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Relationship of HLA-DQA1 alleles and humoral antibody following measles vaccination.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Hayney M S, Poland G A, Jacobson R M, Rabe D, Schaid D J, Jacobsen S J, Lipsky J J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DQA1 locus is only moderately polymorphic compared to other HLA class II loci; however, we hypothesized that these polymorphisms could be important in determining the humoral antibody response to measles vaccine virus. METHODS: The seroprevalence of measles antibody was determined in 881 school children who had been immunized with MMR-II at age approximately 15...
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