HLA-DRB and HLA-DQB Allele and Haplotype Frequencies  in Iranian Patients with Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis

Shamsolmoulouk Najafi; Mahsa Mohammadzadeh; Alireza Zare Bidoki; Ghasem Meighani; Saeed Aslani; Mahdi Mahmoudi; Nima Rezaei

HLA-DRB and HLA-DQB Allele and Haplotype Frequencies in Iranian Patients with Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis

Shamsolmoulouk Najafi

Abstract

Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is known as the most common chronic disease of the oral cavity, which affects a range of 5-25% of the population. RAS appears to be associated with some human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II alleles and haplotypes. This study attempts to survey the distribution of HLA-DRB and -DQB alleles among Iranian RAS patients and healthy controls. In order to evaluate the association of HLA-DR and DQ alleles and haplotypes, 54 patients with RAS and 100 unrelated healthy subjects as control group were investigated. Our data indicated that DRB1*13:17, DRB1*15:01, and DRB5*01 were significantly more frequent in RAS patients in comparison to controls. However, DRB3:01allele frequency was higher in the controls compared to the patients. The significantly frequent allele in the patients compared with the healthy subjects was HLA-DQB1*03:02. However, both HLA-DQB1*02:01 and HLA-DQB1*03:01 alleles were most frequent in the healthy individuals rather than the patients. The DRB*04/DQB1*03:01 and DRB*01:01/DQB1*02:01 haplotypes were significantly distributed in healthy subjects compared with patients. However, DRB*07:01/DQB1*03:02 haplotype was found to be significantly frequent in patients than controls. In respect of HLA genes, factors are involved in the incidence of RAS; various HLA-DRB and HLA-DQB1 alleles and the related haplotypes are suggested to be the three main RAS susceptibility factors in our population study.

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Allele frequency Haplotype frequency Human leukocyte antigen Recurrent aphthous stomatitis

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Najafi S, Mohammadzadeh M, Zare Bidoki A, Meighani G, Aslani S, Mahmoudi M, Rezaei N. HLA-DRB and HLA-DQB Allele and Haplotype Frequencies in Iranian Patients with Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis. Iran J Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2016;15(4):289-295.

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