Article
Absence of linkage between MHC and a gene involved in susceptibility to human schistosomiasis.
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas - 1 May 1998
Chiarella J M, Goldberg A C, Abel L, Carvalho E M, Kalil J, Dessein A
Abstract excerpt
Six hundred million people are at risk of infection by Schistosoma mansoni. MHC haplotypes have been reported to segregate with susceptibility to schistosomiasis in murine models. In humans, a major gene related to susceptibility/resistance to infection by S. mansoni (SM1) and displaying the mean...
Topics
- Animals
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Haplotypes
- Histocompatibility Antigens
- Histocompatibility Testing
- Humans
- Major Histocompatibility Complex
- Pedigree
- Schistosoma mansoni
- Schistosomiasis