[HTML][HTML] Impact of virus genetic variability and host immunity for the success of COVID-19 vaccines

WG Dos Santos - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) continues to challenge most scientists in the
search of an effective way to either prevent infection or to avoid spreading of the disease. As …

Immunoinformatics and vaccine development: an overview

AN Oli, WO Obialor, MO Ifeanyichukwu… - ImmunoTargets and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The use of vaccines have resulted in a remarkable improvement in global health. It has
saved several lives, reduced treatment costs and raised the quality of animal and human …

A common allele of HLA is associated with asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection

DG Augusto, LD Murdolo, DSM Chatzileontiadou… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Studies have demonstrated that at least 20% of individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2
remain asymptomatic,,–. Although most global efforts have focused on severe illness in …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 infection: the perspectives on immune responses

Y Shi, Y Wang, C Shao, J Huang, J Gan… - Cell Death & …, 2020 - nature.com
More than 100 years since the outbreak of the 1918 influenza pandemic, we now seem to
face another pandemic. The outbreak of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection is …

Allele frequency net 2015 update: new features for HLA epitopes, KIR and disease and HLA adverse drug reaction associations

FF González-Galarza, LYC Takeshita… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
It has been 12 years since the Allele Frequency Net Database (AFND; http://www.
allelefrequencies. net) was first launched, providing the scientific community with an online …

Genome-wide association and HLA region fine-mapping studies identify susceptibility loci for multiple common infections

C Tian, BS Hromatka, AK Kiefer, N Eriksson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Infectious diseases have a profound impact on our health and many studies suggest that
host genetics play a major role in the pathogenesis of most of them. We perform 23 genome …

HLA-DR15 molecules jointly shape an autoreactive T cell repertoire in multiple sclerosis

J Wang, I Jelcic, L Mühlenbruch, V Haunerdinger… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The HLA-DR15 haplotype is the strongest genetic risk factor for multiple sclerosis (MS), but
our understanding of how it contributes to MS is limited. Because autoreactive CD4+ T cells …

Correlation of the two most frequent HLA haplotypes in the Italian population to the differential regional incidence of Covid-19

S Pisanti, J Deelen, AM Gallina, M Caputo… - Journal of translational …, 2020 - Springer
Background Understanding how HLA polymorphisms may affect both susceptibility, course
and severity of Covid-19 infection could help both at the clinical level to identify individuals …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic gateways to COVID‐19 infection: implications for risk, severity, and outcomes

M Debnath, M Banerjee, M Berk - The FASEB Journal, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The dynamics, such as transmission, spatial epidemiology, and clinical course of
Coronavirus Disease‐2019 (COVID‐19) have emerged as the most intriguing features and …

Possible role of HLA class-I genotype in SARS-CoV-2 infection and progression: A pilot study in a cohort of Covid-19 Spanish patients

I Iturrieta-Zuazo, CG Rita, A García-Soidán… - Clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) includes a large set of genes with important
actions in immune response against viral infection. Numerous studies have revealed the …