Identical MHC markers in Non-Jewish Iranian and Ashkenazi Jewish patients with pernphigus vulgaris: Possible common Central Asian Ancestral Origin

Human Immunology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 62-67

  Mobini, Narciss ^a   Yunis, Edmond J ^b,c,d,e   Alper, Chester A ^b,e   Yunis, Juan J ^b,c   Delgado, Julio C ^c,e   Yunis, David E ^b   Firooz, Alireza ^a   Dowlati, Yahya ^f   Bahar, Kamal ^g   Gregersen, Peter K ^h   Ahmed, A Razzzaque ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BLOOD RESEARCH   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICES   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^g Bahar Clin and Immunol Laboratory   (Iran)

^h NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EDETIC ACID; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IRAN; JEW; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ASIA; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IRAN; JEWS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PEMPHIGUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0031455420     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0198-8859(97)00182-1     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Lever WF: Pemphigus and Bullous Pemphigoid. Springfield, IL, Charles C Thomas, 15-118, 1965.
2. Amagai M, Klaus-Kovtun V, Stanley JR. Autoantibodies against a novel epithelial cadherin in pemphigus vulgaris. Cell. 67:1991;869.
3. Buxton RS, Cowin P, Frank WW, Garrod DR, Green KJ, King IA, Koch PJ, Magee AI, Rees DA, Stanley JR, Steinberg MS. Nomenclature of the desmosomal cadherins. J Cell Biol. 121:1993;481.
4. Korman N. Pemphigus. J Am Acad Dermatol. 18:1988;1219.
5. Beutner EH, Jordon RE, Chorzelski TP. The immunopathology of pemphigus and bullous pemphigoid. J Invest Dermatol. 51:1968;63.
6. Wasserstrum N, Laros RK. Transplacental transmission of pemphigus. J Am Med Assoc. 249:1983;1480.
7. Anhalt GJ, Labib RS, Voorhees JJ, Beals TF, Diaz LA. Induction of pemphigus in neonatal mice by passive transfer of IgG from patients with the disease. N Engl J Med. 306:1982;1189.
8. Park MS, Terasaki PI, Ahmed AR, Tiwari JL. HLA-DRW4 in 91% of Jewish pemphigus vulgaris patients. Lancet. ii:1979;441.
9. Szafer F, Brautbar C, Tzfoni E, Frankel G, Sherman L, Cohen I, Hachem-Zadeh S, Aberer W, Tappeiner G, Golubar K, Steinman L, Friedmann A. Detection of disease-specific restriction fragment length polymorphisms in pemphigus vulgaris linked to the DQw1 and DQw3 alleles of the HLA-D region. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 84:1987;6542.
10. β allele associated with pemphigus vulgaris. Science. 239:1988;1026.
11. Todd JA, Acha-Orbea H, Bell JI, Chao N, Fronek Z, Jacob CO, McDermott M, Sinha AA, Timmerman L, Steinman L, McDevitt HO. A molecular basis for MHC class II-associated autoimmunity. Science. 240:1988;1003.
12. Scharf SJ, Friedmann A, Steinman L, Brautbar C, Erlich HA. Specific HLA-DQB and DRB1 alleles confer susceptibility to pemphigus vulgaris. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 86:1989;6215.
13. Ahmed AR, Yunis EJ, Khatri K, Wagner R, Notani G, Awdeh Z, Alper CA. Major histocompatibility complex haplotype studies in Ashkenazi Jewish patients with pemphigus vulgaris. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 87:1990;7658.
14. Ahmed AR, Wagner R, Khatri K, Notani G, Awdeh Z, Alper CA, Yunis EJ. Major histocompatibility complex haplotypes and class II genes in non-Jewish patients with pemphigus vulgaris. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 88:1991;5056.
15. Ahmed AR, Mohimen A, Yunis EJ, Mirza NM, Kumar V, Beutner EH, Alper CA. Linkage of pemphigus vulgaris antibody to the major histocompatibility complex in healthy relatives of patients. J Exp Med. 177:1993;419.
16. Kimura A, Sasazuki T. Eleventh International Histocompatibility Workshop reference protocol for the HLA DNA-typing technique. Tsuji K, Aizawa M, Sasazuki T. HLA 1991 Proceedings of the Eleventh International Histocompatibility Workshop and Conference . 1992;397-419 Oxford University Press, Volume One. Oxford.
17. Yunis JJ, Salazar M, Delgado MB, Alper CA, Bing DH, Yunis EJ. HLA-DQA1, DQB1 and DPB1 alleles on HLA-DQ2- and DQ9-carrying extended haplotypes. Tissue Antigens. 41:1993;37.
18. Yunis JJ, Kineke E, Yunis EJ. Characterization of a new DRB1 allele, DRB1*1309, by PCR-SSOP and sequencing. Tissue Antigens. 43:1994;54.
19. Maxam AM, Gilbert W. A new method of sequencing DNA. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 74:1977;560.
20. Dunlop DM: The Khazars in The World History of the Jewish People, Volume II: The Dark Ages. Roth C (ed). New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, pp. 325-56, 1964.
21. Poliak AN: Khazaria - The History of a Jewish Kingdom in Europe. (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv, Mossad Bialik, 1951. (cited in ref. 24).
22. Vetulani A. The Jews in medieval Poland. Jewish J Sociol. 4:1962;274.
23. Kutschera H. Die Chasaren Wien, pp . 1910;225-241.
24. Koestler A. The Thirteenth Tribe The Khazar Empire and its Heritage . New York, Random House, pp. 13\N25:1976;159-173.
25. Mieses M: Die Jiddische Sprache; eine historische Grammatik des Idioms der integralen Juden Ost- und Mitteleuropas. Berlin-Wien, B. Harz, 322 pp., 1924.
26. Mieses M. Enstehungsursache der jüdischen Dialekte. 1979;H. Buske, Hamburg.
27. Wechsler P: The Ashkenazic Jews: A Slavo-Turkic People in Search of a Jewish Identity. Slavica, 1993.
28. Roitberg-Tambur A, Witt CS, Friedmann A, Safirman C, Sherman L, Battat S, Nelken D, Brautbar C. Comparative analysis of HLA polymorphism at the serologic and molecular level in Moroccan and Ashkenazi Jews. Tissue Antigens. 46:1995;104.
29. Martinez-Laso J, Gazit E, Gomez-Casado E, Morales P, Martinez-Quiles N, Alvarez M, Martin-Villa JM, Fernandez V, Arnaiz-Villena A. HLA DR and DQ polymorphism in Ashkenazi and non-Ashkenazi Jews comparison with other Mediterraneans . Tissue Antigens. 47:1996;63.
30. Imanishi T, Akaza T, Kimura A, Tokunaga K, Gojobori T. Allele and haplotype frequencies for HLA and complement loci in various ethnic groups. Tsuji K, Aizawa M, Sasazuki T. HLA 1991 Proceedings of the Eleventh International Histocompatibility Workshop and Conference . 1992;1065-1220 Oxford University Press, Volume One. Oxford.
31. Lombardi ML, Mercuro O, Tecame G, Fusco C, Ruocco V, Salerno A, Pirozzi G, Manzo C. Molecular analysis of HLA DRB1 and DQB1 in Italian patients with pemphigus vulgaris. Tissue Antigens. 47:1996;228.