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Association of PADI4 and rheumatoid arthritis: a successful multidisciplinary approach.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Oct 2003
Worthington Jane, John Sally
Abstract excerpt
The identification of functionally relevant polymorphisms of peptidylarginine deiminase 4, an enzyme that catalyzes the post-translational citrullination of proteins, as a rheumatoid arthritis gene is one of the most convincing success stories of complex disease gene mapping to date. In addition to an extensive single nucleotide polymorphism-based association study in a Japanese cohort, a range of techniques have...
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