A study by Ovsyannikova et al. (2011) has shown associations between promoter SNP rs11881682 and intronic SNPs: rs8105572 and rs7252229 of the CD209 gene and measles-specific IFN-γ Elispot responses in Caucasian subjects (Ovsyannikova et al., 2011). Here, CD209 is linked to measles.