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The HLA-DR4-associated DQw8 allele is confined to HLA-DR3/DR4 heterozygous type I (insulin-dependent) diabetics.
Tissue antigens - 1 Aug 1990
Boehm B O, Schifferdecker E, Rosak C, Kuehnl P, Driesel A J, Schöffling K
Abstract excerpt
The HLA-DR4 specificity revealed a relative risk of 8.5 (chi 2 = 99.6; p less than 0.0001) when 193 type I diabetics were compared to 305 controls. Prevalence of the HLA-DR4-associated DQ types, i.e. DQw7 and DQw8, were determined, using a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) typing that combines the probe/enzyme combinations DQB/Taq I and DQB/Bam HI. The HLA-DQw8 specificity was confined to...
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