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 …

Hematopoietic loss of Y chromosome leads to cardiac fibrosis and heart failure mortality

S Sano, K Horitani, H Ogawa, J Halvardson… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Hematopoietic mosaic loss of Y chromosome (mLOY) is associated with increased risk of
mortality and age-related diseases in men, but the causal and mechanistic relationships …

Clonal hematopoiesis, somatic mosaicism, and age-associated disease

MA Evans, K Walsh - Physiological Reviews, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Somatic mosaicism, the occurrence of multiple genetically distinct cell clones within the
same tissue, is an evitable consequence of human aging. The hematopoietic system is no …

The immune response to COVID‐19: Does sex matter?

JQ Ho, MR Sepand, B Bigdelou, T Shekarian… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has created unprecedented
challenges worldwide. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) …

[HTML][HTML] Sex differences in neuroimmunoendocrine communication. Involvement on longevity

LM Suarez, E Diaz-Del Cerro, J Felix… - Mechanisms of ageing …, 2023 - Elsevier
Endocrine, nervous, and immune systems work coordinately to maintain the global
homeostasis of the organism. They show sex differences in their functions that, in turn …

Loss of Y and clonal hematopoiesis in blood—two sides of the same coin?

V Ljungström, J Mattisson, J Halvardson, T Pandzic… - Leukemia, 2022 - nature.com
Studies in recent years have revealed that increasing age is associated with the
accumulation of post-zygotic genetic aberrations in different cell lineages even in the …

Mosaic loss of Chromosome Y in aged human microglia

MC Vermeulen, R Pearse, T Young-Pearse… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
Mosaic loss of Chromosome Y (LOY) is a common acquired structural mutation in the
leukocytes of aging men that is correlated with several age-related diseases, including …

Leukocytes with chromosome Y loss have reduced abundance of the cell surface immunoprotein CD99

J Mattisson, M Danielsson, M Hammond, H Davies… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Mosaic loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in immune cells is a male-specific mutation associated
with increased risk for morbidity and mortality. The CD99 gene, positioned in the …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-based differences in effector cells of the adaptive immune system during Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

J Lutshumba, DM Wilcock, NL Monson… - Neurobiology of disease, 2023 - Elsevier
Neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD)
present with many challenges due to the heterogeneity of the related disease (s), making it …

Loss of Y in regulatory T lymphocytes in the tumor micro-environment of primary colorectal cancers and liver metastases

M Wójcik, U Juhas, E Mohammadi, J Mattisson… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Male sex is a risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC) with higher illness burden and earlier
onset. Thus, we hypothesized that loss of chromosome Y (LOY) in the tumor micro …