[Analysis of HLA-DQB1 alleles in DR4+ Addison's patients with diabetes mellitus (N = 6) and without IDDM (14 of 18 individuals tested) revealed that the HLA-DQw8 allele (DQB1*0302) was significantly increased in AD patients with IDDM (chi 2 = 13.5; p = 0.001); conversely, a clustering of the HLA-DQw7 allele was detected in DR4+ Addison's patients without IDDM.]. 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