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Familial aggregation of polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis: genetic and T cell repertoire analysis.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Bartolome M J, Martínez-Taboda V M, Lopez-Hoyos M, Blanco R, Rodriguez-Valverde V
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Several reports of familial aggregation of giant cell arteritis (GCA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) have been described although detailed genetic and immunological studies are scarce. Our aims were to investigate the influence of HLA-DRB1 alleles and to analyze the phenotype and T cell receptor (TCR) usage of circulating T lymphocytes in a familial case of GCA and PMR. METHODS: HLA-DRB1 typing was...
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