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DQB1*06:02 allele-specific expression varies by allelic dosage, not narcolepsy status.
Human immunology - 1 Apr 2012
Weiner Lachmi Karin, Lin Ling, Kornum Birgitte Rahbek, Rico Tom, Lo Betty, Aran Adi, Mignot Emmanuel
Abstract excerpt
The association of narcolepsy-cataplexy, a sleep disorder caused by the loss of hypocretin/orexin neurons in the hypothalamus, with DQA1*01:02-DQB1*06:02 is one of the tightest known single-allele human leukocyte antigen (HLA) associations. In this study, we explored genome-wide expression in peripheral white blood cells of 50 narcolepsy versus 47 controls (half of whom were DQB1*06:02 positive) and observed the...
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