Understanding immune variation for improved translational medicine

D Duffy - Current Opinion in Immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
The goal of translational medicine is to use an improved understanding of human biology to
develop new clinical approaches. Immune responses are highly variable from one person to …

Dissecting genetic determinants of variation in human immune responses

O Tong, BP Fairfax - Current Opinion in Immunology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Variation in human immunity is determined both by the proportion of immune cell
subsets and their respective expression profiles.•Single cell technologies can help to …

Shaping immunity: The influence of natural selection on population immune diversity

HE Randolph, KA Aracena, YL Lin, Z Mu… - Immunological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Humans exhibit considerable variability in their immune responses to the same immune
challenges. Such variation is widespread and affects individual and population‐level …

ImmVar project: Insights and design considerations for future studies of “healthy” immune variation

PL De Jager, N Hacohen, D Mathis, A Regev… - Seminars in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Immune Variation (ImmVar) project is one of a series of recent efforts to map
the extent of variation in immune function in healthy human subjects. The focus of our initial …

Shaping variation in the human immune system

A Liston, EJ Carr, MA Linterman - Trends in immunology, 2016 - cell.com
Immune responses demonstrate a high level of intra-species variation, compensating for the
specialization capacity of pathogens. The recent advent of in-depth immune phenotyping …

[PDF][PDF] Conceptualization of population-specific human functional immune-genomics projects to identify factors that contribute to variability in immune and infectious …

CK Boahen, LAB Joosten, MG Netea, V Kumar - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
The human immune system presents remarkable inter-individual variability in response to
pathogens or perturbations. Recent high-throughput technologies have enabled the …

Milieu intérieur: Defining the boundaries of a healthy immune response for improved vaccination strategies

D Duffy - Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Immune responses in human populations are highly variable, with this variability presenting
challenges for vaccine design. As such a better understanding of the factors that determine …

Genetic and evolutionary determinants of human population variation in immune responses

J Sanz, HE Randolph, LB Barreiro - Current Opinion in Genetics & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Humans display remarkable immune response variation when exposed to identical immune
challenges. However, our understanding of the genetic, evolutionary, and environmental …

Translational immunology: Applying fundamental discoveries to human health and autoimmune diseases

JH Buckner - European Journal of Immunology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Studying the human immune system is challenging. These challenges stem from the
complexity of the immune system itself, the heterogeneity of the immune system between …

Human immune system variation

P Brodin, MM Davis - Nature reviews immunology, 2017 - nature.com
The human immune system is highly variable between individuals but relatively stable over
time within a given person. Recent conceptual and technological advances have enabled …