HISTOCOMPATIBILITY SYSTEM IN JUVENILE, INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETIC MULTIPLEX KINDREDS
HISTOCOMPATIBILITY SYSTEM IN JUVENILE, INSULIN-DEPENDENT DIABETIC MULTIPLEX KINDREDS
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DOI:
10.1172/jci108879
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发表时间:
1977-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
YUNIS, EJ
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作者:
BARBOSA, J;KING, R;YUNIS, EJ
Histocompatibility (HLA) genotypes were determined for 24 families with 2 or more juvenile, insulin-dependent, ketosis-prone diabetic siblings. This criterion for family selection was used to obtain a homogeneous form of diabetes within a sibship, because diabetes appears to be a genetically heterogeneous disease. Fifty-eight diabetic and 53 nondiabetic sibs and 40 parents were studied. Of the diabetic pairs 55% were concordant for both HLA haplotypes (expected 25%), 40% were concordant for 1 haplotype (expected 50%), and 5% were discordant for both haplotypes (expected 25%). These values are significantly different from the expected values (P < 0.001). The inheritance of haplotypes among the nondiabetic sibs in these families was not significantly different from the expected mendelian segregation. When comparing 20 pairs of HLA identical (sharing 2 haplotypes) with 15 pairs of haploidentical (sharing 1 haplotype) diabetic sibs for the intrapair difference in age of onset of disease, the HLA identical sibs were significantly more concordant for age of onset (3.9 yr difference) than the haploidentical (7.3 yr difference) (P < 0.05). The same type of analysis for the difference in seasonal incidence in months revealed that the HLA identical sibs were more concordant (1.8 mo. difference) than the haploidentical sibs (3.2 mo. difference) (P < 0.025). The HLA identical diabetic sibs were more likely to develop diabetes in the winter months (78%) than the haploidentical diabetic sibs (21%). No particular HLA haplotype or antigen seemed to be associated with any particular clinical feature. These data are compatible with the theory of genetic heterogeneity of juvenile, insulin-dependent diabetes. There may be one or more diabetes response genes in the HLA region playing an important role in the pathogenesis of juvenile, insulin-dependent diabetes in the families studied here. It is possible that other genes, not associated with the HLA complex, may play an etiologic role in some cases of juvenile, insulin-dependent diabetes, resulting in lack of association between HLA and some forms of diabetes.