title: HLA antigens in 16 families with xeroderma pigmentosum.
abstract: Xeroderma pigmentosum is an autosomal recessive disease. HLA-A and -B typing was performed on peripheral blood lymphocytes and platelets. Sixteen Tunisian families were typed with 37 patients and 108 relatives. Genetic transmission of the disease and of the HLA system seemed to be independent in this study. Comparison of HLA gene frequencies between (unrelated) parents of patients and a control population showed no difference, proving that there is no clear association in populations between deleterious XP genes and a particular HLA gene. However, an excess of identical HLA among pairs of diseased siblings would suggest that the disease is polymorphic and a form of the XP could be linked to HLA.
mesh_terms: D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000276:immunology; D003168:Complement Fixation Tests; D003601:Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006680:HLA Antigens; D006649:Histocompatibility Antigens; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D014983:Xeroderma Pigmentosum / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D006680:HLA Antigens; D006649:Histocompatibility Antigens