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Modeling the HLA component in rheumatoid arthritis: sensitivity to DRB1 allele frequencies.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Dec 2000
Tézenas du Montcel S, Reviron D, Genin E, Roudier J, Mercier P, Clerget-Darpoux F
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid arthritis is an inflammatory disease for which positive associations have been described with some HLA-DRB1 alleles. The associated alleles share a similar amino acid sequence in the third hypervariable region, the shared epitope, but differ at position 71 and 86. It has been suggested that HLA susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis could be due not only to the shared epitope but could also be...
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