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Prevalence of HLA-B27 in Moroccan healthy subjects and patients with ankylosing spondylitis and mapping construction of several factors influencing AS diagnosis by using multiple correspondence analysis.
Rheumatology international - 1 Nov 2015
Akassou Amal, Yacoubi Hanae, Jamil Afaf, Dakka Nadia, Amzazi Saaïd, Sadki Khalid, Niamane Redouane, Elhassani Selma, Bakri Youssef
Abstract excerpt
The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of human leukocyte antigen HLA-B27 in Moroccan healthy controls and in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and to analyze the correlation between HLA-B27 and AS in Moroccan patients. The prevalence of HLA-B27 was determined by evaluating the number of HLA-B27-positive samples in 128 healthy subjects and in 53 patients diagnosed with AS according...
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