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The HLA locus contains novel foetal susceptibility alleles for congenital heart block with significant paternal influence.
Journal of internal medicine - 1 Jun 2014
Meisgen S, Östberg T, Salomonsson S, Ding B, Eliasson H, Mälarstig A, Alfredsson L, Klareskog L, Hamsten A, Olsson T, Axelsson T, Gadler F, Jonzon A, Sonesson S-E, Kockum I, Wahren-Herlenius M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The main aim of this study was to identify foetal susceptibility genes on chromosome six for Ro/SSA autoantibody-mediated congenital heart block. SUBJECTS AND DESIGN: Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping of individuals in the Swedish Congenital Heart Block (CHB) study population was performed. Low-resolution HLA-A, -Cw and -DRB1 allele typing was carried out in 86 families comprising 339...
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