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HLA class I associations of ankylosing spondylitis in the white population in the United Kingdom.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Apr 1996
Brown M A, Pile K D, Kennedy L G, Calin A, Darke C, Bell J, Wordsworth B P, Cornélis F
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the HLA class I associations of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in the white population, with particular reference to HLA-B27 subtypes. METHODS: HLA-B27 and -B60 typing was performed in 284 white patients with AS. Allele frequencies of HLA-B27 and HLA-B60 from 5926 white bone marrow donors were used for comparison. HLA-B27 subtyping was performed by single strand conformation polymorphism...
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