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Genotyping for HLA-A, B and C alleles in Japanese patients with pemphigus: prevalence of Asian alleles of the HLA-B15 family.
The British journal of dermatology - 1 Jan 2002
Miyagawa S, Niizeki H, Yamashina Y, Kaneshige T
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BACKGROUND: There have been only limited reports on major histocompatibility complex class I antigens in pemphigus. OBJECTIVES: To characterize HLA-A, B and C class I alleles by genotyping in Japanese patients with pemphigus, and to analyse the possible association of class I alleles with disease susceptibility within a relatively homogeneous ethnic population. METHODS: Alleles of HLA-A, B and C, and DRB1 and...
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