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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 20.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetes Care. 2008 Mar 3;31(6):1195–1200. doi: 10.2337/dc07-1971

Table 3—

HLA class II allele frequencies in KPD subgroups compared with ethnicity-specific population control subjects

HLA class II allele frequencies in autoantibody-positive (A+) KPD subgroups compared with ethnicity-specific population control subjects
Ethnic-specific control subjects A+β− KPD A+β+ KPD
Allele Caucasian African American Hispanic Caucasian African American Hispanic Caucasian African American Hispanic
n 414 69 78 4 19 9 3 5 6
Susceptibility
 DRB1*03 80 (19) 12 (17) 5 (6) 2 (50) 6 (32) 6 (67)* 1 (33) 2 (40) 3 (50)*
 DRB1*04 154 (37) 7 (10) 41 (53) 3 (75) 7 (37)* 7 (78) 2 (67) 0 4 (67)
 DQB1*02 130 (31) 10 (14) 14 (18) 2 (50) 14 (74)* 5 (56)* 2 (67) 2 (40) 3 (50)
 DQB1*0302 59 (14) 4 (6) 33 (42) 3 (75)* 5 (26)* 7 (78) 2 (67) 0 2 (33)
Resistance
 DQB1*0301 and *0303 258 (62) 38 (55) 67 (86) 2 (50) 8 (42) 2 (22)* 2 (67) 2 (40) 4 (67)
HLA class II allele frequencies in autoantibody-negative (A−) KPD subgroups compared with ethnicity-specific population control subjects
Ethnic-specific control subjects A−β− KPD A−β+ KPD
Allele Caucasian African American Hispanic Caucasian African American Hispanic Caucasian African American Hispanic
n 414 69 78 7 15 16 8 37 54
Susceptibility
 DQB1*02 130 (31) 10 (14) 14 (18) 3 (43) 7 (47)* 4 (25) 1 (13) 12 (32)* 15 (28)
 DQB1*0302 59 (14) 4 (6) 33 (42) 2 (29) 1 (7) 9 (56) 1 (13) 1 (3) 26 (48)
Resistance
 DQB1*0602 64 (15) 7 (10) 6 (8) 0 1 (7) 1 (6) 1 (13) 14 (38)* 5 (9)
 DQB1*0301 and *0303 258 (62) 38 (55) 67 (86) 4 (57) 6 (40) 6 (38)* 4 (50) 8 (22)* 26 (48)*
Unknown
 DQB1*05 116 (28) 10 (14) 12 (15) 3 (43) 7 (47)* 3 (19) 3 (38) 7 (19) 4 (7)
 DQB1*06 203 (49) 19 (28) 23 (29) 2 (29) 2 (13) 2 (13) 4 (50) 11 (30) 3 (6)*

Data are n (%).

*

P < 0.05 (KPD subgroup compared with ethnicity-specific control subjects).