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 …

Pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus: risks, mechanisms and therapeutic targets

MK Crow - Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2023 - ard.bmj.com
Research elucidating the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has defined
two critical families of mediators, type I interferon (IFN-I) and autoantibodies targeting nucleic …

Determining cell type abundance and expression from bulk tissues with digital cytometry

AM Newman, CB Steen, CL Liu, AJ Gentles… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA-sequencing has emerged as a powerful technique for characterizing
cellular heterogeneity, but it is currently impractical on large sample cohorts and cannot be …

T-cell exhaustion, co-stimulation and clinical outcome in autoimmunity and infection

EF McKinney, JC Lee, DRW Jayne, PA Lyons… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The clinical course of autoimmune and infectious disease varies greatly, even between
individuals with the same condition. An understanding of the molecular basis for this …

Emerging concepts of type I interferons in SLE pathogenesis and therapy

A Psarras, M Wittmann, EM Vital - Nature reviews Rheumatology, 2022 - nature.com
Type I interferons have been suspected for decades to have a crucial role in the
pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Evidence has now overturned several …

The cellular composition of the human immune system is shaped by age and cohabitation

EJ Carr, J Dooley, JE Garcia-Perez, V Lagou… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Detailed population-level description of the human immune system has recently become
achievable. We used a'systems-level'approach to establish a resource of cellular immune …

Molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutical targets in Huntington's disease

C Zuccato, M Valenza, E Cattaneo - Physiological reviews, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat
expansion in the gene encoding for huntingtin protein. A lot has been learned about this …

New concepts in cancer biomarkers: circulating miRNAs in liquid biopsies

E Larrea, C Sole, L Manterola, I Goicoechea… - International journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
The effective and efficient management of cancer patients relies upon early diagnosis and/or
the monitoring of treatment, something that is often difficult to achieve using standard tissue …

Genetics of gene expression and its effect on disease

V Emilsson, G Thorleifsson, B Zhang, AS Leonardson… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Common human diseases result from the interplay of many genes and environmental
factors. Therefore, a more integrative biology approach is needed to unravel the complexity …

Computational solutions for omics data

B Berger, J Peng, M Singh - Nature reviews genetics, 2013 - nature.com
High-throughput experimental technologies are generating increasingly massive and
complex genomic data sets. The sheer enormity and heterogeneity of these data threaten to …