1. HLA-DR and DQ polymorphisms in bullous pemphigoid from northern China.
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Gao, X.-H., Winsey, S., Li, G., Barnardo, M, Zhu, X.-J., Chen, H.-D., Song, F., Zhai, N., Fuggle, S., and Wojnarowska, F.
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AUTOIMMUNE diseases , *AUTOANTIBODIES , *HEMIDESMOSOMES , *GENETIC polymorphisms - Abstract
Summary Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is an autoimmune disease mediated by autoantibodies against hemidesmosome components. This study used PCR–sequence-specific primers to genotype polymorphisms in HLA-DR and DQ in 25 BP patients and 57 normal controls from northern China. We found lower frequencies of DRB1*08 (DR8) and DRB1*08/DQB1*06 (DR8/DQ6) haplotypes in BP patients than in controls (4.08% vs. 15.19% and 1.54% vs. 13.82%, respectively; P < 0.05), suggesting a protective role for DR8 and DR8/DQ6 haplotypes in BP patients from northern China; there were no statistical differences among other alleles tested. This result is strikingly different from previous reports that DQB1*0301 is associated with BP in Caucasian patients and DRB1*1101, DQB1*0302, DRB1*04/DQA1*0301/DQB1*0302 and DRB1*1101/ DQA1*0505/DQB1*0302 with Japanese BP patients. Ethnic differences in the polymorphic composition of the HLA-DR and DQ genes may influence genetic susceptibility to BP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2002
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