Assessing the human immune system through blood transcriptomics
Open Access
- 1 July 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Biology
- Vol. 8 (1), 84
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-84
Abstract
Blood is the pipeline of the immune system. Assessing changes in transcript abundance in blood on a genome-wide scale affords a comprehensive view of the status of the immune system in health and disease. This review summarizes the work that has used this approach to identify therapeutic targets and biomarker signatures in the field of autoimmunity and infectious disease. Recent technological and methodological advances that will carry the blood transcriptome research field forward are also discussed.Keywords
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