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HLA-DQA1 and -DQB1 alleles in Latino and African American children with diabetes mellitus.
Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM - 1 Mar 2004
McCarthy Bridget J, Lipton Rebecca, Nichol Lynn
Abstract excerpt
Few studies have described the genetics of childhood diabetes mellitus (DM) in US minorities. High-risk DQA1 and DQB1 alleles (DQA1*0301, DQB1*0201, and DQB1*0302 in African Americans and Latinos, and DQA1 *0501 in African Americans) were identified from previous studies and tested in 45 African American and 26 Latino patients from the population-based Chicago Childhood Diabetes Registry, and in 50 healthy...
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