Human leukocyte antigen super-locus: nexus of genomic supergenes, SNPs, indels, transcripts, and haplotypes

JK Kulski, S Suzuki, T Shiina - Human Genome Variation, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The human Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) or Human Leukocyte Antigen
(HLA) super-locus is a highly polymorphic genomic region that encodes more than 140 …

The MHC in the era of next-generation sequencing: Implications for bridging structure with function

EW Petersdorf, C O'hUigin - Human immunology, 2019 - Elsevier
The MHC continues to have the most disease-associations compared to other regions of the
human genome, even in the genome-wide association study (GWAS) and single nucleotide …

Global discovery of lupus genetic risk variant allelic enhancer activity

X Lu, X Chen, C Forney, O Donmez, D Miller… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) nominate 3073
genetic variants at 91 risk loci. To systematically screen these variants for allelic …

Clinicogenomic factors of biotherapy immunogenicity in autoimmune disease: A prospective multicohort study of the ABIRISK consortium

S Hässler, D Bachelet, J Duhaze, N Szely… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Biopharmaceutical products (BPs) are widely used to treat autoimmune
diseases, but immunogenicity limits their efficacy for an important proportion of patients. Our …

Expression estimation and eQTL mapping for HLA genes with a personalized pipeline

VRC Aguiar, J César, O Delaneau, ET Dermitzakis… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigens) genes are well-documented targets of balancing
selection, and variation at these loci is associated with many disease phenotypes. Variation …

Regulation of expression quantitative trait loci by SVA retrotransposons within the major histocompatibility complex

JK Kulski, AL Pfaff, LD Marney… - Experimental …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Genomic and transcriptomic studies of expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) revealed that
SINE-VNTR-Alu (SVA) retrotransposon insertion polymorphisms (RIPs) within human …

Gene expression variability in human and chimpanzee populations share common determinants

BJ Fair, LE Blake, A Sarkar, BJ Pavlovic, C Cuevas… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Inter-individual variation in gene expression has been shown to be heritable and is often
associated with differences in disease susceptibility between individuals. Many studies …

Regulation of HLA class I expression by non-coding gene variations

F Bettens, H Ongen, G Rey, S Buhler… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) is a critical genetic system for different outcomes after
solid organ and hematopoietic cell transplantation. Its polymorphism is usually determined …

Systematic genetic analysis of the MHC region reveals mechanistic underpinnings of HLA type associations with disease

M D'Antonio, J Reyna, D Jakubosky, MKR Donovan… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
The MHC region is highly associated with autoimmune and infectious diseases. Here we
conduct an in-depth interrogation of associations between genetic variation, gene …

Nongenic cancer-risk SNPs affect oncogenes, tumour-suppressor genes, and immune function

M Fagny, J Platig, ML Kuijjer, X Lin… - British journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWASes) have identified many noncoding
germline single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are associated with an increased risk …