[We observed a significant association between particular combinations of KIR epitopes expressed by HLA-B/-C haplotypes and propose that the repertoire of KIR epitopes expressed by HLA-B and HLA-C alleles within the context of particular haplotypes may be an important component of the NK mediated immune response to HIV and/or other infectious pathogens.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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