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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis classified by the ILAR criteria: HLA associations in UK patients.
Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - 1 Oct 2002
Thomson W, Barrett J H, Donn R, Pepper L, Kennedy L J, Ollier W E R, Silman A J S, Woo P, Southwood T
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OBJECTIVE: To determine the HLA associations with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and its subgroups as defined by the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) classification criteria. METHODS: Five hundred and twenty-one UK Caucasian JIA patients and 537 UK Caucasian controls were typed for HLA class II alleles. Phenotype and haplotype frequencies were compared between all JIA cases and...
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