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Relative risk of knee chondrocalcinosis in siblings of index cases with pyrophosphate arthropathy.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Aug 2004
Zhang W, Neame R, Doherty S, Doherty M
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OBJECTIVES: To examine the genetic contribution to common, apparently sporadic, radiographic knee chondrocalcinosis (CC) and pyrophosphate arthropathy (PA). METHOD: (1). DESIGN: radiographic sibling study. Comparison of the prevalences of knee CC and PA in siblings of index cases with PA with those in the community. (2). SUBJECTS: 80 index cases with PA listed for total knee replacement; 122 of their siblings...
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