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Role of HLA class II loci polymorphism in the manifestation of type 1 diabetes in a Bengali Indian patient population.
Genetic testing and molecular biomarkers - 1 Jan 2013
Raha Oindrila, Sarkar Biswanath, Veerraju Pasumarthy, Sudhakar Godi, Raychaudhuri Pradip, Mukhopadhyay Soma, Rao Vadlamudi Raghavendra
Abstract excerpt
To assess the contribution of the HLA class II region for susceptibility to type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), we investigated the association of HLA class II alleles-DP, DQ, and DRB1. Here, we present an extensive molecular typing for HLA class II alleles and their haplotypes in a Bengali-speaking Indian population of T1DM patients (n=151) and controls (n=151) from West Bengal. HLA typing was done by DNA...
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