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Reevaluation of the importance of polymorphic HLA class II alleles and amino acids in the susceptibility of individuals of different populations to type I diabetes.
American journal of medical genetics - 5 Mar 1998
Zamani M, Cassiman J J
Abstract excerpt
Several publications have shown that certain alleles at the HLA-DRB1, -DQA1, and -DQB1 loci are associated with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Many of these studies have claimed that HLA-DQalpha1Arg52 and DQbeta1Asp57 showed the strongest association with IDDM, but these results could not be confirmed in different populations. We have recently found that DRbeta1Lys71+ provided major susceptibility to...
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