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Lack of association between juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and HLA-DR13.
Epilepsia - 1 Jan 1999
Le Hellard S, Neidhart E, Thomas P, Feingold J, Malafosse A, Tafti M
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: We sought to replicate and extend a previously reported positive association between juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and HLA-DR13. METHODS: Ninety-three subjects with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and 93 normal blood donors, entirely of white origin with their families mostly of French extraction, underwent DNA-based HLA-DR13 and DQB6 typing. RESULTS: None of the investigated alleles or combination of alleles...
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