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HLA DRB1*DQB1* haplotype in HTLV-I-associated familial infective dermatitis may predict development of HTLV-I-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis.
American journal of medical genetics - 2 Jan 1996
LaGrenade L, Sonoda S, Miller W, Pate E, Rodgers-Johnson P, Hanchard B, Cranston B, Fujiyoshi T, Yashiki S, Blank M, Gibbs C J, Manns A
Abstract excerpt
A possible causal association between infective dermatitis and HTLV-I infection was reported in 1990 and confirmed in 1992. We now report familial infective dermatitis (ID) occurring in a 26-year-old mother and her 9-year-old son. The mother was first diagnosed with ID in 1969 at the age of 2 years in the Dermatology Unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies (U.H.W.I.) in Jamaica. The elder of her 2 sons...
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