A copy number variation map of the human genome

M Zarrei, JR MacDonald, D Merico… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
A major contribution to the genome variability among individuals comes from deletions and
duplications—collectively termed copy number variations (CNVs)—which alter the diploid …

Expression, role, and regulation of neutrophil Fcγ receptors

Y Wang, F Jönsson - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neutrophils are best known for their critical role in host defense, for which they utilize
multiple innate immune mechanisms, including microbe-associated pattern recognition …

Structural polymorphism and diversity of human segmental duplications

H Jeong, PC Dishuck, DA Yoo, WT Harvey… - Nature Genetics, 2025 - nature.com
Segmental duplications (SDs) contribute significantly to human disease, evolution and
diversity but have been difficult to resolve at the sequence level. We present a population …

Malaria immunity in man and mosquito: insights into unsolved mysteries of a deadly infectious disease

PD Crompton, J Moebius, S Portugal… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by parasites of the obligate intracellular
Apicomplexa phylum the most deadly of which, Plasmodium falciparum, prevails in Africa …

Fc receptor-targeted therapies for the treatment of inflammation, cancer and beyond

PM Hogarth, GA Pietersz - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2012 - nature.com
The direct or indirect targeting of antibody Fc receptors (FcRs) presents unique opportunities
and interesting challenges for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, cancer and infection …

Autoimmunity and primary immunodeficiency: two sides of the same coin?

RE Schmidt, B Grimbacher, T Witte - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2018 - nature.com
Autoimmunity and immunodeficiency were previously considered to be mutually exclusive
conditions; however, increased understanding of the complex immune regulatory and …

IgG and Fcγ receptors in intestinal immunity and inflammation

T Castro-Dopico, MR Clatworthy - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Fcγ receptors (FcγR) are cell surface glycoproteins that mediate cellular effector functions of
immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies. Genetic variation in FcγR genes can influence …

A decade of structural variants: description, history and methods to detect structural variation

G Escaramís, E Docampo… - Briefings in functional …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
In the past decade, the view on genomic structural variation (SV) has been changed
completely. SVs, previously considered rare events, are now recognized as the largest …

Structural forms of the human amylase locus and their relationships to SNPs, haplotypes and obesity

CL Usher, RE Handsaker, T Esko, MA Tuke… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Hundreds of genes reside in structurally complex, poorly understood regions of the human
genome,,. One such region contains the three amylase genes (AMY2B, AMY2A and AMY1) …

Immunomodulation by IVIg and the role of Fc-gamma receptors: classic mechanisms of action after all?

SQ Nagelkerke, TW Kuijpers - Frontiers in immunology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Intravenous IgG (IVIg) contains polyclonal immunoglobulin G (IgG) from thousands of
donors. It is administered at a low dose at regular intervals as antibody replacement therapy …