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Histocompatibility genes in antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.
Lupus - 1 Aug 1996
Wilson W A
Abstract excerpt
The class II and especially the DQB1 locus of MHC genes, as well as C4 deficiency alleles appear to be associated with genetic risk for developing aPL. The extensive linkage disequilibrium among some of these risk factors makes it difficult to assign a causal role for any of these alleles by means of previous population studies of patients with APS; studies a patients with primary APS, in particular, have...
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