Like most autoimmune disorders, the exact cause of axSpA is ... There is a strong link between the HLA-B27 gene and axial ...

Balan et al. used data from the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Liver Transplant database to assess the relationship between degree of HLA mismatching at the A ...

Celiac disease (CD) is one of the most frequent autoimmune disorders occurring in ... genetic predisposition characterized by the same HLA pattern, namely HLA-DQ2 and/or -DQ8.

It is the strength of these associations, and potential involvement in the immune reaction, that has seen these alleles suggested as candidates for pharmacogenetic testing either as predictive or ...

"Â "The chronic autoimmune disorder causes inflammation predominantly ... The disease is strongly associated with a gene called HLA-B27. About 80-90% of children with JAS have the HLA-B27 gene.

A (18), a high school student, recently developed symptoms of stiffening his back as if he were 'Rusty' when he woke up in ...