susceptibility

Association of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors with pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese Han

C. Lu, Shen, Y. - J., Deng, Y. - F., Wang, C. - Y., Fan, G., Liu, Y. - Q., Zhao, S. - M., Zhang, B. - C., Zhao, Y. - R., Wang, Z. - E., Zhang, C. - Z., and Lu, Z. - M., Association of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors with pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese Han, vol. 11, pp. 1370-1378, 2012.

Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) are involved in the pathogenesis of a variety of diseases. However, whether KIR polymorphism is associated with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis was unknown. We examined a possible association of KIR polymorphism with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in Chinese Han. We analyzed 15 KIR genes in 109 pulmonary tuberculosis patients and 110 healthy controls using sequence-specific primer PCR analysis of genomic DNA.

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