Association of the HLA-DRB1 with scleroderma in Chinese population.

Multiple alleles of the Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DRB1 have been strongly associated with systemic sclerosis (SSc) and its clinical or serological subsets. However, the associations vary in different ethnic populations. To define SSc-risk and/or -protective alleles of HLA-DRB1 in Chinese populat...

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Main Authors: Dongyi He, Jiucun Wang, Lin Yi, Xinjian Guo, Shicheng Guo, Gang Guo, Wenzhen Tu, Wenyu Wu, Li Yang, Rong Xiao, Yuan Li, Haiyan Chu, Syeling Lai, Li Jin, Hejian Zou, John D Reveille, Shervin Assassi, Maureen D Mayes, Xiaodong Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4153724?pdf=render