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Smoking is a risk factor for anti-CCP antibodies only in rheumatoid arthritis patients who carry HLA-DRB1 shared epitope alleles.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Mar 2006
Linn-Rasker S P, van der Helm-van Mil A H M, van Gaalen F A, Kloppenburg M, de Vries R R P, le Cessie S, Breedveld F C, Toes R E M, Huizinga T W J
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OBJECTIVES: To study the gene-environment interaction of tobacco exposure and shared epitope on autoantibodies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and undifferentiated arthritis. METHODS: From incident cases of arthritis (n = 1305), patients who did not fulfil any classification criteria (undif...
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