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Association of a rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility variant at the CCL21 locus with premature mortality in inflammatory polyarthritis patients.
Arthritis care & research - 1 May 2010
Farragher Tracey M, Plant Darren, Flynn Edward, Eyre Steve, Bunn Diane, Thomson Wendy, Symmons Deborah, Barton Anne
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether recently identified rheumatoid arthritis (RA) susceptibility loci are also associated with disease severity, specifically all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality, in patients with inflammatory polyarthritis (IP). METHODS: Subjects with recent-onset IP were recruited from the Norfolk Arthritis Register. Seventeen RA susceptibility single-nucleotide polymorphisms...
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