Considering the well established role of nonclassical HLA-G class I molecules in inhibiting natural killer (NK) cell function, the consequence of abnormal HLA-G expression in malignant cells should be
Treatment of cancer cells with anti-cancer drugs often fails to achieve complete remission. Yet, such drug treatments may induce alteration in the tumor’s gene expression patterns, including those of
For each region, HLA types for which there are reported and predicted epitopes in the Los Alamos HIV Immunology Database (http://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/sequence/ELF/epitope_analyzer.html) are listed
aHLA-C allele designations follow the classification scheme of release 2.14.1 (Aug 2006) of the IMGT/HLA Sequence Database maintained by the HLA Informatics Group of the Anthony Nolan Research Institu