HLA-DP beta and susceptibility to multiple sclerosis: an analysis of caucasoid and Japanese patient populations.

doi:10.1016/0198-8859(90)90031-j

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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

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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) a...

Topics

Alleles
Amino Acid Sequence
Asian People
Base Sequence
DNA Probes, HLA
Gene Frequency
Genetic Linkage
HLA-DP Antigens
Humans
Japan
Molecular Sequence Data
Multiple Sclerosis
White People

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