An association between HLA-B*1301 and CM-induced SJS/TEN with SOC in Japanese population was observed in Ueta et al.23 The numbers of subjects carrying at least one allele of HLA-B*1301 were 12 out of 151 in cases and 19 out of 639 in controls. This evidence concerns the gene HLA-B and Schwartz-Jampel syndrome.