HLA class II associations in African-American female patients with Graves' disease

Thyroid

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-39

  Yanagawa, Tatsuo ^a   DeGroot, Leslie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029868559     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.1996.6.37     Document Type: Article

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