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Insulin-dependent diabetes is generally associated with the serologic HLA-DR specificities 3 and 4, in particular with DR-3,4 heterozygosity. The disease is negatively associated with DR-2. To investigate these associations further at the genomic level, DNA from 13 families with a proband having insulin-dependent diabetes, from 11 other individuals with the same disease, and from HLA-DR-matched control individuals was subjected to restriction fragment analysis. Three different enzymes (Bam HI, Eco RI, and Pvu II) and cDNA clones for three HLA-D region class II antigen alpha- and beta-chains (DR-beta, DQ-beta, and DQ-alpha) were used. In six families, a total of 11 siblings HLA-DR-identical to the proband were examined. There was no discrepancy between the hybridization patterns of the proband and those of the DR-identical siblings. Two different DQ-B fragment patterns were detected with each one of the serologic specificities DR-2 and DR-4. In both cases, only one of the patterns correlated significantly with diabetes. Thus, DQ-beta genomic hybridization may be used in conjunction with HLA-DR typing to identify individuals with higher relative risk to acquire insulin-dependent diabetes. These results may suggest that insulin-dependent diabetes is associated with the DQ rather than with the DR locus.
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