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Linkage between rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility and the presence of HLA-DR4 and DR beta allelic third hypervariable region sequences in southern Chinese persons.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Feb 1992
Seglias J, Li E K, Cohen M G, Wong R W, Potter P K, So A K
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OBJECTIVE: To analyze HLA-DR and DQ associations with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patients from southern China. METHODS: In 66 patients and 45 controls, restriction fragment length polymorphism studies were performed using DRB, DQA, and DQB probes, and DRB allele-specific typing of polymerase chain reaction-amplified DRB DNA: RESULTS: The frequency of HLA-DR4 was significantly increased among RA patients (42.4%...
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