Pathway analysis of the IFNα‐specific genes revealed that the top pathways induced are cellular recruitment processes and the “Role of hypercytokinemia/hyperchemokinemia in the pathogenesis of influenza” (Fig 4C), while the pathways common between IFNα and IFNλ were strongly related to IFN signalling pathways, as expected (Fig 4D). This evidence concerns the gene IFNA1 and influenza.