Postpartum autoimmune thyroid disorder associated with HLA-DR4? |
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| Authors: | HANS-HENRIK LERVANG,OLE PRYDS,HANS PEDER Ø STERGAARD KRISTENSEN,BODIL K. JAKOBSEN,ARNE SVEJGAARD |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Medicine, Central Hospital of Slagelse.;Tissue Typing Laboratory of the Department of Clinical Immunology, State University Hospital of Copenhagen (Rigshospitalet), Denmark. |
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| Abstract: | Thirteen Danish women with postpartum thyroiditis were HLA-A,B,C and -DR typed. Nine of ten unrelated probands were DR4-positive which is significantly (corrected p = .01) different from the frequency (34.7%) of this antigen in unrelated controls. |
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