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Certain class II determinants of the human histocompatibility locus antigens (HLA) have been implicated in the aetiology of several autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). HLA-Dw4 was the first HLA determinant found to be significantly increased in RA patients compared with controls1, while Dw4 and Dw3 were found to be significantly increased in IDDM patients2,3. When the HLA-DR system was defined, RA patients were found to have an increased frequency of DR4 and IDDM patients an increased incidence of both DR4 and DR3 (ref. 4) compared with controls. As the HLA-Dw specificities are narrower than the serologically defined DR specificities, it was of specific interest to the present study that Dw4, Dw10, Dw13, Dw14, Dw15 and DKT2 are included in DR4 (ref. 5). We describe here new restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) and, together with the newly described serologically defined DQ specificity TA10 (ref. 6), test their prevalence and associations in controls and diseased patients. We find that the newly characterized DNA bands are present at a much higher frequency in RA and IDDM patients than in controls. These findings may lead to a greater understanding of the pathogenesis of such diseases.
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Festenstein, H., Awad, J., Hitman, G. et al. New HLA DNA polymorphisms associated with autoimmune diseases. Nature 322, 64–67 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/322064a0
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