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A1 Mondino BJ, Brown SI, Rabin BS
T1 HLa antigens in ocular cicatricial pemphigoid
JF Archives of Ophthalmology
JO Archives of Ophthalmology
YR 1979
FD March 1
VO 97
IS 3
SP 479
OP 479
DO 10.1001/archopht.1979.01020010229007
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1979.01020010229007
AB • HLA antigen frequencies were studied in 45 patients with ocular cicatricial pemphigoid. HLA-B12 was found to have an increased frequency of 44.4% in patients with ocular cicatricial pemphigoid, which was statistically significant when compared with a frequency of 19.6% in the control population (P < .001 or P < .031 when corrected for the number of antigens tested). The results of this study suggest that there is an immunogenetic susceptibility to the development of ocular cicatricial pemphigoid.