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Aspartic acid at position 57 of the HLA-DQ beta chain in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: an association with one DRw9-DQw9 subtype in the Chinese population.
Tissue antigens - 1 May 1991
Ju L Y, Sun Y P, Semana G, Gu X F, Krishnamoorty R, Fauchet R, Charron D
Abstract excerpt
Eighteen unrelated Chinese patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) were analyzed for HLA Class II genes using a variety of molecular biological techniques including restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), polymerase chain reaction with allele-specific oligonucleotides (PCR-ASO) and direct DNA sequencing. The high frequency of DR3/DR4 heterozygotes found in the Chinese with IDDM...
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