Research Article

The Genetic Polymorphisms of HLA Are Strongly Correlated with the Disease Severity after Hantaan Virus Infection in the Chinese Han Population

Table 5

The association between alleles or haplotypes and severity types in hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.

Allele or haplotypeFold of frequencyP Pc OR (95% CI)

HLA-B*46
 mild/moderate versus control0.59 0.3360.55 (0.16–1.88)
 severe/critical versus control2.52 <0.001<0.0013.44 (1.706.93)
 mild/moderate versus severe/critical0.24 0.0040.0180.16 (0.040.62)

HLA-DRB1*09
 mild/moderate versus control1.51 0.1361.78 (0.83–3.85)
 severe/critical versus control1.87 0.0060.062.52 (1.294.93)
 mild/moderate versus severe/critical0.81 0.482 0.71 (0.27–1.85)

HLA-DRB1*12
 mild/moderate versus control0.78 0.4980.73 (0.29–1.83)
 severe/critical versus control0.31 0.0170.170.26 (0.080.85)
 mild/moderate versus severe/critical2.50 0.151 2.85 (0.65–12.43)

HLA-B*46-DRB1*09
 mild/moderate versus control0.82 0.7810.81 (0.18–3.57)
 severe/critical versus control2.87 0.0023.41 (1.487.86)
 mild/moderate versus severe/critical0.29 0.064 0.24 (0.05–1.19)

HLA-B*51-DRB1*09
 mild/moderate versus control1.99 0.5122.02 (0.24–17.35)
 severe/critical versus control4.63 0.0164.92 (1.1820.48)
 mild/moderate versus severe/critical0.43 0.439 0.41 (0.04–4.16)

The alleles and haplotypes were selected for their P value of frequency < 0.05 in Tables 3 and 4. P value derived from Pearson Chi-square test; OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval; numbers in bold indicate a significant P value.