Table 1.

Summary of Associations of SC and CV with HLA-class I, II and KIR.

	Injection Drug Users (IDU)		Blood Transfusion		IDU and Blood Transfusion		Unknown
HLA association	SC	CV	SC	CV	SC	CV	SC	CV
	Reference (Ethnicity)	Reference (Ethnicity)	Reference (Ethnicity)	Reference (Ethnicity)	Reference (Ethnicity)	Reference (Ethnicity)	Reference (Ethnicity)	Reference (Ethnicity)
HLA-DRB1*0101			(Mangia, 1999; McKierman 2004, Fanning, 2000; McKierman 2000;Barret,1999) (C)		(Thio, 2001) (AA and C)
HLA-DRB1*0104					(Cramp, 1998) (C)
HLA-DRB1*0301				(McKierman 2004) (C)		(Thio, 2001) (C)		(Yenigun, 2002) (C)
HLA-DRB1*0401			(McKierman 2000) (C)		(Cramp, 1998)(C)
HLA-DRB1*0701						(Thursz, 1999) (C)
HLA-DRB1*1101	Present report (H) (trend)				(Thursz, 1999) (C)			(Holer, 1997) (T)
HLA-DRB1*1201	Present report (H)
HLA-DRB1*1301							(Holer, 1997) (C)
HLA-DRB1*1501			(Lechmann 1999) (C)		(Lechmann, 1999) (C)
HLA-DQA1*0103							(Holer, 1997) (C)
HLA-DQA1*0201						(Zavaglia, 1998) (C)
HLA-DQA1*0301					(Cramp, 1998) (C)
HLA-DQA1*0801					(Zavaglia 1998) (C)
HLA-DQB1*0201				(McKierman 2004) (C)		(Zavaglia, 1998) (C)
HLA-DQB1*0301					(Thio, 2001), (Cramp,1998) (AA and C)
HLA-DQB1*0501		(Azocar, 2003) (trend)(H) Present report (H)	(McKierman 2004) (C)		(Thio, 2001) (AA and C)
HLADRB1*1101/DQB1*0301			(Yee, 2004) (C)		(Thursz, 1999; Alric, 1997; Minton 1998) (C)
HLA-DRB1*1104/DQB1*0301			(Mangia 1999)(C)		(Zavaglia, 1998) (C)
HLA-DRB1*12
HLA C1/C1/KIR 2DL3/2DL3	(Khakoo, 2004)(AA);				(Khakoo, 2004) (C)
HLA C1/C1/KIR2DL3/2DL3 + HLADRB1*1201

SC: Spontaneous Clearance; CV: Chronic Viremia; C: Caucasian; AA: African American; Hispanic;