Ingebjørg Knutsen

TL;DR: It is suggested that disease susceptibility is mainly conferred by DQ8 while DR4 subtypes confer different degrees of protection, and features of a protective peptide that fit such a model are briefly discussed.

TL;DR: The association of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) to HLA class II genes was studied by comparing patients from five different European populations and PSC was found to be positively associated to three different HLAclass II haplotypes.

TL;DR: It is concluded that dermatitis herpetiformis and celiac disease are associated to the very same HLA-DQ alpha beta heterodimers.

TL;DR: On the basis of analysis of 251 colonic carcinomas, the presence of HLA‐DQ7 did not seem to protect against the establishment of carcinomas carrying the 13Asp mutation, since the frequency of the DQ7 haplotype was not decreased among patients having this mutation.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that the genes encoding the DQ(alpha 1*0102, beta 1*0602) heterodimer may confer susceptibility to developing multiple sclerosis in the absence of the DRB1*1501 allele.