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. 2011 Jan 25;102(2):295–301. doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2010.01820.x

Table 1.

 Distribution of susceptible level to adult T‐cell leukemia (ATL) or HTLV‐1‐asociated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) by human leukocyte antigen alleles

ATL (ethnicity) HAM/TSP (ethnicity)
A*24 + +++ (Japanese)
A*26 +++ (Japanese) +
A*36 +++ (Afro‐Caribbean) +
B*07 + +++ (Japanese)
B*4002/6 +++ (Japanese) +
B*4801 +++ (Japanese) +
DRB1*0101 + +++ (Japanese, Iranian)
(Brazilian, Afro‐Caribbean)
DRB1*0901 +++ (Japanese)

+, low; +++, high. Modified from references 42, 44, and 45.