Lab Information

Alain Bitton (MD)

Investigator
Clinical Research Unit
Department of Medicine (McGill)

Research Profile

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Keywords

Crohn's disease • ulcerative colitis • psychosocial • biologic markers • genetics

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Latest Publications

  1. Rioux, J. D., Boucher, G., Forest, A., Bouchard, B., Coderre, L., Daneault, C., Frayne, I. R., Legault, J. T., iGenoMed Consortium, Bitton, A., Ananthakrishnan, A., Lesage, S., Xavier, R. J. & Des Rosiers, C. (2024). A pilot study to identify blood-based markers associated with response to treatment with Vedolizumab in patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences.
  2. Ivison, S., Boucher, G., Zheng, G., Garcia, R. V., Kohen, R., Bitton, A., Rioux, J. D., Levings, M. K. & iGenoMed Consortium (2024). Improving Reliability of Immunological Assays by Defining Minimal Criteria for Cell Fitness. ImmunoHorizons, vol. 8, p. 622-634.
  3. Olivera, P. A., Martinez-Lozano, H., Leibovitzh, H., Xue, M., Neustaeter, A., Espin-Garcia, O., Xu, W., Madsen, K. L., Guttman, D. S., Bernstein, C. N., Yerushalmi, B., Hyams, J. S., Abreu, M. T., Marshall, J. K., Wrobel, I., Mack, D. R., Jacobson, K., Bitton, A., Aumais, G., Panacionne, R., Dieleman, L. A., Silverberg, M. S., Steinhart, A. H., Moayyedi, P., Turner, D., Griffiths, A. M., Turpin, W., Lee, S.-H., Croitoru, K. & Crohn’s and Colitis Canada (CCC) Genetic, Environmental, Microbial (GEM) Project Research Consortium (2024). Healthy first-degree relatives from multiplex families versus simplex families have a higher subclinical intestinal inflammation, a distinct fecal microbial signature, and harbor a higher risk of developing Crohn's disease. Gastroenterology.
  4. Rocha, C.-H., Turpin, W., Borowski, K., Stempak, J. M., Sabic, K., Gettler, K., Tastad, C., Chasteau, C., Korie, U., Hanna, M., Khan, A., Mengesha, E., Bitton, A., Schwartz, M. B., Barrie, A., Datta, L. W., Lazarev, M., Brant, S. R., Rioux, J. D., McGovern, D. P. B., Duerr, R. H., Schumm, L. P., Cho, J. H. & Silverberg, M. S. (2024). After surgically induced remission, ileal and colonic mucosa-associated microbiota predicts Crohn's disease recurrence. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.
  5. Xue, M., Leibovitzh, H., Jingcheng, S., Neustaeter, A., Dong, M., Xu, W., Espin-Garcia, O., Griffiths, A. M., Steinhart, A. H., Turner, D., Huynh, H. Q., Dieleman, L. A., Panaccione, R., Aumais, G., Bressler, B., Bitton, A., Murthy, S., Marshall, J. K., Hyams, J. S., Otley, A., Bernstein, C. N., Moayyedi, P., El-Matary, W., Fich, A., Denson, L. A., Ropeleski, M. J., Abreu, M. T., Deslandres, C., Cino, M., Avni-Biron, I., Lee, S.-H., Turpin, W., CCC GEM Project Research Consortium & Croitoru, K. (2024). Environmental Factors Associated with Risk of Crohn's Disease Development in the CCC-GEM Project. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, vol. 22, p. 1889-1897.e12.
  6. Bernstein, C. N., Panaccione, R., Nugent, Z., Marshall, D. A., Kaplan, G. G., Vanner, S., Dieleman, L. A., Graff, L. A., Otley, A., Jones, J., Buresi, M., Murthy, S., Borgaonkar, M., Bressler, B., Bitton, A., Croitoru, K., Sidani, S., Fernandes, A. & Moayyedi, P. (2024). Crohn's Disease Phenotypes and Associations With Comorbidities, Surgery Risk, Medications and Nonmedication Approaches: The MAGIC in IMAGINE Study. Inflammatory bowel diseases.
  7. Kuenzig, M. E., Stukel, T. A., Carroll, M. W., Kaplan, G. G., Otley, A. R., Singh, H., Bitton, A., Fung, S. G., Spruin, S., Coward, S., Cui, Y., Nugent, Z., Griffiths, A. M., Mack, D. R., Jacobson, K., Nguyen, G. C., Targownik, L. E., El-Matary, W., Bernstein, C. N., Dummer, T. J. B., Jones, J. L., Lix, L. M., Murthy, S. K., Peña-Sánchez, J. N., Nasiri, S., Benchimol, E. I. & Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (2024). Variation in the Care of Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Within and Across Canadian Provinces: A Multi-Province Population-Based Cohort Study. Clinical epidemiology, vol. 16, p. 91-108.
  8. Kuenzig, M. E., Bitton, A., Carroll, M. W., Otley, A. R., Singh, H., Kaplan, G. G., Stukel, T. A., Mack, D. R., Jacobson, K., Griffiths, A. M., El-Matary, W., Targownik, L. E., Nguyen, G. C., Jones, J. L., Murthy, S. K., Bernstein, C. N., Lix, L. M., Peña-Sánchez, J. N., Dummer, T. J. B., Spruin, S., Fung, S. G., Nugent, Z., Coward, S., Cui, Y., Coulombe, J., Filliter, C. & Benchimol, E. I. (2024). Health Services Utilization and Specialist Care in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Multiprovince Population-Based Cohort Study. Inflammatory bowel diseases.
  9. Coward, S., Benchimol, E. I., Bernstein, C. N., Avina-Zubieta, A., Bitton, A., Carroll, M. W., Cui, Y., Hoentjen, F., Hracs, L., Jacobson, K., Jones, J. L., King, J., Kuenzig, M. E., Lu, N., El-Matary, W., Murthy, S. K., Nugent, Z., Otley, A. R., Panaccione, R., Peña-Sánchez, J. N., Singh, H., Targownik, L. E., White, D., Windsor, J. W., Kaplan, G. G. & Canadian Gastro-Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC) (2024). Forecasting the Incidence and Prevalence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Canadian Nationwide Analysis. The American journal of gastroenterology, vol. 119, p. 1563-70.
  10. Rocha, C.-H., Walshe, M., Birch, S., Sabic, K., Korie, U., Chasteau, C., Miladinova, V. M., Sabol, W. B., Mengesha, E., Hanna, M., Pozdnyakova, V., Datta, L., Kohen, R., Milgrom, R., Stempak, J. M., Bitton, A., Brant, S. R., Rioux, J. D., McGovern, D. P. B., Duerr, R. H., Cho, J. H., Schumm, P. L., Silverberg, M. S. & Lazarev, M. (2024). Clinical predictors of early and late endoscopic recurrence following ileocolonic resection in Crohn's disease. Journal of Crohn's & colitis, vol. 18, p. 615-627.
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