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Susceptibility to type 1 autoimmune hepatitis is associated with shared amino acid sequences at positions 70-74 of the HLA-DRB1 molecule.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Jan 2008
Lim Young-Suk, Oh Heung-Bum, Choi Sung-Eun, Kwon Oh-Joong, Heo Yong-Seok, Lee Han Chu, Suh Dong Jin
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The risk of developing autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) has been suggested to be associated with the presence of HLA-DRB1 alleles encoding the 'shared epitope' at amino acid positions 67-72 in the third hypervariable region (HVR3) of DRbeta. We aimed to identify the specific HLA alleles that are susceptible to type 1 AIH in Koreans, and to validate the shared epitope hypothesis in this single ethnic...
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