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Role of European mitochondrial DNA haplogroups in the prevalence of hip osteoarthritis in Galicia, Northern Spain.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Jan 2010
Rego I, Fernández-Moreno M, Fernández-López C, Gómez-Reino J J, González A, Arenas J, Blanco F J
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To analyse the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups of patients with hip osteoarthritis (OA) and those of healthy controls in a Spanish population. METHODS: mtDNA haplogroups were assigned to 550 cases of hip OA and 505 clinically asymptomatic controls. Sets of controls with healthy knees and hips (n = 179) and patients with knee and/or hip OA (n = 977) were also analysed in a multivariate analysis...
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