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The presence of both HLA-DRB1*04:01 and HLA-B*15:01 increases the susceptibility to cranial and extracranial giant cell arteritis.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Prieto-Peña Diana, Remuzgo-Martínez Sara, Ocejo-Vinyals Javier Gonzalo, Atienza-Mateo Belen, Genre Fernanda, Muñoz-Jimenez Alejandro, Ortiz-Sanjuán Francisco, Romero-Yuste Susana, Moriano Clara, Galindez-Agirregoikoa Eva, Calvo Itziar, Ortego-Centeno Norberto, Álvarez-Rivas Noelia, Miranda-Filloy José A, Llorente Irene, García-García Javier, Blanco Ricardo, Gualillo Oreste, Martin Javier, Castañeda Santos, Lopez-Mejías Raquel, González-Gay Miguel A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: To determine if patients with the predominant extracranial large-vessel-vasculitis (LVV) pattern of giant cell arteritis (GCA) have a distinctive HLA-B association, different from that reported in biopsy-proven cranial GCA patients. In a further step we assessed if the combination of HLA-B and HLA-DRB1 alleles confers an increased risk for GCA susceptibility, either for the cranial and extracranial...
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