Abstract
Fifty-six unrelated Japanese patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) were HLA-typed, and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis was performed after enzyme digestion with Bam HI and Taq I by using both DR and DQ probes. As previously reported, increased frequencies of Bw54, Cw1, DR4, and DRw53, which are in strong linkage disequilibrium in the Japanese population and make the characteristic Japanese haplotype, were confirmed. DQw4, a new allele of the DQ system recognized by the monoclonal antibody HU-46 and in linkage disequilibrium with this haplotype, presented the highest IDDM association. The RFLP analysis also showed the strongest correlation to IDDM when the DQ probe was applied. These results indicate that HLA-DQ might play the most important role in the development of IDDM in Japanese as well as in Caucasians. The correlation of DQβ amino acid sequences strongly associated with IDDM in Japanese are discussed in this study, and contrasting results were found when such sequences were compared with those of Caucasians.
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Abbreviations
- IDDM:
-
insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
- RFLP:
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restriction fragment length polymorphism
- Asp:
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aspartic acid
- Asp-57:
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aspartic acid at the 57th residue of the DQβ chain
- non-Asp-57:
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nonaspartic acid at the 57th residue of the DQβ chain
- R.R.:
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relative risk of Woolf and Haldane
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Aparicio, J.M.R., Wakisaka, A., Takada, A. et al. HLA-DQ system and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in Japanese: does it contribute to the development of IDDM as it does in Caucasians?. Immunogenetics 28, 240–246 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00345500
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