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HLA class II‐associated genetic susceptibility in multiple sclerosis: A critical evaluation
1 Aug 1991
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Abstract: Multiple sclerosis (MS) has, since the 1970s, been known to be associated with the HLA‐Dw2 and ‐DR2 specificities in Caucasian Europeans and North Americans. By the use of genomic typing techniques, the association has been specified to be with the DRwlS,DQw6,Dw2, i.e. the DRBI* 1501‐DQAI*0102‐DQBl*0602 haplotype. A significant DPw4 association in Scandinavian MS patients has been described in one...
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