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- Title
- HLA-DRB1 associations with disease susceptibility and clinical course in Australians with multiple sclerosis
- Related
- Tissue antigens, Vol. 74, Issue 1, (2009), p.17-21
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2009.01262.x
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Date
- 2009
- Author/Creator
- Stankovich, Jim
- Author/Creator
- Butzkueven, H
- Author/Creator
- Rubio, Justin P
- Author/Creator
- Marriott, M
- Author/Creator
- Chapman, C
- Author/Creator
- Tubridy, N
- Author/Creator
- Tait, B. D
- Author/Creator
- Varney, M. D
- Author/Creator
- Taylor, B. V
- Author/Creator
- Foote, Simon J
- Author/Creator
- Kilpatrick, T. J
- Description
- Human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1*1501 and other class II alleles influence susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS), but their contribution if any to the clinical course of MS remains uncertain. Here, we have investigated DRB1 alleles in a large sample of 1230 Australian MS cases, with some enrichment for subjects with primary progressive (PPMS) disease (n = 246) and 1210 healthy controls. Using logistic regression, we found that DRB1*1501 was strongly associated with risk (P = 7 × 10⁻⁴⁵), as expected, and after adjusting for DRB1*1501, a predisposing effect was also observed for DRB1*03 (P = 5 × 10⁻⁷). Individuals homozygous for either DRB1*15 or DRB1*03 were considerably more at risk of MS than heterozygotes and non-carriers. Both the DRB1*04 and the DRB1*01/DRB1*15 genotype combination, respectively, protected against PPMS in comparison to subjects with relapsing disease. Together, these data provide further evidence of heterogeneity at the DRB1 locus and confirm the importance of HLA variants in the phenotypic expression of MS.
- Description
- 5 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- Australians
- Subject Keyword
- Clinical course
- Subject Keyword
- Human leucocyte antigen-DRB1
- Subject Keyword
- Multiple sclerosis
- Subject Keyword
- Susceptibility
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Australian School of Advanced Medicine
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/171753
- Identifier
- ISSN:0001-2815
- Identifier
- mq_res-ext-2-s2.0-66949137791
- Language
- eng
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