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. 1980 Jul;43(7):611–621. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.43.7.611

Immune disease and HLA associations with myasthenia gravis.

P O Behan
PMCID: PMC490628  PMID: 6967515

Abstract

In the late 1950's laboratory and clinical evidence suggested that myasthenia gravis was an autoimmune disorder. Since then a voluminous literature has developed documenting the many immunological abnormalities that occur in this condition. Recent findings point to a central disorder of immunoregulation. It is postulated that the disease occurs as a result of host genetic and environmental influences-the latter being, as yet unidentified and possibly a virus.

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