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Pemphigus vulgaris autoantibody response is linked to HLA-DQB1*0503 in Pakistani patients.
Human immunology - 1 Oct 1997
Delgado J C, Hameed A, Yunis J J, Bhol K, Rojas A I, Rehman S B, Khan A A, Ahmad M, Alper C A, Ahmed A R, Yunis E J
Abstract excerpt
Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune disease of the skin and mucous membranes characterized by an autoantibody response against an epidermal cadherin. We performed high resolution HLA class II typing in 19 patients with PV from Rawalpindi, Pakistan and 19 non-Jewish European PV patients from Boston by sequence-specific oligonucleotide probe hybridization. The results were compared with two separate ethnically...
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