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Familial inclusion body myositis in a mother and son with different ancestral MHC haplotypes.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Nov 2006
Mastaglia Frank, Price Patricia, Walters Susan, Fabian Vicki, Miller James, Zilko Paul
Abstract excerpt
An Ashkenazi Jewish family in which the mother and a son both have inclusion body myositis (IBM) is reported. The condition developed at an earlier age and was more rapidly progressive and less responsive to treatment in the son than in the mother or other IBM patients in our clinic. Genetic analysis showed that the mother carried alleles of the 8.1 MHC ancestral haplotype (AH; HLA-B8, DRB1*0301), which is found...
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