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The immune system is one of the most complex systems in the body: Decoding the Genomic Control of Immune Reactions examines new strategies for exploiting the power of genomics to inform studies in immunology. Part of the prestigious Novartis Foundation series, this title focuses on the new topic of 'phenomics', which is the use of genomic and bioinformatic techniques to characterize complex phenotypic systems, such as the immune system. Contributors to this book explore existing strategies and examine possible new strategies for using the genome sequences of human, mouse, other vertebrates and human pathogens to solve outstanding problems in the treatment of immunological diseases and chronic infections. The assembled genome sequences now provide important opportunities for solving these problems, but the bottleneck is to identify key sequences and circuits controlling the relevant immune reactions. This requires innovative, interdisciplinary and collaborative strategies of a scale and

ISBN 9780470027554Edition 01Binding Cloth