title: The dissection of complex susceptibility to infectious disease: bacterial, viral and parasitic infections.
abstract: Infectious diseases are the result of the exposure of susceptible hosts to pathogenic microbes. Genetic factors are important determinants of host susceptibility and efforts are being made to establish the molecular identity of such genetic susceptibility variants by genome-wide association studies. Results obtained to date partly confirm already known genetic vulnerabilities, but also point to new and unexpected mechanisms of susceptibility that extend from classical innate and acquired immunity to weaknesses in constitutional resistance. These studies also revealed an overlap in genetic control between infectious disease and other common immune and inflammatory disorders.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, INSERM U.980, University Paris Descartes, Necker Enfants-Malades Hospital, Paris 75015, France; St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Abel
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Necker Branch, INSERM U.980, University Paris Descartes, Necker Enfants-Malades Hospital, Paris 75015, France; St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA; URC, CIC, Necker and Cochin Hospitals, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Alexandre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alcaïs
authors.affiliation: McGill International TB Centre & Departments of Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Program in Immunology and Infectious Diseases in Global Health, The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Canada. Electronic address: erwin.schurr@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Erwin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schurr
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000276:immunology*; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study; D006801:Humans; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000276:immunology*