Article
A distinct HLA-DRw8 haplotype characterizes patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
Immunogenetics - 1 Jan 1990
Van Kerckhove C, Melin-Aldana H, Elma M S, Luyrink L, Donnelly P, Taylor J, Maksymowych W P, Lovell D J, Choi E, Glass D N
Abstract excerpt
We studied the first domain of the HLA-DRB1, HLA-DQA1, and HLA-DQB1 loci of 67 HLA-DRw8-positive Caucasians including 43 with early-onset pauciarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (EOPA-JRA, alternatively known as early-onset pauciarticular juvenile chronic arthritis). Serology, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) oligotyping revealed that 62, including all the...
Topics
- Arthritis, Juvenile
- Base Sequence
- Follow-Up Studies
- Genotype
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DR Antigens
- HLA-DR Serological Subtypes
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
