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HLA-A33 and -B44 and susceptibility to postherpetic neuralgia (PHN).
Tissue antigens - 1 Mar 1999
Ozawa A, Sasao Y, Iwashita K, Miyahara M, Sugai J, Iizuka M, Kawakubo Y, Ohkido M, Naruse T, Anzai T, Takashige N, Ando A, Inoko H
Abstract excerpt
HLA class I and class II alleles of 32 Japanese patients with postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) and 136 healthy controls were analyzed by serological (class I) and DNA (class II) typing for any significance in the susceptibility to varicella-zoster virus (VZV). We recognized positive associations of the development of PHN with the HLA class I antigens HLA-A33 and -B44, and the HLA-A33-B44 haplotype. This haplotype is...
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