[In a preliminary study, 11 MASI patients differed from 76 IIM patients in having an increased frequency of HLA-DQA1*0102 (odds ratio [OR] 9.8, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] 1.77-96.79) and decreased frequencies of the myositis-associated risk factor DRB1*0301 (OR 0.1 [95% CI 0.002-0.63]) and its linked allele DQA1*0501 (OR 0.2 [95% CI 0.02-0.87]).]. 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