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CTLA-4 gene polymorphism in Japanese patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Dec 2000
Yanagawa T, Gomi K, Nakao E I, Inada S
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether CTLA-4 gene confers susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Japanese. METHODS: We investigated the distribution of a CTLA-4 gene polymorphism in 85 Japanese patients with RA and 200 controls. An A/G transition at position 49 of exon 1 was analyzed by the polym...
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