Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and the Gut Microbiome: More Clues, More Questions.

The article focuses on the Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and the Gut Microbiome. Topics include JIA's missing heritability problem in various corners of scientific inquiry, including epigenetics, and epidemiology; mentions data on the gut microbiome in children with JIA have emerged over recent years from case–control studies across 3 continents; and also mentions all publications on JIA and the gut microbiome have described differences in bacterial composition between cases and controls.