The British Journal of Psychiatry 158: 270-272 (1991)
© 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Human leucocyte antigens and tardive dyskinesia
KW Brown and T White
Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
HLA status was assessed in matched groups of schizophrenics, 20 with and 20
without tardive dyskinesia. The antigen frequencies were also compared with
that in a control sample. The anticipated excess of HLA- B44 was not
confirmed. Pooled data displayed a shortfall of HLA-Cw7 and an excess of
HLA-B44 in schizophrenics relative to population controls.