• A Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies Identifies Novel Variants Associated with Osteoarthritis of the Hip 

      Evangelou, Evangelos; Kerkhof, Hanneke J.; Styrkarsdottir, Unnur; Ntzani, Evangelia E.; Bos, Steffan D.; Esko, Tonu; Evans, Daniel S.; Metrustry, Sarah; Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope; Ramos, Yolande F. M.; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Tsilidis, Konstantinos K.; Arden, Nigel; Aslam, Nadim; Bellamy, Nicholas; Birrell, Fraser; Blanco García, Francisco J; Carr, Andrew; Chapman, Kay; Day-Williams, Aaaron G.; Deloukas, Panos; Doherty, Michael; Engström, Gunnar; Helgadottir, Hafdis T.; Hofman, Albert; Ingvarsson, Thorvaldur; Jonsson, Helgi; Keis, Aime; Keurentjes, J. Christiaan; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Lind, Penelope A.; McCaskie, Andrew; Martin, Nicholas G.; Milani, Lili; Montgomery, Grant W.; Nelissen, Rob G.H.H.; Nevitt, Michael C.; Nilsson, Peter M.; Ollier, William E.R.; Parimi, Neeta; Rai, Ashok; Ralston, Stuart H.; Reed, Mike R.; Riancho, José A.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Rodríguez-Fontenla, Cristina; Southam, Lorraine; Thorsteindottir, Unnur; Tsezou, Aspasia; Wallis, Gillian A.; Wilkinson, J. Mark; González, Antonio; Lane, Nancy E.; Lohmander, L. Stefan; Loughlin, John; Metspalu, Andres; Uitterlinden, André G.; Jonsdottir, Ingileif; Stefansson, Kari; Slagboom, P. Eline; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Meulebelt, Ingrid; Ionnidis, John P.A.; Spector, Tim D.; van Meurs, Joyce B.J.; Valdes, Ana M. (BMJ, 2013-08-29)
      [Abstract] OBJECTIVES: Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis with a clear genetic component. To identify novel loci associated with hip OA we performed a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies ...
    • Assessment of osteoarthritis candidate genes in a meta-analysis of nine genome-wide association studies 

      Rodríguez-Fontenla, Cristina; Calaza, Manuel; Evangelou, Evangelos; Valdés, Ana M.; Arden, Nigel; Blanco García, Francisco J; Carr, Andrew; Chapman, Kay; Deloukas, Panos; Doherty, Michael; Esko, Tonu; Garcés Aletá, Carlos M.; Gómez-Reino Carnota, Juan J.; Helgadottir, Hafids; Hofman, Albert; Jonsdottir, Ingilef; Kerkhof, Henneke J.M.; Kloppenburg, Margreet; McCaskie, Andrew; Ntzani, Evangelia E.; Ollier, William E.R.; Oreiro, Natividad; Panoutsopoulo, Kalliope; Ralston, Stuart H.; Ramos, Yolande F. M.; Riancho, José A.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Slagboom, Eline; Styrkarsdottir, Unnur; Thorsteindottir, Unnur; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Tsezou, Aspasia; Uitterlinden, André G.; Wallis, Gillian A.; Wilkinson, J. Mark; Zhai, Yanyan; Felson, David T.; Ioannidis, John P.A.; Loughlin, John; Metspalu, Andres; Meulenbelt, Ingrid; Stefansson, Kari; van Meurs, Joyce B.; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Spector, Timothy D.; González, Antonio (Wiley, 2013-12-10)
      [Abstract] Objective: To assess candidate genes for association with osteoarthritis (OA) and identify promising genetic factors and, secondarily, to assess the candidate gene approach in OA. Methods: A total of 199 ...
    • Baseline clinical characteristics of predicted structural and pain progressors in the IMI-APPROACH knee OA cohort 

      van Helvoort, Eefje M.; Ladel, Christoph H.; Mastbergen, Simon; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Blanco García, Francisco J; Haugen, Ida K.; Berenbaum, Francis; Bacardit, Jaume; Widera, Pawel; Welsing, Paco M.J.; Lafeber, Floris (BMJ, 2021-08-23)
      [Abstract] Objectives: To describe the relations between baseline clinical characteristics of the Applied Public-Private Research enabling OsteoArthritis Clinical Headway (IMI-APPROACH) participants and their predicted ...
    • Can gait patterns be explained by joint structure in people with and without radiographic knee osteoarthritis?: data from the IMI-APPROACH cohort 

      Jansen, Mylène P.; Hodgins, Diana; Mastbergen, Simon C.; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Blanco García, Francisco J; Haugen, Ida K.; Berenbaum, Francis; Eckstein, Felix; Roemer, Frank W.; Wirt, Wolfgang (Springer Nature, 2024-03-27)
      [Abstract] Objective: To determine the association between joint structure and gait in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Methods: IMI-APPROACH recruited 297 clinical knee OA patients. Gait data was collected ...
    • Cohort profile: the Applied Public-Private Research enabling OsteoArthritis Clinical Headway (IMI-APPROACH) study: a 2-year, European, cohort study to describe, validate and predict phenotypes of osteoarthritis using clinical, imaging and biochemical markers 

      van Helvoort, Eefje M.; van Spil, Willem E.; Jansen, Mylène P.; Welsing, Paco M.J.; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Loef, Marieke; Blanco García, Francisco J; Haugen, Ida K.; Berenbaum, Francis; Bacardit, Jaume; Ladel, Christoph H.; Loughlin, John; Bay-Jensen, Anne C.; Mobasheri, Ali; Larkin, Jonathan; Boere, Janneke; Weinans, Harrie H.; Lalande, Agnes; Marijnissen, Anne C.A.; Lafeber, Floris (BMJ, 2020-07-28)
      [Abstract] Purpose The Applied Public-Private Research enabling OsteoArthritis Clinical Headway (APPROACH) consortium intends to prospectively describe in detail, preselected patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA), using ...
    • Development and validation of a machine learning-supported strategy of patient selection for osteoarthritis clinical trials: the IMI-APPROACH study 

      Widera, Pawel; Welsing, Paco M.J.; Danso, Samuel O.; Peelen, Sjaak; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Loef, Marieke; Marijnissen, Anne C.; van Helvoort, Eefje M.; Blanco García, Francico J; Magalhaes, Joana; Berenbaum, Francis; Haugen, Ida K.; Bay-Jensen, Anne-C.; Mobasheri, Ali; Ladel, Christoph; Loughlin, John; Lafeber, Floris P.J.G.; Lalande, Agnes; Larkin, Jonathan; Weinans, Harrie; Bacardit, Jaume (Elsevier, 2023-12)
      [Abstract] Objectives. To efficiently assess the disease-modifying potential of new osteoarthritis treatments, clinical trials need progression-enriched patient populations. To assess whether the application of machine ...
    • Exploring the differences between radiographic joint space width and MRI cartilage thickness changes using data from the IMI-APPROACH cohort 

      Jansen, Mylène P.; Roemer, Frank W.; Marijnissen, Anne C.A.; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Blanco García, Francico J; Haugen, Ida K.; Berenbaum, Francis; Lafeber, Floris P.J.G.; Welsing, Paco M.J.; Mastbergen, Simon C.; Wirth, Wolfgang (Springer, 2023-01-06)
      [Abstract] Objective: Longitudinal weight-bearing radiographic joint space width (JSW) and non-weight-bearing MRI-based cartilage thickness changes often show weak correlations. The current objective was to investigate ...
    • GaitSmart Motion Analysis Compared to Commonly Used Function Outcome Measures in the IMI-APPROACH Knee Osteoarthritis Cohort 

      van Helvoort, Eefje M.; Hodgings, Diana; Mastbergen, Simon; Marijnissen, Anne C.A.; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Blanco García, Francisco J; Haugen, Ida K.; Berenbaum, Francis; Lafeber, Floris P.J.G.; Welsing, Paco M.J. (PLoS ONE, 2022-03-23)
      [Abstract] Background: There are multiple measures for assessment of physical function in knee osteoarthritis (OA), but each has its strengths and limitations. The GaitSmart® system, which uses inertial measurement units ...
    • Machine-learning predicted and actual 2-year structural progression in the IMI-APPROACH cohort 

      Jansen, Mylène P.; Wirth, Wolfgang; Bacardit, Jaume; van Helvoort, Eefje M.; Marijnissen, Anne C.A.; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Blanco García, Francico J; Haugen, Ida K.; Berenbaum, Francis; Ladel, Christoph H.; Loef, Marieke; Lafeber, Floris P.J.G.; Welsing, Paco M.J.; Mastbergen, Simon C.; Roemer, Frank W. (AME, 2023-05)
      [Abstract] In the Innovative Medicine’s Initiative Applied Public-Private Research enabling OsteoArthritis Clinical Headway (IMI-APPROACH) knee osteoarthritis (OA) study, machine learning models were trained to predict the ...
    • Meta-analysis of erosive hand osteoarthritis identifies four common variants that associate with relatively large effect 

      Styrkarsdottir, Unnur; Stefansdottir, Lilja; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Stefansson, Olafur A.; Saevarsdottir, Saedis; Lund, Sigrun H.; Rafnar, Thorunn; Hoshijima, Kazuyuki; Novak, Kendra; Oreiro, Natividad; Rego-Pérez, Ignacio; Hansen, Channing; Kazmers, Nikolas; Kiemeney, Lambertus A.; Blanco García, Francisco J; Barker, Tyler; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Jurynec, Michel J.; Gudbjartsson, Daniel F.; Jonsson, Helgi; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Stefansson, Kari (BMJ, 2023-03-17)
      [Abstract] Objectives: Erosive hand osteoarthritis (EHOA) is a severe subset of hand osteoarthritis (OA). It is unclear if EHOA is genetically different from other forms of OA. Sequence variants at ten loci have been ...
    • Neuropathic Pain in the IMI-APPROACH Knee Osteoarthritis Cohort: Prevalence and Phenotyping 

      van Helvoort, Eefje M.; Welsing, Paco M.J.; Jansen, Mylène P.; Gielis, Willem Paul; Loef, Marieke; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Blanco García, Francisco J; Haugen, Ida K.; Berenbaum, Francis; Bay-Jensen, Anne-C; Ladel, Christoph H.; Lalande, Agnes; Larkin, Jonathan; Loughlin, John; Mobasheri, Ali; Weinans, Harrie; Lafeber, Floris; Eijkelkamp, Niels; Mastbergen, Simon (BMJ, 2021-12-15)
      [Abstract] Objectives: Osteoarthritis (OA) patients with a neuropathic pain (NP) component may represent a specific phenotype. This study compares joint damage, pain and functional disability between knee OA patients with ...
    • Osteoarthritis endotype discovery via clustering of biochemical marker data 

      Angelini, Federico; Widera, Pawel; Mobasheri, Ali; Blair, Joseph; Struglics, André; Uebelhoer, Melanie; Hentorin, Yves; Marijnissen, Anne CA; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Blanco García, Francisco J; Haugen, Ida K.; Berenbaum, Francis; Ladel, Christoph; Larkin, Jonathan; Bay-Jensen, Anne C.; Bacardit, Jaume (BMJ, 2022-04-08)
      [Abstract] Objectives: Osteoarthritis (OA) patient stratification is an important challenge to design tailored treatments and drive drug development. Biochemical markers reflecting joint tissue turnover were measured in ...
    • Predicted and actual 2-year structural and pain progression in the IMI-APPROACH knee osteoarthritis cohort 

      van Helvoort, Eefje M.; Jansen, Mylène P.; Marijnissen, Anne C.A.; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Blanco García, Francisco J; Haugen, Ida K.; Berenbaum, Francis; Bay-Jensen, Anne-C.; Ladel, Christoph; Lalande, Agnes; Larkin, Jonathan; Loughlin, John; Mobasheri, Ali; Weinans, Harrie; Widera, Pawel; Bacardit, Jaume; Welsing, Paco M.J.; Lafeber, Floris P.J.G. (Oxford Academic, 2023-01)
      [Abstract] Objectives: The IMI-APPROACH knee osteoarthritis study used machine learning (ML) to predict structural and/or pain progression, expressed by a structural (S) and pain (P) predicted-progression score, to select ...
    • Quantitative CT of the knee in the IMI-APPROACH osteoarthritis cohort: Association of bone mineral density with radiographic disease severity, meniscal coverage and meniscal extrusion 

      Heiss, Rafael; Laredo, Jean-Denis; Wirth, Wolfgang; Jansen, Mylène P.; Marijnissen, Anne C.A.; Lafeber, Floris P.J.G.; Lalande, Agnes; Weinans, Harrie H.; Blanco García, Francico J; Berenbaum, Francis; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Haugen, Ida K.; Engelke, Klaus; Roemer, Frank W. (Elsevier, 2023-03)
      [Abstract] Objective: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a highly prevalent chronic condition. The subchondral bone plays an important role in onset and progression of OA making it a potential treatment target for disease-modifying ...
    • Relationship Between Motion, Using the GaitSmartTM System, and Radiographic Knee Osteoarthritis: An Explorative Analysis in the IMI-APPROACH Cohort 

      van Helvoort, Eefje M.; Hodgins, Diana; Mastbergen, Simon C.; Marijnissen, Anne Karien; Guehring, Hans; Loef, Marieke; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Blanco García, Francisco J; Haugen, Ida K.; Berenbaum, Francis; Lafeber, Floris; Welsing, Paco M.J. (Oxford, 2020-12-25)
      [Abstract] Objectives: To assess underlying domains measured by GaitSmartTMparameters and whether these are additional to established OA markers including patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) and radiographic parameters, ...
    • Structural tissue damage and 24-month progression of semi-quantitative MRI biomarkers of knee osteoarthritis in the IMI-APPROACH cohort 

      Roemer, Frank W.; Jansen, Mylène; Marijnissen, Anne C.A.; Guermazi, Ali; Heiss, Rafael; Maschek, Susanne; Lalande, Agnes; Blanco García, Francisco J; Berenbaum, Francis; van de Stadt, Lotte A.; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Haugen, Ida K.; Ladel, Christoph H.; Bacardit, Jaume; Wisser, Anna; Eckstein, Felix; Lafeber, Floris P.J.G.; Weinans, Harrie H.; Wirth, Wolfgang (BioMed Central, 2022-11-17)
      [Abstract] Background. The IMI-APPROACH cohort is an exploratory, 5-centre, 2-year prospective follow-up study of knee osteoarthritis (OA). Aim was to describe baseline multi-tissue semiquantitative MRI evaluation of index ...
    • Test–retest precision and longitudinal cartilage thickness loss in the IMI-APPROACH cohort 

      Wirth, Wolfgang; Maschek, Susanne; Marijnissen, Anne C.A.; Lalande, Agnes; Blanco García, Francisco J; Berenbaum, Francis; van de Stadt, Lotte A.; Kloppenburg, Margreet; Haugen, Ida K.; Ladel, Christoph H.; Bacardit, Jaume; Wisser, Anna; Eckstein, Felix; Roemer, Frank W.; Lafeber, Floris P.J.G.; Weinans, Harrie H.; Jansen, Mylène (Elsevier, 2022-11-03)
      [Abstract] Objective. To investigate the test–retest precision and to report the longitudinal change in cartilage thickness, the percentage of knees with progression and the predictive value of the machine-learning-estimated ...
    • The association of the lipid profile with knee and hand osteoarthritis severity: the IMI-APPROACH cohort 

      Loef, Marieke; van de Stadt, L.; Böhringer, S.; Bay-Jensen, Anne-C.; Mobasheri, Ali; Larkin, Jonathan; Lafeber, Floris P.J.G.; Blanco García, Francisco J; Haugen, Ida K.; Berenbaum, Francis; Giera, M.; Ioan-Facsinay, Andreea; Kloppenburg, Margreet (Elsevier, 2022-05-27)
      [Abstract] Objective: To investigate the association of the lipidomic profile with osteoarthritis (OA) severity, considering the outcomes radiographic knee and hand OA, pain and function. Design: We used baseline data ...