HLA-DPB1 gene polymorphism and multiple sclerosis: a large case-control study in the southwest of France.

doi:10.1016/0165-5728(91)90132-q

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HLA-DPB1 gene polymorphism and multiple sclerosis: a large case-control study in the southwest of France.

Journal of neuroimmunology - 1 Nov 1991

Roth M P, Coppin H, Descoins P, Ruidavets J B, Cambon-Thomsen A, Clanet M

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The polymorphism at the HLA-DPB1 locus has been characterized in a large number of patients with multiple sclerosis (n = 112) and in healthy controls (n = 115). Both patients and controls lived in the southwest of France (in the Pyrénées Atlantiques) and had similar ethnic background. The typing...

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Alleles
Case-Control Studies
HLA-DP Antigens
HLA-DQ Antigens
Humans
Multiple Sclerosis
Polymorphism, Genetic

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