Article
HLA-DR alleles and sterile ulcerative keratitis.
Cornea - 1 Nov 1992
Geggel H S, Nettles J W, Nepom B S
Abstract excerpt
Human leukocyte antigen-DR typing was performed on 18 unrelated white patients with sterile ulcerative keratitis (SUK) to determine whether these patients share common immunogenetic susceptibility genes. There was no statistically significant increase in any DR allele among the entire group of SUK patients. There was a trend in the frequency of DR1 in the rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients (5 of 8, 63%) versus...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alleles
- Arthritis, Rheumatoid
- Corneal Ulcer
- Disease Susceptibility
- Female
- HLA-DR Antigens
- HLA-DR Serological Subtypes
- HLA-DR1 Antigen
- HLA-DR4 Antigen