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Identification of I kappa BL as the second major histocompatibility complex-linked susceptibility locus for rheumatoid arthritis.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2003
Okamoto Koichi, Makino Satoshi, Yoshikawa Yoko, Takaki Asumi, Nagatsuka Yumie, Ota Masao, Tamiya Gen, Kimura Akinori, Bahram Seiamak, Inoko Hidetoshi
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory joint disease with a complex etiology in which environmental factors within a genetically susceptible host maneuver the innate and adaptive arms of the immune system toward recognition of autoantigens. This ultimately leads to joint destruction and clinical symptomatology. Despite the identification of a number of disease-susceptibility regions across the...
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