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Benjamin P Fairfax

Professor of Cancer Immunogenetics, Department of Oncology, MRC WIMM, University of …
Verified email at oncology.ox.ac.uk
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Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

…, J Dmitrieva, M Elansary, BP Fairfax… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
b and error bars indicate SE for r b . Right, correlation between cell type counts (mean over
the subset of samples from the 1M-scBloodNL cohort; N = 112) and r b … SE for r b and sem for …

Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

…, J Kettunen, MW Christiansen, BP Fairfax… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Identifying the downstream effects of disease-associated SNPs is challenging. To help
overcome this problem, we performed expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) meta-analysis in …

Innate immune activity conditions the effect of regulatory variants upon monocyte gene expression

BP Fairfax, P Humburg, S Makino, V Naranbhai… - Science, 2014 - science.org
… (B) This genetic marker shows association with expression of 17 genes on different chromosomes
(trans-eQTLs) after 24 hours of LPS stimulation, forming a gene network (C) consistent …

Genetic association analyses implicate aberrant regulation of innate and adaptive immunity genes in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus

…, P Tombleson, TW Behrens, J Martín, BP Fairfax… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
… We found that the best model for association included the HLA class I alleles HLA-B*08:01
and HLA-B*18:01, the class II alleles HLA-DQB1*02:01, HLA-DRB3*02:00 and HLA-DQA*01:…

Genetics of gene expression in primary immune cells identifies cell type–specific master regulators and roles of HLA alleles

BP Fairfax, S Makino, J Radhakrishnan, K Plant… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
… our analysis of primary monocytes and B cells, we observed several eQTLs … in B cells and
monocytes. We identified 197 eSNPs in 35 genes with significant 'directional eQTL' activity in B

Unraveling the polygenic architecture of complex traits using blood eQTL metaanalysis

…, i2QTL Consortium, J Dmitreva, M Elansary, BP Fairfax… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
… allele for rs7216389 and were mostly expressed in B cells and natural killer cells 31 (… B-cell
proliferation 31,32 , suggesting that a decrease of IKZF3 leads to an increased number of B

[PDF][PDF] A blood atlas of COVID-19 defines hallmarks of disease severity and specificity

…, R Esnouf, A Espinosa, R Etherington, B Fairfax… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
B cells and activation of autoreactive B cells We then investigated at high resolution how B
cell … overall frequency and number of B cells, predominantly naive B cells, but an increase in …

Germline variants associated with toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade

…, M Manos, O Rahma, L Zubiri, AC Villani, B Fairfax… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
… 3 ) and became more significant as an interaction with deconvoluted B cell proportions 22
(P = 1.5 × 10 −7 ; Methods), consistent with B cell specificity (Supplementary Fig. 20), although …

A common haplotype lowers PU. 1 expression in myeloid cells and delays onset of Alzheimer's disease

…, SC Jin, O Harari, S Bertelsen, BP Fairfax… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
… and function of myeloid and B-lymphoid cells 43,44 . In … B-lymphoid lineage by progressively
partitioning into CD14 + monocytes and macrophages, CD15 + neutrophils and CD19 + B

Genetics of gene expression in immunity to infection

BP Fairfax, JC Knight - Current opinion in immunology, 2014 - Elsevier
… minor allele of rs2223286, a SNP intronic to SELL that disrupts a consensus motif for FOS
and is located in a c-Fos ChIP-seq peak is associated with increased expression of SELL in B-…