Abstract | AIM: To estimate the distribution of HLA Class I (A, B) antigens in patients with Behcet's disease (BD) and the association of HLA-B5 antigen with the clinical manifestations of the disease in different ethnic and population groups in relation to gender. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The study covered 93 patients (68 males, 25 females) from the representatives of 24 ethnicities with the verified disease. HLA Class I antigens were typed by the microlymphocytotoxic technique, by applying an antileukocytic serum kit (GISANS, Saint Petersburg). RESULTS: In patients with BD, the prevalence of HLA-B5 antigen proved to be significantly higher than that in the controls (72.0 and 21%, respectively) and to be similar in patients of different ethnicities living in the Caucasus and Transcaucasus (80-83%) while the number of HLA-B5 antigen-positive patients with BD was thrice less in the Russian population than in other BD patients (p < 0.01). There was a significant correlation of HLA-B5 antigen with ocular lesion ( retinal angiitis) predominantly in male patients with BD. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of HLA-B5 antigen was higher in patients with BD than in the population-based control. The diagnostic value of this antigen is not so great, for example, in the Russian population of patients with BD. The presence of HLA-B5 antigen in the phenotype of male patients with BD may be regarded as a prognostically poor marker of development of eye diseases.
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Authors | R G Goloeva, Z S Alekberova, I A Guseva, M Iu Krylov |
Journal | Terapevticheskii arkhiv
(Ter Arkh)
Vol. 82
Issue 5
Pg. 45-9
( 2010)
ISSN: 0040-3660 [Print] Russia (Federation) |
PMID | 20597270
(Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article, Review)
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Chemical References |
- Biomarkers
- HLA-B Antigens
- HLA-B5 antigen
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Topics |
- Adult
- Behcet Syndrome
(blood, epidemiology, ethnology)
- Biomarkers
(blood)
- Female
- HLA-B Antigens
(blood)
- Humans
- Male
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