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HLA class I and II typing of the patients with Behçet's disease in Saudi Arabia.
Tissue antigens - 1 Sept 1999
Yabuki K, Ohno S, Mizuki N, Ando H, Tabbara K F, Goto K, Nomura E, Nakamura S, Ito N, Ota M, Katsuyama Y, Inoko H
Abstract excerpt
Thirteen Saudi Arabian patients with Behçet's disease (BD) were typed for HLA-A and -B alleles by the conventional serologic typing and for HLA-DRB1, -DQB1 and -DPB1 alleles by the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method. As a result, the phenotype frequency of the B51 antigen was significantly increased in the patient group as compared to the ethnically matched...
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