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HLA in Czech adult patients with autoimmune diabetes mellitus: comparison with Czech children with type 1 diabetes and patients with type 2 diabetes.
European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Dec 2003
Cerna M, Novota P, Kolostova K, Cejkova P, Zdarsky E, Novakova D, Kucera P, Novak J, Andel M
Abstract excerpt
Type 1 diabetes results from an autoimmune insulitis, associated with HLA class II alleles. The evidence about HLA allele association is not clear in patients diagnosed after 35 years of age. In this study we have analyzed HLA alleles of DQB1 and DRB1 genes by sequence specific primer (SSP)-PCR technique in adult patients with disease onset after 35 years of age. Two hundred and eighty-one patients were divided...
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