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Clinical, immunologic, and genetic features of familial systemic sclerosis.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Jun 2007
Assassi Shervin, Arnett Frank C, Reveille John D, Gourh Pravitt, Mayes Maureen D
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OBJECTIVE: To examine whether the affected first-degree relatives within multicase systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) families are concordant for autoantibody profile, disease type, and HLA class II haplotypes and whether clinical expression and serologic characteristics of familial SSc differ from those of sporadic SSc. METHODS: Seven hundred ten SSc families from the Scleroderma Family Registry and DNA...
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