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HLA-DP/DR interaction in early onset pauciarticular juvenile chronic arthritis.
Immunogenetics - 1 Jan 1993
Paul C, Schoenwald U, Truckenbrodt H, Bettinotti M P, Brünnler G, Keller E, Nevinny-Stickel C, Yao Z, Albert E D
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the polymorphic second exon of the HLA-DPB1 and HLA-DRB1 genes, using in vitro DNA amplification by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and oligonucleotide hybridization in 136 patients with early onset pauciarticular juvenile chronic arthritis (EOPA-JCA) and 199 healthy controls. The analysis of the HLA-DRB1 system revealed that most of the DRB1 alleles are not indifferent with respect to...
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