Abstract
Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and its severe variant, toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), are acute inflammatory vesiculobullous reactions of the skin and mucous membranes. Cold medicines including non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and multi-ingredient cold medications are reported to be important inciting drugs. Recently, we reported that cold medicine related SJS/TEN (CM-SJS/TEN) with severe mucosal involvement including severe ocular surface complications (SOC) is associated with HLA-A*02:06 and HLA-B*44:03 in the Japanese. In this study, to determine whether HLA-B*44:03 is a common risk factor for CM-SJS/TEN with SOC in different ethnic groups we used samples from Indian, Brazilian, and Korean patients with CM-SJS/TEN with SOC, and investigated the association between CM-SJS/TEN with SOC and HLA-B*44:03 and/or HLA-A*02:06. We found that HLA-B*44:03 was significantly associated with CM-SJS/TEN with SOC in the Indian and Brazilian but not the Korean population, and that HLA-A*02:06 might be weakly associated in the Korean-but not the Indian and Brazilian population.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 5981 |
Journal | Scientific reports |
Volume | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 Aug 7 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was conducted as part of the BioBank Japan Project supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the Japanese government, and as part of the Promotion Project of Knowledge-Based Industrial Clustering of Okinawa Prefecture. It was supported in part by grants-in-aid for scientific research from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, a research grant from the Kyoto Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Science, and the Intramural Research Fund of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. The funding agencies had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, the decision to publish, or the preparation of the manuscript.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General