Main components of fish immunity: An overview of the fish immune system

DM Mokhtar, G Zaccone, A Alesci, M Kuciel… - Fishes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cellular immune responses consist of innate and adaptive cell-mediated immune
mechanisms, where all leukocyte subpopulations are included. Among these are vital …

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 …

Host–parasite co-evolution and its genomic signature

D Ebert, PD Fields - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Studies in diverse biological systems have indicated that host–parasite co-evolution is
responsible for the extraordinary genetic diversity seen in some genomic regions, such as …

Inferring balancing selection from genome-scale data

BD Bitarello, DYC Brandt, D Meyer… - Genome biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The identification of genomic regions and genes that have evolved under natural selection is
a fundamental objective in the field of evolutionary genetics. While various approaches have …

Individual HLA heterogeneity and its implications for cellular immune evasion in cancer and beyond

S Pagliuca, C Gurnari, MT Rubio, V Visconte… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Structural and functional variability of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is the foundation for
competent adaptive immune responses against pathogen and tumor antigens as it assures …

Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture

AP Sümer, H Rougier, V Villalba-Mouco, Y Huang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Modern humans arrived in Europe more than 45,000 years ago, overlap** at least 5,000
years with Neanderthals 1, 2, 3, 4. Limited genomic data from these early modern humans …

Complete sequencing of ape genomes

DA Yoo, A Rhie, P Hebbar, F Antonacci… - BioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We present haplotype-resolved reference genomes and comparative analyses of six ape
species, namely: chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan …

Tutorial: a statistical genetics guide to identifying HLA alleles driving complex disease

S Sakaue, S Gurajala, M Curtis, Y Luo, W Choi… - Nature protocols, 2023 - nature.com
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) locus is associated with more complex diseases than
any other locus in the human genome. In many diseases, HLA explains more heritability …

Comparison between qPCR and RNA-seq reveals challenges of quantifying HLA expression

VRC Aguiar, EC Castelli, RM Single, A Bashirova… - Immunogenetics, 2023 - Springer
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I and II loci are essential elements of innate and
acquired immunity. Their functions include antigen presentation to T cells leading to cellular …

Widespread adaptive introgression of major histocompatibility complex genes across vertebrate hybrid zones

T Gaczorek, K Dudek, U Fritz… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Interspecific introgression is a potentially important source of novel variation of adaptive
significance. Although multiple cases of adaptive introgression are well documented …