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  • 标题:Genetic regulation of human anti-malarial antibodies in twins
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  • 作者:K Sjöberg ; J P Lepers ; L Raharimalala
  • 期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
  • 电子版ISSN:1091-6490
  • 出版年度:1992
  • 卷号:89
  • 期号:6
  • 页码:2101-2104
  • DOI:10.1073/pnas.89.6.2101
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 摘要:Immune responses to defined antigens may differ between individuals in a population as the reflection of differences in genetic regulation. In experimental animals, variation in responsiveness to a given epitope may be due to major histocompatibility complex (HLA, in humans) class II restrictions, implying serious limitations for the development of subunit vaccines. For human populations, knowledge of the relative importance of genetic as opposed to environmental factors affecting the immune response is scarce. We have compared antibody levels after immunization through repeated infections to a major malarial antigen (Pf155/RESA) in monozygotic twins with those in dizygotic twins, siblings, or unrelated controls. Antibody responses to the intact antigen and to some of its immunodominant epitopes were found to be more concordant within monozygotic twin pairs than in dizygotic pairs or age- and sex-matched siblings living under similar environmental conditions. The results support the conclusion that the antibody responses were genetically regulated. When the responses were assessed for possible associations with different HLA class II DRB, DQA, and DQB alleles had haplotypes, no associations were found. This suggests that the regulation of the Pf155/RESA antibody responses seen in this study reflects the impact of factors encoded by genes outside the HLA class II regions.
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