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
Worrell, J. C. et al. (2025) Lung structural cells are altered by influenza virus leading to rapid immune protection following re-challenge. Nature Communications, 16, 7061. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-62364-y) (PMID:40750594) (PMCID:PMC12317152)
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, 18(1),
93.
(doi: 10.1186/s12920-025-02162-z)
(PMID:40399884)
(PMCID:PMC12096495)
van Wesemael, T. J. et al. (2025) Smoking as a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis: predominant association with IgA autoantibodies – comprehensive analysis of anti-modified protein antibodies with smoking and genetic risk factors in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 27(1), 101. (doi: 10.1186/s13075-025-03543-6) (PMID:40340864) (PMCID:PMC12060357)
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
Worrell, J. C. et al. (2025) Lung structural cells are altered by influenza virus leading to rapid immune protection following re-challenge. Nature Communications, 16, 7061. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-62364-y) (PMID:40750594) (PMCID:PMC12317152)
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, 18(1),
93.
(doi: 10.1186/s12920-025-02162-z)
(PMID:40399884)
(PMCID:PMC12096495)
van Wesemael, T. J. et al. (2025) Smoking as a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis: predominant association with IgA autoantibodies – comprehensive analysis of anti-modified protein antibodies with smoking and genetic risk factors in rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 27(1), 101. (doi: 10.1186/s13075-025-03543-6) (PMID:40340864) (PMCID:PMC12060357)
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)