## Abstract A familial aggregate of seven cases of Hodgkin's disease (HD) has been investigated by HLA typing. Over 600 people in the immediate population (__i.e__. about half) have been HLA typed and haplotypes have been obtained for 95% of them. It was expected that the cases would share a partic
HLA antigens in familial Hodgkin's disease
β Scribed by Mark H. Greene; Elisabeth A. McKeen; Frederick P. Li; William A. Blattner; Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 352 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
In a study of 13 families prone to Hodgkin's disease, the probands showed significant excesses of the HLA antigens Bw35 (7 cases) and Bw37 (3 cases). Although based on a small number of patients, the results suggest that immunogenetic mechanisms account at least partly for the familial predisposition to Hodgkin's disease.
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