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Association of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy with HLA DRB1 alleles.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 13 Nov 1995
Berger J, Bernheimer H, Faé I, Braun A, Roscher A, Molzer B, Fischer G
Abstract excerpt
Inflammatory demyelination in the central nervous system in the childhood cerebral phenotype of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) bears resemblance to that of multiple sclerosis. With a view to an association of HLA class II genes, specifically HLA-DRB1 subtype DRB1*15 to multiple sclerosis we investigated the HLA class II DR haplotype in 29 unrelated X-ALD patients including 17 childhood cerebral phenotype...
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