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HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 61, Issue 3, Pages 326-333Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0198-8859(99)00134-2
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IBD; Crohn's disease; ulcerative colitis; HLA class II association
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- NIDDK NIH HHS [DK46763, P01 DK046763, DK54967] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES [P01DK046763, R01DK054967] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) are the clinical entities comprising idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Previous studies on the association of IBD anti human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II genes suggested a role for HLA in this disease. Here we present HLA class II (DRB1, DQB1, DQA1, DPB1) allele and haplotype distributions determined using the polymerase chain reaction and sequence-specific oligonucleotide probe methods. A total of 578 UC and CD Caucasian patients and controls from Jewish (Ashkenazi) and non-Jewish populations was examined. Our previously reported association of DR1-DQ5 with CD was attributable to DRB1*0103. A dramatic association with IDD and the highly unusual DRB1*0103-DQA1*0501-DQB1*0301 haplotype (OR = 6.6, p = 0.036) was found. The more common DR1 haplotype, DRB1*0103-DQA1*0101-DQB1*0501, was also associated with IBD (OR = 3.1, p = 0.014), a result suggesting that interaction between DR and DQ may determine the extent of disease risk. Our previously reported association of DR2 with UC was attributable to DRB1*1502 (OR = 2.6, p = 0.006). At the DPB1 locus, a significant association of DPB1*0401 with CD was observed fur the combined populations (OR = 1.85, p = 0.007). These observations indicate that some class II alleles and haplotypes confer susceptibility to both UC and CD, implying common immunogenetic mechanisms of pathogenesis, while others conics risk to only one of these diseases, and illustrate the value of DNA HLA typing in disease susceptibility analyses. (C) American Society fur Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, 2000. Published by Elsevier Science Inc.
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