06. HLA-RA_inflam arthritis_12_24_10

1. Seward R, Drouin E, Steere A, Costello C. Peptides presented by HLA-DR molecules in synovia of patients with rheumatoid arthritis or antibiotic-refractory Lyme arthritis. Mol Cell Proteomics 2010; (Epub ahead of print).

2. Auger I, Roudier C, Guis S, Balandraud N, Roudier J. HLA-DRB1*0404 is strongly associated with anti-calpastatin antibodies in rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis 2007; 12: 1588-93.

3. Furuya T, Hakoda M, Ichikawa N, Higami K, Nanke Y, Yago T, Kobashigawa T, Tokunaga K. Tsuchiya N, Kamatani N. Differential association of HLA-DRB1 alleles in Japanese patients with early rheumatoid arthritis in relationship to autoantibodies to cyclic citrullinated peptide. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2007; 2: 21924.

4. Hughes L, Morrison D, Kelley J, Padilla M, Vaughan L, Westfall A, Mikuls T, Holers V, Parrish L, Alarcon G, Conn D, Jonas B, Callahan L, Smith E, Gikeson G, Howard G, Moreland L, Patterson N, Reich D, Bridges S. The HLA-DRB1 shared epitope is associated with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis in African American through European genetic admixture. Arthritis Rheum 2008; 2: 349-58.

5. Fries J, Wolfe F, Apple R, Erlich H, Bugawan T, Holmes T, Bruce B. HLADRB1 genotype associations in 793 white pa
tients from a rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort: frequency, severity, and treatment bias. Arthritis Rheum 2002; 9: 2320-9.

6. Toussirot E, Auge B, Tiberghien P, Chabod J, Cedoz J, Wendling D. HLA-DRB1 alleles and shared amino acid sequences in disease susceptibility and severity in patients from eastern France with rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol 1999; 7: 1446-51.

7. Gonzalez-Gay M, Garcia-Porrua C, Hajeer A. Influence of human leukocyte antigen-DRB1 on the susceptibility and severity of rheumatoid arthritis. Semin Arthritis Rheum 2002; 6: 355-60. 8. de Vries R, Huizinga T, Toes R. Redefining the HLA and RA association: to be or not to be anti-CCP positive. J autoimmune 2005; 25 Suppl:21-5.

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05. HLA Malaria 03/12/12

1. Alba M, Salazar L, Vargas L, Trujillo M, Lopez Y, Patarroyo M. Modifying RESA protein peptide 6671 to fit into HLA-DRbeta1* pockets induces protection against malaria. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004; 4: 1154-64.

2. Osafo-Addo A, Koram K, Oduro A, Wilson M, Hodgson A, Rogers W. HLADRB1*04 allele is associated with severe malaria in northern Ghana. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2008; 2: 251-5.

3. Carpenter D, Rooth I, Farnert A, Abushama H, Quinnell R, Shaw M. Genetics of susceptibility to malaria related phenotypes. Infect Genet Evol 2009; 1: 97-103.

4. Lulli P, Mangano V, Onori A, Batini C, Luoni G, Sirima B, Nebie I, Chessa L, Petrarca V, Modiano D. Hum Immunol 2009; 70(11): 903-9. HLA-DRB1 and  DQB1 loci in three west African ethnic groups: genetic relationships with subSaharan African and European populations.

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