Association of HLA-G 3' Untranslated Region Polymorphisms with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Japanese Population: A Case-Control Association Study.

HLA-G plays a role in fetal-maternal tolerance as well as immunoregulation, and has been suggested to be involved in autoimmune diseases and cancers. HLA-G encodes two potentially functional polymorphisms in the 3' untranslated region, 14bp insertion/deletion (14bp indel, rs371194629) and a sin...

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Main Authors: Yuki Hachiya, Aya Kawasaki, Shomi Oka, Yuya Kondo, Satoshi Ito, Isao Matsumoto, Makio Kusaoi, Hirofumi Amano, Akiko Suda, Keigo Setoguchi, Tatsuo Nagai, Kota Shimada, Shoji Sugii, Akira Okamoto, Noriyuki Chiba, Eiichi Suematsu, Shigeru Ohno, Masao Katayama, Hajime Kono, Shunsei Hirohata, Yoshinari Takasaki, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Takayuki Sumida, Shouhei Nagaoka, Shigeto Tohma, Hiroshi Furukawa, Naoyuki Tsuchiya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4917238?pdf=render