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HLA-DRB1*03 is a susceptibility gene in patients with Graves' disease with and without ophthalmopathy.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Feb 2007
Yarman S, Oguz F, Carin M
Abstract excerpt
We sought an association between certain human leucocyte antigen (HLA) markers and Graves' disease (GD) with and without ophthalmopathy (OP). One hundred and thirty-one Turkish patients with GD (50 without OP, 81 with OP) and 250 local healthy controls were studied. HLA-DRB1 typing was performed by using polymerase chain reaction-sequence-specific primers (PCR-SSP) method. The frequencies of DRB1*03 was...
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