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Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome-3 in a patient with late-onset multiple sclerosis.
The neurologist - 1 Mar 2012
Yokote Hiroaki, Nagasawa Miki, Ichijo Masahiko, Amino Takeshi, Fujigasaki Hiroto
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We present here the rare case of a 73-year-old patient with very late-onset multiple sclerosis who developed autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome (APS)-3. Despite only a few reports describing the association between multiple sclerosis and APS, both of these diseases have been shown to be associated with HLA-DR4. Intriguingly, the HLA genotype profile of this patient included HLA-DR4 which, fine mapped to the...
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