Naito S, Sasaki H, Arakawa K
Department of Internal Medicine, Fukuoka University Medical School, Japan.
Endocrinol Jpn. 1987 Oct;34(5):685-8. doi: 10.1507/endocrj1954.34.685.
HLA-A, -B, and -C antigen frequency of 61 Japanese patients with Graves' disease, and HLA-DR and -DQ frequency of 53 patients with it were compared that of 1,998 controls. The prevalence of Bw46 was significantly higher in patients with Graves' disease (23.0% vs 8.4%, Pc less than 0.003). The result was quite different from previous reports on Japanese Graves' disease.
