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Association of the AIRE gene with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis in a European population: a case control study.
Arthritis research & therapy - 15 Jan 2013
García-Lozano José-Raúl, Torres-Agrela Belén, Montes-Cano Marco-Antonio, Ortiz-Fernández Lourdes, Conde-Jaldón Marta, Teruel María, García Alicia, Núñez-Roldán Antonio, Martín Javier, González-Escribano María-Francisca
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: AIRE is a transcriptional regulator playing a functional role in thymocyte education and negative selection by controlling the expression of peripheral antigens in the thymus. Recently, the AIRE gene was identified as a genetic risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in genome wide association (GWA) studies performed in the Japanese population. According to the available data this association is...
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