The role of host genetics in the immune response to SARS‐CoV‐2 and COVID‐19 susceptibility and severity

IG Ovsyannikova, IH Haralambieva… - Immunological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article provides a review of studies evaluating the role of host (and viral) genetics
(including variation in HLA genes) in the immune response to coronaviruses, as well as the …

Targeting public neoantigens for cancer immunotherapy

AH Pearlman, MS Hwang, MF Konig, EHC Hsiue… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Several current immunotherapy approaches target private neoantigens derived from
mutations that are unique to individual patients' tumors. However, immunotherapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted disruption of HLA genes via CRISPR-Cas9 generates iPSCs with enhanced immune compatibility

H Xu, BO Wang, M Ono, A Kagita, K Fujii, N Sasakawa… - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have strong potential in regenerative medicine
applications; however, immune rejection caused by HLA mismatching is a concern. B2M …

Bispecific antibodies targeting mutant RAS neoantigens

J Douglass, EHC Hsiue, BJ Mog, MS Hwang… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Mutations in the RAS oncogenes occur in multiple cancers, and ways to target these
mutations has been the subject of intense research for decades. Most of these efforts are …

A shared neoantigen vaccine combined with immune checkpoint blockade for advanced metastatic solid tumors: phase 1 trial interim results

AR Rappaport, C Kyi, M Lane, MG Hart, ML Johnson… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Therapeutic vaccines that elicit cytotoxic T cell responses targeting tumor-specific
neoantigens hold promise for providing long-term clinical benefit to patients with cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Unbiased screens show CD8+ T cells of COVID-19 patients recognize shared epitopes in SARS-CoV-2 that largely reside outside the spike protein

AP Ferretti, T Kula, Y Wang, DMV Nguyen… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Developing effective strategies to prevent or treat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
requires understanding the natural immune response to severe acute respiratory syndrome …

The timing of COVID-19 transmission

L Ferretti, A Ledda, C Wymant, L Zhao, V Ledda… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
The timing of SARS-CoV-2 transmission is a critical factor to understand the epidemic
trajectory and the impact of isolation, contact tracing and other non-pharmaceutical …

[HTML][HTML] Six-locus high resolution HLA haplotype frequencies derived from mixed-resolution DNA typing for the entire US donor registry

L Gragert, A Madbouly, J Freeman, M Maiers - Human immunology, 2013 - Elsevier
We have calculated six-locus high resolution HLA A∼ C∼ B∼ DRB3/4/5∼ DRB1∼ DQB1
haplotype frequencies using all Be The Match® Registry volunteer donors typed by DNA …

A high-resolution HLA reference panel capturing global population diversity enables multi-ancestry fine-mapping in HIV host response

Y Luo, M Kanai, W Choi, X Li, S Sakaue, K Yamamoto… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fine-mapping to plausible causal variation may be more effective in multi-ancestry cohorts,
particularly in the MHC, which has population-specific structure. To enable such studies, we …

HIBAG—HLA genotype imputation with attribute bagging

X Zheng, J Shen, C Cox, JC Wakefield… - The …, 2014 - nature.com
Genotyping of classical human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles is an essential tool in the
analysis of diseases and adverse drug reactions with associations mapping to the major …