A. Amar et al., INVASIVE SQUAMOUS-CELL CARCINOMA OF THE CERVIX - IS HLA-DQ A DISEASE MARKER IN JEWISH PATIENTS, European journal of immunogenetics, 20(5), 1993, pp. 327-333
HLA class I and class II were investigated in 30 Israeli patients with
invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix and compared to health
y controls. None of the studied serological specificities were found t
o be associated with the disease. Genomic DNA from the patients was am
plified by PCR, dot-blotted and hybridized with sequence specific olig
onucleotide probes defining the known DQA1 and DQB1 allelic variants.
Fifteen out of the 30 patients tested (50%) were found to carry the DQ
A10501 allelic variant, which is common in the local healthy populati
on (67%). DQB10302 was found in eight out of 30 patients (27%) while
this allele was present in 17% of the healthy population, a difference
which is not statistically significant. Our data indicate that there
is no apparent association between invasive squamous cell carcinoma of
the cervix and the HLA antigens and alleles studied including the all
eles of the DQA and DQB loci in the Israeli population. Our findings i
ndicate that MHC genes could not be useful in the diagnosis of squamou
s cell carcinoma of the cervix.