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1: Vestn Ross Akad Med Nauk. 1995;(6):16-9.Links

[Analysis of the association of ABO blood groups and Rhesus factor with myasthenia]

[Article in Russian]

Gekht BM, Agafonov BV, Tsuman VG, Shagal DI, Sidorova OP, Nalivkin AE.

The distribution of ABO blood groups and rhesus factor was studied in patients with myasthenia as compared with the control. There was a statistically significant association of the diseases with the rhesus-negative phenotype and that of generalized myasthenia concurrent with thymoma with the B (III) blood group. The examination revealed no other determinants of the significant association with the disease. The values of a disease risk were obtained for persons having myasthenia-associated signs. It is concluded that the Rh-negative phenotype shows a 1.3-fold increase in the risk of the disease as compared with those having Rh-positive persons.

PMID: 7626990 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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