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Differential association between HLA and diffuse panbronchiolitis in Northern and Southern Chinese.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jan 2012
Chen Yu, Kang Jian, Wu Min, Azuma Arata, Zhao Li
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) is a progressive inflammatory pulmonary disease that predominately affects East Asians. Genetic susceptibility to DPB is correlated with the human leukocyte antigens HLA-B54 in Japanese and HLA-A11 in Koreans. However, no systematic genetic study of DPB pathogenesis has been conducted in the Chinese population. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible...
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