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Japanese population does not manifest significant association between low NK activity and HLA-B(C) locus homozygosity.
Human immunology - 1 Mar 1997
Nagao F, Yabe T, Lin L, Tokunaga K, Juji T, Okumura K
Abstract excerpt
It was reported previously that natural killer (NK) activity is controlled by the HLA-B(C) region and that individuals homozygous for HLA-B(C) or homozygous for the NKB complementation groups, which are mapped to the HLA-B(C) region, have fewer circulating NK cells and lower NK activity than do individuals heterozygous for these alleles. Those studies had used subjects in the United States. In the present study,...
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