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Correlation of thymic pathology with HLA in myasthenia gravis.
Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) - 1 Jun 1999
Machens A, Löliger C, Pichlmeier U, Emskötter T, Busch C, Izbicki J R
Abstract excerpt
The aim of this study was to investigate associations between thymic pathology and HLA in myasthenia gravis. HLA typing was performed in 95 of 125 Caucasian patients who underwent transsternal thymectomy for myasthenia gravis between 1976 and 1995. Multiple comparison procedures applied within each HLA locus demonstrated significant correlations between the ancestral suprahaplotype A1 B8 DRB1*0301 DRB3*0101...
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