Interferon-γ: teammate or opponent in the tumour microenvironment?

AM Gocher, CJ Workman, DAA Vignali - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapy offers substantive benefit to patients with various tumour types, in
some cases leading to complete tumour clearance. However, many patients do not respond …

Considering how biological sex impacts immune responses and COVID-19 outcomes

EP Scully, J Haverfield, RL Ursin… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
A male bias in mortality has emerged in the COVID-19 pandemic, which is consistent with
the pathogenesis of other viral infections. Biological sex differences may manifest …

Single-cell eQTL mapping identifies cell type–specific genetic control of autoimmune disease

S Yazar, J Alquicira-Hernandez, K Wing, A Senabouth… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The human immune system displays substantial variation between individuals, leading to
differences in susceptibility to autoimmune disease. We present single-cell RNA sequencing …

Cell-type-specific cis-eQTLs in eight human brain cell types identify novel risk genes for psychiatric and neurological disorders

J Bryois, D Calini, W Macnair, L Foo, E Urich… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To date, most expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) studies, which investigate how genetic
variants contribute to gene expression, have been performed in heterogeneous brain …

A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci

N Kerimov, JD Hayhurst, K Peikova, JR Manning… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Many gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) studies have published their summary
statistics, which can be used to gain insight into complex human traits by downstream …

Discovery of target genes and pathways at GWAS loci by pooled single-cell CRISPR screens

JA Morris, C Caragine, Z Daniloski, J Domingo, T Barry… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Most variants associated with complex traits and diseases identified by genome-wide
association studies (GWAS) map to noncoding regions of the genome with unknown effects …

CRISPR activation and interference screens decode stimulation responses in primary human T cells

R Schmidt, Z Steinhart, M Layeghi, JW Freimer… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Regulation of cytokine production in stimulated T cells can be disrupted in autoimmunity,
immunodeficiencies, and cancer. Systematic discovery of stimulation-dependent cytokine …

[HTML][HTML] Imbalance of regulatory and cytotoxic SARS-CoV-2-reactive CD4+ T cells in COVID-19

BJ Meckiff, C Ramírez-Suástegui, V Fajardo, SJ Chee… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The contribution of CD4+ T cells to protective or pathogenic immune responses to SARS-
CoV-2 infection remains unknown. Here, we present single-cell transcriptomic analysis of> …

Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer's disease risk genes

J Schwartzentruber, S Cooper, JZ Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have discovered numerous genomic loci associated with
Alzheimer's disease (AD); yet the causal genes and variants are incompletely identified. We …

A genome-scale screen for synthetic drivers of T cell proliferation

M Legut, Z Gajic, M Guarino, Z Daniloski, JA Rahman… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The engineering of autologous patient T cells for adoptive cell therapies has revolutionized
the treatment of several types of cancer. However, further improvements are needed to …