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Identification of HLA-DR and -DQ alleles conferring susceptibility to pollen allergy and pollen associated food allergy.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology - 1 Apr 1998
Boehncke W H, Loeliger C, Kuehnl P, Kalbacher H, Böhm B O, Gall H
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BACKGROUND: Allergenic crossreactivity of pollen and foods due to the antigeneic similarity of oligopeptides is a well established clinical phenomenon. OBJECTIVE: To determine the immunopathological relevance of antigen presentation, we analysed the HLA class-II genotype of patients with either pollen allergy or pollen associated food allergy. METHODS: One hundred and twenty patients with pollen allergy and 80...
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