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 …

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 …

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 …

The origins of diversity in human immunity

A Liston, A Goris - Nature Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
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[HTML][HTML] Human immune diversity: from evolution to modernity

A Liston, S Humblet-Baron, D Duffy, A Goris - Nature immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The extreme diversity of the human immune system, forged and maintained throughout
evolutionary history, provides a potent defense against opportunistic pathogens. At the same …

[HTML][HTML] Population genetic tools for dissecting innate immunity in humans

L Quintana-Murci, AG Clark - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2013 - nature.com
Innate immunity involves direct interactions between the host and microorganisms, both
pathogenic and symbiotic, so natural selection is expected to strongly influence genes …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] The genetic architecture of the human immune system: a bioresource for autoimmunity and disease pathogenesis

M Roederer, L Quaye, M Mangino, MH Beddall… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Despite recent discoveries of genetic variants associated with autoimmunity and infection,
genetic control of the human immune system during homeostasis is poorly understood. We …

High-throughput phenotyping reveals expansive genetic and structural underpinnings of immune variation

L Abeler-Dörner, AG Laing, A Lorenc, DS Ushakov… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
By developing a high-density murine immunophenotyping platform compatible with high-
throughput genetic screening, we have established profound contributions of genetics and …

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 …