[Because CD4+ lymphocytes recognize antigen presented by histocompatibility locus antigen (HLA) class II molecules, and HLA association have been found in autoimmune skin diseases, we determined by allele-specific oligonucleotide typing whether HLA-DR or DQ alleles were associated with CTCL and its two variants MF (n = 47) and SS (n = 23).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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