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Forbes, A 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7416-9843, Schwarz, G, Mirakian, R, Drummond, V, Chan, C K, Cotton, P B and Bottazzo, G F
(1987)
HLA antigens in chronic pancreatitis.
Tissue Antigens, 30 (4).
pp. 176-183.
ISSN 0001-2815
Abstract
Since immunological and hereditary factors may be important in chronic pancreatitis, histocompatibility antigens of classes I and II were studied in 50 British Caucasian patients, after exclusion of insulin-dependent diabetics for whom HLA associations are recognised. Chronic pancreatitis was defined by at least two independent criteria, and only subjects with alcohol-related and idiopathic disease were included. In 22 patients (21 male), weekly ethanol intake had chronically exceeded 100 g (usually substantially so); the remaining 28 had idiopathic chronic pancreatitis (ICP). Twenty patients (40%) had autoantibodies, in 11 (22%) to gastric parietal cells. Nine of those with ICP (three male) had parietal cell antibody, more than expected for the age/sex distribution. There were overall increased frequencies of HLA Cw5 and B44. In ICP there were increased frequencies of HLA A25 and Cw1, and a decreased frequency of B7. In patients with alcohol-related disease there were increased frequencies of Cw5 (50.0% vs control 15.9%), B44 (54.5% vs 29.4%), and DR4 (61.1% vs 33.6%). The increased frequency of Cw5 in alcohol-related disease alone remained significant after correction (p less than 0.05). A hypothesis that hereditary and possibly immunological factors may contribute to the aetiology of chronic pancreatitis is supported.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | alcoholism,autoantibodies,chronic disease,gene frequency,hla antigens,humans,pancreatitis,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Gastroenterology and Gut Biology Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Nutrition and Preventive Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Aug 2014 10:44 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2022 23:58 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/49500 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1987.tb01617.x |
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