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 …

Tuberculosis phenotypic and genotypic drug susceptibility testing and immunodiagnostics: a review

KA Yusoof, JI Garcia, A Schami… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB), considered an ancient disease, is still killing one person every 21
seconds. Diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) still has many challenges …

Single-cell eQTL models reveal dynamic T cell state dependence of disease loci

A Nathan, S Asgari, K Ishigaki, C Valencia, T Amariuta… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Non-coding genetic variants may cause disease by modulating gene expression. However,
identifying these expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) is complicated by differences in …

Multimodally profiling memory T cells from a tuberculosis cohort identifies cell state associations with demographics, environment and disease

A Nathan, JI Beynor, Y Baglaenko, S Suliman… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Multimodal T cell profiling can enable more precise characterization of elusive cell states
underlying disease. Here, we integrated single-cell RNA and surface protein data from …

A positively selected FBN1 missense variant reduces height in Peruvian individuals

S Asgari, Y Luo, A Akbari, GM Belbin, X Li, DN Harris… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
On average, Peruvian individuals are among the shortest in the world. Here we show that
Native American ancestry is associated with reduced height in an ethnically diverse group of …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive identification of immuno-related transcriptional signature for active pulmonary tuberculosis by integrated analysis of array and single cell RNA …

Y Xu, Y Tan, X Zhang, M Cheng, J Hu, J Liu, X Chen… - Journal of Infection, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality
worldwide. However, the molecular mechanism underlying immune response to human …

Multi-ancestry meta-analysis of host genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis identifies shared genetic architecture

H Schurz, V Naranbhai, TA Yates, JJ Gilchrist, T Parks… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
The heritability of susceptibility to tuberculosis (TB) disease has been well recognized. Over
100 genes have been studied as candidates for TB susceptibility, and several variants were …

Who transmits tuberculosis to whom: a cross-sectional analysis of a cohort study in Lima, Peru

L Trevisi, MB Brooks, MC Becerra… - American Journal of …, 2024 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: The persistent burden of tuberculosis (TB) disease emphasizes the need to
identify individuals with TB for treatment and those at a high risk of incident TB for …

The awesome power of human genetics of infectious disease

KD Gibbs, BH Schott, DC Ko - Annual Review of Genetics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Since the identification of sickle cell trait as a heritable form of resistance to malaria,
candidate gene studies, linkage analysis paired with sequencing, and genome-wide …