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The immune response to the HPA‐la antigen: association with HLA‐DRw52a
1 Mar 1991
Abstract excerpt
Antibodies to the HPA-1a antigen can elicit a condition in the new-born known as neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (NAITP). Retrospective and prospective studies have shown that there is a strong correlation between the presence of HLA-DR3, HLA-DRw52 in the mother and the antibody response to HPA-1a. HLA Class II molecules play an important role in the initiation of the immune response and it has been...
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