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Response to hepatitis B vaccine: multiple HLA genes are involved.
Tissue antigens - 1 Jun 1998
Desombere I, Willems A, Leroux-Roels G
Abstract excerpt
The mechanism underlying the impaired immune response to hepatitis B vaccines in up to 10% of healthy subjects is not known. An increased incidence of poor responsiveness in subjects with HLA-DR3+ or -DR7+ haplotypes has been documented, suggesting that HLA-DR-linked genes may regulate the human response to hepatitis B surface antigen. However, not all HLA-DR3+ and/or -DR7+ individuals are poor responders, and...
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