Article
The lack of relationship between acetylator phenotype and idiopathic systemic lupus erythematosus in a South-east Asian population: a study of Indians, Malays and Malaysian Chinese.
British journal of rheumatology - 1 Dec 1990
Ong M L, Mant T G, Veerapen K, Fitzgerald D, Wang F, Manivasagar M, Bosco J J
Abstract excerpt
An association of idiopathic systemic lupus erythematosus (ISLE) with genetically determined N-acetylation polymorphism has been suspected from previous studies, mainly on Caucasian populations in which there is an approximate incidence of 50% of slow and rapid acetylators. The present study is o...
Topics
- Acetylation
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Asia, Southeastern
- China
- Dapsone
- Female
- Humans
- India
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
- Malaysia
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Time Factors