[DRB1*1501 was significantly increased in patients with PTB (90%) as compared to controls (p < 0.05); whereas the prevalence of DRB1*1502 was significantly increased in patients with TT leprosy (p < 0.05), suggesting allele-specific binding of the pathogen to form disease-causing motifs to the T-cell receptor.]. 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