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Anti-centromere antibodies (ACA) in systemic sclerosis patients and their relatives: a serological and HLA study.
Clinical and experimental immunology - 1 May 1994
McHugh N J, Whyte J, Artlett C, Briggs D C, Stephens C O, Olsen N J, Gusseva N G, Maddison P J, Black C M, Welsh K
Abstract excerpt
Autoantibody reactivity to centromere proteins CENP-A, CENP-B and CENP-C was examined in 58 patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), 218 first degree relatives and 22 spouses. HLA class II typing for HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQA1 was performed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis in 50 families, and HLA-DRB1, HLA-DQA1 and HLA-DQB1 typing was performed by olignucleotide typing in 44 families. Eleven...
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