“…Our results suggested that out of 14 activating and inhibitory KIR genes investigated, two activating genes, KIR2DS1 and KIR2DS5 seem to increase the risk of developing tuberculosis. Similar studies in Japanese cohort and Mestizo patients from southern California revealed that these two activating genes increased the risk of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome [29,30]. KIR2DS1 can recognize Group 2 HLA-C, which consists of HLA-Cw2, -Cw4, -Cw5, -Cw6, and related alleles [31].…”