Article
[Antigens of histocompatibility in children with myasthenia gravis].
Zhurnal nevrologii i psikhiatrii imeni S.S. Korsakova - 1 Jan 2001
Neretin V Ia, Serova L D, Agafonov B V, Tsuman V G, Gekht B M, Sidorova O P, Nalivkin A E
Abstract excerpt
HLA-phenotype was determined in 59 juvenile patients of Russian nationality and in their 50 relatives by means of lymphocytotoxic test. There was a positive association with HLA-A1, B8 and DR3 and the negative one--with HLA-A2, A9, B5, B7, and DR7. The frequencies of HLA-A1, B8, DR3 were higher in boys than in girls with myasthenia. There were no significant changes of HLA frequencies in ocular form of the...
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