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HLA antigens and cryptogenic myoclonic epilepsy

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NINETEEN patients with cryptogenic myoclonic epilepsy were tissue typed for 24 alleles at the HLA-A and loci by the microlymphocytotoxicity test. No significant difference between susceptibility to this disease and antigens of the HLA complex was observed.

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  1. Department of Paediatrics and Neurology, Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12

    H. P. Monaghan, M. O’Sullivan & N. V. O’Donohoe

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Monaghan, H.P., O’Sullivan, M. & O’Donohoe, N.V. HLA antigens and cryptogenic myoclonic epilepsy. Ir J Med Sci 151, 188–189 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02940177

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