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Overview

Edmond J. Yunis is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Immunology and Microbiology as well as Medicine. Their research spans several subfields including Immunology, Oncology, Rheumatology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. The body of work focuses on topics such as T-cell and B-cell Immunology, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research, Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies, Immune Response and Inflammation, and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Disease Prognosis.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Edmond J. Yunis include Julio Granados, Joaquín Zúñiga, Rodrigo Barquera, Maricela García-Lechuga, and Diana Iraíz Hernández-Zaragoza.

Publication venues where Edmond J. Yunis has contributed multiple works include Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Immunology, and The Journal of Immunology. Additional publications appear in Human Immunology and Clinical Rheumatology.

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Edmond J. Yunis reflect these research interests:

  • The immunogenetic diversity of the HLA system in Mexico correlates with underlying population genetic structure, 2020, Human Immunology
  • Native American ancestry significantly contributes to neuromyelitis optica susceptibility in the admixed Mexican population, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Thinking Outside the Box: Innate- and B Cell-Memory Responses as Novel Protective Mechanisms Against Tuberculosis, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Diversity of HLA Class I and Class II blocks and conserved extended haplotypes in Lacandon Mayans, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • The role of socioeconomic status in the susceptibility to develop systemic lupus erythematosus in Mexican patients, 2020, Clinical Rheumatology

Best Publications

  • Impact of HLA class I and class II high-resolution matching on outcomes of unrelated donor bone marrow transplantation: HLA-C mismatching is associated with a strong adverse effect on transplantation outcome.

    Neal Flomenberg;Lee Ann Baxter-Lowe;Dennis Confer;Marcelo Fernandez-Vina

  • Immunodepression after major surgery in normal patients.

    M S Slade;R L Simmons;E Yunis;L J Greenberg

  • Genetic prediction of nonresponse to hepatitis B vaccine.

    Chester A. Alper;Margot S. Kruskall;Deborah Marcus-Bagley;Donald E. Craven

  • IL-10–producing T cells suppress immune responses in anergic tuberculosis patients

    Vassiliki A. Boussiotis;Eunice Y. Tsai;Edmond J. Yunis;Sok Thim

  • Peripheral human T cells sensitized in mixed leukocyte culture synthesize and express Ia-like antigens.

    R L Evans;T J Faldetta;R E Humphreys;D M Pratt

  • Extended HLA/complement allele haplotypes: evidence for T/t-like complex in man.

    Z L Awdeh;D Raum;E J Yunis;C A Alper

  • Isolation and sequencing of a cDNA coding for the human DF3 breast carcinoma-associated antigen

    J Siddiqui;M Abe;D Hayes;E Shani

  • Three Closely Linked Genetic Systems Relevant to Transplantation

    E. J. Yunis;D. B. Amos

  • Lymphocyte Phytohemagglutinin Responsiveness, Immunoglobulins and Autoantibodies in Aging Humans

    H. M. Hallgren;C. E. Buckley;V. A. Gilbertsen;E. J. Yunis

  • Control of HIV-1 viremia and protection from AIDS are associated with HLA-Bw4 homozygosity

    Pedro O. Flores-Villanueva;Edmond J. Yunis;Julio C. Delgado;Eric Vittinghoff

  • Monoclonal antibodies defining serologically distinct HLA-D/DR related Ia-like antigens in man

    Lee M. Nadler;Philip Stashenko;Russell Hardy;John M. Pesando

  • Influence of diet on survival of mice.

    G Fernandes;E J Yunis;R A Good

  • Association of an HLA-DQ Allele With Clinical Tuberculosis

    Anne E. Goldfeld;Julio C. Delgado;Sok Thim;M. Viviana Bozon

  • Identification of three new single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human tumor necrosis factor-α gene promoter

    A. M. Uglialoro;D. Turbay;Patricia Pesavento;J. C. Delgado

  • Polymorphism of the human complement C4 and steroid 21-hydroxylase genes. Restriction fragment length polymorphisms revealing structural deletions, homoduplications, and size variants.

    P M Schneider;M C Carroll;C A Alper;C Rittner

  • Nonresponsiveness to Hepatitis B Vaccine in Health Care Workers: Results of Revaccination and Genetic Typings

    D E Craven;Z L Awdeh;L M Kunches;E J Yunis

  • Major histocompatibility complex haplotype studies in Ashkenazi Jewish patients with pemphigus vulgaris.

    A R Ahmed;E J Yunis;K Khatri;R Wagner

  • HLA-B38, DR4, DQw3 and clozapine-induced agranulocytosis in Jewish patients with schizophrenia.

    Jeffrey A. Lieberman;Juan Yunis;Eduardo Egea;Rosa T. Canoso

  • Inheritable variable sizes of DNA stretches in the human MHC: conserved extended haplotypes and their fragments or blocks.

    E.J. Yunis;C.E. Larsen;M. Fernandez-Viña;Z.L. Awdeh

  • A Common Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II Allele HLA-DQB1 * 0301 is Present in Clinical Variants of Pemphigoid

    Julio C. Delgado;David Turbay;Edmond J. Yunis;Juan J. Yunis

Frequent Co-Authors

Chester A. Alper
Chester A. Alper Harvard University
Joaquín Zúñiga
Joaquín Zúñiga Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
Robert A. Good
Robert A. Good University of Minnesota
Julio Granados
Julio Granados Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
Marcelo Fernandez-Vina
Marcelo Fernandez-Vina Stanford University
Deborah J. Anderson
Deborah J. Anderson Boston University
George S. Eisenbarth
George S. Eisenbarth University of Colorado Denver
Raif S. Geha
Raif S. Geha Boston Children's Hospital
Nancy L. Reinsmoen
Nancy L. Reinsmoen Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
John H. Kersey
John H. Kersey University of Minnesota

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