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Smoking interacts with genetic risk factors in the development of rheumatoid arthritis among older Caucasian women.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Sept 2006
Criswell L A, Saag K G, Mikuls T R, Cerhan J R, Merlino L A, Lum R F, Pfeiffer K A, Woehl B, Seldin M F
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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the impact of tobacco exposure on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk is influenced by polymorphisms at the HLA-DRB1 and glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1) loci. METHODS: Subjects were participants from a case-control study nested within the Iowa Women's Health Study, a population based, prospective cohort study of postmenopausal women. Incident RA cases (n = 115) were identified and...
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