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HLA class II alleles associated with susceptibility and resistance to Crohn's disease in the Jewish population.
Inflammatory bowel diseases - 1 May 2000
Gulwani-Akolkar B, Akolkar P N, Lin X Y, Heresbach D, Manji R, Katz S, Yang S Y, Silver J
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have suggested that susceptibility to Crohn's disease (CD) is associated with the histocompatibility complex (HLA) class II alleles DR1, DQ5, and DR13 in the Caucasian population, DR7 in the French and German populations, and DR4 and DQ4 in the Japanese population. However, little is known about the relationship between HLA class II alleles and CD in the Jewish population since these previous...
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