Evaluating the immune status of newborns helps recognition of those who are at higher risk for serious infectious diseases. Here authors identify lower, epigenetically inferred,
neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratios during the first week of life as risk factor for sepsis and provide insight into the underpinning epigenetic and transcriptional patterns.
- David Martino
- Nina Kresoje
- Tobias R. Kollmann