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ArticlePloS one2018

Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors associate with HIV-1 infection in a narrow-source Han Chinese cohort.

Linghang Wang, Yonghong Zhang, Keyi Xu, Tao Dong, Sarah Rowland-Jones, Louis-Marie Yindom

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Article in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Linghang WangBeijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.ORCID 0000-0002-1948-5461
Yonghong ZhangMRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Keyi XuBeijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
Tao DongNuffield Department of Medicine, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Sarah Rowland-JonesNuffield Department of Medicine, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Louis-Marie YindomNuffield Department of Medicine, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8078-7146
Capital Medical University · CNNuffield Orthopaedic Centre · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0600520Medical Research Council G0801751Medical Research Council G1001046Medical Research Council MC_UU_00008/11Medical Research Council MR/L018942/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe HIV pandemic remains the most serious challenge to public health worldwide. The hallmark characteristics of the disease is the eventual failure of the immune system to control opportunistic infections and death. However not everyone who has HIV develops the disease at the same rate and so we are studying how the immune system works to control the virus in those who have been infected for decades and remain relatively healthy without the need of anti-retroviral therapy (ART).

methodsGenomic DNA samples from 513 Chinese Han individuals from Henan province were typed for 15 KIR and 3 HLA class I genes. Genotype frequencies were compared between a village cohort of 261 former plasma donors (SM cohort) infected with HIV-1 through an illegal plasma donor scheme who survived more than 10 years of infection without ART and 252 ethnically-matched healthy controls from a nearby village. KIR and HLA were molecularly typed using a combination of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with sequence-specific primers (PCR-SSP) and sequence based techniques.

resultsAll 15 KIR genes were observed in the study population at various frequencies. KIR2DL3 was significantly less common in the HIV-1 infected group (95.8% vs 99.2%, p = 0.021). The combination of KIR3DS1 with homozygosity for HLA-Bw4 alleles (the putative ligand for KIR3DS1) was significantly less frequent in the HIV-1 infected group than in the control group (6.0% vs 12.0% respectively, p = 0.023).

conclusionSpecific KIR-HLA compound genotypes associate with differential outcomes to infection and disease progression following exposure to a narrow-source HIV-1.

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AdultAsian PeopleCase-Control StudiesCohort StudiesDisease ProgressionFemaleHistocompatibility Antigens Class IHIV-1HIV InfectionsHLA-B AntigensHumansMaleMiddle AgedReceptors, KIRReceptors, KIR3DS1Histocompatibility Antigens Class IHLA-B AntigensHLA-Bw4 antigenReceptors, KIRReceptors, KIR3DS1

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PMID29664957
PMCPMC5903672
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