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Associations of autoantibodies, autoimmune risk alleles, and clinical diagnoses from the electronic medical records in rheumatoid arthritis cases and non-rheumatoid arthritis controls.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Mar 2013
Liao Katherine P, Kurreeman Fina, Li Gang, Duclos Grant, Murphy Shawn, Guzman Raul, Cai Tianxi, Gupta Namrata, Gainer Vivian, Schur Peter, Cui Jing, Denny Joshua C, Szolovits Peter, Churchill Susanne, Kohane Isaac, Karlson Elizabeth W, Plenge Robert M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The significance of non-rheumatoid arthritis (RA) autoantibodies in patients with RA is unclear. The aim of this study was to assess associations of autoantibodies with autoimmune risk alleles and with clinical diagnoses from the electronic medical records (EMRs) among RA cases and non-RA controls. METHODS: Data on 1,290 RA cases and 1,236 non-RA controls of European genetic ancestry were obtained from...
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