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We are currently reaching a period of rapid data production. Several themes are already rising from the first wave of results. First, some genetic variants clearly predispose to multiple autoimmune diseases, thus providing evidence for a shared autoimmune genetic background. Second, multiple genes a...
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PMID: 20863905
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The DSA strength correlates well with crossmatch results. An MFI of 6540 predicted a positive antihuman globulin T-cell crossmatch....
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PMID: 20923311
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J M JM Nunes,
M E ME Riccio,
S S Buhler,
D D Di,
M M Currat,
F F Ries,
A J AJ Almada,
S S Benhamamouch,
O O Benitez,
A A Canossi,
K K Fadhlaoui-Zid,
G G Fischer,
B B Kervaire,
P P Loiseau,
D C M DC de Oliveira,
C C Papasteriades,
D D Piancatelli,
M M Rahal,
L L Richard,
M M Romero,
J J Rousseau,
M M Spiroski,
G G Sulcebe,
D D Middleton,
J-M JM Tiercy and
A A Sanchez-Mazas
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During the 15th International Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Workshop (IHIWS), 14 human leukocyte antigen (HLA) laboratories participated in the Analysis of HLA Population Data (AHPD) project where 18 new population samples were analyzed statistically and compared with data available from pre...
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PMID: 20331842
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IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system, was created in 1989 in Montpellier by the Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire (LIGM) headed by the Professors Marie-Paule and Gérard Lefranc (University Montpellier 2 and CNRS). IMGT is specialized in the sequences, structures and...
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PMID: 20035673
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The aim of this review is to present a concise overview of all data available on the immunogenetics of Chlamydia trachomatis infections, both sexually transmitted urogenital and ocular infections. Currently, candidate gene approaches are used to identify genes related to the susceptibility to and se...
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PMID: 19170753
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Samuel Kim,
George Buchlis,
Zvi G Fridlender,
Jing Sun,
Veena Kapoor,
Guanjun Cheng,
Andrew Haas,
Hung Kam Cheung,
Xiamei Zhang,
Michael Corbley,
Larry R Kaiser,
Leona Ling and
Steven M Albelda
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I receptor kinase inhibitor SM16. Adenovirus expressing IFN-beta (Ad.IFN-beta) was injected intratumorally once in established s.c. AB12 (mesothelioma) and LKR (lung cancer) tumors or intratracheally in a Kras orthotopic lung tumor model. Mice bearing TC1 (lung cancer) tumors were vaccinated with tw...
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PMID: 19074893
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We demonstrate associations between genetic variations (single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNPs) in HLA class I and class II genes, cytokine, cell surface receptor, and toll-like receptor genes and variations in immune responses to measles vaccine. Such information may provide further understanding of...
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PMID: 18598732
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We tested the antigenicity of porcine rotavirus Vp7 gene expressed in Lactobacillus. METHODS: We studied the condition of electroporation and transformed the plasmid pW425et-Vp7 into thyA gene-mutant L. acidlophilus. Then the positive clone was selected and its expression was detected by SDS-PAGE an...
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PMID: 19149168
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I epitopes, and the presence of haplotype mismatching. When cord blood transplantation is an option, both cell dose and HLA matching are important variables. Optimizing the overall outcome of hematopoietic cell transplantation requires an appreciation for the relative importance of HLA factors with...
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PMID: 18674615
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Recent advances in immunological and genetic research in coeliac disease provide new and complementary insights into the immune response driving this chronic intestinal inflammatory disorder. Both approaches confirm the central importance of T cell-mediated immune responses to disease pathogenesis a...
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PMID: 18713140
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We wish to emphasize that the recent knowledge in understanding the capacities of an APC to handle an Ag and the importance of the surrounding microenvironment in this process are crucial for designing novel protein therapeutics with reduced immunogenicity....
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PMID: 18641295
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PURPOSE: Scientific issues and clinical implications associated with the use of biosimilars (biopharmaceuticals that are similar to an innovator product, notwithstanding minor differences) are illustrated in two examples, botulinum neurotoxins and erythropoietic agents. SUMMARY: Comparison of Botox...
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PMID: 18591714
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IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system (http://imgt.cines.fr), is the reference in immunogenetics and immunoinformatics. IMGT standardizes and manages the complex immunogenetic data that include the immunoglobulins (IG) or antibodies, the T cell receptors (TR), the major histocomp...
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PMID: 18424816
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We asked whether HLA class II genotypes associated with HCV clearance are shared between Caucasian and African Americans and whether they contribute to enhanced antiviral CD4 T cell response. In a cohort of 93 HCV-seropositive subjects from Northeast America with defined ethnicity, virological outco...
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PMID: 18537178
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Logistic regression analysis revealed a strong correlation between the number of triplet or extended-triplet and eplet mismatches and both the presence and magnitude of alloantibody to mismatched HLA-A and -B specificities. The additional structural information provided by eplet analysis gave increa...
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PMID: 18580476
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Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease of unknown etiology but lymphocytic portal tract infiltration is suggestive of an immune-mediated basis for this disease. Associations with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) especially ulcerative colitis (UC), and with partic...
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PMID: 18528932
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We have studied genetic variations in the MHC, cytokines and CCR2-CCR5 loci in the Asian-Indian HIV-infected population and compared with other global populations....
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PMID: 18321617
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We show that in vivo EP augmented cellular and humoral immune responses to a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Env DNA vaccine in mice and allowed a 10-fold reduction in vaccine dose. This enhancement was durable for over 6 months, and re-exposure to antigen resulted in anamnestic effector and cen...
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PMID: 18353952
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Non-infectious uveitis is characterised by a breakdown of immunological tolerance. Several cytokines could be identified as important regulators of the immune system during induction, progression and remission of ocular inflammation in animal models. This review analyses the current knowledge on cyt...
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PMID: 18516777
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We immunized mice with insect cell-derived human papillomavirus type 16 VLPs and capsomeres. VLPs induced consistently higher antibody titers than capsomeres but the two forms induced similar CD8 T-cell responses after subcutaneous, intranasal, and oral immunization, and at least 20 to 40 times more...
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PMID: 18385253
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We highlight the current findings in the genetics of human SLE after using these approaches....
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PMID: 18486920
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We provide a detailed technical description of the use of grammatical evolution to optimize neural networks (GENN) for use in genetic association studies. We compare the performance of GENN to that of a previous machine-learning NN application--genetic programming neural networks in both simulated a...
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PMID: 18265411
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We review studies of the immunogenetic features of IgE in allergic diseases, highlighting the major advances and the experimental limitations....
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PMID: 18261159
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IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system (http://imgt.cines.fr), is the reference in immunogenetics and immunoinformatics. IMGT standardizes and manages the complex immunogenetic data which include the immunoglobulins (IG) or antibodies, the T cell receptors (TR), the major histocom...
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PMID: 17949886
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We summarize the findings of recent investigations on macrophages,dendritic cells and gammadelta T lymphocytes in the response to mycobacteria....
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PMID: 18376078
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Matthew D Snape,
Kirsten P Perrett,
Karen J Ford,
Tessa M John,
David Pace,
Ly-Mee Yu,
Joanne M Langley,
Shelley McNeil,
Peter M Dull,
Francesca Ceddia,
Alessandra Anemona,
Scott A Halperin,
Simon Dobson and
Andrew J Pollard
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According to the prespecified per-protocol analysis, the percentages (95% CIs) of MenACWY 2-, 3-, and 4-month recipients with hSBA titers >or=1:4 after primary immunization were serogroup A, 93% (84%-98%); C, 96% (89%-99%); W-135, 97% (90%-100%); and Y, 94% (86%-98%). With a post hoc intention-to-tr...
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PMID: 18182599
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Therapeutic proteins in general induce an immune response, especially when administered as multiple doses over prolonged periods. Non-human therapeutic proteins such as asparaginase and streptokinase induce antibodies by the classical immune reaction and their primary immunogenic factor is the degre...
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PMID: 18606364
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A probabilistic approach based on an analysis of the standardized tool "output" is proposed to infer the probability distribution of the "true trimmming process" and to provide plausible biological hypotheses explaining this process. We collated a benchmark dataset of TR alpha (TRA) and TR gamma (TR...
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PMID: 18831754
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We have correlated the clinical outcome with the level of HLA matching in 423 patients who received a transplant from a volunteer unrelated donor in the United Kingdom. HLA matching was performed at the allelic level (i.e. high-resolution) using reference strand mediated conformation analysis (RSCA)...
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PMID: 17964196
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New original data are presented on the use of achievements in human molecular immunogenetics in the management of type 1 diabetes mellitus. They include materials allowing for the prediction of the development of the disease at the population, family, and individual levels along with novel approache...
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PMID: 19140398
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In the control group, the tumor gradually grew to be 20.7+/-1.6 (mean+/-SD) mm in intratumorally injected tumors and 21.8+/-3.7 mm in opposite tumors seven weeks after injection, respectively. In contrast, in the treatment group, the tumor was reduced to 3.6+/-8.2 mm and 3.7+/-8.2 mm. The tumor grow...
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PMID: 19035311
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We will overview the linkage and candidate gene studies carried out so far as well as summarize important historical notes on the genetic hypotheses generated in preeclampsia research. Moreover, the influence of maternal and fetal genes and their interaction as well as the role of genomic imprinting...
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PMID: 18184097
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We review the IMGT Scientific chart rules for the description of the IgSF (V and C types) and of the MhcSF (G type) domains. These rules are based on the IMGT-ONTOLOGY axioms and concepts and are applicable for the sequence and structure analysis, whatever the species, the IgSF or MhcSF protein, or...
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PMID: 18208865
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We examine the role of HLA genes, cytokine genes, and cell surface receptor genes as examples of how genetic polymorphism leads to individual and population variations in immune responses to vaccines. In turn, this data, in concert with new high-throughput technology, inform the immune-response netw...
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PMID: 17971814
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We investigated the immunogenicity of Bcr-Abl-regulated antigens by stimulating CD8(+) T lymphocytes with autologous dendritic cells transfected with RNA coding for Bcr-Abl wild-type or a kinase-deficient mutant. Significant HLA class I-restricted T-cell responses were detected against antigens regu...
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PMID: 17579186
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Julie Bergeron,
Emmanuelle Clappier,
Isabelle Radford,
Agnès Buzyn,
Corinne Millien,
Gwendoline Soler,
Paola Ballerini,
Xavier Thomas,
Jean Soulier,
Hervé Dombret,
Elizabeth A Macintyre and
Vahid Asnafi
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We have studied 264 unselected T-ALLs (171 adults and 93 children) and show that T-ALLs expressing high levels of TLX1 (n = 35, 13%), defined as a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RQ-PCR) level of TLX1 greater than 1.00 ABL, form a homogeneous oncogenic group, based on their uniform...
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PMID: 17609427
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We evaluated the influence of the nonreducing terminal monosaccharide on the serum antibody response. To this end, we prepared synthetic oligosaccharides comprising hexa- to tridecasaccharide fragments of the native O-SP, having one of the four monosaccharide residues that constitute the repeating u...
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PMID: 17726093
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The discovery of innate immune genes, such as those encoding Toll-like receptors (TLRs), nucleotide-binding oligomerisation domain-like receptors (NLRs), and related signal-transducing molecules, has led to a substantial improvement of our understanding of innate immunity. Recent immunogenetic studi...
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PMID: 17646026
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Vitiligo is a common dermatological disorder characterized by the presence on the skin of depigmented macules resulting from the destruction of cutaneous melanocytes. Autoimmunity is an important hypothesis with regard to vitiligo aetiology and the evidence for autoimmune responses being involved in...
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PMID: 17658994
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We have evaluated a 14-bp deletion polymorphism in the 3'-untranslated region of exon 8 of HLA-G gene in pregnant PE women and controls. HLA-G genotypes in both control and PE women were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The healthy pregnant and PE women had similar genotype frequencies (p = 0.789). Th...
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PMID: 17678721
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The distribution of HLA class II alleles and genotypes in Israelis of different ethnic origin with adult-onset type 1 diabetes (T1D) was examined. The results were compared with published findings in healthy Israelis and childhood-onset T1D Israelis. An additional comparison was made between subgrou...
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PMID: 17584585
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Non-HLA genetics involving the study of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and microsatellites of cytokine and cytokine receptor genes, and as well as genes associated with response to infection and therapeutic drugs, are currently being studied for associations with diseases, including autoimmu...
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PMID: 17448956
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We have developed an approach that involves labelling chloroplasts from individual cell types by placing the foreign yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) on their outer surface, and then isolating those labelled chloroplasts immunogenically. Cell specificity is achieved through the use of enhancer trap...
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PMID: 17461787
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C S Kim,
M K Song,
J S Park,
M H Cho,
H J Kim,
J S Nam,
E S Kang,
C W Ahn,
B S Cha,
E G Lee,
S K Lim,
K R Kim,
H C Lee and
K B Huh
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We examined the clinical characteristics and the patterns of anti-GAD antibody (GADA), IA-2 antibody (IA-2A), HLA-DR and HLA-DQ in Korean adult-onset T1DM patients. Adult-onset patients had higher serum C-peptide levels than child-onset patients. In adult-onset patients, the prevalence of GADA and I...
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PMID: 17530466
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These results contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in the significant high immunogenicity of particulate antigen and may provide knowledge for the rational design and development of future vaccines....
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PMID: 17408743
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Stephan R Targan,
Brian G Feagan,
Richard N Fedorak,
Bret A Lashner,
Remo Panaccione,
Daniel H Present,
Martina E Spehlmann,
Paul J Rutgeerts,
Zsolt Tulassay,
Miroslava Volfova,
Douglas C Wolf,
Chito Hernandez,
Jeffrey Bornstein,
William J Sandborn and
International Efficacy of Natalizumab in Crohn's Disease Response and Remission (ENCORE) Trial Group
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Natalizumab induced response and remission at Week 8 that was sustained through Week 12. Response and remission rates for natalizumab were superior to those for placebo at Weeks 4, 8, and 12, demonstrating the early and sustained efficacy of natalizumab as induction therapy in patients with elevated...
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PMID: 17484865
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M Varla-Leftherioti,
T Keramitsoglou,
M Spyropoulou-Vlachou,
M Papadimitropoulos,
V Kontopoulou-Antonopoulou,
C Tsekoura,
U Sankarkumar,
N Paparistidis,
K Ghosh,
A Pawar,
V Vrani,
M Daniilidis,
E Parapanissiou,
A S Diler,
M Carin and
C Stavropoulos-Giokas
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The aim of the study was to investigate whether human leukocyte antigen (HLA) allele sharing between partners or the maternal killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) repertoire is associated with recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) and repeated implantation failure after in vitro fertilization (I...
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PMID: 17445221
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