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A genome scan for joint-specific hand osteoarthritis susceptibility: The Framingham Study.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Aug 2004
Hunter D J, Demissie S, Cupples L A, Aliabadi P, Felson D T
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OBJECTIVE: Studies investigating hand osteoarthritis (OA) as a single entity have not shown strong linkage of the disease with any chromosomal sites. We undertook this study to test our hypothesis that phenotypes of hand OA may show stronger linkage than has been shown for overall hand OA. METHODS: We performed a factor analysis on measures of hand OA to determine patterns of disease. Using the joint regions...
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