Japanese Graves' Disease: Association with HLA-Bw46.
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Japan Endocrine Society in Endocrinologia Japonica
- Vol. 34 (5) , 685-688
- https://doi.org/10.1507/endocrj1954.34.685
Abstract
HLA-A, -B, and -C antigen frequency of 61 Japanese patients with Graves'' disease, and HLA-DR and -DQ frequency of 53 patients with it were compared that of 1,998 controls. The prevalence of Bw46 was significantly higher in patients with Graves'' disease (23.0% vs 8.4%, Pc < 0.003). The result was quite different from previous reports on Japanese Graves'' disease.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- HLA and Thyrotoxicosis (Graves' Disease) in ChineseTissue Antigens, 1978