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HLA and RA revisited: citrullinated food for the SE hypothesis, the DR6 effect, and NIMA.
Human immunology - 1 Jun 2006
de Vries René R P, Huizinga Tom W J, Toes René E M
Abstract excerpt
An obvious way to unravel the apparently complex association between human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is to reduce the heterogeneity of this multifactorial disease. Recently we have discovered that shared epitope (SE)-positive HLA-DRB1 alleles are exclusively associated with a subgroup of RA patients that test positive for auto-antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptides. Further...
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