Journal
IMMUNOGENETICS
Volume 62, Issue 11-12, Pages 761-765Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-010-0477-5
Keywords
Cervical neoplasia; HPV; HLA; KIR
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- National Cancer Institute [5R01CA094141, 5R01CA095713]
- National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health [HHSN261200800001E]
- NIH, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research
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Inherited genetic polymorphisms within immune response genes have been shown to associate with risk of invasive cervical cancer (ICC) and its immediate precursor, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3. Here, we used the transmission/disequilibrium test to detect disease-liability alleles and investigate haplotype transmission of KIR and HLA class I polymorphisms in a large family-based population of women with cervical cancer and their biological parents (359 trios). The effect of distinct human papillomavirus types was also explored. HLA-Cw group 1 (HLA-Cw alleles with asparagine at position 80), which serves as ligand for certain killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR), was significantly overtransmitted in women with ICC (P = 0.04), and particularly in the subgroup of women infected with high risk HPV16 or 18 subtypes (P = 0.008). These data support the involvement of the HLA-C locus in modulating the risk of cervical neoplasia perhaps through its function as ligands for KIR, but functional studies are essential to confirm this hypothesis.
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