The Legacy of Past Pandemics: Common Human Mutations That Protect against Infectious Disease

A novel locus of resistance to severe malaria in a region of ancient balancing selection

(2015)   NATURE

Advantageous diversity maintained by balancing selection in humans

(2014) Felix M Key et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Escape from bacterial iron piracy through rapid evolution of transferrin

(2014) M. F. Barber et al.   SCIENCE

The NHGRI GWAS Catalog, a curated resource of SNP-trait associations

(2013) Danielle Welter et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Multiple Instances of Ancient Balancing Selection Shared Between Humans and Chimpanzees

(2013) E. M. Leffler et al.   SCIENCE

Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease

(2012) Luke Jostins et al.   NATURE

Evolution, revolution and heresy in the genetics of infectious disease susceptibility

(2012) A. V. S. Hill   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional genetic screen of human diversity reveals that a methionine salvage enzyme regulates inflammatory cell death

(2012) D. C. Ko et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Psoriasis Patients Are Enriched for Genetic Variants That Protect against HIV-1 Disease

(2012) Haoyan Chen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Identification of two new loci at IL23R and RAB32 that influence susceptibility to leprosy

(2011) Furen Zhang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Signatures of Environmental Genetic Adaptation Pinpoint Pathogens as the Main Selective Pressure through Human Evolution

(2011) Matteo Fumagalli et al.   PLoS Genetics

The lta4h Locus Modulates Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Infection in Zebrafish and Humans

(2010) David M. Tobin et al.   CELL

Association of Trypanolytic ApoL1 Variants with Kidney Disease in African Americans

(2010) G. Genovese et al.   SCIENCE

A Genome-wide In Vitro Bacterial-Infection Screen Reveals Human Variation in the Host Response Associated with Inflammatory Disease

(2009) Dennis C. Ko et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Genetic variation in IL28B predicts hepatitis C treatment-induced viral clearance

(2009) Dongliang Ge et al.   NATURE

Genomewide Association Study of Leprosy

(2009) Fu-Ren Zhang et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Genetic Deficiency of Chemokine Receptor CCR5 Is a Strong Risk Factor for Symptomatic West Nile Virus Infection: A Meta‐Analysis of 4 Cohorts in the US Epidemic

(2008) Jean K. Lim et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

MYH9 is associated with nondiabetic end-stage renal disease in African Americans

(2008) W H Linda Kao et al.   NATURE GENETICS

MYH9 is a major-effect risk gene for focal segmental glomerulosclerosis

(2008) Jeffrey B Kopp et al.   NATURE GENETICS