2024
A unified metric of human immune health
Sparks R, Rachmaninoff N, Lau W, Hirsch D, Bansal N, Martins A, Chen J, Liu C, Cheung F, Failla L, Biancotto A, Fantoni G, Sellers B, Chawla D, Howe K, Mostaghimi D, Farmer R, Kotliarov Y, Calvo K, Palmer C, Daub J, Foruraghi L, Kreuzburg S, Treat J, Urban A, Jones A, Romeo T, Deuitch N, Moura N, Weinstein B, Moir S, Ferrucci L, Barron K, Aksentijevich I, Kleinstein S, Townsley D, Young N, Frischmeyer-Guerrerio P, Uzel G, Pinto-Patarroyo G, Cudrici C, Hoffmann P, Stone D, Ombrello A, Freeman A, Zerbe C, Kastner D, Holland S, Tsang J. A unified metric of human immune health. Nature Medicine 2024, 30: 2461-2472. PMID: 38961223, DOI: 10.1038/s41591-024-03092-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchClinically healthy individualsHealthy individualsImmune cell frequenciesImmune healthInflammatory biomarkers C-reactive proteinC-reactive proteinBiomarkers C-reactive proteinResponse to immunizationAntibody response to immunizationInflammatory disease statesImmune pathologyDisease activityTreatment responseAntigenic stimulationImmune consequencesClinical dataImmunological pathwaysHealthy controlsCell frequencyInterleukin-6Nonimmunologic diseasesImmune diseasesMonogenic diseasesMonogenic conditionsMedication use
2019
Phenotypic and Ig Repertoire Analyses Indicate a Common Origin of IgD−CD27− Double Negative B Cells in Healthy Individuals and Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Fraussen J, Marquez S, Takata K, Beckers L, Montes Diaz G, Zografou C, Van Wijmeersch B, Villar LM, O'Connor KC, Kleinstein SH, Somers V. Phenotypic and Ig Repertoire Analyses Indicate a Common Origin of IgD−CD27− Double Negative B Cells in Healthy Individuals and Multiple Sclerosis Patients. The Journal Of Immunology 2019, 203: 1650-1664. PMID: 31391234, PMCID: PMC6736705, DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1801236.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDN B cellsDouble-negative B cellsMultiple sclerosis patientsMS patientsNegative B cellsHealthy controlsClass-switched memoryB cellsAdaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencingSclerosis patientsRepertoire sequencingFrequency of CD95Naive B cellsUnique differentiation pathwayLow CD5Proinflammatory characteristicsImmune agingCD38 expressionHealthy individualsPatientsFlow cytometryLow mutation loadCD27Repertoire analysisMaturation state