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Association of narcolepsy-cataplexy with HLA-DRB1 and DQB1 in Mexican patients: A relationship between HLA and gender is suggested

BACKGROUND: Narcolepsy-cataplexy is characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness with recurrent episodes of irresistible sleep, cataplexy, hallucinations and sleep paralysis. Its aetiology is unknown, but it is positively associated with the human leukocyte antigens (HLA) in all studied populations...

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Autores principales: Alaez, Carmen, Lin, Ling, Flores-A, Hilario, Vazquez, Miriam, Munguia, Andrea, Mignot, Emmanuel, Haro, Reyes, Baker, Harry, Gorodezky, Clara
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18706091
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-9-79