| Literature DB >> 19278738 |
Claire Vandiedonck1, Colette Raffoux, Bruno Eymard, Christine Tranchant, Elisabeth Dulmet, Sophie Krumeich, Philippe Gajdos, Henri-Jean Garchon.
Abstract
We investigated an association of the HLA-A locus in 78 French Caucasian patients with autoimmune myasthenia gravis (MG) and thymic epithelial tumours. The largest effect was a protection associated with HLA-A02 in MG patients with a B2 type thymoma (OR=0.323, 95% CI: 0.113-0.756, P=0.00041). The frequency of HLA-A25 was also increased in the whole group of patients (OR=3.62, 95% CI: 1.62-7.08, P=0.0041). Our findings emphasise the interest of the histological classification in the genetic study of thymomas.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19278738 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2009.02.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Neuroimmunol ISSN: 0165-5728 Impact factor: 3.478