Novel infection risk and immune responses to vaccines associated with human leukocyte antigen alleles
In a recent study published in Nature Medicine, a team of researchers from the United Kingdom (UK) used data from clinical trials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine to understand genetic factors that contribute to individual variations in vaccine antibody responses. Study: Human leukocyte antigen alleles are associated with COVID-19 vaccine …