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Strategies for evaluating idiopathic inflammatory myopathy disease susceptibility genes.
Current rheumatology reports - 1 Oct 2014
Rothwell Simon, Cooper Robert G, Lamb Janine A, Chinoy Hector
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This review outlines the progress that has been made in understanding the genetics of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathies in the previous 2 years, with a particular focus on dermatomyositis and polymyositis. A recent genome-wide association study in dermatomyositis has confirmed the importance of the major histocompatibility region in this disease, and has suggested a shared genetic etiology with other...
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