Combination of KIR and HLA gene variants augments the risk of developing birdshot chorioretinopathy in HLA-A29-positive individuals

Birdshot chorioretinopathy (BCR), a chronic ocular inflammatory disease with characteristic choroidal lymphocytic infiltrates, has been strongly associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A29. Although HLA-A29 occurs frequently in all populations, BCR affects only a small percentage of HLA-A29-po...

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Veröffentlicht in:Genes and immunity 2008-04, Vol.9 (3), p.249-258
Hauptverfasser: Levinson, R D, Du, Z, Luo, L, Monnet, D, Tabary, T, Brezin, A P, Zhao, L, Gjertson, D W, Holland, G N, Reed, E F, Cohen, J H M, Rajalingam, R
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