Familial Behcet's syndrome
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Dermatology
- Vol. 95 (6) , 637-642
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.1976.tb07037.x
Abstract
Behcet''s syndrome is reported in a family of which 4 generations are affected. The index patient also exhibited an unusual schizo-affective disorder. The histocompatibility antigen haplotype 1-17 was common to 4 with the disease. Genetic transmission may be responsible for the familial nature of the syndrome and the associated schizophrenia.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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