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Association of HLA class II DR/DQ alleles in children and adolescents with rheumatic heart disease from a tertiary care centre in North India.
Indian heart journal - 1 Jan 2000
A Anbarasan, Kumar Dinesh, Deepak Rakesh, Bhatt Dheeraj Deo, Kumari Lata, Arumugam Praveen, Kaur Kawaldeep, Kumar S Likhith
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INTRODUCTION: Rheumatic fever and RHD constitutes an important public health problem in India. The relatively low attack rate of RF, the high concordance rate for RF in monozygotic twins (19%) compared to dizygotic twins (2.5%), and the high familial incidence of RF suggest the involvement of host genetic factors in susceptibility to RF with consequential progression to RHD. OBJECTIVE: To study the association of...
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