Endemic HBV infection, tissue autoantibodies and HLA: Analysis of a Sardinian population
- 1 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Tissue Antigens
- Vol. 22 (4), 289-294
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-0039.1983.tb01205.x
Abstract
Serum samples of 405 HLA-typed individuals from 4 Sardinian villages were analyzed for HB [hepatitis B] virus [HBV] markers and for tissue autoantibodies. Of the 59% individuals who had been exposed to HBV, 10% were healthy carriers; they showed a weak association with the HLA-B40 specificity compared with the immune or non-exposed groups, and a negative association of DR4, limited to females. Tissue autoantibodies were significantly associated with DR1 and more weakly with B14, probably through linkage disequilibrium.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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