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  • Title: HLA-DQ RFLP variants of five HLA-DQw2-bearing major histocompatibility complex extended haplotypes.
    Author: Yunis JJ, Wescott M, Lechin SJ, Alosco SM, Awdeh Z, Alper CA, Yunis EJ.
    Journal: Immunogenetics; 1990; 32(2):88-95. PubMed ID: 1975800.
    Abstract:
    We have analyzed genomic DNA in a large number of independent examples of five HLA-DQw2-bearing extended haplotypes for their associated subtypes by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) using DRB, DQA, and DQB probes after Taq I and Pst I digestion and Southern blotting. In addition to three previously described HLA-DQw2 subtypes, DQw2a, DQw2b, and DQw2c, we observed a fourth subtype, HLA-DQw2d, characterized by 5.8 kilobase (kb) DRB/Taq I, 2.4, 2.3, and 1.8 kb DQB/Taq I, and 8.0 and 2.3 kb DQA/Pst I fragments. All 22 independent examples of the extended haplotype [HLA-B8, SC01, DR3] carried DQw2a and all 11 independent examples of [HLA-B18, F1C30, DR3] carried DQw2b. In addition, all independent examples (21 and 4, respectively) of two DR7-carrying extended haplotypes, [HLA-B44, FC31, DR7] and [HLA-Bw47, FC91,0,DR7], carried DQw2c and all independent examples of [HLA-Bw57, SC61, DR7] carried DQw2d. Our results show that the DNA in the DR/DQ region of extended haplotypes is relatively fixed and that different DQw2 subtypes characterize different DQw2-bearing extended haplotypes.
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