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Analysis of HLA-DQ genotypes and susceptibility in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
The New England journal of medicine - 28 Jun 1990
Baisch J M, Weeks T, Giles R, Hoover M, Stastny P, Capra J D
Abstract excerpt
There is evidence that certain alleles at the HLA-DQ locus are correlated with susceptibility to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and in particular that DQ beta-chain alleles containing aspartic acid at position 57 are protective. The availability of a large group of patients with IDDM enabled us to assess the role of HLA-DQ alleles in susceptibility to the disease in order to confirm and extend recent...
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