Host genetic factors determining COVID-19 susceptibility and severity

TP Velavan, SR Pallerla, J Rüter, Y Augustin… - …, 2021 - thelancet.com
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2
(SARS-CoV-2) poses an unprecedented challenge to humanity. SARS-CoV-2 infections …

From target discovery to clinical drug development with human genetics

K Trajanoska, C Bhérer, D Taliun, S Zhou, JB Richards… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The substantial investments in human genetics and genomics made over the past three
decades were anticipated to result in many innovative therapies. Here we investigate the …

GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare

HL Rehm, AJH Page, L Smith, JB Adams, G Alterovitz… - Cell genomics, 2021 - cell.com
Summary The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) aims to accelerate
biomedical advances by enabling the responsible sharing of clinical and genomic data …

Human leukocyte antigen alleles associate with COVID-19 vaccine immunogenicity and risk of breakthrough infection

AJ Mentzer, D O'connor, S Bibi, I Chelysheva… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine immunogenicity
varies between individuals, and immune responses correlate with vaccine efficacy. Using …

Long COVID and the cardiovascular system—elucidating causes and cellular mechanisms in order to develop targeted diagnostic and therapeutic strategies: a joint …

M Gyöngyösi, P Alcaide, FW Asselbergs… - Cardiovascular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Long COVID has become a world-wide, non-communicable epidemic, caused by long-
lasting multiorgan symptoms that endure for weeks or months after SARS-CoV-2 infection …

[HTML][HTML] From rare disorders of immunity to common determinants of infection: Following the mechanistic thread

JL Casanova, L Abel - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The immense interindividual clinical variability during any infection is a long-standing
enigma. Inborn errors of IFN-γ and IFN-α/β immunity underlying rare infections with weakly …

Human immune diversity: from evolution to modernity

A Liston, S Humblet-Baron, D Duffy, A Goris - Nature immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The extreme diversity of the human immune system, forged and maintained throughout
evolutionary history, provides a potent defense against opportunistic pathogens. At the same …

Therapeutic potential of IL6R blockade for the treatment of sepsis and sepsis-related death: A Mendelian randomisation study

FW Hamilton, M Thomas, D Arnold, T Palmer… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Sepsis is characterised by dysregulated, life-threatening immune responses,
which are thought to be driven by cytokines such as interleukin 6 (IL-6). Genetic variants in …

Risk factors of severe COVID-19: a review of host, viral and environmental factors

L Zsichla, V Müller - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
The clinical course and outcome of COVID-19 are highly variable, ranging from
asymptomatic infections to severe disease and death. Understanding the risk factors of …

Multimodal single-cell datasets characterize antigen-specific CD8+ T cells across SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and infection

B Zhang, R Upadhyay, Y Hao, MI Samanovic… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The immune response to SARS-CoV-2 antigen after infection or vaccination is defined by
the durable production of antibodies and T cells. Population-based monitoring typically …