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Sequencing-based typing of HLA-B*51 alleles and the significant association of HLA-B*5101 and -B*5108 with Behçet's disease in Greek patients.
Tissue antigens - 1 Feb 2002
Mizuki N, Ota M, Katsuyama Y, Yabuki K, Ando H, Shiina T, Palimeris G D, Kaklamani E, Ito D, Ohno S, Inoko Hidetoshi
Abstract excerpt
Behçet's disease (BD) is widely known to be strongly associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B51 in many different ethnic groups.Recently, HLA-B51 allele typing of Greek BD patients was performed to study the distribution of B*5101-B*5107 alleles in this Greek population, the B51 antigen strongly associated with BD was found to be predominantly encoded by allele B*5101. As it is now known that the B51...
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