Innate and adaptive immune traits are differentially affected by genetic and environmental factors

Nature Communications

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Mangino, Massimo ^a,b   Roederer, Mario ^c   Beddall, Margaret H ^c   Nestle, Frank O ^a,b   Spector, Tim D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BHF Centre for Regenerative Medicine and BHF Centre of Excellence and the Biomedical Research Centre at Guy s St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and King s College London   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; PHENOTYPE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ADULT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CAUCASIAN; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DENDRITIC CELL; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GAMMA DELTA T LYMPHOCYTE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOCYTE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRE B LYMPHOCYTE; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; ADAPTATION; AGED; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MICROFLORA; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TWINS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MICROBIOTA; MIDDLE AGED; MONOCYTES; NATURAL KILLER T-CELLS; PHENOTYPE; PRECISION MEDICINE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 85008354915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13850     Document Type: Article

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