Article
Gm haplotypes in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy in Japanese patients.
European neurology - 1 Jan 1994
Yasuda T, Sobue G, Kumazawa K, Baba M, Saitoh T, Yanagi T, Mitsuma T, Miyazaki T
Abstract excerpt
We studied the serum Gm allotype of 58 patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and 236 nonrelated normal controls in Japan. The incidences of the Gm phenotype and haplotype in the patients were not significantly different from those in the normal controls. When CIDP was classified into two subgroups in terms of clinical course, the chronic relapsing (CR) and chronic...
Topics
- Chronic Disease
- Gene Frequency
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Gm Allotypes
- Japan
- Phenotype
- Polyradiculoneuropathy
