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Dynamics of HIV Latency and Reactivation in a Primary CD4+T Cell Model

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Istvan Bartha

HIV latency is a major obstacle to curing infection. Current strategies to eradicate HIV aim at increasing transcription of the latent provirus. In the present study we observed that latently infected CD4+ T cells from HIV-infected individuals failed to pr ...

Public Library Science2014

Role of APOBEC3F Gene Variation in HIV-1 Disease Progression and Pneumocystis Pneumonia

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Istvan Bartha

Human APOBEC3 cytidine deaminases are intrinsic resistance factors to HIV-1. However, HIV-1 encodes a viral infectivity factor (Vif) that degrades APOBEC3 proteins. In vitro APO-BEC3F (A3F) anti-HIV-1 activity is weaker than A3G but is partially resistant ...

Public Library of Science2016

Determinants of HIV-1 broadly neutralizing antibody induction

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) are a focal component of HIV-1 vaccine design, yet basic aspects of their induction remain poorly understood. Here we report on viral, host and disease factors that steer bnAb evolution using the results of a systema ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Association of a Polygenic Risk Score With Osteoporosis in People Living With HIV: The Swiss HIV Cohort Study

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

An individual polygenic risk score was associated with osteoporosis in people living with HIV. The genetic effect was robust, as it persisted after multivariable adjustment for established traditional and HIV-related osteoporosis risk factors, including te ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2023

Epigenetic ageing accelerates before antiretroviral therapy and decelerates after viral suppression in people with HIV in Switzerland: a longitudinal study over 17 years

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

Background Accelerated epigenetic ageing can occur in untreated HIV infection and is partially reversible with effective antiretroviral therapy (ART). We aimed to make a long-term comparison of epigenetic ageing dynamics in people with HIV during untreated ...

ELSEVIER2023

Systematic screening of viral and human genetic variation identifies antiretroviral resistance and immune escape link

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

Background: Considering the remaining threat of drug-resistantmutations (DRMs) to antiretroviral treatment (ART) efficacy, we investigated how the selective pressure of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes drives certain DRMs' e ...

2021

Human genomics of the humoral immune response against polyomaviruses

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Christian Hammer, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel, Zhi Ming Xu, Petar Scepanovic, Olivier Noël Marie Naret

Human polyomaviruses are widespread in humans and can cause severe disease in immunocompromised individuals. To identify human genetic determinants of the humoral immune response against polyomaviruses, we performed genome-wide association studies and meta ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

Africa-specific human genetic variation near CHD1L associates with HIV-1 load

Jacques Fellay, Istvan Bartha, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

HIV-1 remains a global health crisis(1), highlighting the need to identify new targets for therapies. Here, given the disproportionate HIV-1 burden and marked human genome diversity in Africa(2), we assessed the genetic determinants of control of set-point ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Immunological lessons from genome-wide association studies of infections

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Alessandro Borghesi

Over the past few years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been increasingly applied to identify host genetic factors influencing clinical and laboratory traits related to immunity and infection, and to understand the interplay between the host a ...

CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD2021

Combining European and US risk prediction models with polygenic risk scores to refine cardiovascular prevention: the CoLaus|PsyCoLaus Study

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

Lay Summary The aim of this study is to determine whether using polygenic risk scores improves the prediction of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk when combined with clinical scores currently recommended by European and US guidelines on cardiovas ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

HIV Transmission Chains Exhibit Greater HLA-B Homogeneity Than Randomly Expected

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

Background: HIV's capacity to escape immune recognition by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is a core component of HIV pathogenesis. A better understanding of the distribution of HLA class I in HIV-infected patients would improve our knowledge of pathogenesis ...

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS2019

A polygenic risk score improves the prediction of cardiovascular risk associated with obstructive sleep-apnoea

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

Springernature2023

HIV host genomics in the era of effective antiretroviral therapy

Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

The introduction and widespread use of antiretroviral therapy against Human Immunodefi-ciency Virus (HIV) has had a remarkable effect on disease progression and the longevity of infected individuals. However, the establishment of a latent viral reservoir a ...

EPFL2020

A polygenic risk score to predict sudden cardiac arrest in patients with cardiovascular disease

Jacques Fellay, Etienne Pruvot, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball

London2023

Impact of Genetic and Nongenetic Factors on Body Mass Index and Waist-Hip Ratio Change in HIV-Infected Individuals Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Christian Hammer

Objective. There is limited data on abdominal obesity and the influence of genetics on weight change after ant iretroviral therapy (ART) initiation. We assessed body mass index (BMI) and waist hip ration (WHR) change over time in the Swiss HIV Cohort study ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2020

Primate-restricted KRAB zinc finger proteins and target retrotransposons control gene expression in human neurons

Didier Trono, Bart Deplancke, Priscilla Turelli, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Julien Léonard Duc, Alexandre Coudray, Julien Paul André Pontis, Charlène Mireille Raymonde Raclot, Delphine Yvette L Grun, Christopher James Playfoot

In the first days of embryogenesis, transposable element-embedded regulatory sequences (TEeRS) are silenced by Kruppel-associated box (KRAB) zinc finger proteins (KZFPs). Many TEeRS are subsequently co-opted in transcription networks, but how KZFPs influen ...

2020

Human genetic variants and age are the strongest predictors of humoral immune responses to common pathogens and vaccines

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Christian Hammer, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel, Nimisha Chaturvedi, Petar Scepanovic

2018

Genetic features and genomic targets of human KRAB-zinc finger proteins

Jacques Fellay, Didier Trono, Priscilla Turelli, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Julien Léonard Duc, Sandra Eloise Kjeldsen, Evaristo Jose Planet Letschert, Alexandre Coudray, Michaël Imbeault, Cyril David Son-Tuyên Pulver, Romain Forey, Jonas Caspar De Tribolet-Hardy

Krüppel-associated box (KRAB) domain-containing zinc finger proteins (KZFPs) are one of the largest groups of transcription factors encoded by tetrapods, with 378 members in human alone. KZFP genes are often grouped in clusters reflecting amplification by ...

2023

Human genomics of the humoral response against polyomaviruses

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Christian Hammer, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel, Zhi Ming Xu, Petar Scepanovic

SPRINGERNATURE2020

Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in humans with alternative NF-κB pathway deficiency

Jacques Fellay, Christian Axel Wandall Thorball, Alessandro Borghesi

Patients with autoimmune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 1 (APS-1) caused by autosomal recessive AIRE deficiency produce autoantibodies that neutralize type I interferons (IFNs) 1,2 , conferring a predisposition to life-threatening COVID-19 pneumonia 3 . ...

Nature Portfolio2023