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HLA class II haplotypes in Mexican systemic lupus erythematosus patients.
Human immunology - 1 Dec 2004
Cortes Lizette M, Baltazar Luz M, Lopez-Cardona Maria G, Olivares Norma, Ramos Cesar, Salazar Mario, Sandoval Lucila, Lorenz Matthias G O, Chakraborty Ranajit, Paterson Andrew D, Rivas Fernando
Abstract excerpt
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease in which polymorphisms within the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region have been associated to its etiology. For this study, HLA-DQB1, DQA1, and DRB1 genes were typed by polymerase chain reaction-sequence-specific primer in 237 individuals, taken from 74 families, who had a member with SLE, and who had their residence in the western region of Mexico; as...
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