Class II antigens and disease susceptibility.

doi:10.1146/annurev.med.46.1.17

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Class II antigens and disease susceptibility.

Annual review of medicine - 1 Jan 1995

Nepom G T

Abstract excerpt

The role for HLA typing in autoimmune disease is changing with the recognition that HLA markers can identify patients with poor prognosis in some autoimmune disease. Aggressive therapeutic intervention in patients with such HLA prognostic markers has the potential to improve or prevent progressiv...

Topics

Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Autoimmune Diseases
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Disease Susceptibility
Genetic Markers
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
Humans
Prognosis
Risk Factors

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