[ The present study elucidates the variety of HLA associations and therefore the difficulty to assign single HLA markers to periodontal disease. Susceptibility/resistance of both aggressive and chronic periodontitis may rather be influenced by particular HLA marker combinations. Associated HLA haplotypes may be of further importance for unknown gene loci representing a part of the genetic background for periodontitis. The different associations in aggressive and chronic periodontitis indicate different susceptibility/resistance factors for both diseases.]. 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