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01.06.2015 | Brief Report
A Thr72Ala polymorphism in the NKG2D gene is associated with early symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus disease
verfasst von:
Rumi Taniguchi, Shin Koyano, Tatsuo Suzutani, Keiji Goishi, Yushi Ito, Ichiro Morioka, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Hideto Yamada, Akira Oka, Naoki Inoue
Erschienen in:
Infection
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Ausgabe 3/2015
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Abstract
The potential risk factors for congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection or development of disease remain unclear. Here, we investigated the genetic polymorphisms in natural killer (NK) group 2, member D (NKG2D), an activating receptor expressed on NK cells, and in MHC class I-related chains A, the ligand of NKG2D, in 87 cCMV cases, and found that there was a significant association between cCMV disease and a single nucleotide polymorphism, Thr72Ala, in NKG2D.