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Clinical phenotype is related to HLA genotype in the peripheral arthropathies of inflammatory bowel disease.
Gastroenterology - 1 Feb 2000
Orchard T R, Thiyagaraja S, Welsh K I, Wordsworth B P, Hill Gaston J S, Jewell D P
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: The detection of phenotype-determining genes as opposed to disease susceptibility genes requires precise phenotypic characterization of patients. Peripheral arthropathies in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are well recognized and are classified with the HLA-B*27-related spondyloarthropathies by the European Spondyloarthropathy Study Group. However, previous HLA studies in IBD have only shown...
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