A strong association between HLA-B(*)5101 and Behcet's disease in Greek patients

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-60

  Mizuki, N ^a,b   Ohno, S ^a   Ando, H ^c   Chen, L ^b   Palimeris, G D ^d   Stavropoulos Ghiokas, E ^e   Ishihara, M ^a   Goto, K ^a,b   Nakamura, S ^a   Shindo, Y ^a   Isobe, K ^a   Ito, N ^a   Inoko, H ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Kanagawa Red Cross Blood Center   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

B51; Behcet's disease; Genotyping; Greek; HLA; PCR SSP

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 8544267899     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1997.tb02835.x     Document Type: Article

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