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Role of HLA-DRB1 and PTPN22 genes in susceptibility to juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Hungarian patients.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Pazár B, Gergely P, Nagy Z B, Gombos T, Pozsonyi E, Rajczy K, Balogh Z, Sevcic K, Orbán I, Szodoray P, Poór G
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OBJECTIVE: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a complex immune-mediated disease characterized by environmental influences along with several predisposing genes in the pathogenesis. The present study was undertaken to investigate the association of polymorphisms in two candidate genes for autoimmunity, human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DRB1 and protein tyrosine phosphatase N22 (PTPN22) with JIA in Hungarian...
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