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Predicting the severity of joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis; the contribution of genetic factors.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 May 2015
van Steenbergen Hanna W, Tsonaka Roula, Huizinga Tom Wj, le Cessie Saskia, van der Helm-van Mil Annette Hm
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BACKGROUND: The severity of radiologic progression is variable between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. Recently, several genetic severity variants have been identified and were replicated, these belong to 12 loci. This study determined the contribution of the identified genetic factors to the explained variance in radiologic progression and whether genetic factors, in addition to traditional risk factors,...
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