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Lack of association between HLA antigens and anorexia nervosa
A Kiss1, A Hajek-Rosenmayr, A Haubenstock
1Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychiatric University Clinic, University of Vienna, Austria.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|July 1, 1988
Abstract:
Studies of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system were performed in 37 patients with anorexia nervosa to confirm an alleged association with HLA-B16 and haplotype HLA-A26,B38. No correlation between anorexia nervosa and HLA, including HLA-DR, could be found.