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Hla–dr8 and acute anterior uveitis in ankylosing spondylitis
1 Apr 1995
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OBJECTIVE: To identify possible factors in the development of acute anterior uveitis (AUU) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). METHODS: We investigated HLA antigens serologically, and HLA-DRB1*08 alleles by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism, in 42 Japanese AS patients with and without AAU. RESULTS: Thirty-six of the AS patients (85.7%) had HLA-B27. Thirteen (65%) of the...
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