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Distribution of the HLA class II frequency alleles in patients with leprosy from the mid-west of Brazil.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Jun 2011
Lavado-Valenzuela R, José Bravo M, Junqueira-Kipnis A P, Ramos de Souza M, Moreno C, Alonso A, Liberman-Kipnis T, da Silva W D, Caballero A
Abstract excerpt
In an attempt to clarify the issue of genetic predisposition to leprosy, we examined the distribution of class II human leucocyte antigen variants (DR and DQ) in 70 patients from around the city of Goiânia, Brazil. Only two of the patients presented the tuberculoid form of the disease, whereas 17 fell into the lepromatous category; 51 were intermediate. The allele frequencies found were compared with those in a...
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