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HLA class II gene associations in African American type 1 diabetes reveal a protective HLA-DRB1*03 haplotype.
Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association - 1 Jun 2013
Howson J M M, Roy M S, Zeitels L, Stevens H, Todd J A
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AIMS: Owing to strong linkage disequilibrium between markers, pinpointing disease associations within genetic regions is difficult in European ancestral populations, most notably the very strong association of the HLA-DRB1*03-DQA1*05:01-DQB1*02:01 haplotype with Type 1 diabetes risk, which is assumed to be because of a combination of HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQB1. In contrast, populations of African ancestry have greater...
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