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Sporadic inclusion body myositis: phenotypic variability and influence of HLA-DR3 in a cohort of 57 Australian cases.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Sept 2008
Needham M, James I, Corbett A, Day T, Christiansen F, Phillips B, Mastaglia F L
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: There have been few studies of the variability in the clinical phenotype in sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) and it is not known whether the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) haplotype influences the phenotype and course of the disease. We studied a large cohort of patients with sIBM in order to determine the degree of phenotypic variability and different modes of presentation, as well as...
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