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Sequence-specific oligonucleotide typing in Shona patients with rheumatoid arthritis and healthy controls from Zimbabwe.
Tissue antigens - 1 Apr 1993
Cutbush S, Chikanza I C, Biro P A, Bekker C, Stein M, Lutalo S, Garcia-Pacheco J M, McCloskey D S, Lanchbury J S, Sachs J A
Abstract excerpt
Seventy-two patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 82 controls have been typed with the XI Histocompatibility Workshop DRB1 and DQB1 sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes. The increase of DRB1*04 corresponds to an increase of the serologically defined DR4, previously found in a small group of Zimbabwean RA patients and we now show that this increase is due to the subtype DRB1*0405 in association with...
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