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Predominant association of HLA-B*2704 with ankylosing spondylitis in Chinese Han patients.
Tissue antigens - 1 Jan 2010
Liu Y, Jiang L, Cai Q, Danoy P, Barnardo M C N M, Brown M A, Xu H
Abstract excerpt
The HLA-B27 subtypes have a varied racial and ethnic prevalence throughout the world. However, the association of B27-subtypes with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in the mainland China is unknown. To determine the association of B27-subtypes with AS in the Mainland Chinese Han population, a total of unrelated 153 patients with AS were enrolled in a large case-control association study, and 1545 unrelated, healthy,...
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