Immunogenetics and clinical phenotype of sympathetic ophthalmia in British and Irish patients

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 281-286

  Kilmartin, D J ^a   Wilson, D ^b   Liversidge, J ^a   Dick, A D ^a   Bruce, J ^b   Acheson, R W ^c   Urbaniak, S J ^b   Forrester, J V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b Aberdeen and Northeast Scotland Blood Transfusion Service   (United Kingdom)

^c MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; STEROID;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; STEROID THERAPY; SYMPATHETIC OPHTHALMIA; VOGT KOYANAGI SYNDROME;

ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; OPHTHALMIA, SYMPATHETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0035082447     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.85.3.281     Document Type: Article

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