Article
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 i...
Topics
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 2
- ATP Binding Cassette Transporter, Subfamily B, Member 3
- ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters
- Alleles
- Carrier Proteins
- Celiac Disease
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
- Humans
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Polymorphism, Genetic
