HLA DR2 and DQ1 frequency among narcoleptic patients in Hong Kong Chinese
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HLA DR15 (DR2) and DQB1*0602 typing studies in 188 narcoleptic patients with cataplexy.
Narcolepsy is considered a homogeneous clinical entity when excessive daytime sleepiness and cataplexy are present. Cataplexy is a polymorphic symptom that can be very mild and is thus subjectively defined. The Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) is widely used as a diagnostic test for narcolepsy. A short mean sleep latency and multiple sleep onset REM periods (SOREMPs) are typically observed in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1323-1316
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1998.00423.x