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Mucous membrane pemphigoid: HLA-DQB1*0301 is associated with all clinical sites of involvement and may be linked to antibasement membrane IgG production.
The British journal of dermatology - 1 Sept 2001
Setterfield J, Theron J, Vaughan R W, Welsh K I, Mallon E, Wojnarowska F, Challacombe S J, Black M M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Class I human leucocyte antigens (HLA) -A, -B, -Cw and class II HLA-DRB1, -DQB1 alleles were determined in 131 British Caucasian patients with mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP) using serological and DNA-based methods. OBJECTIVES: To analyse the class I and II alleles expressed in well-defined clinical and immunopathological subgroups of MMP, in order to establish whether specific alleles or haplotypes...
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