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TAP1 and TAP2 polymorphism in coeliac disease.
Immunogenetics - 1 Jan 1993
Powis S H, Rosenberg W M, Hall M, Mockridge I, Tonks S, Ivinson A, Ciclitira P J, Jewell D P, Lanchbury J S, Bell J I
Abstract excerpt
Coeliac disease is strongly associated with HLA-DQ2, but it is possible that additional major histocompatibility complex genes also confer disease susceptibility. Encoded close to HLA-DQ are two genes, TAP1 and TAP2, whose products are believed to transport antigenic peptides from the cytoplasm into the endoplasmic reticulum. Comparison of 81 coeliac disease patients with caucasoid controls revealed an increased...
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