James V Talwar, David Laub, Meghana S Pagadala, Andrea Castro, McKenna Lewis, Georg E Luebeck, Bryan R Gorman, Cuiping Pan, Frederick N Dong, Kyriacos Markianos, Craig C Teerlink, Julie Lynch, Richard Hauger, Saiju Pyarajan, Philip S Tsao, Gerald P Morris, Rany M Salem, Wesley K Thompson, Kit Curtius, Maurizio Zanetti, Hannah Carter
Autoimmunity and cancer represent two different aspects of immune dysfunction. Autoimmunity is characterized by breakdowns in immune self-tolerance, while impaired immune surveillance can allow for tumorigenesis. The class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC-I), which displays derivatives of the cellular peptidome for immune surveillance by CD8+ T cells, serves as a common genetic link between these conditions. As melanoma-specific CD8+ T cells have been shown to target melanocyte-specific peptide antigens more often than melanoma-specific antigens, we investigated whether vitiligo- and psoriasis-predisposing MHC-I alleles conferred a melanoma-protective effect...
June 13, 2023: American Journal of Human Genetics