A strong association between HLA‐B*5101 and Behçet's disease in Greek patients

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Behçet's disease is known to be associated with HLA-B51, one of the split antigens of HLA-B5, among many different ethnic groups. In a Greek population, an increased incidence of HLA-B5 in the patient group has also been reported. Because the B51 antigen has been recently identified to comprise seven alleles, B*5101-B*5107, we performed HLA-B51 allele genotyping by the PCR-SSP method as well as serological HLA-A...

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