The Milieu Intérieur study - an integrative approach for study of human immunological variance
Stéphanie Thomas, Vincent Rouilly, Etienne Patin, Cécile Alanio, Annick Dubois, Cécile Delval, Louis-Guillaume Marquier, Nicolas Fauchoux, Seloua Sayegrih, Muriel Vray, Darragh Duffy, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Matthew L Albert, Milieu Intérieur Consortium, Laurent Abel, Andres Alcover, Philippe Bousso, Pierre Bruhns, Ana Cumano, Marc Daëron, Cécile Delval, Caroline Demangel, Ludovic Deriano, James Di Santo, Françoise Dromer, Gérard Eberl, Jost Enninga, Antonio Freitas, Odile Gelpi, Ivo Gomperts-Boneca, Serge Hercberg, Olivier Lantz, Claude Leclerc, Hugo Mouquet, Sandra Pellegrini, Stanislas Pol, Lars Rogge, Anavaj Sakuntabhai, Olivier Schwartz, Benno Schwikowski, Spencer Shorte, Vassili Soumelis, Frédéric Tangy, Eric Tartour, Antoine Toubert, Marie-Noëlle Ungeheuer, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Matthew L Albert, Stéphanie Thomas, Vincent Rouilly, Etienne Patin, Cécile Alanio, Annick Dubois, Cécile Delval, Louis-Guillaume Marquier, Nicolas Fauchoux, Seloua Sayegrih, Muriel Vray, Darragh Duffy, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Matthew L Albert, Milieu Intérieur Consortium, Laurent Abel, Andres Alcover, Philippe Bousso, Pierre Bruhns, Ana Cumano, Marc Daëron, Cécile Delval, Caroline Demangel, Ludovic Deriano, James Di Santo, Françoise Dromer, Gérard Eberl, Jost Enninga, Antonio Freitas, Odile Gelpi, Ivo Gomperts-Boneca, Serge Hercberg, Olivier Lantz, Claude Leclerc, Hugo Mouquet, Sandra Pellegrini, Stanislas Pol, Lars Rogge, Anavaj Sakuntabhai, Olivier Schwartz, Benno Schwikowski, Spencer Shorte, Vassili Soumelis, Frédéric Tangy, Eric Tartour, Antoine Toubert, Marie-Noëlle Ungeheuer, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Matthew L Albert
Abstract
The Milieu Intérieur Consortium has established a 1000-person healthy population-based study (stratified according to sex and age), creating an unparalleled opportunity for assessing the determinants of human immunologic variance. Herein, we define the criteria utilized for participant enrollment, and highlight the key data that were collected for correlative studies. In this report, we analyzed biological correlates of sex, age, smoking-habits, metabolic score and CMV infection. We characterized and identified unique risk factors among healthy donors, as compared to studies that have focused on the general population or disease cohorts. Finally, we highlight sex-bias in the thresholds used for metabolic score determination and recommend a deeper examination of current guidelines. In sum, our clinical design, standardized sample collection strategies, and epidemiological data analyses have established the foundation for defining variability within human immune responses.
Keywords: Baseline serologic data; CMV; Cohort design; Healthy donor; Immune phenotypes; Metabolic syndrome.
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Source: PubMed