[Previous studies indicate that the nonclassical class I HLA-G antigen, whose physiologic expression is mainly restricted to placenta, is upregulated in melanoma, renal carcinoma, lung carcinoma, glioblastoma and ovarian carcinoma, where its inhibitory effect on cytotoxic effector cells function is thought to participate in immune evasion by tumor cells.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE