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- Title
Genetics of infectious diseases: hidden etiologies and common pathways.
- Authors
Orlova, Marianna; Di Pietrantonio, Tania; Schurr, Erwin
- Abstract
Since the completion of the human genome sequence, the study of common genetic polymorphisms in complex human diseases has become a main activity of human genetics. Employing genome-wide association studies, hundreds of modest genetic risk factors have been identified. In infectious diseases the identification of common risk factors has been varied and as in other common diseases it seems likely that important genetic risk factors remain to be discovered. Nevertheless, the identification of disease-specific genetic risk factors revealed an unexpected overlap in susceptibility genes of diverse inflammatory and infectious diseases. Analysis of the multi-disease susceptibility genes has allowed the definition of shared key pathways of inflammatory dysregulation and suggested unexpected infectious etiologies for other "non-infectious" common diseases.
- Publication
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine, 2011, Vol 49, Issue 9, p1427
- ISSN
1437-4331
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1515/CCLM.2011.620