Histocompatibility typing and the counseling of families with ankylosing spondylitis
- 23 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Clinical Genetics
- Vol. 13 (4) , 380-383
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-0004.1978.tb01195.x
Abstract
White individuals who are HLA B27-positive have an increased risk of developing ankylosing spondylitis or related diseases. HLA typing can be used in counseling relatives of persons with spondylitis, if the limitations of presently available data are recognized.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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