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Elena M Cornejo Castro1, Brian J Morrison1, Vickie A Marshall1, Nazzarena Labo1, Wendell J Miley1, Nathan Clements1, George Nelson2,3, Paul Ndom4, Kristen Stolka5, Jennifer J Hemingway-Foday5, Mahamat Abassora4, Xiaojiang Gao6, Jennifer S Smith7, Mary Carrington6,8, Denise Whitby9.
Abstract
Several studies published to date report associations between human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles and different types of Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS). However, there is little concordance between the HLA alleles identified and the populations studied. To test whether HLA alleles associate with KS in a Cameroonian case-control study, we performed high-resolution HLA typing in KSHV seropositive individuals. Among HIV-positive individuals, carriers of HLA-B*14:01 were at a significantly higher risk of AIDS-KS (p = 0.033). For HIV-negative patients, a gene-wise comparison of allele frequencies identified the HLA-B (p = 0.008) and -DQA1 (p = 0.002) loci as possible risk factors for endemic KS. Our study provides additional understanding of genetic determinants of KS and their implications in disease pathogenesis. Further validation of these findings is needed to define the functional relevance of these associations.Entities:
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Year: 2019 PMID： 31105266 PMCID： PMC6864225 DOI： 10.1038/s41435-019-0077-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genes Immun ISSN： 1466-4879 Impact factor: 2.676