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Search for linkage between hand osteoarthritis and 11q 12-13 chromosomal segment.
Osteoarthritis and cartilage - 1 Aug 2003
Kalichman L, Kobyliansky E, Malkin I, Yakovenko K, Livshits G
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OBJECTIVE: The aims of the present study were: (1) to evaluate the extent and mode of inheritance of hand osteoarthritis by using a large sample of ethnically homogeneous pedigrees of Caucasian origin; (2) to examine whether the synthetic measure of osteoarthritis according to Kellgren and Lawrence (K-L) and the more specific measure, namely, the extent of osteophytes development, have a similar putative genetic...
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