HLA Haplotype Association with Celiac Disease in Albanian Pediatric Patients from Kosovo

Table 1

The HLA-A, -B, and -DRB1 allele frequencies observed in the Albanian pediatric celiac disease patients from Kosovo () with statistically significant differences in comparison to healthy individuals in the control group ().

	Patients; ()		Control group; ()
		AF		AF
HLA-A
01	32	0.2667	26	0.1048	<0.0001
02	26	0.2167	81	0.3266	0.0312
HLA-B
08	35	0.2917	14	0.0565	<0.0001
35	4	0.0333	31	0.1250	0.0093
50	7	0.0583	1	0.0040	0.0012
HLA-DRB1
03	46	0.3833	18	0.0726	<0.0001
07	21	0.1750	17	0.0685	0.0023
11	16	0.1333	55	0.2218	0.0460
13	6	0.0500	36	0.1452	0.0102
16	7	0.0583	34	0.1371	0.0289

Legend (alphabetic order): AF = allele frequency; = number of tested individuals; = number of allelic group occurrence.