[HLA and otosclerosis]

The HLA antigens frequencies were studied in 30 Japanese patients with otosclerosis, and were compared with those of 220 randomly-selected apparently healthy unrelated Japanese. Serological HLA typing was performed by the modified two-stage complement-dependent microcytotoxicity method at the Blood Transfusion Service, Tokyo University Hospital. The results were as follows: There was no significant deviation of HLA class I antigen frequencies in the patients tested as compared with those in controls. As for HLA class II antigens, the DRw11 antigens frequency showed slight increase; however, after the correction of the P value, this was not significant.