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Typing for major histocompatibility complex class II antigens in thyroid tissue blocks: association of Hashimoto's thyroiditis with HLA-DQA0301 and DQB0201 alleles.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Sept 1992
Shi Y, Zou M, Robb D, Farid N R
Abstract excerpt
This study was undertaken 1) to find out whether we can type major histocompatibility class II antigens from the paraffin-embedded series of thyroid tissue, and 2) to investigate whether HLA-DQ genes are involved in conferring a risk of Hashimoto's thyroiditis. To this end we used the polymerase chain reaction to amplify DNA from paraffin-embedded thyroid tissue blocks of histologically proven Hashimoto's...
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