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. 2002 Oct;29(5):435-8.
doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2370.2002.00353.x.

Low frequency of HLA-B*2706 in Taiwanese patients with ankylosing spondylitis

I-H Chen  1 , K L Yang, A Lee, H H Huang, P Y Lin, T D Lee
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Low frequency of HLA-B*2706 in Taiwanese patients with ankylosing spondylitis

I-H Chen et al. Eur J Immunogenet. 2002 Oct.

Abstract

The presence of HLA-B27 in patients affected with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) was well established prior to the advent of DNA typing of various genes within the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in humans. However, molecular typing of the MHC genes revealed that B27 comprises a motley assortment of alleles, some of which are strongly positively associated with the disease and some of which are negatively associated with the disease. B*2706 was reported to have a negative association with AS in the Thai population and in Chinese Singaporeans. We report here our finding of an absence of B*2706 in 184 Taiwanese AS patients.

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