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Immunoglobulin allotypic markers in Kawasaki disease.
The Journal of pediatrics - 1 Jan 1993
Shulman S T, Melish M, Inoue O, Kato H, Tomita S
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the possible relationship of the distribution of immunoglobulin allotypic markers for susceptibility to Kawasaki disease in Japanese, Japanese-American, and white American populations. The kappa-chain allotype Km1 was present in 25.6% of sera from white patients with Kawasaki disease and in 14.4% of control sera (p < 0.01), and the combination of Km1 with Gm heterozygosity was present in 17.9% of...
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