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Japanese Graves' disease: association with HLA-Bw46
1Department of Internal Medicine, Fukuoka University Medical School, Japan.
Endocrinologia Japonica
|October 1, 1987
Abstract:
HLA-A, -B, and -C antigen frequency of 61 Japanese patients with Graves' disease, and HLA-DR and -DQ frequency of 53 patients with it were compared that of 1,998 controls. The prevalence of Bw46 was significantly higher in patients with Graves' disease (23.0% vs 8.4%, Pc less than 0.003). The result was quite different from previous reports on Japanese Graves' disease.