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Association of variants in MMEL1 and CTLA4 with rheumatoid arthritis in the Han Chinese population.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Oct 2011
Danoy Patrick, Wei Meng, Johanna Hadler, Jiang Lei, He Dongyi, Sun Linyun, Zeng Xiaofeng, Visscher Peter M, Brown Matthew A, Xu Huji
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BACKGROUND: The genome-wide association study era has made great progress in identifying susceptibility genes and genetic loci for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in populations of White European ancestry. However, few studies have tried to dissect disease aetiopathogenesis in other ethnic populations. OBJECTIVE: To investigate these associations in the Han Chinese population. METHODS: Haplotypes from the HapMap...
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