsgoutMendelian randomizationpredictionurate

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PMID40874164
PMCPMC12378317

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