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Human leucocyte antigen status in African women with eclampsia
Author(s) -
JOHNSON NICHOLAS,
MOODLEY JACK,
HAMMOND MICHAEL G.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1988.tb06572.x
Subject(s) - eclampsia , locus (genetics) , human leukocyte antigen , antigen , immunology , medicine , biology , pregnancy , genetics , gene
Summary. Investigation of the HLA system in 53 African eclamptic or imminently eclamptic women showed that they were significantly more likely to be heterozygous at the B locus than were normal controls. This did not apply to the A or D related loci.