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Objective
The objective of the study was to clarify the associations of HLA class I and II alleles with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) among Chinese Han.
Methods
We performed HLA genotyping and Sanger sequencing for 68 HLA‐B*27(−), 62 HLA‐B*27(+) AS patients, and 70 controls. Case–control analyses and separate analyses of HLA‐B*27(−) patients were performed. One‐way ANOVA and Kruskal–Wallis multiple...