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Investigation of chromosome 2q in osteoarthritis of the hand: no significant linkage in a Tasmanian population.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Dec 2002
Stankovich J, Sale M M, Cooley H M, Bahlo M, Reilly A, Dickinson J L, Jones G
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BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested a strong genetic component to osteoarthritis (OA), especially that of the hand, and three linkage studies have suggested the existence of susceptibility loci in disparate regions of chromosome 2q. OBJECTIVE: To examine for linkage to 2q in a Tasmanian population of women and men with familial hand OA. METHODS: Hand OA (distal interphalangeal, carpometacarpal, and...
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