HLA DRB Test Result Question

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Hello,

 

My wife has taken the HLA DRB test. The results are as follows:

DRB1 - 0701

DRB1 - 1501

HLADQ - 0303

HLADQ - 0602

DRB3 - -

DRB3 - -

DRB4 - 01ARYE

DRB4 - -

DRB5 - 0101

DRB5 - -

 

I have read the chart to interpret the results from the survivingmold.com website and the

rosetta stone .pdf.

http://www.survivingmold.com/diagnosis/lab-tests

http://www.patsullivan.com/files/hla-test-results.pdf

 

My question is in interpreting DRB5. If I understand correctly, from the rosetta stone pdf, DRB5 0101 is read as "53" and the first line test results read 07/03/-/53/- which is "mold susceptible".

 

The DRB5 for line two is where I get confused. The test results show a "-", but is a "-" read as "51" (per the rosetta stone pdf) or is it just blank? What I am trying to determine is if my wife is also "lyme

susceptible" (15/6/-/-/51). According to the test results it reads 15/6/-/-/-, which is not technically "lyme susceptible", as the DRB5 in my wife's test came back with a "-" instead of a number.

 

Can anyone confirm if a "-" in DRB5 should be interpreted as a blank or as "51"?

 

Thank you.

Gary

[MichaelTampa]

Hello,

 

My wife has taken the HLA DRB test. The results are as follows:

DRB1 - 0701

DRB1 - 1501

HLADQ - 0303

HLADQ - 0602

DRB3 - -

DRB3 - -

DRB4 - 01ARYE

DRB4 - -

DRB5 - 0101

DRB5 - -

 

I have read the chart to interpret the results from the survivingmold.com website and the

rosetta stone .pdf.

http://www.survivingmold.com/diagnosis/lab-tests

http://www.patsullivan.com/files/hla-test-results.pdf

 

My question is in interpreting DRB5. If I understand correctly, from the rosetta stone pdf, DRB5 0101 is read as "53" and the first line test results read 07/03/-/53/- which is "mold susceptible".

 

The DRB5 for line two is where I get confused. The test results show a "-", but is a "-" read as "51" (per the rosetta stone pdf) or is it just blank? What I am trying to determine is if my wife is also "lyme

susceptible" (15/6/-/-/51). According to the test results it reads 15/6/-/-/-, which is not technically "lyme susceptible", as the DRB5 in my wife's test came back with a "-" instead of a number.

 

Can anyone confirm if a "-" in DRB5 should be interpreted as a blank or as "51"?

 

Thank you.

Gary

 

You're supposed to read the 01 as a 51, and the blank as nothing there. But, note comment 1 on the rosetta stone implies the column it appears in is not always the comment to use it in, when there is only one number to give, and you need to have two sets of 3 numbers unless you meet the criteria to have just 2 numbers, which these results do not meet (again, from number 1 in the rosetta stone). So, the results are 7-3-53 and 15-6-51, or 7-3-51 and 15-6-53. (Otherwise, you'd have 7-3-53-51 and 15-6, and those results don't exist on the chart.) The only way to distinguish then is to look at the set of possible results. 7-3-53 and 15-6-51 exist and the others do not, so those are the results. The 7-3-53 is what he calls mold susceptible (as you noted) and the 15-6-51 is what he calls borrelia/post-lyme syndrome. Not a pleasant result, I guess, but that's what it looks like.