[ We conclude that some Taiwanese areca quid (AQ) chewers with particular HLA phenotypes and haplotypes are prone to have OSF. In addition, some particular HLA haplotypes may play more important roles than the individual HLA phenotypes for the genetic susceptibility to OSF. However, the significantly increased HLA phenotype B76 and three of the common HLA haplotypes detected are present in only about 20% of incident cases of OSF.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE