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Fetal-maternal HLA compatibility confers susceptibility to systemic sclerosis.
Immunogenetics - 1 Jan 1997
Artlett C M, Welsh K I, Black C M, Jimenez S A
Abstract excerpt
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a disease of unknown origin, which occurs predominantly in women after childbearing years. There are prominent clinical and histopathologic similarities between SSc and chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). GVHD can occur after blood transfusions or after transplantation with HLA-compatible bone marrow. Here we examined the hypothesis that SSc may be caused by fetal cells crossing...
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