1. Environmental and genetic drivers of population differences in SARS-CoV-2 immune responses
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Yann Aquino, Aurélie Bisiaux, Zhi Li, Mary O’Neill, Javier Mendoza-Revilla, Sarah Hélène Merkling, Gaspard Kerner, Milena Hasan, Valentina Libri, Vincent Bondet, Nikaïa Smith, Camille de Cevins, Mickaël Ménager, Francesca Luca, Roger Pique-Regi, Giovanna Barba-Spaeth, Stefano Pietropaoli, Olivier Schwartz, Geert Leroux-Roels, Cheuk-Kwong Lee, Kathy Leung, Joseph T.K. Wu, Malik Peiris, Roberto Bruzzone, Laurent Abel, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Sophie A. Valkenburg, Darragh Duffy, Etienne Patin, Maxime Rotival, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Génétique Evolutive Humaine - Human Evolutionary Genetics, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Collège Doctoral, Sorbonne Université (SU), Interactions Virus-Insectes - Insect-Virus Interactions (IVI), Cytometrie et Biomarqueurs – Cytometry and Biomarkers (UTechS CB), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Immunologie Translationnelle - Translational Immunology lab, Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IHU) (Imagine - U1163), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Inflammatory Responses and Transcriptomic Networks in diseases (Equipe Inserm U1163), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Wayne State University [Detroit], University of Rome 'Tor Vergeta', Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata [Roma], Virologie Structurale - Structural Virology, Virus et Immunité - Virus and immunity (CNRS-UMR3569), Universiteit Gent = Ghent University (UGENT), Ghent University Hospital, Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Hospital Authority, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Rockefeller University [New York], CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Human genetics of infectious diseases: Complex predisposition (Equipe Inserm U1163), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), University of Melbourne, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), Collège de France - Chaire Génomique humaine et évolution, Collège de France (CdF (institution)), The Human Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory is supported by the Institut Pasteur, the Collège de France, the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) grants COVID-19-POPCELL (ANR-21-CO14-0003-01), POPCELL-REG (ANR-22-CE12-0030-01) and COVIFERON (ANR-21-RHUS-0008), the EU HORIZON-HLTH-2021-DISEASE-04-07 grant UNDINE (no. 101057100), the French Government’s Investissement d’Avenir program, Laboratoires d’Excellence 'Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases' (ANR-10- LABX-62-IBEID) and 'Milieu Intérieur' (ANR-10-LABX-69-01), the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (Equipe FRM DEQ20180339214), the Fondation Allianz-Institut de France, and the Fondation de France (no. 00106080). K.L., J.T.K.W. and M.P. are supported by the Health and Medical Research Fund Commissioned Research on the Novel Coronavirus Disease, Hong Kong SAR (COVID190126), S.A.V by the Theme-based Research Scheme of the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR (T11-705/21-N, SAV: T11-712/19-N), and M.P., R.B. and D.D. by InnoHK, an initiative of the Innovation and Technology Commission, the Government of the Hong Kong SAR., ANR-21-CO14-0003,COVID-19-POPCELL,Facteurs génétiques et infectieux à l'origine de la variabilité populationnelle de la réponse immunitaire à l'infection par le SARS-CoV-2(2021), ANR-22-CE12-0030,popCell-REG,Variation populationnelle des profils d'accessibilité de la chromatine à l'échelle unicellulaire(2022), ANR-21-RHUS-0008,COVIFERON,Covid-19 and interferons: from discovery to therapy(2021), ANR-10-LABX-0062,IBEID,Integrative Biology of Emerging Infectious Diseases(2010), and ANR-10-LABX-0069,MILIEU INTERIEUR,GENETIC & ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OF IMMUNE PHENOTYPE VARIANCE: ESTABLISHING A PATH TOWARDS PERSONALIZED MEDICINE(2010)
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[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] - Abstract
The RNA sequencing data generated and analyzed in this study have been deposited in the Institut Pasteur data repository, OWEY, which can be accessed via the following link: https://doi.org/XXXX. The genome-wide genotyping data generated or used in this study have been deposited in OWEY and can be accessed at the following URL: https://doi.org/XXXX. Data access and use is restricted to academic research related to the variability of the human immune response.; Humans display vast clinical variability upon SARS-CoV-2 infection 1–3 , partly due to genetic and immunological factors 4 . However, the magnitude of population differences in immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 and the mechanisms underlying such variation remain unknown. Here we report single-cell RNA-sequencing data for peripheral blood mononuclear cells from 222 healthy donors of various ancestries stimulated with SARS-CoV-2 or influenza A virus. We show that SARS-CoV-2 induces a weaker, but more heterogeneous interferon-stimulated gene activity than influenza A virus, and a unique pro-inflammatory signature in myeloid cells. We observe marked population differences in transcriptional responses to viral exposure that reflect environmentally induced cellular heterogeneity, as illustrated by higher rates of cytomegalovirus infection, affecting lymphoid cells, in African-descent individuals. Expression quantitative trait loci and mediation analyses reveal a broad effect of cell proportions on population differences in immune responses, with genetic variants having a narrower but stronger effect on specific loci. Additionally, natural selection has increased immune response differentiation across populations, particularly for variants associated with SARS-CoV-2 responses in East Asians. We document the cellular and molecular mechanisms through which Neanderthal introgression has altered immune functions, such as its impact on the myeloid response in Europeans. Finally, colocalization analyses reveal an overlap between the genetic architecture of immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 severity. Collectively, these findings suggest that adaptive evolution targeting immunity has also contributed to current disparities in COVID-19 risk.
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- 2023