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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Profound Treg perturbations correlate with COVID-19 severity.

Silvia Galván-Peña, Juliette Leon, Kaitavjeet Chowdhary, Daniel A Michelson, Brinda Vijaykumar, Liang Yang, Angela M Magnuson, Felicia Chen, Zachary Manickas-Hill, Alicja Piechocka-Trocha and 9 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 127 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
127citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
24.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

127 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 168 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Silvia Galván-PeñaDepartment of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Juliette LeonDepartment of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Kaitavjeet ChowdharyDepartment of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Daniel A MichelsonDepartment of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Brinda VijaykumarDepartment of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Liang YangDepartment of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Angela M MagnusonDepartment of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Felicia ChenDepartment of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Zachary Manickas-HillMassachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, Boston, MA 02115.
Alicja Piechocka-TrochaMassachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, Boston, MA 02115.
Daniel P WorrallMassachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, Boston, MA 02115.
Kathryn E HallMassachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, Boston, MA 02115.
Musie GhebremichaelMassachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, Boston, MA 02115.
Bruce D WalkerMassachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0001-6122-9245
Jonathan Z LiMassachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0001-9914-9662
Xu G YuMassachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness, Boston, MA 02115.
MGH COVID-19 Collection & Processing Team
Diane MathisDepartment of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Christophe BenoistDepartment of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115; cbdm@hms.harvard.edu.
Harvard University · USConcord Consortium · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

The impact of HIV viral diversity and cellular immunity on HIV pathogenesisP30AI060354 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI ARTHUR Y KIM · 2004 to 2026
$94.4M
Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM007753 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WALENSKY, LOREN DAVID · 1985 to 2021
$50.0M
ImmGen: Gene Expression and Regulation in Immune CellsR24AI072073 · NIAID · JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER · PI CHRISTOPHE O. BENOIST · 2007 to 2026
$28.5M
Treg cell diversity and homeostatic controlR01AI150686 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI BENOIST, CHRISTOPHE O. · 2020 to 2024
$2.6M
NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI060354NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI150686NIAID NIH HHS R24 AI072073NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007753
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The hallmark of severe COVID-19 is an uncontrolled inflammatory response, resulting from poorly understood immunological dysfunction. We hypothesized that perturbations in FoxP3

Indexed as

AdultAgedCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCOVID-19FemaleForkhead Transcription FactorsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationHumansInflammationInterleukin-18Interleukin-2 Receptor alpha SubunitInterleukin-6Lymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingMaleMiddle AgedForkhead Transcription FactorsFOXP3 protein, humanIL18 protein, humanIL2RA protein, humanIL6 protein, humanInterleukin-18Interleukin-2 Receptor alpha SubunitInterleukin-6Transcription FactorsCOVID-19FoxP3Tregstumor Tregs

Identifiers

PMID34433692
PMCPMC8449354
OpenAlexW3196097483

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