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Singal DP, D'Souza M, Sood SK. Polymorphism of HLA-DR2,DQw1 haplotypes in Asian Indians. TISSUE ANTIGENS 1990; 36:164-70. [PMID: 2077672 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1990.tb01823.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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We examined the polymorphism of DR2,DQw1 haplotypes in Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B-lymphoblastoid cell lines (HTCs) and unrelated (32 Canadian Caucasians and 24 Asian Indians) individuals by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and oligonucleotide typing. The data demonstrate that three subtypes of DR2,DQw1 haplotypes, DRw15(B1.1501).DQw6a(A1.0102,B1.0602),DRw15(B1.1502). DQw6b(A1.0103,B1.0601), DRw16(B1.1601).DQw5(A1.0102,B1.0502) are present in HTCs and Canadian Caucasians. Of these, DRw15(B1.1501).DQw6a (A1.0102,B1.0602) haplotype was present in majority (81.3%) of Caucasians. Among Asian Indians, this haplotype was present only in one DR2,DQw1-positive individual. In addition, three new haplotypes representing different combinations of DRB1, DQA1 and DQB1 genes were demonstrable in Asian Indians. These new haplotypes are DRw15(B1.1501).DQw6b(A1.0103,B1.0601),DRw15(B1.1501). DQw5(A1.0102,B1.0502), and DRw15(B1.1501).DQw6c(A1.0102, B1.0601). The most frequent haplotypes among Asian Indians were DRw15(B1.1502).DQw6b(A1.0103,B1.0601) and DRw15(B1.1501). DQw6b(A1.0103,B1.0601). The distribution of subtypes of DR2,DQw1 haplotypes in Asian Indians was significantly different from that in Canadian Caucasians. The results in the present study have important implications for HLA and for HLA-disease associations.
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- D P Singal
- Department of Pathology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Singal DP, Reid B, Green D, D'Souza M, Bensen WG, Buchanan WW. Polymorphism of major histocompatibility complex extended haplotypes bearing HLA-DR3 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis with gold induced thrombocytopenia or proteinuria. Ann Rheum Dis 1990; 49:582-6. [PMID: 2396862 PMCID: PMC1004168 DOI: 10.1136/ard.49.8.582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The distribution of DR3 and of extended haplotypes bearing DR3 was studied in three groups of subjects: 35 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with gold induced thrombocytopenia or proteinuria, 185 patients with RA without these side effects, and 300 normal healthy controls. The extended haplotypes bearing DR3 were analysed with cDNA probes for DR alpha, DR beta, DQ alpha, and DQ beta genes. The data showed that the prevalence of DR3 was significantly higher in patients who developed gold induced thrombocytopenia or proteinuria than in normal controls or patients with RA without these side effects. Distribution of three extended haplotypes bearing DR3 (B8, DR3; B18,DR3; non-B8,non-B18,DR3) in patients with RA with thrombocytopenia or proteinuria was significantly different from that in normal controls, but not from that in patients with RA without these toxic reactions. Southern blot analysis of DR, DQ genes with cDNA probes showed that the extended haplotype bearing B8,DR3, which carries DQA2.1 and DQB2.1 genes, was present in a significantly higher proportion of patients with RA with gold induced thrombocytopenia or proteinuria (22/24, 92%) than in patients with RA without these side effects (32/45, 71%) or normal subjects (40/61, 66%). The data suggest that the genomic region on chromosome 6 involved in susceptibility to gold induced thrombocytopenia or proteinuria should be extended to the DQA2, DQB2 gene loci.
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- D P Singal
- Department of Pathology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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Barbieri R, Nastruzzi C, Volinia S, Villa M, Piva R, Giacomini P, Natali PG, Gambari R. Methylation pattern of the HLA-DR alpha gene in human tissues. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOGENETICS 1990; 17:51-66. [PMID: 2120352 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-313x.1990.tb00859.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The CCGG and GCGC sites of the human HLA-DR alpha gene are hypermethylated in human tissues (including B-lymphocytes, T-lymphocytes, muscle, brain, sperm, skin, kidney, suprarenal and mammary glands) and three B-lymphoid cell lines. Therefore, the HLA-DR alpha gene can be transcribed even though extensively methylated. The only exception to the hypermethylated state of the HLA-DR alpha gene is represented by one or both of the two HhaI sites (H1 and H2) localized in the 5' portion of the gene. Analysis of the computer-generated secondary structure of the HLA-DR alpha mRNA suggests that the H1 and H2 sites belong to a region (5'-GAGCGCCCA-3'/5'-UGAGCGCUC-3') exhibiting extensive base pairing. Therefore, unmethylation of these CG sites can contribute in preventing mCG----TG/CA changes in this region, which would lead to extensive alterations of the secondary structure of the 5' portion of the HLA-DR alpha MRNA. On the other hand, the selective pressure to maintain unaltered the methylated CG dinucleotides in the coding regions of the HLA-DR alpha gene could be due to codon restrictions, since the majority of the methylation-related CG----TG or CG----CA variations would generate aminoacid changes. Accordingly, the analysis of different HLA-DR alpha genomic sequences indicates that variations of the CpG dinucleotides occur only in the non-coding portions of the HLA-DR alpha gene.
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- R Barbieri
- Istituto di Chimica Biologica, Ferrara, Italy
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Erlich HA. HLA class II polymorphism and genetic susceptibility to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1990; 164:41-55. [PMID: 2127392 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-75741-9_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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As we have discussed previously (Horn et al. 1988a; Erlich et al. 1989b; Horn et al. 1988b), there are no unique class II sequences associated with IDDM, which suggests that "normal" class II alleles confer susceptibility. Given the estimates of concordance--under 50% of monozygotic twins and approximately 15% (Tattersol, Pyle 1972 and Thomson 1988) for HLA-identical sibs--, it is not surprising that some unaffected individuals contain putative susceptibility alleles. Perhaps some environmental "triggering" agent, such as viral infection (Yoon, this volume), is required for the disease to develop in susceptible individuals. Other non-MHC linked genes which contribute to susceptibility may account for the difference in concordance rates for monozygotic twins and for HLA-identical sibs. In the nonobese diabetic mouse and the BB rat models for IDDM, non-MHC susceptibility loci have been identified and mapped (Hattori et al. 1986; Colle et al. 1981), but in humans the analysis of non-MHC candidate loci (i.e., the T cell receptor) has thus far failed to reveal any other susceptibility loci. In general, the HLA-linked genetic susceptibility to IDDM, as well as to other autoimmune diseases, appears to be associated with specific combinations of class II epitopes (e.g., alleles, haplotypes, or genotypes) rather than with specific individual residues or epitopes. Understanding the role of these predisposing sequences will require structural analysis of the class II molecules as well as in vitro and in vivo functional studies of interactions with putative autoantigens and T cell receptors. In the meantime, DNA typing offers the potential for identifying individuals at high risk for IDDM.
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Barbieri R, Rimondi AP, Buzzoni D, Luppi L, Nastruzzi C, Orlando P, Gambari R. Hypomethylation of the human HLA-DR alpha gene in breast carcinomas and autologous metastases. Clin Exp Metastasis 1989; 7:417-26. [PMID: 2706829 DOI: 10.1007/bf01753662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The methylation pattern of the human HLA-DR alpha gene was analyzed in normal breast tissues, breast primary tumors and lymphonodal metastases isolated from patients carrying breast carcinomas. In breast adenomas and also in normal tissues (including breast, muscle, brain, sperm and T- and B-lymphocytes), the HLA-DR alpha gene is hypermethylated at the CCGG and GCGC sites. In all tissues studied, the only constantly unmethylated region is located in the 5' portion of the gene, near the promoter sequence. Further, the results indicate that the HLA-DR alpha gene is hypomethylated in carcinomas and in the relative metastatic lymph nodes. It is suggested that hypomethylation of the human HLA-DR alpha gene could be proposed as a molecular marker of malignant breast tumors.
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- R Barbieri
- Instituto di Chimica Biologica, Universítà di Ferrara, Italy
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Okoye RC, Ollier W, Jaraquemada D, Awad J, Navarrete C, Cutbush S, Carthy D, Dos-Santos A, Festenstein H. HLA-D region heterogeneity in a Nigerian population. TISSUE ANTIGENS 1989; 33:445-56. [PMID: 2472018 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1989.tb01693.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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HLA class II antigens were studied in a panel of 130 Nigerians. Complex patterns of associations were seen between HLA-Dw, -DR and -DQ specificities, differing widely from those reported for other populations. A number of Dw types were associated with the same DR antigen: Dw'1N' and Dw'BERN' with DR1, Dw2 and Dw'2N' with DR2, Dw5 and Dw'5N' (Dw5 + Dw'F5') with DRw11. It was also observed that a Dw type associated with more than one DR antigen: HLA-Dw3 was assigned to individuals who were DR3 negative and similarly Dw10, Dw13 and Dw14 to individuals negative for DR4. HLA-DRw8 and Dw8 were completely dissociated in Nigerians, and Dw8 did not show a preferential DR association. These results demonstrate that DR and DQ identity between HTC stimulator and responder cell is not necessarily a prerequisite for Dw to be assigned. Preliminary studies show that subtypes of HLA-Dw1 and Dw8 detected by HTC typing correlate with restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) detected with a combination of Bgl II enzyme and DRA/DRB cDNA probes. HLA-DP antigen frequencies differed between Nigerians and British Caucasoids. The most common DP antigen in Nigerians was DPw1, compared with DPw4 in Caucasoids. HLA-DPw6 appeared to be absent or rare in both Nigerians and British Caucasoids. Only five out of 68 Nigerians tested were assigned two DP specificities. The association between HLA-DR3 and DPw1 reported in Caucasoid panels was absent in Nigerians.
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- R C Okoye
- Department of Immunology, London Hospital Medical College, U.K
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Hitman GA. The major histocompatibility complex and insulin dependent (type 1) diabetes. Autoimmunity 1989; 4:119-30. [PMID: 2577493 DOI: 10.3109/08916938909034367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The majority of the genetic component in insulin dependent (Type 1) diabetes mellitus can be explained by associations with genes on short arm of chromosome 6 located in the major histocompatibility complex. With the advent of cloning of the HLA Class II region genes it has been possible to refine the previous known association of HLA-DR3 and DR4 with this disease. Strong associations of IDDM have now been shown to exist with the DQB1 gene and/or linked genes, although this does not completely explain the HLA susceptibility to this disease.
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- G A Hitman
- Medical Unit, London Hospital, Whitechapel
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Williams RC. Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1989. [DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330320508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Davis JE, Cook RG, Van M, Rich RR. Polymorphic Bgl II restriction sites of DR alpha demarcate a novel HLA-DR1 antigen. Immunogenetics 1988; 28:171-81. [PMID: 2900810 DOI: 10.1007/bf00375856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Mechanisms to account for the unusual properties of a DR1 alpha beta complex (designated DRgp50) that is resistant to dissociation under normal conditions utilized were investigated. Expression of this DRgp50 complex is highly correlated with the failure of cells from certain DR1 individuals (DR1x) to stimulate specific DR1-restricted or alloreactive T-cell clones. Pulse/chase experiments demonstrated that this DRgp50 complex was not detectable until approximately 1 h of chase. The DR1 alpha and beta chains associated into the heterodimer in the absence of glycosylation and alterations in the number of oligosaccharides or sialylation of cell surface forms were not evident when compared with normal DR1 alpha and beta chains. Restriction fragment length polymorphism patterns of DR beta genes from normal (DR1n) and DR1x individuals were indistinguishable. However, a difference in the alpha chain genes between DR1n and DR1x individuals was revealed using Bgl II. This Bgl II restriction site mapped to the 3' untranslated region of DR alpha and represents a new genomic marker to distinguish this functional and biochemical variant of DR1.
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- J E Davis
- Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas, Houston
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Fernandez N, Hitman GA, Festenstein H, Garde L, Labeta M, Walker-Smith JA, Sachs JA. Novel HLA class II-associated structural patterns in coeliac disease and type I diabetes. Clin Exp Immunol 1988; 72:362-6. [PMID: 2901925 PMCID: PMC1541555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Cell membrane antigens were precipitated from EBV transformed cell lines by a monomorphic DR monoclonal antibody. Three mutually exclusive patterns with two glycoproteins (g25 and g28) that had not been previously identified, were observed. The first, g25+/g28- was found in all cell lines from 40 healthy individuals; a second, g25-/g28- was found in 4/7 coeliac and 2/4 IDDM patients and a third, g25+/g28+ was found in 3/7 coeliac and 1/4 IDDM patients. RFLP analysis with Class II alpha and beta chain probes and several restriction enzymes did not correlate with either of the disease associated patterns. Several possibilities regarding the identity and mode of action of the two polypeptides are described.
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- N Fernandez
- Medical Unit, London Hospital Medical College
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Fletcher J, Odugbesan O, Mijovic C, Mackay E, Bradwell AR, Barnett AH. Class II HLA DNA polymorphisms in type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients of north Indian origin. Diabetologia 1988; 31:343-50. [PMID: 3417056 DOI: 10.1007/bf02341501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Genetic associations with Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes may be primary or secondary to linkage disequilibrium. Studies of different racial groups should allow these to be distinguished. We have reported that Type 1 diabetes is associated with HLA-DR3 and -DR4 in subjects of North Indian (Punjab) origin and now present the results of a study of HLA class II DNA polymorphisms in this group and in white caucasoid subjects. DR4 in North Indian Type 1 diabetic patients was associated with DQ beta and DX alpha DNA polymorphisms identical to those found in DR4-positive white caucasoid patients. This DQ beta/DX alpha pattern was increased in frequency in North Indian diabetic patients vs control subjects (33.3% vs 8.5%, p less than 0.001, relative risk = 5.12 (95% confidence limits: 1.96-13.4)). A DQ beta polymorphism with very low relative risk for Type 1 diabetes in white caucasoid subjects was also markedly reduced in North Indian diabetic patients vs control subjects (2.3% vs 24.7%, p less than 0.02, relative risk = 0.10 (95% confidence limits: 0.02-0.46)). This pattern was associated with DR2 in white caucasoid subjects, but with DRw6 in North Indians. A DR3-associated DR beta polymorphism was markedly increased in North Indian diabetic patients vs control subjects (90.2% vs 40.7%, p less than 10(-6), relative risk = 12.1 (95% confidence limits: 4.32-33.9)). The DQ subregion may be a primary site of genetic influence on susceptibility to Type 1 diabetes. Further studies in different racial groups will clarify the HLA associations of Type 1 diabetes.
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- J Fletcher
- Department of Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK
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Freidhoff LR, Ehrlich-Kautzky E, Meyers DA, Ansari AA, Bias WB, Marsh DG. Association of HLA-DR3 with human immune response to Lol p I and Lol p II allergens in allergic subjects. TISSUE ANTIGENS 1988; 31:211-9. [PMID: 3261461 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1988.tb02083.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Associations between HLA type and IgE or IgG antibody (Ab) responses to two well-characterized, antigenetically non-crossreactive components of Lolium perenne (rye grass) pollen extract, Lol p I (Rye I) and Lol p II (Rye II) were studied in two groups of skin-test positive (ST+) Caucasoid adults. By both nonparametric and parametric statistical methods, significant associations were found between Ab responses to both Lol I and Lol II and the possession of HLA-DR3. In view of the well-known associations of both DR3 and B8 (which are in linkage disequilibrium) with many autoimmune diseases, differences in anti-Lol I and anti-Lol II mean log[Ab] levels between B8+, DR3- vs B8-, DR3- subjects and B8+, DR3+ vs B8-, DR3+ subjects were investigated. No differences were found. Our data, along with recent RFLP and DNA sequence studies, suggest that an Ia molecule involved in immune recognition of a similar major Ia recognition site of both the Lol molecules may consist of a DR3 alpha-beta I pair. Abbreviations used: Ab: Antibody. HLA: Human leukocyte antigen. Lol p I, Lol I: Group I allergen from Lolium perenne pollen (Rye I). Lol p II, Lol II: Group II allergen from Lolium perenne pollen (Rye II). Mr: Relative molecular mass. Rx: Immunotherapy with grass pollen extracts. ST: Skin test.
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- L R Freidhoff
- Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
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Howell MD, Smith JR, Austin RK, Kelleher D, Nepom GT, Volk B, Kagnoff MF. An extended HLA-D region haplotype associated with celiac disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1988; 85:222-6. [PMID: 2893373 PMCID: PMC279516 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.85.1.222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Celiac disease has one of the strongest associations with HLA (human leukocyte antigen) class II markers of the known HLA-linked diseases. This association is primarily with the class II serologic specificities HLA-DR3 and -DQw2. We previously described a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) characterized by the presence of a 4.0-kilobase Rsa I fragment derived from an HLA class II beta-chain gene, which distinguishes the class II HLA haplotype of celiac disease patients from those of many serologically matched controls. We now report the isolation of this beta-chain gene from a bacteriophage genomic library constructed from the DNA of a celiac disease patient. Based on restriction mapping and differential hybridization with class II cDNA and oligonucleotide probes, this gene was identified as one encoding an HLA-DP beta chain. This celiac disease-associated HLA-DP beta-chain gene was flanked by HLA-DP alpha-chain genes and, therefore, was probably in its normal chromosomal location. The HLA-DP alpha-chain genes of celiac disease patients also were studied by RFLP analysis; 84% of HLA-DR3, -DQw2 patients had a 16-kb Xba I fragment that was present in only 36% of HLA-DR3, -DQw2 controls. Moreover, 79% of these patients had both alpha- and beta-chain polymorphisms in contrast to 27% of controls. Thus, celiac disease is associated with a subset of HLA-DR3, -DQw2 haplotypes characterized by HLA-DP alpha- and beta-chain gene RFLPs. Within the celiac-disease patient population, the joint segregation of these HLA-DP genes with those encoding the serologic specificities HLA-DR3 and -DQw2 indicates: (i) that the class II HLA haplotype associated with celiac disease is extended throughout the entire HLA-D region, and (ii) that celiac-disease susceptibility genes may reside as far centromeric on this haplotype as the HLA-DP subregion.
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- M D Howell
- Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093
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Awad J, Navarrete C, Sachs JA, Festenstein H, Cassell PG, Niven MJ, Hitman G. HLA-DR, DQ, and DX alpha RFLPs and their associations with serologically defined HLA-DR and -DQ antigens. Immunogenetics 1988; 27:73-6. [PMID: 2890578 DOI: 10.1007/bf00404449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- J Awad
- Department of Immunology, London Hospital Medical College, UK
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Gambari R, Barbieri R, Piva R, Tecce R, Fisher PB, Giacomini P, Natali PG. Regulation of the expression of class II genes of the human major histocompatibility complex in tumor cells. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1987; 511:292-307. [PMID: 2449840 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1987.tb36258.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The control of expression of human class II MHC genes has been studied in lymphoid and melanoma cells. Specific unmethylation of all restriction sites nearby the promoter regions has been detected in all cell lines and tissues studied, irrespective of their ability to express class II MHC products. The main functional role of DNA methylation appears, on the contrary, to be the regulation of a fraction of the nucleotide polymorphism of class II MHC genes. Constitutive expression of these genes can be modified by recombinant IFN-gamma and by the demethylating agent 5-azacytidine. Both the modifiers differentially regulate the levels of class II MHC and invariant chain products. In melanoma cells IFN-gamma derepresses transcription of a 1.2-Kb HLA-DR alpha mRNA, but does not affect the levels of a 0.8-Kb HLA-DR alpha specific mRNA. These molecular changes are triggered by IFN-gamma through a protein-synthesis-dependent pathway.
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- R Gambari
- Istituto di Chimica Biologica, Università di Ferrara, Italy
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Segall M, Bach FH. HLA and diabetes from a T-cell perspective. DIABETES/METABOLISM REVIEWS 1987; 3:803-18. [PMID: 3301239 DOI: 10.1002/dmr.5610030310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Nerup J, Mandrup-Poulsen T, Mølvig J. The HLA-IDDM association: implications for etiology and pathogenesis of IDDM. DIABETES/METABOLISM REVIEWS 1987; 3:779-802. [PMID: 2440648 DOI: 10.1002/dmr.5610030309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Hoover ML, Capra JD. HLA and T-cell receptor genes in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. DIABETES/METABOLISM REVIEWS 1987; 3:835-56. [PMID: 2886299 DOI: 10.1002/dmr.5610030312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Hitman GA, Niven MJ, Festenstein H, Cassell PG, Awad J, Walker-Smith J, Leonard JN, Fry L, Ciclitira P, Kumar P. HLA class II alpha chain gene polymorphisms in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, dermatitis herpetiformis, and celiac disease. J Clin Invest 1987; 79:609-15. [PMID: 3805283 PMCID: PMC424142 DOI: 10.1172/jci112854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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We have investigated DNA polymorphism of the class II alpha chain genes in HLA typed patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM; n = 79), celiac disease (CD; n = 46), dermatitis herpetiformis (DH; n = 53), and controls (n = 86). Preferential allelic associations of HLA genes and gene products have thus been constructed for susceptibility to these diseases. DR alpha and DQ alpha gene polymorphisms indicated heterogeneity of HLA DR3, DRw6, and DR7, and HLA DR2 and DRw6, respectively. In DR7 positive CD patients a 3.8-kilobase (kb) DR alpha fragment, which correlated with DQw3, was found in only 11% of patients compared with 45% of corresponding controls (P less than 0.05). An increased frequency of a DX alpha genotype UU in all three diseases was found (IDDM 59%, DH 45%, CD 48%, compared to 21% in controls, P less than 0.001), which is not explained solely by the increased frequencies of DR3-DX alpha U. We therefore conclude part of the genetic susceptibility for these three conditions is encoded by genes within the DQ-DX subregion.
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Sheldon EL, Kellogg DE, Watson R, Levenson CH, Erlich HA. Use of nonisotopic M13 probes for genetic analysis: application to HLA class II loci. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1986; 83:9085-9. [PMID: 2878431 PMCID: PMC387079 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.83.23.9085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Previously, DNA polymorphisms in the HLA gene cluster have been analyzed using radioactive probes in Southern blot experiments; the restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) revealed by this analysis are capable of subdividing HLA serological types. Here, we report the use of DNA probes labeled with biotinylated psoralen to provide nonisotopic detection of HLA class II RFLP patterns. These biotinylated probes contain cDNA sequences encoding the alpha and beta chains of DP, DQ, and DR HLA class II genes as inserts in M13 vectors. The recombinant M13 molecules are partially double-stranded with single-stranded HLA cDNA regions and contain biotinylated psoralen covalently linked to duplex DNA by UV irradiation. Following hybridization, the presence of biotinylated probe bound to target DNA is detected using a streptavidin-horseradish peroxidase conjugate, which converts the colorless substrate 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine to a blue precipitate in less than 1 hr. The probe and detection system described here can detect single-copy genes in less than 0.5 microgram of total human DNA on Southern blots and generates the same specific RFLP patterns as do probes labeled with 32P by nick-translation. These biotinylated HLA class II probes have been applied to tissue typing for bone marrow transplantation and the study of insulin-dependent diabetes susceptibility, revealing in each case relevant polymorphisms not detected by serologic typing.
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