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Influence of male sex on disease phenotype in familial rheumatoid arthritis.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Oct 2006
Jawaheer Damini, Lum Raymond F, Gregersen Peter K, Criswell Lindsey A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To examine sex differences in clinical, demographic, and genetic characteristics among a large cohort of patients with familial rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS: We studied 1,004 affected members of 467 Caucasian multicase RA families recruited from the North American Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium. Standardized information about demographic and clinical characteristics was collected from all...
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