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[HLA-DR:DQ genotypes and insulin-dependent diabetes in Senegal]
A Cisse1, M Chauffert, C Julier
1Laboratoire de Physique Pharmaceutique-Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université Cheikh Anta DIOP, Dakar, Sénegal.
Dakar Medical
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
At the opposite of HLA-DR, HLA-DQ was not well documented in homogeneous negroïd populations. So, 93 IDDM and 115 control patients, all black senegalese people, were studied. The results showed three HLA-DQ IDDM-related susceptibility genotypes and also a high risk conferred by HLA-DR4/DR9 usually described in Mongoloïd people. Furthermore, DR:DQ associations allowed the identification of three IDDM predisposition genotypes, each of them with a characteristic mean age for disease diagnosis.