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The DRB1 Val86/Val86 genotype associates with multiple sclerosis in Australian patients.
Human immunology - 1 Aug 1999
Teutsch S M, Bennetts B H, Buhler M M, Heard R N, Stewart G J
Abstract excerpt
Genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS) has so far been strongly localized to the MHC class II region encoding the alleles of the haplotype HLA-DRB1*1501, -DQA1*0102, -DQB1*0602. However, this haplotype is not carried by approximately 40% of MS patients; a potential explanation could be that they carry other MHC class II alleles with similar function due to the sharing of nucleotide sequences encoding...
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