Yukinori Okada, Michiaki Kubo and colleagues report the construction of a new HLA imputation reference panel for the Japanese population. They apply this resource to analyze the association of the HLA region with Graves' disease and find that variants in multiple class I and class II HLA genes contribute independently to disease risk.
- Yukinori Okada
- Yukihide Momozawa
- Michiaki Kubo
