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HLA typing in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome in North Indian patients.
Ocular immunology and inflammation - 1 Jan 2000
Gupta Amod, Kamal Shivali, Gupta Vishali, Bambery Pradeep, Kaura Babita
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PURPOSE: To report the HLA profile of VKH patients from India. METHOD: Forty-one patients and 50 controls were studied. Phenotyping using a lymphocytotoxicity assay was done for HLA-A and -B. DNA-based sequence-specific low resolution typing was done for HLA-DR and -DQ loci. RESULTS: HLA-A9 was over-represented in the patient population (p = 0.01), whereas HLA-A11 (p = 0.03) and HLA-DRB1*13 (p = 0.007) were found...
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