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Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 1986; 45, 412-416

HLA antigens in Italian patients with primary Sj ogren's syndrome C VITALI,' A TAVONI,' G RIZZO,2 R NERI,' A D'ASCANIO,' R CRISTOFANI,3 AND S BOMBARDIERI' From the 'Rheumatic Disease Unit, University of Pisa; the 2Division of Nephrology, Hospital of Pisa; and the 3Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, CNR Clinical Physiology Laboratories, Pisa, Italy

Twenty eight Italian patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome were typed for class I and class II alloantigens of the major histocompatibility complex. Patients with Sjogren's syndrome had higher prevalence of DR3 (46-4% v 14% in the control population, p corrected