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[A search for genes of predisposition to rheumatoid arthritis].
Vestnik Rossiiskoi akademii meditsinskikh nauk - 1 Jan 2003
Miakotkin V A, Moshnina M A, Krylov M Iu, Guseva I A, Sharapova E P, Alekseeva L I
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatoid arthritis belongs to the group of autoimmune multifactor diseases with an essential involvement of genetic components in its genesis. The HLA DRB1* polymorphism was studied in 68 RA patients and in their 75 healthy relatives. 135 blood donors, who were tested at the Institute for Immunology of the Ministry of Health, Russian Federation, Moscow, were in the control group. The carrier-state of the HLA...
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