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[Immunogenetics of celiac disease].
Pathologie-biologie - 1 Apr 2013
Roujon P, Guidicelli G, Moreau J-F, Taupin J-L
Abstract excerpt
Celiac disease is an auto-immune enteropathy involving genetic factors. It is associated in almost all the patients, to specific susceptibility alleles encoding histocompatibility antigens (HLA for human leucocyte antigen), specifically certain variants of the HLA-DQ2, and the HLA-DQ8 HLA class II molecules. Its estimated prevalence is 1% in the european and north-american populations. However, although these...
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