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SUBMITTER: Yamazaki T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6085285 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yamazaki Tomoo T Umemura Takeji T Joshita Satoru S Yoshizawa Kaname K Tanaka Eiji E Ota Masao M
Scientific reports 20180809 1
Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic inflammatory liver disease characterized by an autoimmune reaction to hepatocytes. A single nucleotide polymorphism in the 3' untranslated region of HLA-DPB1, rs9277534, is associated with HLA-DPB1 expression. rs9277534 has been linked to hepatitis B virus recovery/persistence and the risk of graft-versus-host disease with HLA-DPB1 mismatching transplantation of hematopoietic cells, but its role along with that of HLA-DP expression in AIH have not been ful ...[more]