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Familial Behçet's disease.

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1992

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Tekin Akpolat, Yılmaz Koç, I Yeniay, Görgün Akpek, İbrahim Güllü, Emin Kansu, Sedat Kiraz, F. Fevzi Ersoy, Fıgen Batman, Tülay Kansu
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Abstract

Familial Behçet's disease, which constitutes a small group of patients with Behçet's disease, may represent a clinically heterogeneous subtype of this entity. Although lower frequency of vascular complications was observed in this study, it is not possible to indicate the precise frequency of vascular and ocular complications of the familial form of Behçet's disease. The frequencies of HLA-A2 and HLA-B51(5) positivity are higher than the previously reported non-Behçet's controls from Turkey.