Unraveling immunity: insights from biobank-scale data.

Trends Genet

Institute for Genomic Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Genomics Preprint Club, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: c

Published: September 2025


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The scale and granularity of biobanks are reshaping the future of immunogenetics, enabling breakthroughs at a pace never before possible. Here, we highlight two recent preprints that apply novel statistical methods to biobank data to understand how inherited variants shape immune traits and disease risk.

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