Article
[HLA and sprue: a study of Sicilian families with celiac disease].
La Pediatria medica e chirurgica : Medical and surgical pediatrics - 1 Jan 2000
Cataldo F, Caruso C, Maltese I, Lio D, Marino V, Albeggiani A
Abstract excerpt
The authors have studied the HLA genotypes in 17 Sicilian coeliac children, in their parents and in their healthy brothers. A positive association has been found between coeliac disease (C.D.) and HLA antigens; this was strongest firstly for DQW2 and than for DR7 and DR3. Those antigens however do not result specific for C.D., because they were present in healty-control population too and because one coeliac...
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