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Low frequency of HLA-B*2706 in Taiwanese patients with ankylosing spondylitis.
European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Oct 2002
Chen I-H, Yang K L, Lee A, Huang H H, Lin P Y, Lee T D
Abstract excerpt
The presence of HLA-B27 in patients affected with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) was well established prior to the advent of DNA typing of various genes within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in humans. However, molecular typing of the MHC genes revealed that B27 comprises a motley assortment of alleles, some of which are strongly positively associated with the disease and some of which are negatively...
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