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

Table 2

The HLA-DQA1 and -DQB1 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-DQA1
01:02	16	0.1333	66	0.2661	0.0049
02:01	21	0.1750	17	0.0685	0.0023
05:01	48	0.4000	19	0.0766	<0.0001
05:05	16	0.1333	62	0.2500	0.0115
HLA-DQB1
02:01	48	0.4000	18	0.0726	<0.0001
02:02	22	0.1833	19	0.0766	0.0020
03:01	17	0.1417	66	0.2661	0.0084
05:02	8	0.0667	36	0.1452	0.0341

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