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HLA and cytokine gene polymorphisms in relation to occurrence of palindromic rheumatism and its progression to rheumatoid arthritis.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Nov 2002
Maksymowych Walter P, Suarez-Almazor Maria E, Buenviaje Heidi, Cooper Bobbi-Lynn, Degeus Caroline, Thompson Michael, Russell Anthony S
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OBJECTIVE: Palindromic rheumatism (PR) is an episodic arthropathy that may precede typical rheumatoid arthritis (RA), although pathogenetic relationships between these disorders remain unclear. The predictive value for those immunogenetic risk factors implicated in RA for disease progression in P...
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