Article
Modeling of HLA class II susceptibility to Type I diabetes reveals an effect associated with DPB1.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Nov 2001
Valdes A M, Noble J A, Génin E, Clerget-Darpoux F, Erlich H A, Thomson G
Abstract excerpt
In this report, we present evidence that the HLA class II DPB1 locus (or a locus with alleles in linkage disequilibrium with DPB1) contributes to Type I diabetes (IDDM) susceptibility in addition to the contribution of the HLA DR and DQ loci. The marker association segregation chi-square (MASC) method, which fits both genotype frequency and affected sib-pair identity-by-descent (IBD) distributions, was applied to...
Topics
- Alleles
- Chi-Square Distribution
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- HLA-DP Antigens
- HLA-DP beta-Chains
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
