HLA-DR is strongly associated with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease in Mexican Mestizo patients

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 93-100

  Arellanes Garcia L ^a,c   Bautista, N ^b   Mora, P ^a   Ortega Larrocea, G ^a   Burguet, A ^b   Gorodezky, C ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DR LUIS SÁNCHEZ BULNES   (Mexico)

^b Hospital General Gea González   (Mexico)

^c NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Human leukocyte antigen; Susceptibility genes; Vogt Koyanagi Harada disease

Indexed keywords

HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; MALE; MEXICO; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; VOGT KOYANAGI SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; CHILD; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENOTYPE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; UVEOMENINGOENCEPHALITIC SYNDROME;

EID: 0031871739     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ocii.6.2.93.4049     Document Type: Article

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