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The influence of age and gender on HLA-DR in Chinese child-onset type 1 diabetes mellitus patients.
The Kaohsiung journal of medical sciences - 1 Aug 2000
Chen B H, Chiang W, Yen J H, Chao M G
Abstract excerpt
To further clarify the association of HLA DR alleles with type 1 diabetes mellitus and the influence of age-onset and gender on type 1 diabetes, we investigated HLA-DR in 76 child onset Chinese (36 males) type 1 diabetes patients and 154 normal controls by using PCR-SSP (sequence specific primer). The mean age of onset of diabetes patients was 8.43 +/- 3.96 year-old. Our results revealed that the frequencies of...
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