[HTML][HTML] Host and environmental factors influencing individual human cytokine responses

R Ter Horst, M Jaeger, SP Smeekens, M Oosting… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Differences in susceptibility to immune-mediated diseases are determined by variability in
immune responses. In three studies within the Human Functional Genomics Project, we …

Integration of multi-omics data and deep phenotyping enables prediction of cytokine responses

OB Bakker, R Aguirre-Gamboa, S Sanna… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The immune response to pathogens varies substantially among people. Whereas both
genetic and nongenetic factors contribute to interperson variation, their relative contributions …

[HTML][HTML] Linking the human gut microbiome to inflammatory cytokine production capacity

M Schirmer, SP Smeekens, H Vlamakis, M Jaeger… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Gut microbial dysbioses are linked to aberrant immune responses, which are often
accompanied by abnormal production of inflammatory cytokines. As part of the Human …

Inter-individual variability and genetic influences on cytokine responses to bacteria and fungi

Y Li, M Oosting, P Deelen, I Ricano-Ponce… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Little is known about the inter-individual variation of cytokine responses to different
pathogens in healthy individuals. To systematically describe cytokine responses elicited by …

Distinctive roles of age, sex, and genetics in shaping transcriptional variation of human immune responses to microbial challenges

B Piasecka, D Duffy, A Urrutia… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The contribution of host genetic and nongenetic factors to immunological differences in
humans remains largely undefined. Here, we generated bacterial-, fungal-, and viral …

[HTML][HTML] Human genetic variants and age are the strongest predictors of humoral immune responses to common pathogens and vaccines

P Scepanovic, C Alanio, C Hammer, F Hodel… - Genome medicine, 2018 - Springer
Background Humoral immune responses to infectious agents or vaccination vary
substantially among individuals, and many of the factors responsible for this variability …

[HTML][HTML] Complex host genetics influence the microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease

D Knights, MS Silverberg, RK Weersma, D Gevers… - Genome medicine, 2014 - Springer
Background Human genetics and host-associated microbial communities have been
associated independently with a wide range of chronic diseases. One of the strongest …

Natural variation in the parameters of innate immune cells is preferentially driven by genetic factors

E Patin, M Hasan, J Bergstedt, V Rouilly, V Libri… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The quantification and characterization of circulating immune cells provide key indicators of
human health and disease. To identify the relative effects of environmental and genetic …

Cytokine genes and disease susceptibility

WER Ollier - Cytokine, 2004 - Elsevier
Complex networks of cytokines interact in a dynamic way to homeostatically regulate
immune responses and other biological pathways. It is, therefore, not surprising that …

Human genetic variation and the gut microbiome in disease

AB Hall, AC Tolonen, RJ Xavier - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Taxonomic and functional changes to the composition of the gut microbiome have been
implicated in multiple human diseases. Recent microbiome genome-wide association …