The Clinical Characteristics of Other HLA-B Types in Chinese Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients

HLA-B27 has an established relationship with the development of ankylosing spondylitis (AS). After reviewing the HLA-B genotype from 407 Chinese subjects (318 patients and 89 sex-matched controls), we found that 252 patients and 32 controls were HLA-B27(+) and that HLA-B*27:04 was the dominant HLA-B...

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Main Authors: Xinyu Wu, Jialing Wu, Xiaomin Li, Qiujing Wei, Qing Lv, Pingping Zhang, Xuqi Zheng, Zena Chen, Shuangyan Cao, Liudan Tu, Jieruo Gu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2020.568790/full