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Association of HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1 and -DQB1 alleles at amino acid level in individuals with schizophrenia: A study from South India.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Dec 2020
Seshasubramanian Vani, Raghavan Vijaya, SathishKannan Aruna Devi, Naganathan Chandramouleeswaran, Ramachandran Aparna, Arasu Priya, Rajendren Preeti, John Sujit, Mowry Brian, Rangaswamy Thara, Narayan Saranya, Periathiruvadi Srinivasan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Schizophrenia, a chronic severe psychiatric illness of unknown aetiology, has been shown to be associated with HLA alleles but at varied degree in different population. The present study has focussed on analysing the frequency of HLA class I and class II alleles in persons with schizophrenia from South India. METHODS: Ninety seven individuals with schizophrenia and 103 age- and gender-matched controls...
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