Publications
2025
Volkmann ER, Assassi S, Denton CP, Simonovska R, Sambevski S, Alves M, Bernstein EJ. Outcomes in Systemic Sclerosis-Associated Interstitial Lung Disease Based on Serological Profiles: Focus on Anti-Centromere and Anti-RNA Polymerase III Antibodies. J Rheumatol. 2025 Apr 15:jrheum.2024-1063. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.2024-1063. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40233987.
Luo Y, Assassi S, Mayes MD, Frech TM, Steen VD, Richardson C, Chung L, Sandorfi N, VanBuren JM, Harding M, Alvey JS, Skaug B, McMahan Z, Lakin KS, Zahn C, Bracken SJ, Lebiedz-Odrobina DJ, Molitor JA, Evnin LB, Moore DF, Shah A, Castelino FV, Volkmann ER, Hant FN, Makol A, Shah AA, Hummers LK, Gordon JK, Khanna D, Bernstein EJ. Use of Nintedanib for the Treatment of Systemic Sclerosis-associated Interstitial Lung Disease at Expert Scleroderma Centers in the United States. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Apr 10. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202410-1045RL. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40208257.
Hinchcliff M, Khanna D, De Lorenzis E, Di Donato S, Carriero A, Ross RL, Huang S, Aren KA, Bernstein EJ, Carns M, Castelino FV, Domsic RT, Frech TM, Gordon JK, Hant FN, Shah AA, Shanmugam VK, Steen VD, Assassi S, Del Galdo F. Serum type I interferon score as a disease activity biomarker in patients with diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis: a retrospective cohort study. Lancet Rheumatol. 2025 Mar 31:S2665-9913(24)00403-X. doi: 10.1016/S2665-9913(24)00403-X. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40179922.
Chawla HS, Chen Y, Wu M, Nikitin P, Gutierrez J, Mohan C, Singh M, Aglyamov SR, Assassi S, Larin KV. Assessment of skin fibrosis in a murine model of systemic sclerosis with multifunctional optical coherence tomography. J Biomed Opt. 2025 Mar;30(3):036007. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.30.3.036007. Epub 2025 Mar 27. PMID: 40151216; PMCID: PMC11949416.
Xu M, Harel D, Carrier ME, Kwakkenbos L, Bartlett SJ, Gottesman K, Guillot G, Hummers L, Malcarne VL, Richard M, Thombs BD; SPIN Investigators. Differential Item Functioning on the Cochin Hand Function Scale Among People With Systemic Sclerosis by Language, Sex, and Disease Subtype: A Scleroderma Patient-Centered Intervention Network (SPIN) Cohort Study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2025 Mar;77(3):393-401. doi: 10.1002/acr.25199. Epub 2023 Nov 20. PMID: 37489073.
Yuan X, Qin X, Takemoto K, Zhao J, Sanderson M, Xu X, Zhang Y, Helke KL, Jacobs Wolf B, Guthridge JM, James JA, Zhou X, Assassi S, Feghali-Bostwick C, Wang D, Sun L, Tsao BP. Human hypofunctional NCF1 variants promote pulmonary fibrosis in the bleomycin-induced mouse model and patients with systemic sclerosis via expansion of SPP1+ monocytes-derived macrophages. Ann Rheum Dis. 2025 Feb;84(2):294-306. doi: 10.1136/ard-2024-226034. Epub 2025 Jan 2. PMID: 39919902.
Allanore Y, Assassi S. Systemic Sclerosis: A Multisystem Disease; Time to Think Beyond Scleroderma. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2025 Jan 27. doi: 10.1002/art.43121. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39866011.
Yu JM, VanBuren JM, Child A, Alvey JS, Mandl LA, Pinheiro LC, Assassi S, Bernstein EJ, Castelino FV, Chung L, Evnin L, Frech TM, Hant FN, Hummers LK, Khanna D, Lakin KS, Lebiedz-Odrobina D, Luo Y, Makol A, Molitor JA, Moore DF, Richardson C, Sandorfi N, Shah AA, Shah A, Shanmugam VK, Skaug B, Steen VD, Volkmann ER, Gordon JK. Psychometric Evaluation of the Scleroderma Skin Questionnaire: A Novel Patient-Reported Outcome for Skin Disease in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis. J Rheumatol. 2025 Feb 1:jrheum.2024-0736. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.2024-0736. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39814444.
Sun KY, Bai X, Chen S, Bao S, Zhang C, Kapoor M, Backman J, Joseph T, Maxwell E, Mitra G, Gorovits A, Mansfield A, Boutkov B, Gokhale S, Habegger L, Marcketta A, Locke AE, Ganel L, Hawes A, Kessler MD, Sharma D, Staples J, Bovijn J, Gelfman S, Di Gioia A, Rajagopal VM, Lopez A, Varela JR, Alegre-Díaz J, Berumen J, Tapia-Conyer R, Kuri-Morales P, Torres J, Emberson J, Collins R; Regeneron Genetics Center; RGC-ME Cohort Partners; Cantor M, Thornton T, Kang HM, Overton JD, Shuldiner AR, Cremona ML, Nafde M, Baras A, Abecasis G, Marchini J, Reid JG, Salerno W, Balasubramanian S. Author Correction: A deep catalogue of protein-coding variation in 983,578 individuals. Nature. 2025 Jan;637(8047):E26. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08571-x. Erratum for: Nature. 2024 Jul;631(8021):583-592. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07556-0. PMID: 39779867; PMCID: PMC11754088.