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Specific interaction between genotype, smoking and autoimmunity to citrullinated alpha-enolase in the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis.
Nature genetics - 1 Dec 2009
Mahdi Hiba, Fisher Benjamin A, Källberg Henrik, Plant Darren, Malmström Vivianne, Rönnelid Johan, Charles Peter, Ding Bo, Alfredsson Lars, Padyukov Leonid, Symmons Deborah P M, Venables Patrick J, Klareskog Lars, Lundberg Karin
Abstract excerpt
Gene-environment associations are important in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) susceptibility, with an association existing between smoking, HLA- DRB1 'shared epitope' alleles, PTPN22 and antibodies to cyclic citrullinated peptides (CCP). Here, we test the hypothesis that a subset of the anti-CCP response, with specific autoimmunity to citrullinated alpha-enolase, accounts for an important portion of these...
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