Hodge S E, Berkel A I, Gatti R A, Boder E, Spence M A
Tissue Antigens. 1980 Mar;15(3):313-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1980.tb00922.x.
Nine HLA-typed multiplex nuclear families segregating ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T), an autosomal recessive disorder, were studied. Linkage analysis performed by lod scores and by a previously published sib pair method revealed no evidence for linkage between A-T and HLA. An alternative method of linkage detection, previously applied to xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) and HLA, was reexamined and found to contain an error. As a consequence, neither of these "DNA repair disorders" appears to be linked to HLA.