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  • Title: [HLA and myasthenia. Subdivision in 3 categories].
    Author: Elchidiac A, Lepage V, Berrih S, Colombani J, Degos L.
    Journal: Pathol Biol (Paris); 1985 Jan; 33(1):50-4. PubMed ID: 3871932.
    Abstract:
    Genetic susceptibility (HLA types), clinical and pathological findings, amount of acetylcholine receptor antibodies and T lymphocyte subpopulations were studied in 63 patients with Myasthenia Gravis (MG). The frequency of HLA-DR5 was increased among patients (0.50 versus 0.23 in controls, pc less than 0.01, relative risk 3.3) and that of HLA-DR3 previously described as associated with MG was slightly increased (0.31 versus 0.20 in controls). The relative frequencies of two T cell subpopulations (T4 helper and T8 suppressor/cytotoxic lymphocytes) were normal in HLA-DR5 positive patients while the ratio T4/T8 was increased in other MG patients, who were HLA-DR3 (p less than 0.005). The high rate was due to an increase in the absolute number of T4 lymphocytes (p less than 0.001). HLA-DR3 patients were mostly women with early onset of a severe form of the disease, marked by the presence of thymic follicular lymphoid hyperplasia. A third genetic susceptibility to this disease was recently described in patients treated with D-penicillamine, the antigenic frequency of HLA-Bw35, DR1 is significantly increased. These 3 types of association between HLA and myasthenia gravis can be related to three different physiopathological mechanisms: the first two are probably linked to individual immunity (inductor/suppressor disequilibrium), in the third association, the mechanism is immunopharmacological.
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