Host genetics and infectious disease: new tools, insights and translational opportunities

AJ Kwok, A Mentzer, JC Knight - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how human genetics influence infectious disease susceptibility offers the
opportunity for new insights into pathogenesis, potential drug targets, risk stratification …

Schizophrenia and influenza at the centenary of the 1918-1919 Spanish influenza pandemic: mechanisms of psychosis risk

AP Kępińska, CO Iyegbe, AC Vernon, R Yolken… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Associations between influenza infection and psychosis have been reported since the
eighteenth century, with acute “psychoses of influenza” documented during multiple …

Human leukocyte antigen alleles associate with COVID-19 vaccine immunogenicity and risk of breakthrough infection

AJ Mentzer, D O'connor, S Bibi, I Chelysheva… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine immunogenicity
varies between individuals, and immune responses correlate with vaccine efficacy. Using …

Initial whole-genome sequencing and analysis of the host genetic contribution to COVID-19 severity and susceptibility

F Wang, S Huang, R Gao, Y Zhou, C Lai, Z Li, W **an… - Cell discovery, 2020 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has accounted for millions of infections and hundreds of thousand
deaths worldwide in a short-time period. The patients demonstrate a great diversity in …

The influence of HLA genotype on the severity of COVID‐19 infection

DJ Langton, SC Bourke, BA Lie, G Reiff, S Natu… - Hla, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of COVID‐19 varies markedly, not only between individual patients but also
between different populations. We hypothesised that differences in HLA genes might …

Epidemiology of brain and other CNS tumors

QT Ostrom, SS Francis, JS Barnholtz-Sloan - Current neurology and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Brain and other central nervous system (CNS) tumors, while
rare, cause significant morbidity and mortality across all ages. This article summarizes the …

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 …

Increased serological response against human herpesvirus 6A is associated with risk for multiple sclerosis

E Engdahl, R Gustafsson, J Huang, M Biström… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Human herpesvirus (HHV)-6A or HHV-6B involvement in multiple sclerosis (MS) etiology
has remained controversial mainly due to the lack of serological methods that can …

SCGB1D2 inhibits growth of Borrelia burgdorferi and affects susceptibility to Lyme disease

S Strausz, E Abner, G Blacker, S Galloway… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease caused by bacteria of the genus Borrelia. The host
factors that modulate susceptibility for Lyme disease have remained mostly unknown. Using …

Genetic risk of extranodal natural killer T-cell lymphoma: a genome-wide association study in multiple populations

GW Lin, C Xu, K Chen, HQ Huang, J Chen… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Extranodal natural killer T-cell lymphoma (NKTCL; nasal type) is an aggressive
malignancy with a particularly high prevalence in Asian and Latin American populations …