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Evaluation of 19 autoimmune disease-associated loci with rheumatoid arthritis in a Colombian population: evidence for replication and gene-gene interaction.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Sept 2011
Deshmukh Harshal A, Maiti Amit K, Kim-Howard Xana R, Rojas-Villarraga Adriana, Guthridge Joel M, Anaya Juan-Manuel, Nath Swapan K
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OBJECTIVE: Recent studies have identified several common genes associated with multiple autoimmune diseases that support the hypothesis of the presence of shared or general autoimmunity genes. However, most of this work has been performed in populations of white origin. The main objectives of this study are to replicate the genotype-phenotype correlation between 19 such variants and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and...
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