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D Cohen, O Cohen, A Marcadet, C Massart, M Lathrop, I Deschamps, J Hors, E Schuller, J Dausset.
Abstract
HLA-DR2 allele is negatively associated with insulin-dependent diabetes and positively associated with multiple sclerosis (MS). A 2.2-kilobase-pair EcoRI DNA restriction fragment detected with a beta-chain HLA-DC cDNA probe was found to be strongly correlated with HLA-DR2 in the normal population, but was absent in HLA-DR2 insulin-dependent diabetic patients. This fragment was found in HLA-DR2 multiple sclerosis patients with the same frequency as in controls. A beta-chain HLA-DC 12-kilobase-pair BamHI fragment might differentiate multiple sclerosis patients from healthy individuals.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6324215 PMCID: PMC345003 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.81.6.1774
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205