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Non-major-histocompatibility-complex genetics of ankylosing spondylitis.
Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology - 1 Jun 2006
Brown Matthew A
Abstract excerpt
There is strong evidence from twin and family studies indicating that a substantial proportion of the heritability of susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and its clinical manifestations is encoded by non-major-histocompatibility-complex genes. Efforts to identify these genes have included genomewide linkage studies and candidate gene association studies. One region, the interleukin (IL)-1 gene complex...
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