Article
The HLA-DQ beta non-Asp-57 allele: a predictor of future insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in patients with autoimmune Addison's disease.
Tissue antigens - 1 Mar 1991
Boehm B O, Manfras B, Seidl S, Holzberger G, Kühnl P, Rosak C, Schöffling K, Trucco M
Abstract excerpt
HLA-DR specificities in 72 Addison's (AD) patients and 808 local controls were compared. We confirmed earlier reports that the HLA-DR3 specificity is significantly increased in AD patients. In our study a relative risk of 3.4 chi 2 = 22.5; pc = 0.01) for the disease was calculated. Analysis of HLA-DQB1 alleles in DR4+ Addison's patients with diabetes mellitus (N = 6) and without IDDM (14 of 18 individuals tested)...
Topics
- Addison Disease
- Alleles
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Base Sequence
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DQ beta-Chains
- HLA-DR3 Antigen
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
