Article
Caucasian origin of disease associated HLA haplotypes in chinese blood donors with IgA deficiency.
Journal of clinical immunology - 1 Feb 2014
Wang Ning, Lu Ping, Ling Bing, Zhu Ziyan, Hammarström Lennart
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Selective immunoglobulin A deficiency (IgAD) is the most common primary immunodeficiency in Caucasians with a prevalence of 1:600. However, the prevalence of IgAD is markedly lower in East Asian countries but no genetic studies have been performed on IgAD individuals in the Mongoloid population. METHODS: We investigated the prevalence of IgAD in a large number of Chinese blood donors (n = 39,015) in...
Topics
- Alleles
- Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic
- Asian People
- Blood Donors
- China
- Gene Frequency
- Haplotypes
- Histocompatibility Antigens
- Humans
- IgA Deficiency
- Immunoglobulin A
- Prevalence
