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Hand bone midshaft enthesophytes: the influence of age, sex, and heritability.
Osteoarthritis and cartilage - 1 Oct 2007
Kalichman L, Malkin I, Kobyliansky E
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OBJECTIVE: The aims of the present study were (1) to evaluate whether development of enthesophytes is an age- and/or sex-associated phenomenon; (2) to clarify whether enthesophyte development is controlled by genetics; (3) to evaluate the correlations between the enthesophytes and osteophytes of the hand joints. DESIGN: The studied cohort comprised 359 Chuvashian (Russian Federation) pedigrees (424 nuclear...
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