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Association of HLA Class II alleles and haplotypes with cervical dystonia: HLA DR13-DQ6 (DQB1*0604) homozygotes are at greatly increased risk of cervical dystonia in Caucasian Americans.
Autoimmunity - 1 May 2011
Deitiker Philip R, Oshima Minako, Jankovic Joseph, Duane Drake D, Aoki K Roger, Atassi M Zouhair
Abstract excerpt
An unanticipated discovery was made while examining genetics of the immune response in patients treated with botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), which included cervical dystonia (CD) patients. Initial examination of HLA DQA1:DQB1 frequencies revealed an unexpectedly high number of DQA1*0102:DQB1*0604 homozygotes (hz) in the CD patients. We typed the BoNT-treated CD Caucasian subset for HLA-DRB1, DQA1, and DQB1 and...
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