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Identification of novel candidate genes in the diffuse panbronchiolitis critical region of the class I human MHC.
Immunogenetics - 1 Aug 2002
Matsuzaka Yasunari, Tounai Kenichi, Denda Akihiro, Tomizawa Maiko, Makino Satoshi, Okamoto Koichi, Keicho Naoto, Oka Akira, Kulski Jerzy K, Tamiya Gen, Inoko Hidetoshi
Abstract excerpt
Diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) is an unusual form of bronchiolar disease affecting exclusively East Asians. Strong associations of DPB with the class I human leukocyte antigens HLA-B54 in Japan and China and HLA-A11 in Korea suggest that the susceptible locus for DPB is located between the HLA-B and HLA-A genes. We have previously reported that the susceptibility gene for DPB could be localized within a 200-kb...
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