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Combined influence of genetic and environmental factors in age of rheumatoid arthritis onset.
Rheumatology international - 1 Oct 2012
Rodríguez-Rodríguez Luis, Lamas José Ramón, Varadé Jezabel, Tornero-Esteban Pilar, Abasolo Lydia, de la Concha Emilio Gomez, Jover Juan Angel, Urcelay Elena, Fernández-Gutiérrez Benjamín
Abstract excerpt
To study the combined effect of both genetic and environmental factors in the age of rheumatoid arthritis onset. Patients (n = 507). Shared epitope characterization was performed using Lifecodes HLA-SSO. Genotyping of protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor 22 (PTPN22) rs2476601 and signal transducers and activators of transcription 4 (STAT4) rs7574865 polymorphism was performed using fast real-time PCR System....
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