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The heritable immune system

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Big data sets are galvanizing our ability to decipher the heritability of immune responses.

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Figure 1: Comparisons of the variance of immune traits in monozygotic and dizygotic twins by Roederer et al.1 identified 151 heritable immune traits, which were tested by GWAS, resulting in the identification of 11 loci modulating 19 traits.

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Cho, J. The heritable immune system. Nat Biotechnol 33, 608–609 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3256

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