Article
HLA DQA1 genotypes and its interaction with HLA DQB1 in Chinese IDDM living in Taiwan.
Proceedings of the National Science Council, Republic of China. Part B, Life sciences - 1 Apr 1995
Chuang L M, Jou T S, Wu H P, Chang H M, Tsai W Y, Hsieh R P, Chen K H, Lin B J, Tai T Y
Abstract excerpt
To study the role of the HLA DQA1 gene and its interaction with DQB1 in the susceptibility of IDDM, subjects with insulin-dependent (type 1) diabetes mellitus and non-diabetic unrelated controls were recruited from a Chinese population living in northern Taiwan. HLA DQA1 exon 2 was enzymatically...
Topics
- Alleles
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
- Exons
- Gene Frequency
- Genotype
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DQ alpha-Chains
- HLA-DQ beta-Chains
- Humans
- Macromolecular Substances
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Taiwan