No support for HLA–DQ encoded susceptibility in rheumatoid arthritis
✍ Scribed by Niek De Vries; Claudia Van Elderen; Henk Tijssen; Piet L. C. M. Van Riel; Leo B. A. >Van De Putte
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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## Abstract ## Objective To investigate the association of susceptibility and protective HLA–DRB1 alleles with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and its clinical markers in an Asian population. ## Methods All RA patients (n = 574) and control subjects (n = 392) were Korean. HLA–DRB1 typing and further s
Objective. In Northern Europeans, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is strongly associated with a relatively conserved pentapeptide sequence of HLA-DRP found notably in the HLA-DR4 subtypes Dw4 and Dw14 and in DRl. A previous serologic study of HLA class I1 polymorphism in a Greek population with RA failed