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HLA-DRB1 genotype associations in 793 white patients from a rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort: frequency, severity, and treatment bias.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Sept 2002
Fries James F, Wolfe Frederick, Apple Raymond, Erlich Henry, Bugawan Teodorica, Holmes Tyson, Bruce Bonnie
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The HLA-DRB1 "shared epitope" (SE) genotypes are associated with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but it remains controversial whether the association is with incidence, severity, or both, whether there are associations in seronegative patients, and whether different DRB1 alleles that contain the SE have similar effects on RA susceptibility and/or severity. The present study was undertaken to study these...
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