ABSTRACT Background: Immunological life-threatening complications frequently occur in post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), despite matching recipient and donor (R/D) pairs for classical human leukocyte antigens (HLA). Studies have shown that R/D non-HLA disparities within the major histo...
ABSTRACT Objective: To study the genetic susceptibility to neuromyelitis optica (NMO) as well as the relationship between HLA genotypes and susceptibility to the disease in the southern Brazilian population. Methods: We analyzed patients with NMO, who met criteria for Wingerchuk's diagnosis of NMO, wit...
A introduçäo de nova nomenclatura para os componentes do complexo principal de histocompatibilidade (Major Histocompatibility Complex - MHC) e a descriçäo de novos métodos moleculares para a tipificaçäo dos alelos do MHC contribuíram, grandemente, para o entendimento e identificaçäo do extenso ...
La artritis reumatoide(AR) es una enfermedad inflamatoria crónica de etiología desconocida y en donde numerosos estudios han encontrado asociación con los genes clase I y clase II del complejo principal de histocompatibilidad (CPH), principalmente en los locus del HLA-B y el HLA-DR y el desarrollo de ...