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The association of sporadic inclusion body myositis and Sjögren's syndrome in carriers of HLA-DR3 and the 8.1 MHC ancestral haplotype.
Clinical neurology and neurosurgery - 1 Sept 2011
Rojana-udomsart A, Needham M, Luo Y B, Fabian V, Walters S, Zilko P J, Mastaglia F L
Abstract excerpt
Sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) usually occurs as an isolated condition, but it may occur in association with another autoimmune disorder such as Sjögren's syndrome. We reviewed sIBM cases with Sjögren's syndrome (sIBM/SS) from the Perth Inflammatory Myopathies Database to determine whether they are distinguishable from other sIBM cases. Six such cases were identified, representing 12% of all sIBM cases....
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