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HLA and genetic susceptibility to sleepwalking.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Jan 2003
Lecendreux M, Bassetti C, Dauvilliers Y, Mayer G, Neidhart E, Tafti M
Abstract excerpt
HLA-DQB1 typing was performed in 60 Caucasian subjects with sleepwalking (SW) disorder and their families and 60 ethnically matched subjects without any diagnosed sleep disorder. A total of 21 sleepwalkers (35.0%) were DQB1*0501 positive vs eight (13.3%) controls (P = 0.0056; odds ratio = 3.5, 95% CI = 1.4-8.7). The family data for all HLA subtypes were further assessed for allelic association with SW using the...
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