For AIDS-related immunology studies, the panel of genes expressed in the MHC I and MHC II pathways are advantageous for MHC genotyping studies of the Malaysian cynomolgus macaque population, which was suggested to have relatively higher nucleotide diversity compared with other populations of cynomolgus macaques in Southeast Asia (Smith, McDonough & George, 2007). This evidence concerns the gene HLA-C and AIDS.