The 10,000 Immunomes Project: Building a Resource for Human Immunology

Publication date: 9 October 2018Source: Cell Reports, Volume 25, Issue 2Author(s): Kelly A. Zalocusky, Matthew J. Kan, Zicheng Hu, Patrick Dunn, Elizabeth Thomson, Jeffrey Wiser, Sanchita Bhattacharya, Atul J. ButteSummaryThere is increasing appreciation that the immune system plays critical roles not only in the traditional domains of infection and inflammation but also in many areas of biology, including tumorigenesis, metabolism, and even neurobiology. However, one of the major barriers for understanding human immunological mechanisms is that immune assays have not been reproducibly characterized for a sufficiently large and diverse healthy human cohort. Here, we present the 10,000 Immunomes Project (10KIP), a framework for growing a diverse human immunology reference, from ImmPort, a ...

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