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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 th...
Topics
- Alleles
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Germany
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DR3 Antigen
- HLA-DR4 Antigen
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
