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Vitiligo is associated with HLA-A2 and HLA-Dw7 in the Slovak populations
1Department of Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Folia Biologica
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
By investigating a group of 67 unrelated adult persons suffering from vitiligo it was found that antigens HLA-A2 and HLA-Dw7 differed in their frequencies in comparison to those observed in the healthy population. The antigen HLA-A2 was found in 76.12% of patients compared to 43.95% in the control group (chi 2 = 25.61, P < 0.005, RR = 4.07). The antigen HLA-Dw7 was present in 56.71% of patients compared to 15.8% in the healthy population (chi 2 = 26.55, P < 0.0001, RR = 6.98). No other significant deviations in the frequencies of investigated antigens were observed.