title: The HLA-DQ beta non-Asp-57 allele: a predictor of future insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in patients with autoimmune Addison's disease.
abstract: HLA-DR specificities in 72 Addison's (AD) patients and 808 local controls were compared. We confirmed earlier reports that the HLA-DR3 specificity is significantly increased in AD patients. In our study a relative risk of 3.4 chi 2 = 22.5; pc = 0.01) for the disease was calculated. Analysis of HLA-DQB1 alleles in DR4+ Addison's patients with diabetes mellitus (N = 6) and without IDDM (14 of 18 individuals tested) revealed that the HLA-DQw8 allele (DQB1*0302) was significantly increased in AD patients with IDDM (chi 2 = 13.5; p = 0.001); conversely, a clustering of the HLA-DQw7 allele was detected in DR4+ Addison's patients without IDDM. We thus conclude that particular polymorphic alleles corresponding to non-charged amino acids at position 57 of the HLA-DQ beta-chain [non-Asp-57 alleles] are associated with IDDM also in Addison's patients.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital, Frankfurt Medical School, Department of General Medicine, Germany.
authors.forename: B O
authors.initials: BO
authors.lastname: Boehm
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Manfras
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Seidl
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Holzberger
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kühnl
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rosak
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schöffling
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Trucco
mesh_terms: D000224:Addison Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D000483:Alleles; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D006683:HLA-DQ Antigens / Q000235:genetics*; D059866:HLA-DQ beta-Chains; D015803:HLA-DR3 Antigen / Q000235:genetics; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D006683:HLA-DQ Antigens; D059866:HLA-DQ beta-Chains; C057615:HLA-DQbeta antigen; D015803:HLA-DR3 Antigen