Article
Complete association of the HLA-DRB1*04 and -DQB1*04 alleles with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada's disease.
Human immunology - 1 Mar 1994
Shindo Y, Ohno S, Yamamoto T, Nakamura S, Inoko H
Abstract excerpt
VKH disease is a bilateral panuveitis and has been known to be closely associated with the particular HLA class II antigens HLA-DR4 and -DQ4, defined by serologic typing. In this study, 63 Japanese VKH patients were analyzed for HLA class II alleles at the DNA level using the PCR-RFLP method. The...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DQ alpha-Chains
- HLA-DQ beta-Chains
- HLA-DR Antigens
- HLA-DRB1 Chains
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
- Humans
- Japan
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
