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Studies of HLA associations in male and female patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP).
Journal of neuroimmunology - 1 Nov 2006
McCombe Pamela A, Csurhes Peter A, Greer Judith M
Abstract excerpt
HLA associations are found to differ with the gender of the patient in some autoimmune diseases. Here we have investigated whether there are gender-related HLA associations in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP), both of which occur more frequently in male patients than in females. In GBS, no particular HLA associations were noted, except for a slight...
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