HLA and disease: guilt by association.

abstract：:The objective was to analyze the possible involvement of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) -308 G/A promoter polymorphism in the susceptibility and/or the disease profile of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Egyptian patients. TNF-α-308 G/promoter polymorphism detection by amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS)...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Mosaad YM,Abdelsalam A,El-Bassiony SR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and reconstructed 5-locus haplotypes of the CCL2 gene, in knee osteoarthritis (OA) cases and in controls. The CCL2 rs2857657 variant (G) allele was observed more frequently in female knee OA cases than in controls. One haplotype (H5) was observed exclusively in t...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Hulin-Curtis SL,Bidwell JL,Perry MJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) form a diverse family of receptors that control the functions of natural killer cells. Sequencing of KIR from primates has revealed the unexpected extent to which this gene family has diversified mostly likely in response to pathogens and to pathogen-mediated selecti...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Martinez-Borra J,Khakoo SI

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we aimed to find new genes associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) so that more comprehensive genes would be used for monitoring and/or diagnosing patients. Illumina digital gene expression profiling was applied in two sample types - peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and synovial cells to com...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Wang H,Guo J,Jiang J,Wu W,Chang X,Zhou H,Li Z,Zhao J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify HLA-B*15 subtypes distribution in Han population in Beijing, People's Republic of China, 826 unrelated healthy individuals were typed using the polymerase chain reaction-sequence-based typing method. Within the 246 HLA-B*15 positive individuals, 29 HLA-B*15 alleles were identified, the most predominant of ...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Yang G,Deng YJ,Qin H,Zhu BF,Chen F,Shen CM,Sun ZM,Chen LP,Wu J,Mu HF,Lucas R

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 is a cell-surface molecule providing a negative signal for T cell activation. CTLA-4 gene polymorphisms are known to be related with genetic susceptibility to various autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, the effects of this polymorphism...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Ulker M,Yazisiz V,Sallakci N,Avci AB,Sanlioglu S,Yegin O,Terzioglu E

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies identified many loci associated with the two forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Components of the interleukin-23 signalling pathway, such as IL23R, JAK2 and STAT3, have been implicated in both diseases. In addition, emerging evid...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Polgar N,Csongei V,Szabo M,Zambo V,Melegh BI,Sumegi K,Nagy G,Tulassay Z,Melegh B

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is an endogenous vasodilator involved in inflammatory and autoimmune response, and in the pathophysiology of diabetic vascular disease. Endothelium-derived NO is formed from L-arginine by endothelial NO synthase (eNOS), and earlier studies have provided evidence for altered NO metabolism and impaired...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Mamoulakis D,Bitsori M,Galanakis E,Vazgiourakis V,Panierakis C,Goulielmos GN

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoimmune diabetes [type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) and part of malnutrition-related diabetes] has been shown to have genetic predisposition. Studies in IDDM 5 have lead to the discovery of a novel polymorphism 163 A-->G, of SUMO4 (small ubiquitin-related modifier) gene, a...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Sedimbi SK,Kanungo A,Shastry A,Park Y,Sanjeevi CB

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-reactive protein (CRP) is an inflammation marker implicated in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. To investigate association of the CRP rs1417938, rs1800947, rs1205 variants with susceptibility to schizophrenia 208 unrelated Armenians (103 patients and 105 healthy controls) were genotyped. In this pilot study, none ...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Zakharyan R,Chavushyan A,Khoyetsyan A,Stahelova A,Arakelyan A,Boyajyan A,Mrazek F,Petrek M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), using unrelated donors (UD), is now a common modality of treatment for individuals with a variety of different diseases. HLA matching has been shown to have a significant impact on patient outcome. This study includes 423 unrelated UK patient/donor pairs. The patients a...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Shaw BE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalase (CAT) is an antioxidant enzyme and plays a significant role in the protection against oxidative stress by reducing hydrogen peroxide. The CAT cDNA of Eriocheir sinensis (EsCAT) was cloned via RACE technique. The complete sequence of EsCAT cDNA consisted of a 5' untranslated regions (UTR) of 224 bp, a 3' UTR o...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Wang M,Wang L,Zhou Z,Gao Y,Wang L,Shi X,Gai Y,Mu C,Song L

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of TNFa-e microsatellites and the promoter region (TNF-308 and TNF-238) in HIV/AIDS-infected patients presenting or not lipodystrophy syndrome (LS). The design is the genetic case-control association study. Microsatellite and the TNF promoter region polymorphisms wer...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Silva MM,Simões RT,Castelli EC,Mendes-Junior CT,Deghaide NH,Tsuda LC,Machado AA,Donadi EA,Fernandes AP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are related to innate immunity. TLR9, a member of TLRs, is expressed in immune cell-rich tissues and mediates cellular response. We investigated the association between TLR9 polymorphisms and kidney allograft outcomes. To investigate whether TLR9 polymorphisms are associated with acute r...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Kim TH,Jeong KH,Kim SK,Lee SH,Ihm CG,Lee TW,Moon JY,Yoon YC,Chung JH,Park SJ,Kang SW,Kim YH

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Killer cells immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) are a family of inhibitory and activating receptors expressed mainly by natural killer (NK) cells and few subsets of T lymphocytes. KIRs regulate NK cells' activity through interactions with specific HLA class I molecules and other yet unknown ligands presented on targ...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Pavlova Y,Kolesar L,Striz I,Jabor A,Slavcev A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Illumina first introduced their TruSight human leucocyte antigen (HLA) next-generation sequencing (NGS) typing kit in 2015 and subsequently followed up with a new version in 2016. Here we report on our experience comparing the two versions of the Illumina HLA NGS kits. ...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Profaizer T,Lázár-Molnár E,Pole A,Delgado JC,Kumánovics A

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic association between recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) and human leucocyte antigen (HLA) class I and II alleles and HLA haplotypes. Families selected had at least one child suffering from recurrent aphthous stomatitis in addition to one or both of the parents. HLA-...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Albanidou-Farmaki E,Deligiannidis A,Markopoulos AK,Katsares V,Farmakis K,Parapanissiou E

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological studies have supported the idea that innate immunity is critical for the control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection in humans. Despite the overwhelming evidence showing the critical role of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) in the in vitro recognition of Mtb, the in vivo significance of individual TL...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Sánchez D,Lefebvre C,Rioux J,García LF,Barrera LF

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized the HLA-A, -B, -DRB1, -DQA1 and -DQB1 profiles of three major ethnic groups living in Chelyabinsk Region of Russian South Urals, viz., Russians (n = 207), Bashkirs (n = 146) and Tatars (n = 135). First field level typing was performed by PCR using sequence-specific primers. Estimates included car...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Suslova TA,Burmistrova AL,Chernova MS,Khromova EB,Lupar EI,Timofeeva SV,Devald IV,Vavilov MN,Darke C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a heterogeneous autoimmune disease, and both environmental and genetic factors play a role in its pathogenesis. Interleukin (IL)-18 is a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine capable of inducing interferon-gamma production that is associated with the development of T1DM. The gene for IL-1...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Dong GP,Yu ZS,Liang L,Zou CC,Fu JF,Wang CL

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perforin is one of the key effector molecules of cytotoxic T cells and natural killer cells. The influence of HLA-DRB1 alleles on peripheral blood perforin-positive CD4, CD8, CD16 and CD 56 cells was studied by flow cytometry. HLA-DRB1 typing was done in normal healthy subjects (NHS: n = 156) and patients with pulmona...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Rajeswari DN,Selvaraj P,Raghavan S,Jawahar MS,Narayanan PR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-DQB1*06:48 has single nucleotide polymorphisms within codons 70 and 62 of exon 2 (GGG>AGG and AAG>AAC) relative to HLA-DQB1*06:02:01 and HLA-DQB1*06:37. This results in amino acid differences (G>R and K>N) that will change the polarity and charge of the encoded antigen and may therefore affect its peptide repertoi...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Foster L,Tate D,Poulton K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies suggested that a variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) polymorphism in intron 2 of the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) gene might be associated with some chronic inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases and solid tumours. To study the distribution of this polymorphism in China, 1352 samples...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Jiang J,Zhang X,Sun D,Jin Y,Bai J,Chen F,Fu S

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) play an essential role in the control of viral replication during human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. However, the efficacy of the CTL response varies between individuals. We tested the hypothesis that genetic polymorphisms in the lytic effector molecule perforin could influenc...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： McIlroy D,Meyer L,Dudoit Y,Samri A,Delfraissy JF,Autran B,Debré P,Theodorou I

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes involved in regulation of the nuclear factor - kappa B (NF-κB) pathway are suggested to play a role in the pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). The present study aimed to assess the association between the NF-κB1, TRAF3 and TLRs genes single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and disease susceptibility as...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Rybka J,Gębura K,Wróbel T,Wysoczańska B,Stefanko E,Kuliczkowski K,Bogunia-Kubik K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel MICB allele, MICB*030, has been identified in a healthy Chinese individual of Mongol ethnicity residing in northern China by polymerase chain reaction sequence-based typing (PCR-SBT) and confirmed by cloning and sequencing. MICB*030 was linked to HLA-B*35. Aligned with MICB*005:02, MICB*030 has a nonsynonymous...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Wang WY,Wang F,Tian W

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is a key molecule of the innate immune system and a competent to bind carbohydrates of a variety of microorganisms, resulting in complement activation and opsonophagocytosis against various pathogens. However, there is no systemic investigation on the MBL's role in innate immune responses ...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Sheng A,Lan J,Wu H,Lu J,Wang Y,Chu Q,Jia Z,Song M,Liu L,Wang W

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphic Alu insertions (POALINs) are found throughout the human genome and have been used in various studies to infer geographic origin of human populations. The main aim of this study was to determine the allele and haplotype frequencies of five POALINs, AluHF, AluHG, AluHJ, AluTF and AluMICB, within the major hi...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Kulski JK,Mawart A,Marie K,Tay GK,AlSafar HS

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a bioinformatics pipeline in which we use an ESTs database to predict and validate single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) directly linked to gene-coding regions at the HLA class I genes (HLA-A, HLA-B and HLA-C). Annotation originated from our analysis revealed various classes of possible new variations that...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Figueiredo TC,de Oliveira JR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA donor-specific antibodies developed de novo after transplant remain a major cause of chronic allograft dysfunction. Our study main purpose was to determine whether HLA MM, assessed traditionally and by HLA total and AbVer eplet mismatch load (EptMM and EpvMM) assessed with HLAMatchMaker, had impact on dnDSA develo...

journal_title：International journal of immunogenetics

authors： Tafulo S,Malheiro J,Santos S,Dias L,Almeida M,Martins S,Pedroso S,Mendes C,Lobato L,Castro-Henriques A

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00