GWAS and Beyond: Omics Research for insights into Human-Virus Interactions and pathogenesis
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2016)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Genetic basis of complex and infectious diseases; health disparities, kidney diseases associated with HIV infection
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human viral pathogens require specific host factors to complete their respective life cycles and are regulated by both innate and acquired immune systems. Genome-wide and systems-based approaches integrating genomics, transcriptomics, epigenome, metabolomics, and proteomics hold the promise of new insights into host-virus interactions that will translate to strategies to reduce viral acquisition, improve clinical management, and identify new druggable targets for disease-causing viruses.
This special issue will contain updates, reviews, and state of the art of “omics” research related to human viral pathogens.
Dr. Cheryl Winkler
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Genome wide association studies
- Viral interactions and perturbations of the human transcriptome, proteome, metabolome, and epigenome
- Viral receptors
- HLA loci in infection, progression, and clearance
- Systems-based exploration of viral-host interactions
- RNA silencing in gene discovery
- RNA silencing in host defenses
- Drivers of inflammatory state
