{"id":14228,"date":"2015-01-19T10:55:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/?p=14228"},"modified":"2015-01-21T12:06:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T18:06:58","slug":"the-environment-plays-large-role-in-immune-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/the-environment-plays-large-role-in-immune-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The Environment Plays Large Role in Immune System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10619 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/56-Contaminacion-causa-mas-de-20-mil-muertes.jpg\" alt=\"56 Contaminacion causa mas de 20 mil muertes\" width=\"196\" height=\"130\" \/>A new study by<strong> Stanford University School of Medicine researchers suggests that the environment plays a larger role than genes in shaping people&#8217;s immune systems<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, published Jan. 15 in the journal <em>Cell<\/em>, the researchers compared 78 pairs of identical twins &#8212; who are nearly genetically the same &#8212; and 27 pairs of nonidentical twins, who have about 50 percent of their genes in common.<\/p>\n<p>According with the researchers, 75% of the<strong> immune system<\/strong> differences between the twins were due to environmental influences such as previous exposure to microbes or toxins, vaccinations, diet and dental hygiene. Among identical twins, the researchers found, <strong>environmental effects on the immune system were stronger<\/strong> in those 60 and older than among those younger than 20.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Nonheritable influences, particularly microbes, seem to play a huge role in driving immune variation,&#8221;<\/em> senior study author Mark Davis, a professor of microbiology and immunology and director of Stanford&#8217;s Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, said in a university news release.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;At least for the first 20 or so years of your life, when your immune system is maturing, this amazing system appears able to adapt to wildly different environmental conditions. A healthy human immune system continually adapts to its encounters with hostile pathogens, friendly gut microbes, nutritional components and more, overshadowing the influences of most heritable factors,&#8221;<\/em> he explained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <em>Health Library<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers suggests that the environment plays a larger role than genes in shaping people&#8217;s immune systems. For the study, published Jan. 15 in the journal Cell, the researchers compared 78 pairs of identical twins &#8212; who are nearly genetically the same &#8212; and 27 pairs of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-14228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en-la-salud","tag-genomica","cat-3-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14244,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14228\/revisions\/14244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.salud.carlosslim.org\/english2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}