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Immunogenetics Program
The Immunogenetics Program was established
to develop technologies that will help the understanding of human
diseases related to malfunction of the immune system. This entails
the analysis of human polymorphism(s) which represents the small
differences in the genetic code of each individual responsible for
different behavior of his/her cells in response to various types
of stimulation. In particular the immune system is very susceptible
to these differences and variations among various individuals have
been implicated as a reason for different outcomes of organ transplantation,
or variable susceptibility of autoimmune diseases. In addition,
individual variability could be responsible to susceptibility to
infectious diseases like HIV or differences in the immune responsiveness
of different cancers to immune therapy.
Sections
of the Immunogenetics Program
 Functional
Genomics unit
Human
Polymorphism Detection unit
Proteomics
unit
Immune
Monitoring unit
Innate/adaptive
immune response unit
T
cell genetic and functional characterization unit
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