Incidence of familial dermatitis herpetiformis

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Dermatitis herpetiformis (DH) and coeliac disease (CD) are gluten-sensitive diseases which have a common immunogenetic background, with the histocompatibility locus antigen (HLA) alleles DQ A1*0501 and B1*0201 in the short arm of chromosome 6. CD is well known to cluster in families whereas DH has not been generally regarded as a familial disease. To study the familial incidence of DH, a prospective study was...

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