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The Genetic Architecture of the Human Immune System: A Bioresource for Autoimmunity and Disease Pathogenesis
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Despite recent discoveries of genetic variants associated with autoimmunity and infection, genetic control of the human immune system during homeostasis is poorly understood. We undertook a comprehensive immunophenotyping approach, analyzing 78,000 immune traits in 669 female twins. From the top 151 heritable traits (up to 96% heritable), we used replicated GWAS to obtain 297 SNP associations at 11 genetic loci, explaining up to 36% of the variation of 19 traits. We found multiple associations with canonical traits of all major immune cell subsets and uncovered insights into genetic control for regulatory T cells. This data set also revealed traits associated with loci known to confer autoimmune susceptibility, providing mechanistic hypotheses linking immune traits with the etiology of disease. Our data establish a bioresource that links genetic control elements associated with normal immune traits to common autoimmune and infectious diseases, providing a shortcut to identifying potential mechanisms of immune-related diseases.
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“The heritability for many serum cytokines/chemokines ranges from 50% to 90% in healthy twins between 8 and 82 years of age, with IL-6 and IL-12p40 levels being especially driven by genetics.”
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“For example, one large-scale GWAS found a median heritability of 37% for a broad set of immune cell types and immune traits, with some phenotypes showing heritability as high as 96% (116, 117).”
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- Authors
- Roederer, M., Quaye, L., Mangino, M., Beddall, M. H., Mahnke, Y., Chattopadhyay, P., Tosi, I., Napolitano, L., Terranova Barberio, M., Menni, C., Villanova, F., Di Meglio, P., Spector, T. D., & Nestle, F. O.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- King's College London (GB)
- St Thomas' Hospital (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Roederer, Mario
- Spector, Tim D.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cell
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-04
- Volume
- 161
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 387-403
- ISSN
- 0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4393780
- OpenAlex
- W2080215939
- Cited by
- 296
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 38 · 2019: 29 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 10
- FWCI
- 20.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Cell (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NF-SI-0514-10027)
- King's College London
- National Institutes of Health (Z99 AI999999)
- Medical Research Council (MR/J006742/1)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (ZIAAI005021, ZIAAI005020)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Clinical Neurology › Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
- Keywords
- immune traits, heritability, immune cell subsets, regulatory T cells, autoimmune disease susceptibility, infection susceptibility, genetic loci, single nucleotide polymorphisms, twin studies, immunophenotyping, pathogenesis
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Autoimmune Diseases, Female, Humans, Immune System Diseases, Leukocytes, Middle Aged, Immunophenotyping, Receptors, IgG, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory, Genome-Wide Association Study
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