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HLA DMA and DMB show no association with rheumatoid arthritis in US Caucasians.
European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Oct 2001
Moxley G, Han J
Abstract excerpt
HLA DM is a heterodimeric molecule functioning in normal antigen presentation; it is encoded by adjacent HLA-region loci, HLA DMA and DMB, located between DP and DQ. Some previous studies have suggested that HLA susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with certain DMA and DMB alleles. Our aim was to examine whether this association is also present in US Caucasians. We studied 288 US Caucasian...
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