Table 1.

Summary of MICA-129 dimorphism studies reported to be associated with various disease conditions in different ethnic groups.

MICA-129 dimorphism	Year	No. of patients	Ethnicity	Disease	Association	Reference
Met/met	2005	129	Algerian	Juvenile ankylosing spondylitis	Positive	Amroun et al. (28)
Val/val	2009	130	Tunisian	Nasopharyngeal carcinoma	Positive	Douik et al. (25)
Val/val	2009	211	French	Chronic GVHD	Positive	Boukouaci et al. (27)
Met/met	2010	88	Spanish	Ulcerative colitis	Positive	Lopez-HernÂndez et al. (24)
Val/val	2011	272	Chinese	Ulcerative colitis	Positive	Zhao et al. (29)
Met/met	2011	716	Japanese	Systemic lupus erythematosus	Positive	Yoshida et al. (30)
Val/val	2012	73	Algerian	Type1 diabetes	Positive	Raache et al. (26)
Met/met	2013	340	Canadian	Cutaneous Psoriasis	Positive	Pollock et al. (31)
Met/met	2013	552	Vietanamese	Hepatocellular carcinoma	Positive	Tong et al. (32)
Met/met	2015	189	Brazil	Severity of chronic chagas disease	Positive	Ayo et al. (33)
Met/met	2015	452	Germany	Acute GVHD	Positive	Isernhagen et al. (22)