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HLA-DP beta and susceptibility to multiple sclerosis: an analysis of caucasoid and Japanese patient populations.
Human immunology - 1 Aug 1990
Begovich A B, Helmuth R C, Oksenberg J R, Sakai K, Tabira T, Sasazuki T, Steinman L, Erlich H A
Abstract excerpt
Nonradioactive sequence-specific oligonucleotide (SSO) probes specific for the HLA-DP beta locus have been used in a simple dot-blot assay to DP beta-type samples amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (pcr) from Caucasoid (n = 24) and Japanese (n = 23) patients with multiple sclerosis (ms) as well as ethnically matched controls. In contrast to previous reports, no DP beta allele was found to be increased in...
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