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Finnish HLA studies confirm the increased risk conferred by HLA-B27 homozygosity in ankylosing spondylitis.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Jun 2006
Jaakkola E, Herzberg I, Laiho K, Barnardo M C N M, Pointon J J, Kauppi M, Kaarela K, Tuomilehto-Wolf E, Tuomilehto J, Wordsworth B P, Brown M A
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OBJECTIVE: To determine the influence of HLA-B27 homozygosity and HLA-DRB1 alleles in the susceptibility to, and severity of, ankylosing spondylitis in a Finnish population. METHODS: 673 individuals from 261 families with ankylosing spondylitis were genotyped for HLA-DRB1 alleles and HLA-B27 heterozygosity/homozygosity. The frequencies of HLA-B27 homozygotes in probands from these families were compared with the...
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