Host genetics and infectious disease: new tools, insights and translational opportunities

AJ Kwok, A Mentzer, JC Knight - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how human genetics influence infectious disease susceptibility offers the
opportunity for new insights into pathogenesis, potential drug targets, risk stratification …

Main components of fish immunity: An overview of the fish immune system

DM Mokhtar, G Zaccone, A Alesci, M Kuciel… - Fishes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cellular immune responses consist of innate and adaptive cell-mediated immune
mechanisms, where all leukocyte subpopulations are included. Among these are vital …

Host–parasite co-evolution and its genomic signature

D Ebert, PD Fields - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Studies in diverse biological systems have indicated that host–parasite co-evolution is
responsible for the extraordinary genetic diversity seen in some genomic regions, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Individual HLA heterogeneity and its implications for cellular immune evasion in cancer and beyond

S Pagliuca, C Gurnari, MT Rubio, V Visconte… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Structural and functional variability of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is the foundation for
competent adaptive immune responses against pathogen and tumor antigens as it assures …

Selection balancing at innate immune genes: Adaptive polymorphism maintenance in toll-like receptors

P Minias, M Vinkler - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Balancing selection is a classic mechanism for maintaining variability in immune genes
involved in host–pathogen interactions. However, it remains unclear how widespread the …

[HTML][HTML] The biogenesis of the immunopeptidome

A Admon - Seminars in Immunology, 2023 - Elsevier
The immunopeptidome is the repertoire of peptides bound and presented by the MHC class
I, class II, and non-classical molecules. The peptides are produced by the degradation of …

Inferring balancing selection from genome-scale data

BD Bitarello, DYC Brandt, D Meyer… - Genome biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The identification of genomic regions and genes that have evolved under natural selection is
a fundamental objective in the field of evolutionary genetics. While various approaches have …

How HLA diversity is apportioned: influence of selection and relevance to transplantation

AS Maróstica, K Nunes, EC Castelli… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In his 1972 paper 'The apportionment of human diversity', Lewontin showed that, when
averaged over loci, genetic diversity is predominantly attributable to differences among …

Interaction between MHC diversity and constitution, gut microbiota and Astrovirus infections in a neotropical bat

R Fleischer, DW Schmid, Wasimuddin… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Astroviruses (AstVs) infect numerous mammalian species including reservoirs such as bats.
Peptides encoded by the genes of the highly polymorphic Major Histocompatibility Complex …

Tutorial: a statistical genetics guide to identifying HLA alleles driving complex disease

S Sakaue, S Gurajala, M Curtis, Y Luo, W Choi… - Nature protocols, 2023 - nature.com
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) locus is associated with more complex diseases than
any other locus in the human genome. In many diseases, HLA explains more heritability …