Mr Fraser Morton
- Bioinformatician (Immunology & Infection)
email:
Fraser.Morton@glasgow.ac.uk
B405, Sir Graeme Davies Building, 126 University Place, Glasgow, Scotland, G12 8TA
Publications
2025
Tang, Mingcan, Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Morton, Fraser
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Goodyear, Carl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-5941, Porter, Duncan, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Otto, Thomas
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2025)
RNAcare: integrating clinical data with transcriptomic evidence using rheumatoid arthritis as a case study.
BMC Medical Genomics,
(Accepted for Publication)
Tang, Mingcan, Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Morton, Fraser
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Goodyear, Carl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-5941, Porter, Duncan, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Otto, Thomas
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2025)
RNAcare: integrating clinical data with transcriptomic evidence using rheumatoid arthritis as a case study.
bioRxiv,
(doi: 10.1101/2025.01.31.635914)
2023
Porter, Duncan, Jain, Sahil, Qian, Evelyn, Morton, Fraser R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467 and McInnes, Iain
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280
(2023)
Time-varying risks of infection in patients as they proceed through the phases of ‘pre-RA’: results from the Scottish Early RA inception cohort.
RMD Open, 9(4),
e003224.
(doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003224)
(PMID:37996122)
Morton, Fraser R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Jani, Bhautesh D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Mair, Frances S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, McLoone, Philip
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0002-8700, Canning, Jordan, Macdonald, Sara
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-6943, McQueenie, Ross, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Nicholl, Barbara I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130
(2023)
Association between risk, duration and cause of hospitalisations in people with rheumatoid arthritis and multimorbidity in the UK Biobank and Scottish Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (SERA) cohorts: longitudinal observational study.
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 58,
152130.
(doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2022.152130)
(PMID:36459724)
McLoone, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0002-8700, Jani, Bhautesh D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, Morton, Fraser R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Canning, Jordan, Macdonald, Sara
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-6943, Mair, Frances S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 and Nicholl, Barbara I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130
(2023)
Classification of long-term condition patterns in rheumatoid arthritis and associations with adverse health events: a UK Biobank cohort study.
Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity, 13,
p. 26335565221148616.
(doi: 10.1177/26335565221148616)
(PMID:36798088)
(PMCID:PMC9926377)
2022
Hanlon, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5828-3934, Morrison, Holly, Morton, Fraser
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Jani, Bhautesh D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, Lewsey, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3811-8165, McAllister, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3550-1764 and Mair, Frances S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135
(2022)
Frailty in people with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review of observational studies.
Wellcome Open Research, 6,
244.
(doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17208.2)
Hanlon, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5828-3934, Morton, Fraser
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, Jani, Bhautesh D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Nicholl, Barbara I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Lewsey, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3811-8165, McAllister, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3550-1764 and Mair, Frances S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135
(2022)
Frailty in rheumatoid arthritis and its relationship with disease activity, hospitalisation and mortality: a longitudinal analysis of the Scottish Early Rheumatoid Arthritis cohort and UK Biobank.
RMD Open, 8(1),
e002111.
(doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2021-002111)
(PMID:35292529)
(PMCID:PMC8928366)
2021
Wright, P. B. et al. (2021) The mannose receptor (CD206) identifies a population of colonic macrophages in health and inflammatory bowel disease. Scientific Reports, 11, 19616. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-98611-7) (PMID:34608184) (PMCID:PMC8490356)
Derakhshan, M. H., Morton, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Fragoulis, G. E., Paterson, C., Dale, J., Basu, N.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4246-3145, Mcinnes, I., Porter, D. and Siebert, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311
(2021)
Opioids and analgesic use in early rheumatoid arthritis: a longitudinal analysis of linked real-world prescription data.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 80(S1): 1159. EULAR 2021 Virtual Congress., 2-5 June 2021.
(doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-eular.2672)
Nijjar, Jagtar S, Morton, Fraser R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Bang, Holger, Buckley, Christopher D, van der Heijde, Désirée, Gilmour, Ashley, Paterson, Caron, McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280, Porter, Duncan and Raza, Karim
(2021)
The impact of autoantibodies against citrullinated, carbamylated, and acetylated peptides on radiographic progression in patients with new-onset rheumatoid arthritis: an observational cohort study.
Lancet Rheumatology, 3(4),
e284-e293.
(doi: 10.1016/S2665-9913(20)30381-7)
(PMID:34604794)
(PMCID:PMC7611758)
Gray, J. I. et al. (2021) Tolerance induction in memory CD4 T cells is partial and reversible. Immunology, 162(1), pp. 68-83. (doi: 10.1111/imm.13263) (PMID:32931017) (PMCID:PMC7730012)
2018
van der Hooft, Justin J.J., Alghefari, Wejdan, Watson, Eleanor, Everest, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6727-8048, Morton, Fraser R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Burgess, Karl E.V. and Smith, David G.E.
(2018)
Unexpected differential metabolic responses of Campylobacter jejuni to the abundant presence of glutamate and fucose.
Metabolomics, 14(11),
144.
(doi: 10.1007/s11306-018-1438-5)
(PMID:30830405)
(PMCID:PMC6208705)
2017
Gloaguen, Yoann ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0493-8592, Morton, Fraser
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Daly, Rónán
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1275-6820, Gurden, Ross, Rogers, Simon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3578-4477, Wandy, Joe
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3068-4664, Wilson, David, Barrett, Michael
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9447-3519 and Burgess, Karl
(2017)
PiMP my metabolome: An integrated, web-based tool for LC-MS metabolomics data.
Bioinformatics, 33(24),
pp. 4007-4009.
(doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx499)
(PMID:28961954)
(PMCID:PMC5860087)
2016
Stipetic, Laurence H., Dalby, Matthew J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0528-3359, Davies, Robert L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6342-2222, Morton, Fraser r.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Ramage, Gordon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0932-3514 and Burgess, Karl
(2016)
A novel metabolomic approach used for the comparison of Staphylococcus aureus planktonic cells and biofilm samples.
Metabolomics, 12,
75.
(doi: 10.1007/s11306-016-1002-0)
(PMID:27013931)
(PMCID:PMC4783440)
Articles
Tang, Mingcan, Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Morton, Fraser
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Goodyear, Carl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-5941, Porter, Duncan, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Otto, Thomas
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2025)
RNAcare: integrating clinical data with transcriptomic evidence using rheumatoid arthritis as a case study.
BMC Medical Genomics,
(Accepted for Publication)
Tang, Mingcan, Haese-Hill, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1393-0966, Morton, Fraser
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Goodyear, Carl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-5941, Porter, Duncan, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Otto, Thomas
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1246-7404
(2025)
RNAcare: integrating clinical data with transcriptomic evidence using rheumatoid arthritis as a case study.
bioRxiv,
(doi: 10.1101/2025.01.31.635914)
Porter, Duncan, Jain, Sahil, Qian, Evelyn, Morton, Fraser R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467 and McInnes, Iain
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280
(2023)
Time-varying risks of infection in patients as they proceed through the phases of ‘pre-RA’: results from the Scottish Early RA inception cohort.
RMD Open, 9(4),
e003224.
(doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003224)
(PMID:37996122)
Morton, Fraser R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Jani, Bhautesh D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Mair, Frances S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135, McLoone, Philip
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0002-8700, Canning, Jordan, Macdonald, Sara
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-6943, McQueenie, Ross, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311 and Nicholl, Barbara I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130
(2023)
Association between risk, duration and cause of hospitalisations in people with rheumatoid arthritis and multimorbidity in the UK Biobank and Scottish Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (SERA) cohorts: longitudinal observational study.
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, 58,
152130.
(doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2022.152130)
(PMID:36459724)
McLoone, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0002-8700, Jani, Bhautesh D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, Morton, Fraser R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Canning, Jordan, Macdonald, Sara
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5380-6943, Mair, Frances S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135 and Nicholl, Barbara I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130
(2023)
Classification of long-term condition patterns in rheumatoid arthritis and associations with adverse health events: a UK Biobank cohort study.
Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity, 13,
p. 26335565221148616.
(doi: 10.1177/26335565221148616)
(PMID:36798088)
(PMCID:PMC9926377)
Hanlon, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5828-3934, Morrison, Holly, Morton, Fraser
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Jani, Bhautesh D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, Lewsey, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3811-8165, McAllister, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3550-1764 and Mair, Frances S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135
(2022)
Frailty in people with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review of observational studies.
Wellcome Open Research, 6,
244.
(doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17208.2)
Hanlon, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5828-3934, Morton, Fraser
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Siebert, Stefan
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311, Jani, Bhautesh D.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-514X, Nicholl, Barbara I.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5639-0130, Lewsey, Jim
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3811-8165, McAllister, David
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3550-1764 and Mair, Frances S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9780-1135
(2022)
Frailty in rheumatoid arthritis and its relationship with disease activity, hospitalisation and mortality: a longitudinal analysis of the Scottish Early Rheumatoid Arthritis cohort and UK Biobank.
RMD Open, 8(1),
e002111.
(doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2021-002111)
(PMID:35292529)
(PMCID:PMC8928366)
Wright, P. B. et al. (2021) The mannose receptor (CD206) identifies a population of colonic macrophages in health and inflammatory bowel disease. Scientific Reports, 11, 19616. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-98611-7) (PMID:34608184) (PMCID:PMC8490356)
Nijjar, Jagtar S, Morton, Fraser R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Bang, Holger, Buckley, Christopher D, van der Heijde, Désirée, Gilmour, Ashley, Paterson, Caron, McInnes, Iain B.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-4280, Porter, Duncan and Raza, Karim
(2021)
The impact of autoantibodies against citrullinated, carbamylated, and acetylated peptides on radiographic progression in patients with new-onset rheumatoid arthritis: an observational cohort study.
Lancet Rheumatology, 3(4),
e284-e293.
(doi: 10.1016/S2665-9913(20)30381-7)
(PMID:34604794)
(PMCID:PMC7611758)
Gray, J. I. et al. (2021) Tolerance induction in memory CD4 T cells is partial and reversible. Immunology, 162(1), pp. 68-83. (doi: 10.1111/imm.13263) (PMID:32931017) (PMCID:PMC7730012)
van der Hooft, Justin J.J., Alghefari, Wejdan, Watson, Eleanor, Everest, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6727-8048, Morton, Fraser R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Burgess, Karl E.V. and Smith, David G.E.
(2018)
Unexpected differential metabolic responses of Campylobacter jejuni to the abundant presence of glutamate and fucose.
Metabolomics, 14(11),
144.
(doi: 10.1007/s11306-018-1438-5)
(PMID:30830405)
(PMCID:PMC6208705)
Gloaguen, Yoann ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0493-8592, Morton, Fraser
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Daly, Rónán
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1275-6820, Gurden, Ross, Rogers, Simon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3578-4477, Wandy, Joe
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3068-4664, Wilson, David, Barrett, Michael
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9447-3519 and Burgess, Karl
(2017)
PiMP my metabolome: An integrated, web-based tool for LC-MS metabolomics data.
Bioinformatics, 33(24),
pp. 4007-4009.
(doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx499)
(PMID:28961954)
(PMCID:PMC5860087)
Stipetic, Laurence H., Dalby, Matthew J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0528-3359, Davies, Robert L.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6342-2222, Morton, Fraser r.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Ramage, Gordon
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0932-3514 and Burgess, Karl
(2016)
A novel metabolomic approach used for the comparison of Staphylococcus aureus planktonic cells and biofilm samples.
Metabolomics, 12,
75.
(doi: 10.1007/s11306-016-1002-0)
(PMID:27013931)
(PMCID:PMC4783440)
Conference or Workshop Item
Derakhshan, M. H., Morton, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5328-9467, Fragoulis, G. E., Paterson, C., Dale, J., Basu, N.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4246-3145, Mcinnes, I., Porter, D. and Siebert, S.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1802-7311
(2021)
Opioids and analgesic use in early rheumatoid arthritis: a longitudinal analysis of linked real-world prescription data.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 80(S1): 1159. EULAR 2021 Virtual Congress., 2-5 June 2021.
(doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-eular.2672)