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Immunogenetic risk and protective factors for the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: distinct HLA-A, -B, -Cw, -DRB1, and -DQA1 allelic profiles distinguish European American patients with different myositis autoantibodies.
Medicine - 1 Mar 2006
O'Hanlon Terrance P, Carrick Danielle Mercatante, Targoff Ira N, Arnett Frank C, Reveille John D, Carrington Mary, Gao Xiaojiang, Oddis Chester V, Morel Penelope A, Malley James D, Malley Karen, Shamim Ejaz A, Rider Lisa G, Chanock Stephen J, Foster Charles B, Bunch Thomas, Blackshear Perry J, Plotz Paul H, Love Lori A, Miller Frederick W
Abstract excerpt
The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are systemic connective tissue diseases defined by chronic muscle inflammation and weakness associated with autoimmunity. We have performed low to high resolution molecular typing to assess the genetic variability of major histocompatibility complex loci (HLA-A, -B, -Cw, -DRB1, and -DQA1) in a large population of European American patients with IIM (n = 571)...
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