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Dutch patients with familial and sporadic ankylosing spondylitis do not differ in disease phenotype.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Dec 2002
Paardt Marcel van der, Dijkmans Ben, Giltay Erik, van der Horst-Bruinsma Irene
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To assess potential differences in the phenotypic expression between familial and sporadic ankylosing spondylitis (AS). METHODS: Clinical data from the patient record forms were compared between 55 patients with AS from multicase families (i.e., families in which > or = 2 first-degree relatives have the disease) (familial AS) and 110 sex and age matched patients with AS who did not have a first-degree...
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