[Genetic epidemiology of rheumatoid arthritis: what to expect from Latin America?].

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Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic and systemic autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation and destruction of the synovial joints. It affects approximately 0.5% of the Latin-American population and is three times more common in women than in men. Evidence of familial aggregation (lambdas=2-17) was the first indication of a genetic susceptibility to disease. As in other autoimmune diseases, it has a complex...

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