Lei-Lei Yuan, Chang-Mi Deng, Wen-Qiong Xue, Yong-Qiao He, Tong-Min Wang, Jiang-Bo Zhang, Da-Wei Yang, Ting Zhou, Zi-Yi Wu, Ying Liao, Mei-Qi Zheng, Dan-Hua Li, Lian-Jing Cao, Yi-Jing Jia, Wen-Li Zhang, Ruo-Wen Xiao, Lu-Ting Luo, Xia-Ting Tong, Yan-Xia Wu, Jing-Wen Huang, Wei-Hua Jia
BACKGROUND: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) associated cancer, exhibits an extremely high incidence in southern Chinese. Given that human leukocyte antigen (HLA) plays critical roles in antigen presentation and relates to NPC susceptibility, it is speculated that certain HLA variants may affect EBV reactivation, which is a key pathogenic factor of NPC. Therefore, we attempted to identify HLA alleles associated with the indicator of EBV reactivation, Zta-IgA, in healthy males from NPC endemic area...
June 23, 2021: Journal of Gene Medicine