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On the origins of complex immune-mediated disease: the example of rheumatoid arthritis.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Apr 2009
Klareskog Lars, Wedrén Sara, Alfredsson Lars
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This essay discusses strategies for understanding the origins and outcomes of complex chronic inflammatory diseases using genetic and environmental determinants as tools for new definitions of disease subsets. Rheumatoid arthritis has been chosen as the prototype to illustrate these general concepts. Through recent data on two different disease subsets, it has been possible to devise a new molecular model for...
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