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Is neuromyelitis optica associated with human leukocyte antigen?
Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England) - 1 May 2009
Zéphir H, Fajardy I, Outteryck O, Blanc F, Roger N, Fleury M, Rudolf G, Marignier R, Vukusic S, Confavreux C, Vermersch P, de Seze J
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BACKGROUND: To establish whether or not multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica (NMO) are different pathological entities, we wondered whether MS patients and NMO patients share the same pattern of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) predisposition. OBJECTIVE: To study a putative association between susceptibility to NMO and HLA class I or class II loci in Caucasians. METHODS: A total of 39 unrelated Caucasian...
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