Medline ® Abstract for Reference 1
of 'HLA and other susceptibility genes in rheumatoid arthritis'
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Increased frequency of HLA-Cw3 and HLA-Dw4 in rheumatoid arthritis.
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McMichael AJ, Sasazuki T, McDevitt HO, Payne RO
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Arthritis Rheum. 1977;20(5):1037.
Thirty-nine patients with rheumatoid arthritis were HLA typed for the full range of A and B locus specificities and for Cw3 and Dw4. HLA-Dw4 was significantly more frequent in patients (36%) than in controls (13%). The frequency of Cw3 was also increased, probably because this allele is in linkage disequilibrium with Dw4.
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