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Dog MHC alleles containing the human RA shared epitope confer susceptibility to canine rheumatoid arthritis.
Immunogenetics - 1 Oct 2001
Ollier W E, Kennedy L J, Thomson W, Barnes A N, Bell S C, Bennett D, Angles J M, Innes J F, Carter S D
Abstract excerpt
To determine whether canine rheumatoid arthritis (CRA) is associated with dog MHC (DLA-DRB1) alleles which contain the QRRAA/RKRAA conserved third hypervariable region (3HVR) sequence, DNA samples were extracted from 61 dogs with clinically diagnosed small-joint polyarthritis and from 425 control...
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