Strong association of MuSK antibody-positive myasthenia gravis and HLA-DR14-DQ5.
The authors studied the HLA profile of 23 white Dutch patients with muscle-specific kinase antibody-positive myasthenia gravis (MuSK Ab+ MG) and found an association with HLA-DR14-DQ5 (odds ratio 8.5; 95% CI 3.9 to 18.7; p = 4.9 x 10(-5)). Fifty-two percent of the patients carried the DR14 allele co...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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