Proteomics, Genomics & Bioinformatics

Immunogenetics and Immunology

Immunogenetics and Immunology

Immunogenetics, sometimes known as immunogenetics, is a branch of medical genetics that studies the link between genetics and the immune system. Autoimmune disorders, such as type 1 diabetes, are complicated hereditary features caused by immune system malfunctions.

The biological and molecular basis for the body's defence against germs (such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi), as well as outside agents such as biological poisons and environmental pollutants, as well as failures and malfunctions of these defence mechanisms, are studied in immunology. Aside from external influences on the organism, there are also defence reactions involving the body's own cells, such as in the case of bodily reactions to cancer and the absence of a body's reaction to healthy cells in the case of an immune-mediated sickness. As a result, immunology is a branch of biology. Edward Jenner, who discovered in 1796 that cowpox, or vaccinia, induced immunity against human smallpox, is generally credited with its invention.

The word immunogenetics refers to all processes in an organism that are governed and impacted by the organism's genes on the one hand, and are significant in terms of the organism's immunological defence reactions on the other.