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Autoinflammatory genes and susceptibility to psoriatic juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Jul 2008
Day T G, Ramanan A V, Hinks A, Lamb R, Packham J, Wise C, Punaro M, Donn R P
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of NLRP3, NOD2, MEFV, and PSTPIP1, genes that cause 4 of the autoinflammatory hereditary periodic fever syndromes (HPFS), with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). METHODS: Fifty-one single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the 4 loci were investigated using MassArray genotyping in 950 Caucasian patients with JIA living in the UK and 728 ethnically matched healthy...
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