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Susceptible and protective associations of HLA DRB1*/DQB1* alleles and haplotypes with ischaemic stroke.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Jun 2016
Murali V, Rathika C, Ramgopal S, Padma Malini R, Arun Kumar M J, Neethi Arasu V, Jeyaram Illiayaraja K, Balakrishnan K
Abstract excerpt
Stroke has emerged as the second commonest cause of mortality worldwide and is a major public health problem. For the first time, we present here the association of human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1*/DQB1* alleles and haplotypes with ischaemic stroke in South Indian patients. Ischaemic stroke (IS) cases and controls were genotyped for HLA-DRB1*/DQB1* alleles by polymerase chain reaction sequence-specific primers...
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