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Non-class II HLA gene associated with type 1 diabetes maps to the 240-kb region near HLA-B.
Diabetes - 1 Dec 2000
Nejentsev S, Gombos Z, Laine A P, Veijola R, Knip M, Simell O, Vaarala O, Akerblom H K, Ilonen J
Abstract excerpt
Several studies provide evidence that in addition to the DQ-DR genes, HLA contains another uncharacterized gene or genes associated with type 1 diabetes. Our aim was to investigate the effect of this gene independently of the DQ-DR genes and to localize it with a matched case-control study. More than 1,400 patients and 30,000 control individuals from Finland were studied. They were first genotyped for the...
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