Research Article

Clinical Features in Juvenile-Onset Ankylosing Spondylitis Patients Carrying Different B27 Subtypes

Table 3

Comparison of clinical features in JAS patients with B27-negative and different B27 subtypes.

HLA-B27 subtypeGender
(male)
Peripheral arthritisEnthesitisHip arthritisFamily historiesWaxy digitusIridocyclitis

HLA-B27-negative11/111/112/112/112/110/110/11
HLA-2704112/12073/120*82/120*49/12034/1201/1186/120
HLA-270510/116/116/11*4/113/111/11#2/11
HLA-27153/32/32/30/32/30/30/3

Note: (1) data in the table for each index number of positive cases and total cases; (2) * comparison between groups of different B27 subtypes and group of B27-negative, ; (3) # comparison between HLA-2705 and HLA-2704 group, .