HLA markers and periodic disease [familial Mediterranean fever (F.M.F.)
Chaouat, Y.; Tormen, J.P.; Godeau, P.; Camus, J.P.; Kahn, M.F.; Ryckewaert, A.; Laula, J.E.; Menkes, C.J.; Schmid, M.; Hors, J.
La Nouvelle Presse Medicale 6(33): 2949-2953
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0301-1518 PMID: 593830 Document Number: 118043
Thirty-one unrelated patients, 15-52 years old, were typed by microlymphocytotoxicity for 27 alleles of the HLA system. In addition, 12 families including 1 or more patient were also analysed. This criteria for diagnosis were those of Sohar et all. (Am. Intern. Med., 1967, 43, 227-253). All patients were of Israelite-Sephardin origin except two (Armenian and French); they were from North-Africa (Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria) and Israël. The results were compared to the antigen frequencies of 3 reference normal populations. The frequencies of the studied alleles do not differ from those of controls, except for HL-A28 and B14 slightly increased when compared to the normal frequencies. The study of 7 families with at least two sibs suffering from FMF shows a random distribution of the genotypes : 2 HLA identical, 6 different and 10 haploidentical diseased sibs. This distribution differs significantly (p less than 0.01) from that expected in the case of a recessive inheritance. These data do not support the hypothesis of a linkage between genes controlling FMF and HLA genes.