HLA in pigment dispersion and glaucoma

Histocompatibility antigen typing was performed on 12 Caucasian patients with the pigment dispersion syndrome. Increased prevalence of HLA-B13 and Bw17 that had been observed in a previous study (Becker et al. 1977) could not be confirmed in the present study. There were no significant increases of HLA-B7 and B12 in glaucoma patients with or without the pigment dispersion syndrome. HLA-Bw35 was increased in white patients with primary open-angle glaucoma in the Greater Detroit area.