Ankylosing spondylitis and HLA-B27: restriction fragment length polymorphism and sequencing of an HLA-B27 allele from a patient with ankylosing spondylitis.

Authors: Higgins CM; Lund T; Shipley ME; Ebringer A; Sadowska-Wroblewska M; Craig RK

Abstract: Two groups of patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) from England and Poland were examined for restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) associated with the disease. No preferential association was found between the 9.2 kb PvuII fragment in HLA-B27 positive patients with AS compared with HLA-B27 healthy subjects as had been previously reported. In the English group, however, a 14 kb PvuII fragment was more common in HLA-B27 positive subjects with AS than in normal controls. Also 4.6 and 3.7 kb PvuII fragments were more prevalent in subjects without AS than in the group with AS, but these results were confined to the English group. Furthermore, the sequence of an HLA-B*2705 gene isolated from a patient with AS was examined, and no significant differences were found compared with the sequence isolated from a healthy subject. There do not seem to be significant genetic differences in the coding or in the regulatory region in HLA-B27 alleles, in subjects with or without AS.

Keywords: *Alleles; Autoradiography; Base Sequence; Blotting, Southern; Female; Genes, MHC Class I/*genetics; HLA-B27 Antigen/*genetics; Humans; Male; Molecular Sequence Data; Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; Prevalence; Spondylitis, Ankylosing/ethnology/*immunology
Journal: Annals of the rheumatic diseases
Volume: 51
Issue: 7
Pages: 855-62
Date: July 1, 1992
PMID: 1352961
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Higgins CM, Lund T, Shipley ME, Ebringer A, Sadowska-Wroblewska M, Craig RK (1992) Ankylosing spondylitis and HLA-B27: restriction fragment length polymorphism and sequencing of an HLA-B27 allele from a patient with ankylosing spondylitis. Annals of the rheumatic diseases 51: 855-62.



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