Association of specific amino acid sequence of HLA-DR with rheumatoid arthritis in Koreans and its diagnostic value

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1699-1703

  Hong, Gi Hyun ^a   Park, Myoung Hee ^b   Takeuchi, Fujio ^c   Oh, Myoung Don ^b   Song, Yeong Wook ^b   Nabeta, Hiromi ^c   Nakano, Keiichiro ^c   Ito, Koji ^c   Park, Kyoung Sook ^a  

^a Sungshin Women's University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

HLA DRB1; Korean; rheumatoid arthritis; shared epitope

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPITOPES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 0029801357     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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