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