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Epistatic effects occurring among susceptibility and protective MHC genes in IgA deficiency.
Genes and immunity - 1 Jun 2003
Martínez A, Gual L, Fernández-Arquero M, Nogales A, Ferreira A, Garcia-Rodriguez M C, Fontan G, de la Concha Ed E G
Abstract excerpt
Immunoglobulin A deficiency (IgAD), the most prevalent primary immunodeficiency in Caucasian populations, shows strong evidence of polygenic inheritance with several associated genes being located in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Our aims were to determine which previously described MHC associations were primary and not secondary to a decrease or an increase in other MHC haplotype frequencies, to...
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