Article
Relationship of anticardiolipin antibodies and antiphospholipid syndrome to HLA-DR7 in Mexican patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
Lupus - 1 Jan 1997
Granados J, Vargas-Alarcón G, Drenkard C, Andrade F, Melín-Aldana H, Alcocer-Varela J, Alarcón-Segovia D
Abstract excerpt
We studied IgG and IgM anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL) by an ELISA method in 80 Mexican systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients and 378 of their first degree relatives. Sixty five percent of SLE patients and 16% of their relatives were positive for aCL. We also determined allele and haplotyp...
Topics
- Alleles
- Antibodies, Anticardiolipin
- Antiphospholipid Syndrome
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- HLA-DR3 Antigen
- HLA-DR7 Antigen
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin G
- Immunoglobulin M
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
- Male
- Mexico
- Pedigree
