HLA antigens and certain types of uveitis.
Some preliminary results are given on human leucocyte antigen (HLA) typing of nine patients with sympathetic ophthalmitis, two with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease, and nine with Behçet's disease and uveitis. In the sympathetic ophthalmitis patients the relative risk for B40 was 7.2, which would indicate that a more extensive study might be valuable. In Behçet's disease B5 and B27 both carried increased risks of 9.4 and 11.1 respectively.
D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000276:immunology; D006680:HLA Antigens / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D009879:Ophthalmia, Sympathetic / Q000276:immunology; D010859:Pigmentation Disorders / Q000276:immunology; D014605:Uveitis / Q000276:immunology*
D006680:HLA Antigens