HLA-DMA and HLA-DMB alleles in German patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-294

  Siegmund, T ^a   Donner, H ^a   Braun, J ^a   Usadel, K H ^a   Badenhoop, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease susceptibility; HLA DMA; HLA DMB; IDDM

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA D ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKER; GERMANY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, B-LYMPHOCYTE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERMANY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HLA-D ANTIGENS; HUMANS;

EID: 0032824441     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.1999.540313.x     Document Type: Article

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