Review Article

Recent Advances in Our Understanding of HLA-G Biology: Lessons from a Wide Spectrum of Human Diseases

Table 3

Novel findings on HLA-G in autoimmune/inflammatory disease.

Type of diseaseObservationCorrelation with clinical outcomeAuthor

CDSeveral polymorphisms and one haplotype of HLA-G gene are more frequent in patients than in controlsPositive correlation with susceptibilityCatamo et al. [58]
RASeveral polymorphisms and two haplotypes of HLA-G gene are more frequent in patients than in controlsPositive correlation with susceptibilityCatamo et al. [59]
RATwo polymorphisms of HLA-G gene are more frequent in RF+ than in RF patientsPositive correlation with disease severityMariaselvam et al. [60]
RAHomozygosis of 3142G allele is related to lower sHLA-G levelsPositive correlation with high risk of diseaseVeit et al. [61]
RAHigher sHLA-G levels in patients with chronic disease and higher LILRB1 binding in RF patientsNegative correlation with disease severityVeit et al. [62]
SLEHLA-G 14 bp ins/del polymorphisms are associated with susceptibilityPositive correlation with susceptibilityZhang et al. [63]
SScLower levels of sHLA-G in patients than in controlsNegative correlation with disease severityFavoino et al. [64]
CDHigher levels of sHLA-G in patients than in controlsPositive correlation with susceptibilityZidi et al. [65]
MSHigher sHLA-G dimers in MS than in controls and in MRI than in MRI+Positive correlation with termination of inflammatory responseFainardi et al. [66]
MS14 bp ins in HLA-G gene is related to lower sHLA-G levelsPositive correlation with high risk of diseaseMohammadi et al. [67]
T1DLower sHLA-G levels in pancreas are detrimentalNegative correlation with disease severityde Albuquerque et al. [68]
Psoriasis14 bp del/del genotype of HLA-G gene is more frequent in patients responding to therapyPositive correlation with response to treatmentBorghi et al. [69]
AsthmaSNPs in 3′ UTR of HLA-G gene modulate the binding of mIRNAsPositive correlation with high risk of diseaseNaidoo et al. [70]