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Dissection of class III major histocompatibility complex haplotypes associated with rheumatoid arthritis.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Jul 2004
Newton Julia L, Harney Sinéad M J, Timms Andrew E, Sims Anne-Marie, Rockett Kirk, Darke Chris, Wordsworth B Paul, Kwiatkowski Dominic, Brown Matthew A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: We have previously identified a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) haplotype involving the lymphotoxin alpha (LTA) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) loci (termed haplotype LTA-TNF2) on chromosome 6 that shows differential association with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on HLA-DRB1*0404 and *0401 haplotypes, suggesting the presence of additional non-HLA-DRB1 RA susceptibility genes on these haplotypes. To...
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