| Literature DB >> 22811530 |
Takuya Naruto1, Hiroyuki Gatanaga, George Nelson, Keiko Sakai, Mary Carrington, Shinichi Oka, Masafumi Takiguchi.
Abstract
We investigated the effect of HLA class I alleles on clinical parameters for HIV-1 disease progression in the Japanese population, where two strongly protective alleles, HLA-B*57 and HLA-B*27, are virtually nonexistent. HLA-B alleles showed a dominant role, primarily through HLA-B*67:01 and the HLA-B*52:01-C*12:02 haplotype. Neither a rare-allele nor a heterozygote advantage was found, suggesting that the effect of HLA alleles in the Japanese population is either different from those observed in Africans and Caucasians or undetectable due to limited power.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22811530 PMCID: PMC3457252 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00689-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103