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Familial autoimmune myasthenia gravis: report of four families.

A Evoli1, A P Batocchi, G Zelano, A Uncini, M T Palmisani, P Tonali.   

Abstract

Four families each with two patients with autoimmune myasthenia gravis or related conditions are reported. All clinical forms of myasthenia gravis were represented and different disease types were found within the same family. Either one or two generations could be affected and no association with a single HLA haplotype was found. The frequency of familial autoimmune myasthenia gravis is very low and the genetic factors involved seem to be different from MHC genes.

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Year:  1995        PMID: 7608676      PMCID: PMC1073555          DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.58.6.729

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry        ISSN: 0022-3050            Impact factor:   10.154


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2.  Familial autoimmune MuSK positive myasthenia gravis.

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