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Prevalence of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DRB1 alleles in Kuwaiti children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Feb 2002
Alsaeid Khaled, Haider M Z, Kamal H, Srivastva B S, Ayoub E M
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DR alleles has been determined in 69 Kuwaiti Arab children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and compared to that in 212 ethnically matched normal healthy controls using a PCR-sequence specific primers (PCR-SSP) method. A very high incidence of DR3 was detected in JRA patients compared to the controls (P < 0.0001, RR = 2.235). The high incidence of HLA-DR3 in...
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