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On the heritability of psoriatic arthritis. Disease concordance among monozygotic and dizygotic twins.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Oct 2008
Pedersen O B, Svendsen A J, Ejstrup L, Skytthe A, Junker P
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OBJECTIVE: A nationwide unselected twin population to estimate the relative importance of genetic and environmental effectors in the aetiopathogenesis of psoriatic arthritis (PsA). METHODS: The study comprised three Danish nationwide twin cohorts. In 1994 and 2002 a total of 37 388 and 46 418 Danish twin individuals respectively were asked by questionnaire if they had PsA. Twins reporting PsA were invited to...
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