title: HLA study of Japanese patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: significant association with HLA-DQw3.
abstract: To demonstrate genetic susceptibility to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), 10 Japanese patients with pathologically proved CJD and 6 patients with clinically definite CJD were tissue typed for 48 class I and 14 class II human leukocyte antigen (HLA) specificities. The patients were scattered throughout Japan and there were no consanguineous relationships. Among 62 HLA specificities, HLA-DRw53 and DQw3 were found in all pathologically proved CJD cases. When the frequencies of the HLA antigens in the 16 CJD cases were compared to those of normal Japanese, a highly significant (p less than 0.005) increase was found for HLA-DQw3 in the CJD group. The present findings provide evidence for genetic control of susceptibility to CJD in humans.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006681:HLA-D Antigens / Q000032:analysis*; D006684:HLA-DR Antigens / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D006681:HLA-D Antigens; D006684:HLA-DR Antigens